Better incentives for staying on your DC

[Wanzzo]

Ok first im on Dynamis is where i notice this issue (also i know we are new, i know we have half the servers and all that). Right now the FC i am in has about 73 members but we have ~27% of those player who log on are already on another DC and haven't been on Dynamis in weeks (possibly month or longer). I realize if a lot of FC have this that is a lot of potential players that really are not on our server at all in the end. I understand it incentives for newer players and fresh ones to come to server like this (road to 80, the feathers and such which is why i am in a group of 4 friends came here) My thing is OTHER than just buying a house (which seems to be the main reason most more veteran players came to this server) do you think FFXIV should give players of newer servers / less populated more incentives to stay on their DC and do stuff here vs it creating a thing where despite you being on a DC you really never do any actually activities or engagement in that DC (dungeon, pvp, alliance raid and so on). Idk just was something i was wondering as a newer player (been playing since Nov so just have 1 job at 90 so far) but it just seems yea getting people to move to the DC isn't super bad just cuz you put housing fishing hook out there but the problem becomes more engagement in that DC and keeping players there to help invest in its growth and community vs just being a extension of houses for another datacenter

2 points:

1- as we get more expansions and patches, new people will arrive in Dynamis. And they will make it with 8 servers at some point in future. So, as the population grows, like you said, around 27% will continue to travel and do stuff in another DC, but 73% will stay on Dynamis, making it grow as the population grows. We just need to have patience. In the beginning, all servers and DCs suffered the same. So, it's normal to struggle in a new DC like this in it's first year.

2- someday, the DC travel will be available for different regions. So, maybe all the queues will be cross-region as well. In this way, no matter how much new DCs they make in the world, "everyone" will queue with more people.

So, in general, just wait for it. like Yoshida loves to say: "just look forward to it" and "we appologise for any inconvenience this may cause" also, "return to the Waking Sands at your earliest convenience" '-'