What do you think will happen to a failed data center?

[NekoMataMata]

All anxieties aside I believe that we shouldn't really speak like this about the DC. I don't want to unintentionally make this a reality.

When the servers get super high-pop again during a patch or even 7.0's release, I guarantee people will go "f[kupo]k that noise" and transfer off. During Stormblood's release, people transferred off Balmung and Gilgamesh because a literal unmoving queue of 10k people stopped people from being able to log in after 1pm PST until 9pm/10pm PST, among other things (looking at you, Raubahn Savage.) Around that time, they started offering incentives to leave, and people took it. They moved to the quiet servers and now all of the NA worlds (this was before the split of some worlds into Crystal) have a healthy population. It takes a lot of time and literal frustration for people to move, and when the inevitable "the queue is as long as a work day to get into this server" happens, people will move.

Question. What's to stop people from simply travelling to Dynamis during 7.0 but not actually moving there? It's slightly frustrating to imagine ending up with some of the negatives of overcrowded servers without gaining any long term positives from it. Especially with how DC travel works(being useable from the login screen), it's very easy to imagine people seeing large queues and immediately changing to our DC but not sticking around later on as queues slow down.