Quote Originally Posted by Toutatis View Post
the problem with Dynamis is that it has been added at the worst possible time not very long after the introduction of DC travel. It also had a lot of housing. Many people created characters or moved there with the intent of getting a house while continuing to play with their friends on other DCs. Since the queues were awfully long, people just DC travelled making the problem even worse and the DC never had the chance to build a community to fill df/pf.

SE should work on making PF/DF regional. It’s the only way to solve the annoying issue of people converging to a single DC and having near empty PF on other DCs (DF remained healthy of Primal).
Yeah, this is 100% the problem. They also didn't lock down the other datacenters when it launched to funnel all new players/characters to it. If they really wanted Dynamis to fill they shouldn't have let people make characters on other datacenters for a good long while.

They could have also considered doing what they did for the great Aether/Primal sundering where some servers were sent to Crystal along with the new ones. Servers like Balmung and Mateus being pulled off Aether allowed Crystal to naturally grow and thrive very quickly. It wouldn't have been ideal, but it's something that could have been done.