Why Is Dynamis Dead

[LaylaTsarra]

People believing a new DC will make the game feel like its getting released back in 2.0 and everyone who have been playing for a decade (veterans) wants to start from 0 again.

That's never going to happen, the main story of the game ended and there is nothing new to see or expect UNLESS you're a genuine new player, even so if that's the case those always look up for the most popular servers and not the new ones.

A lot of those servers will reach what SE deems to be capacity and you'll see more and more of them like Balmung where they become congested. People won't be able to flood those servers anymore because they are deemed popular.

Dynamis will fill up as will the new EU DC when it comes. If voluntary moves don't accomplish it you'll see a lot less options for new players other than the new ones as more and more existing servers hit congested status. At least that's my feeling on the matter.

These overpopulated servers are just that and frankly they need to be locked sooner than later. Perhaps when the other 4 servers are added. The idea of playing with friends isn't an issue with DC travel and World Visit. I'm on Hali and I play with my Siren friends everyday.

[NekoMataMata]

People keep trying to rush it, instead of simply observing. Not that I haven't had my own troubles with the MB. I have crashed a whole retainer's worth of in demand items to around a third of the price of what they're selling for Crystal, and people are still buying over there. It's probably a bit of an extreme, but the price gougers upset me.

Anyways, content drought and add in that this is a busy time of year for people. Family stuff, finals are around the corner... I'm not playing that much myself right now, and I wouldn't expect it from anyone else really.

[caffe_macchiato]

7.0 is pretty optimistic for them to fix this game’s issues. The entire production cycle relies on boom and bust—players join during a new patch and then leave promptly after. The only incentive for players to stay is the timegated gear treadmill so that you can play the ultimate raid. But that assumes players don’t get burnt out of the highly repetitive artificial difficulty long before then. And, from the numbers, we know that a very small percentage of players in NA actually attempt ultimates.

So what’s the point of the game? To sell the story, characters, and cash shop items. FFXIV was never meant to be a long-term investment for anyone to partake in. ARR’s success was purely accidental. Square Enix never intended to compete with online gaming stalwarts like WoW, League, Valorant, Fortnite, etc. And many of you appreciate that, because you play those games too.

Dynamis being empty is good news for them because they can forget about any infrastructure changes for the next 10 years. It’s all smooth sailing for that department until the game reaches maintenance mode. They’ll never change anything serious about the game—the engine is still handicapped, class design is just button mashing, raids are Simon says.

If we want something different, we’re gonna get it in FFXVII, not 7.0.

[Brandt_Nunh]

Right, so.

I'm on Crystal on my main. Have the same character I'm playing through on Marilith to relive the story, finally get my Ishgardian elezen his Ishgardian home, and hang out with my partner. I have a whole 2 complaints.

1) Having to go to Crystal for Frontline--other queues have been just fine, even as DPS.
2) The BOTS, my god. I haven't seen it this bad since the aether/crystal split.

And that's the other thing--people in this game seem to have some legendary short term memory. Once upon a time, Mateus was a dead quiet server. Now it's Balmung's little brother.

It just needs time. This is the slowest possible time of year with the content drought/holidays looming. I've been playing since 2015 and stuff ebbs and flows. I'm actually enjoying the lack of nightclub ads for now....they're coming.

Edit: The bots are INCREDIBLY bad. It bears repeating.

[TaleraRistain]

There are a LOT of new players on Marilith. And often I'm finding it's not fresh new players, but veterans working up an alt to play through things again and be a newbie for a while. I just hit HW and run roulettes fairly regularly. Queue times may not be as fast as my home server Jenova but Mari right now feels like Jenova did when I first started playing. Jenova used to be a very small server. Now it's grown a lot. I feel that Mari will do the same.

I will agree with many others. There's a lot of bots. I can mostly just ignore them, though.

[R041]

Dead? No way! We have hundreds of bots - I even have to queue to get into my server that I never see players in! If I want some companions then I just do a quick search for 1-59 BRD and BLM, to figure out where all the action is happening.

[Jojoya]

Dead? No way! We have hundreds of bots - I even have to queue to get into my server that I never see players in! If I want some companions then I just do a quick search for 1-59 BRD and BLM, to figure out where all the action is happening.

I hope you're being sarcastic.

I just logged onto another of my Dynamis alts. No queue to log in (actually a bit surprised for a Sat afterrnoon/evening). I'm in Old Sharlayan and there are other players here at the market board, vendors, turning in leves, running around doing queuest, etc.

When there is a queue, it's 30 seconds at most same as most other NA worlds.

Is it as many as there would be on a Balmung? Of course not but saying you never see real players is a gross exaggeration unless you're spending all your time in a housing ward where most of the houses are empty.

Sure the bots are a problem. The quantity being loaded on to the Dynamis worlds is probably the same amount being loaded onto the other non-congested NA worlds. Because our populations are less, the ratio to players is higher.

But by no means are there only bots on the Dybamis worlds. Try looking around for people who are playing the game instead of tunnel-visioning the bots.

[Brandt_Nunh]

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He's one of those people if you say anything nice about the game at all he'll call you a simp and have a full on meltdown.

The bots are a HUGE issue. I agreed with him on this in his own thread, I believe. But aside from frontline roulettes, I haven't had issues queueing for roulettes OR getting into the server. There are plenty of bots on my main server too--saw a boatload of them today on Mateus.

[R041]

He's one of those people if you say anything nice about the game at all he'll call you a simp and have a full on meltdown.

The bots are a HUGE issue. I agreed with him on this in his own thread, I believe. But aside from frontline roulettes, I haven't had issues queueing for roulettes OR getting into the server. There are plenty of bots on my main server too--saw a boatload of them today on Mateus.

Hey that's not true - I only have partial meltdowns. Going full attack mode on me now.

I don't care if you enjoy the game, I still enjoy it. But the constant barrage of positivity in how amazing all of our systems are to anyone asking questions or providing feedback is pretty annoying now. It's very gatekeepy behavior when someone provides suggestions and all they're told is "Yoshi-P is the GOAT and everything is perfect". It really is hilarious you all managed to get WoW players to actually believe FF was perfect and would be fun for them, they're all mostly gone now. lol

Also, I was just talking about the little (15) queue to enter the server. Which isn't much but it's funny, because in the mornings I'll get in and check the Player List which is usually half bots. It's only especially bad considering the new servers have very little amount of actual players, so we're heavily affected. You all act like I'm lying or something. Dynamis is very dead (Mostly because of content drought, will be fine in January I'm sure) - and we have to deal with a ton of bots.

[xXHoRRoRFieDXx]

Pretty much ^

And it's hilarious everyone posting that the servers aren't an issue aren't even on Dynamis, they have "alts" they play with for an hour.

"I have an alt there, people who want Dynamis to succeed should play on Dynamis instead"
Says the guy using an alt to LEAVE there.

You act as if SE has control over peoples decisons, they don't, and you don't.

This "IS" whats happening. Its not getting better and people aren't going to sit in que for 2 hours "hoping" it improves.
They'll DC leave, and stop being hypocrites who are using alts to leave in the first place.