Soooo what's the maintenance on NA DCs for?

[Hanayumi]

I wish.

"Dynamis was a mistake. We've evenly distributed the servers into the original pool, and we gave Primal and extra server. The next expansion will be adding the two missing servers to Aether and Crystal to compensate for the disparity."

Nah, Materia wasnt a mistake, it just came too late to take in the newer populous. And while EW had the largest player count overall than any other expansion so far its also got the largest dip in active players, definitely the worst expansion to keep players active/engaged. Think with the next expansion we'll see things start to even out across the DCs if EWs end and the expansion trailer and info is enough to peak players interests and bring folks back.

[Ardeth]

Nah, Materia wasnt a mistake, it just came too late to take in the newer populous. And while EW had the largest player count overall than any other expansion so far its also got the largest dip in active players, definitely the worst expansion to keep players active/engaged. Think with the next expansion we'll see things start to even out across the DCs if EWs end and the expansion trailer and info is enough to peak players interests and bring folks back.

All we can do is hope. At least with Materia, that's it. You can't leave so you have to make the best of it. With Dynamis, nobody actively stays. So there's a large chunk leaving to queue which kills the queues here. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't leave for anything, but Eureka and even then, I stay for logs to level. But I don't blame the people for leaving. SE let this happen with how they handled DC travel.

[Gralna]

Was mentioned in a recent interview, that with these upgrades, some features we've been asking for will be able to be implemented, such as additional glamour plates. (that was quoted specifically, infer what you will about other possible features).

[TaleraRistain]

Was mentioned in a recent interview, that with these upgrades, some features we've been asking for will be able to be implemented, such as additional glamour plates. (that was quoted specifically, infer what you will about other possible features).

I missed that one! Do you have a link? More glamour plates is love. I'm a sad panda that my DoH and DoL all look the same because there isn't enough for at least one for all possible classes.

[NekoMataMata]

All we can do is hope. At least with Materia, that's it. You can't leave so you have to make the best of it. With Dynamis, nobody actively stays. So there's a large chunk leaving to queue which kills the queues here. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't leave for anything, but Eureka and even then, I stay for logs to level. But I don't blame the people for leaving. SE let this happen with how they handled DC travel.

To be fair, it might be a self fulfilling prophecy, but it's not one Dynamis started. Even before DC came people had slowly started to form opinions that Aether was the DC for content, Primal was the DC for PVP and Crystal was the DC for RP. That's another self fulfilling prophecy that everyone else has stuck to since DC travel came about.

People really ruin things for themselves.