Materia/Oceanican Data Center needs help please!

[AwesomeJr44]

^this is the big problem, square got a massive influx of people during late ShB early EW massively expanded the infrastructure to hold all of them…….then did nothing to actually make them want to stay

So now we have too few people spread over too many servers and it kills places like dynamis and materia

Yep. They introduced Materia and Dynamis to deal with the influx of new players and then proceeded to do nothing to keep those people here. Maybe Dawntrail will bring some of them back (or bring more newer players in), but are we going to be having these same discussions once 7.0 is over and we're in the patch cycle for 7.x? Hopefully Materia and Dynamis won't become seasonal DCs, but it's possible.

[DixieBellOCE]

Yep. They introduced Materia and Dynamis to deal with the influx of new players and then proceeded to do nothing to keep those people here. Maybe Dawntrail will bring some of them back (or bring more newer players in), but are we going to be having these same discussions once 7.0 is over and we're in the patch cycle for 7.x? Hopefully Materia and Dynamis won't become seasonal DCs, but it's possible.

They introduced the servers at a time when a majority of the WoW Exodus players had hit the endgame and realized that all the hype had lead to nothing.
They did all the content that appealed to them in the two years they were here (Yes, WoW players consume content like it is red bull), and the 8 month wait time at the end of ShB, coupled with Endwalker content being basically non existent outside of week 1, they realized that XIV is just not the amazing game that was advertised and moved on.