Dynamis low pop, high queue times.

[CelestiCer]

It's the fault of both Square and the Players

Square did not handle housing requirements properly and entices players to abuse the system. Better then clicking placards, but still abusable. Square failed to make transferring to Dynamis aside from housing appealing. Aether/Crystal/Primal also compete with Dynamis on everything due to DC traveling. It's idealistic to have one-third of all existing DC player-bases transfer to Dynamis, that's a pipedream. A new younger DC cannot compete. Dynamis only has 1 feature it excels in that the other DC's do not have in abundance... " Available Housing ". This situation? is largely created by Square.

On the other-hand... Existing Players transferring should have known what they signed up for...

• Longer Queue times
• Desolate Party-finder
• Emptier and expensive Marketboard
• Get used to Playing as a Traveler
• No access to FC and Retainer as you do so
• Lack of Raiding and RP scene

Expecting Square to fix your own mislead expectations of Dynamis over-night or anytime soon? is wishful thinking, and that's the Players own fault. Forcing players to stop DC traveling? is not going to work. Players will do what benefits them immediately. Goodluck on changing players minds on that.

I love it here. Got my Small/Medium and Large houses plus my peace and quiet. Don't care for roulettes I leveled everything I want to play. I don't rely on Partyfinder, I unlocked everything and if I want to Raid I go to Aether. Even that is not necessary, I am BiS. Losing chump change if Retainers don't sell fast isn't a big deal to me. I travel to Primal or Crystal for RP if I want to and come home to Dynamis and decorate to my hearts content. Love it. It's carefree, at least for me. And the people that complain about it all just makes it so much better xD !!

[Oizen]

It's the fault of both Square and the Players

I mean I don't beleive in ever blaming in the player base as FFXIV is a product put out Square Enix and thus they're the only ones who have control over any problem in the game. Players just react to systems in the game. They have very little to no agency over what issues are addressed in the game, or even if they're viewed as issues at all. I just view it as an absolute failure on the developer's side to be able to acknowledge key issues of the game.

I'd say the pitiful state of Housing in this game, as well as its years of neglect and indifference from Square Enix lead Dynamis to essentially be a suburb to other Data Centers. Housing should have NEVER gotten to a point where its the draw for moving to a different DC. But their obsession with band aids for the inherently broken ward system lead us here. The empyreum housing zone, which was paraded as a major feature of the endwalker expansion, hyped up for what? 3 years? Released broken, took a month to fix, filled in one cycle and now basically exists as a pretty picture on the patchnotes for the expansion. The fact this wasn't ridiculed more by the community is baffling to me to this day.

I'm not surprised to see there are a lot of players out there who grew fed up with the housing system, and saw Dynamis as an out, not realizing all the other issues a new DC can have upon release. But then this wasn't JUST a new DC release.

Data Center Travel has had a lot of negative impacts on the game, and not just for Dynamis. The Party finder system has basically dried out completely on Crystal, Primal's is looking a lot more scarce, and Aether has effectively become the Data Center where you go to do anything. This issue was apparent way before the release of Dynamis, yet SE didn't care, nor did they even really view this as an issue, what hope does Dynamis have at retaining a playerbase, when even more established DCs like Crystal are now struggling with keeping a PF afloat? I cleared the Asphodelos tier on Crystal, you cannot do the same now with Abyssos, the parties do not fill.

Regardless, this was another issue the Developers chose to ignore, despite all the signs being there when rolling out Dynamis. While none of this particularly bothers me, I was already accustomed to the DC Travel for everything lifestyle on Crystal ever since DC Travel was introduced, I'm not going to act like this hasn't been another large chapter in the circus that has been the Endwalker Expansion.