Guess I'll quit again...a story of loneliness where there should be friendship

[SophiaDL]

You can't expect them to do that everytime, but they could do it for a few weeks until restrictions are lifted. It's not so much as to prop up Dynamis than to keep these DC stable enough.
It's a bummer but bid your time for a little bit and restrictions should lift soon enough. Also try to make your transfer in off hours when you can. And if this friend is your friend, you can ask them to DC travel from time to time.

The DC's are very stable and have been since the beginning of week 2, if anything, Seraph which is on Dynamis has higher queues than Aether worlds themselves in peak time.

And it is a pity attempt at boosting dynamis numbers, if you believe this is not to force people to create characters on Dynamis, I dont know what to tell you.

Dynamis as a whole failed thanks to DC travel, and they just cant accept that it failed so they are pulling this attempt to try and save their investment, even if just for a while, which props to them will work, once transfer opens, people will have to pay to go to other DC's if they want to transfer. That'll be quite some $$

[aTanpopo]

While I do sympathise (nothing kills the want to play an MMO more than having no friends to play with), does your friend + their FC not have a discord or anything outside the game?

Also the game has the community finder for cross-world linkshells etc. I moved to the JP servers when i came back to the game after a many year break (post HW -> post ShB) and while I originally moved to play with a friend, they stopped playing the game leaving me with no one to play with and only limited language skills. But I got into a couple of linkshell groups with english speakers/japanese learners and found a bunch of people to play and socialise with for a good year or so before I decided to move back to EU. I still talk with some of the people I made friends with on the other servers now even though we haven't played together since ShB.

Luckily, as other people have already mentioned, world travel should come back up with Savage release so you shouldn't be completely isolated for too long. I don't play on US and never have done, only heard stories about how dead Dynamis is, but considering the absolute state of the servers on EW release I think it was a very good idea to make new DCs. DTs release was a dream in comparison.

[Gortys]

Joining an MMO because friends are playing isn't the best idea. You have to be sure you enjoy it on its own in case friends leave. I wouldn't say I have a lot of IRL friends who play this (just 1), but I'm active in hunt discords and do a lot of other group content (Bozja/Eureka) so it doesn't feel that "lonely".

I'm pretty sure it was announced that DC travel was going to be locked up for the start of DT so make sure you read patch notes and other info before rejoining an MMO. Also, this is not to "populate" Dynamis so much as funnel people like yourself and your "friend" to Dynamis since it's less congested. I guess I'm very harsh because if I had a "friend" who knew I only came back because they were playing, then I would hope they were willing to travel to Dynamis to play with me occasionally. If they weren't, then I'd think that maybe we weren't that great of friends. Did you make sure that friend was willing to travel to play with you?

[AngaratoSvartberg]

that really sucks but you should have planned it better. you decided to join back right during an expansion launch and play on a congested server.
cant blame them for everything.

[Karkarov]

The problem with character restrictions is DC travel. The minute DC travel opens again Dynamis will go back to being a graveyard. I would know I actually intentionally moved to Dynamis because I was tired of never getting to own a house, and trust me, as long as they turn DC travel back on it will die. Even if you are "home" there the majority will just DC travel to aether or crystal for everything and only come back once in awhile. So restricting character creation doesn't really do anything, other than make it so people in the OP's situation can't join their friends FC.

[SophiaDL]

The problem with character restrictions is DC travel. The minute DC travel opens again Dynamis will go back to being a graveyard. I would know I actually intentionally moved to Dynamis because I was tired of never getting to own a house, and trust me, as long as they turn DC travel back on it will die. Even if you are "home" there the majority will just DC travel to aether or crystal for everything and only come back once in awhile. So restricting character creation doesn't really do anything, other than make it so people in the OP's situation can't join their friends FC.

Exactly this, they are just delaying the inevitable for 10 more days, it's pointless really, the second it opens, Dynamis will be back to pre-DT, except the ones like me that are frustrated, which I am not saying there are THAT many of, but I have heard of a few people that are frustrated with it, will move away from the DC to be sure this situation doesnt happen again and we dont end up being stuck there again.

that really sucks but you should have planned it better. you decided to join back right during an expansion launch and play on a congested server.
cant blame them for everything.

Seraph had 75 people in queue last night at peak time, which is Dynamis

Aether had barely 30.

What congestion? Please at least if you are going to talk on this topic, inform yourself about how NA DC's work.

[Gortys]

Exactly this, they are just delaying the inevitable for 10 more days, it's pointless really, the second it opens, Dynamis will be back to pre-DT, except the ones like me that are frustrated, which I am not saying there are THAT many of, but I have heard of a few people that are frustrated with it, will move away from the DC to be sure this situation doesnt happen again and we dont end up being stuck there again.



Seraph had 75 people in queue last night at peak time, which is Dynamis

Aether had barely 30.

What congestion? Please at least if you are going to talk on this topic, inform yourself about how NA DC's work.

Queue queue more.

[AngaratoSvartberg]

Seraph had 75 people in queue last night at peak time, which is Dynamis

Aether had barely 30.

What congestion? Please at least if you are going to talk on this topic, inform yourself about how NA DC's work.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/

kindly direct your anger at SE not me. theres a website for this to avoid such issues.
yea the queues werent bad this time around but during endwalker they were. so they took precautions. which was a wise move
im sorry it didnt work out for you. but every decision has negative sides.

some people not being able to join his friends on their popular servers > endwalker launch queues.

[Mcg55ss]

Exactly this, they are just delaying the inevitable for 10 more days, it's pointless really, the second it opens, Dynamis will be back to pre-DT, except the ones like me that are frustrated, which I am not saying there are THAT many of, but I have heard of a few people that are frustrated with it, will move away from the DC to be sure this situation doesnt happen again and we dont end up being stuck there again.



Seraph had 75 people in queue last night at peak time, which is Dynamis

Aether had barely 30.

What congestion? Please at least if you are going to talk on this topic, inform yourself about how NA DC's work.

LOL please just transfer off the server to your friends server....doubt anyone would miss you on dynamis if you are so miserable here don't stay PLEASE leave so you stop acting like you speak for the rest of us on this server.

[SophiaDL]

LOL please just transfer off the server to your friends server....doubt anyone would miss you on dynamis if you are so miserable here don't stay PLEASE leave so you stop acting like you speak for the rest of us on this server.

Enjoy the ignore list, differing opinions are fine, but that aint different opinions, you're just being super mad because I dont share the same opinion as you. Enjoy though, not worth more of my time.

Either you discuss with people politely and with respect, or you dont.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/

kindly direct your anger at SE not me. theres a website for this to avoid such issues.
yea the queues werent bad this time around but during endwalker they were. so they took precautions. which was a wise move
im sorry it didnt work out for you. but every decision has negative sides.

some people not being able to join his friends on their popular servers > endwalker launch queues.

I'm really unsure what your point is by showing me world status ? But I'll entertain the idea.

Now go on that link, and look at the JP region, all DC's (including Mana, I actually had to verify in game) are open for DC travel and for world transfer, except Mana and that's only for world transfer.

Weird how that works, the JP side is all fine and can travel anywhere with 0 restrictions, but NA cant and has to be stuck to one single DC for Dynamis players and 2 for those on older DC's ?

Stop defending this decision to lock people to Dynamis, if it was for congestion, it'd have been unlocked with 7.0.1, this is to force people to create characters on Dynamis, which as I already mentioned quite a few times wont work in the long term as people will go back to DC travelling if not transferring. Congestion is not an issue anymore, and the reason why they did the lock was to prevent congestion, congestion is gone, it should have been lifted with 7.0.1, period. But please keep up the mental gymnastics.