Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Seraphor]

They made the mistake of creating the new Dynamis Datacentre with only new servers, instead of migrating existing servers across to it.
This might have worked in JP, Oceania because it was their first Datacenter, and maybe even the EU.

But Americans have this weird tendency to desire specific servers and specific Datacenters, to bandwagon. The fact that Crystal is uniquely regarded as a casual/roleplay datacenter, and Aether is the hardcore raiding datacenter when no other servers or datacenters in the world have this sort of thing. And so American players simply didn't migrate to Dynamis, forcing the few who did to travel back to Aether/Crystal for queues. They would rather bid against thousands of other prospective house buyers on Crystal, than claim a free house on Dynamis.

You could even say Datacenter travel was a mistake. If those who were forced to migrate to the new Datacenter were also forced to PLAY on that Datacenter, there wouldn't be as much of a problem. But Americans have to follow the largest crowd, so Datacenter travel has saturated all players onto one Datacenter instead of spreading them across multiples.