Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Zsavooz]

Seriously all we need is cross dc queuing. DC travel has already eroded server identity. It's why on Manduin I still can't hope to escape ads from someone from Crystal directing me to their ERP Cafe or whatever the hell they do. With cross dc queuing servers would dissappear and honestly thats clearly the direction the developer's want. You have your home server sure, but the whole region becomes your playerbase.

Now in saying this there is absolutely a down side and unfortunately I don't think not doing this is going to stop it from happening. That downside obviously is the complete loss of server identity.

Now I've played Wow on one of these "mega" servers and I can tell you they were terrible experiences, but here I don't see this straightening it self out unlss FFXIV has some resurgence of players again. It's not impossible, but unless when it happens SE shuts down the other 3 servers to new characters it will be a moot point.

I think Dynamis has a the Kmart problem and unless SE can right the ship it will go the way of Kmart.

Why would a new player stay on Dynamis when every other server is a better choice in every conceivable way except maybe houses?

The awnser is they won't. And come the 90 day locks coming off more will leave. That I can guarentee you.

The 90 day lock is off. Get to transferring.

[NekoMataMata]

At this point it feels about the same as Crystal felt when I first started playing. There are some longer queue times, and you're not going to queue into pretty much anything during the night(assuming NA night time).

It's good enough and in a couple of years the servers will probably be congested too.

[Jojoya]

They did this already and it was just a bandaid. Balmung and Mateus used to be on Aether and they moved them and several other servers to Crystal. And well, Crystal is completely locked to new characters now. Aether also dealt with being locked to character creation for months. Probably the easiest solution would be to just lock Aether/Primal/Crystal for a bit to funnel new players to Dynamis.

But it's taken almost 3 years to get to that point. for several months after the data center reorganization, Crystal was the low pop data center. It was only when Aether and part of Primal were marked congested for a few months after the WoW influx that the Crystal population started growing again.

I do expect SE to mark all of Aether and Primal as congested in addition to Crystal around patch 6.58 (if they follow their normal patch schedule going into 7.0). Right now, the congestion isn't a problem for log ins but it will be come the next expansion launch.

We're already planning to get 4 more servers in Dynamis so I doubt they'd strap other servers on and mess up their 8:8:8:8 plan.

Materia needs cross-DC but that's a whole other beast to deal with considering JP hates the idea of cross-DC and even cross-world while EU doesn't want cross-DC with NA. If they were ever going to put in cross-DC it would require every region being okay with it existing and open to everyone.

As many of us have said before, if JP is that bigoted then leave them out of it. The rest of us would be happy to play with OCE/SEA players.

The 90 day lock is off. Get to transferring.

So far it's only off for those who transferred the first 2 days Dynamis was open. Those who transferred later would need to continue to wait.

Those who came from Crystal or the congested Aether/Primal worlds... well, they're out of luck unless they plan to transfer to an entirely different world.

I still don't understand why so many people transferred to Dynamis just to start complaining about the low population. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand that it takes time for new worlds to grow into active communities.

[Ardeth]

The 90 day lock is off. Get to transferring.

I never said I was(well I did, but that was when I first moved and Limsa had half a dozen people in it. I have since changed my mind). I'm willing to wait. I have no home to go back to. And I honestly don't care about the queue times, but I know how childish and selfish the playerbase is. Hell, half of them were already jumping to Aether to queue. Every FC I've been in a good chunk of them are online on a different datacenter queuing. It's frustrating that they can not see how unhelpful that is to helping the datacenter actually thrive. And I feel like it is. Every city is full of players and items sell, and I make money off the MB. There's FC's to join. I don't see why people came here just to leave 90 days later, but being a realist, I know they will. I hope they don't mind you, but I know they will.

[Kalania]

Personally, I am going to stay and wait it out. Most of what I like to do is solo anyway. I hope I don't lose too many people in my FC though.

[Pratini]

I truly don't care if people leave.

I transferred to Dynamis for housing and I got the two best plots in the entire game.

I couldn't be happier.

[Mcg55ss]

To be fair it doesn't feel dead to me, but I also started playing in November with my girlfriend who's playing summoner and my best friend who's playing sage and right now I'm enjoying gum breaker. So we already have three out of a party of four so filling empty is kind of hard so we're kind of exempt from the problems of other people. I do hope once we finish the post end walker msq we can start looking to form a static on dynamis of newer casual / mid-core people. I mean we'll be fresh having to start off with extremes and work our way up but I think it'll be a fun experience and can't wait to try it

[fourdollar]

new player here (been on the free trial since mid january, just upgraded), i went right to dynamis for the bonuses and i've been having a really good time on marilith. i've had friends come visit from crystal, so wanting for party members isn't really an issue for me. i've noticed the server filling up more over the past week or so, idk if it's from the recent patch or what, but i honestly like that the world's a little less busy (and it does wonders for my frames). with seraph being locked due to congestion, it really seems like dynamis is doing just fine - it's just newer than the others. we'll get there.
i don't really have a lot to compare to, but i definitely don't think dynamis is dead or beyond saving or anything like that.

[SturmChurro]

new player here (been on the free trial since mid january, just upgraded), i went right to dynamis for the bonuses and i've been having a really good time on marilith. i've had friends come visit from crystal, so wanting for party members isn't really an issue for me. i've noticed the server filling up more over the past week or so, idk if it's from the recent patch or what, but i honestly like that the world's a little less busy (and it does wonders for my frames). with seraph being locked due to congestion, it really seems like dynamis is doing just fine - it's just newer than the others. we'll get there.
i don't really have a lot to compare to, but i definitely don't think dynamis is dead or beyond saving or anything like that.

I've had more social interactions on Dynamis (Marilith) than I can even really remember in all my years on Excalibur, and it's not like I didn't afk in town from time to time. The most social I got through Primal was like, Eureka and Bozja when they were relevant.

[Oizen]

I really don't see Dynamis getting any meaningful growth until 7.0, and thats perfectly fine really.