Why Is Dynamis Dead

[CelestiCer]

Main appeal to migrate to Dynamis DC? was for players to obtain their own " House ".
Players had plenty reasons to pick Dynamis. Rather it's cause they are new and unknowingly picked a new DC. Players venturing to economicially conquer new marketboards. Established FC's migrating together and obtain a Large FC Plot together. Second highest reason? probably is cause " Dynamis - Seraph " sounded really cool to have with their character name. There are also players who like less overcrowded cities that aren't about naked dancing players, public ERP... in your face... like all the time... everywhere... 24/7...

But the main appeal was obvious, " Housing ".
Thus to the surprise of no one... Players flocked to Dynamis with prepped alt characters, to bid multiple times on FC plots pet alt character in their own created solo FC's to bypass the otherwise private housing lottery competition. Heck, Some? even did this to own houses just to resell them... I don't approve, but is it really a surprise?

Are the servers dead on Dynamis? it's certainly " Less active. "
I reserve " Dead servers " for " Dying Games ", and I been part of a few to not call Dynamis Dead. It's just less active, for now. I found a very lively FC community here. I am not even part of the FC, yet I sometimes partake in the FC events that are open to the entire server and DataCenter. I care not for queue times since I don't rely or want to do them. My main appeal is (Community-Service) Raiding, of which I DC travel to Aether. Did a funny P8S prog to help Zepla a few days ago, and friends on Crystal who honestly do the ame thing - travel to Aether for raiding cause Crystal PF raiding has less, yet we don't call Crystal PF dead either.

• Crystal = primarily the RP DataCenter
• Aether = primarily the Raiding Datacenter
• Primal = a balanced mix of both RP and Raiding
• Dynamis = primarily a Get a House Datacenter

Players will DC travel from Dynamis to any of the other 3 NA DC's to do the activities they desire to do if they can't do them on Dynamis, making Dynamis's queue times longer, their PF the most empty.

Dynamis aside from being new? only has 4 servers. However? 4 new servers will be added and players will flock to it for the same opportunistic reason... " To obtain a Plot of land for the House they never we able to get".

It takes time for something to flourish, just like a new DataCenter with Communities to grow. Although players should have had those expectations migrating to Dynamis ,it isn't rocket science... its to be expected. I'm happy on Dynamis, I finally have my Large house... I found new friends and I found friendly FC's to do activities with if I ever want to.

So some might call this place dead? I call it " Home ".

[VerdeLuck]

So some might call this place dead? I call it " Home ".

Yes, home, where you have to make a PF to get through the MSQ or Side content, because otherwise you sit in a 4 hour queue that doesn't pop. Where there's 4 players max in the southern front AFKing waiting for a duel or CE to spawn and then 1 guy trying to do Fates.
This is definitely not a poorly thought out expansion of servers that makes it difficult to complete content, and requires you to spend 10 minutes DC travelling every hour to go do content on crystal, then go back to dynamis every time for retainers over and over.
For a company and a game this size, it's pretty unacceptable for them to just leave a whole DC hanging like this without any effort to seed it, and the people who tell everyone to just leave to do any content are probably just as bad, since they're actively reducing how many people queue for any given roulette.

If all Dynamis was supposed to be was housing overflow, then they could have just added more wards, like they're doing right now, except they could have announced it before they locked people into a data center that was dead for 3 months.

[LaylaTsarra]

[B]MSo some might call this place dead? I call it " Home ".

I love it here and well said.

[Deveryn]

Keep acting like this wasn't supposed to launch with a major patch.

[DeNada]

To be quite honest, even if Dynamis is more inactive to the other established servers (I don't like to use the term dead), who cares?

With the availability of data travel center, it's not like there's any content in the game you are prevented from doing due to it having less player population since you can just hop to other DCs to either RP/raid/PvP etc.

It's not like you are trapped only Dynamis and have to beg people to join your party to do stuff (Materia on the other hand oof).

Seriously, this is so like making a mountain out of a molehill.

[caffe_macchiato]

To be quite honest, even if Dynamis is more inactive to the other established servers (I don't like to use the term dead), who cares?

With the availability of data travel center, it's not like there's any content in the game you are prevented from doing due to it having less player population since you can just hop to other DCs to either RP/raid/PvP etc.

It's not like you are trapped only Dynamis and have to beg people to join your party to do stuff (Materia on the other hand oof).

Seriously, this is so like making a mountain out of a molehill.

Except that DC travel locks us out of communicating with our home DC. That means no FC, no linkshell, no tells. That locks us out of the community aspect of this game, turning it into a solo-queue game.

I understand that many people like this because they keep their communities on other platforms or games that they engage with more often. However, this will become detrimental in time, as you will see in the coming years. In-game communities help player retention rates. Over time, the population of FFXIV will dwindle until Square Enix stops publishing subscriber numbers. Queues will die and your friends will stop logging on.

There’s a reason why many online games invest in their social features. It’s why we have a Community Finder. While many people don’t care much about these features, they’re necessary for an online game to thrive. Every other major online game has friends or guilds as a core feature. Why not us? Is Square Enix too poor of a company to figure this out?

[ICountFrom0]

"Why won't anybody come to this server"
Also
"This server is dead, stay away"

[Pratini]

I couldn't care less about the population to be really honest.

I transferred for housing and I got my dream houses.

[LaylaTsarra]

I couldn't care less about the population to be really honest.

I transferred for housing and I got my dream houses.

Yes and the DC will fill in nicely over time. It's not something that will happen overnight and DC travel will at least enable people to get their content done until the DC has had a change to grow.

[VerdeLuck]

Yes and the DC will fill in nicely over time. It's not something that will happen overnight and DC travel will at least enable people to get their content done until the DC has had a change to grow.

DC travel (log out) (log in)
is a pain (log out) (log in)
when you (log out) (log in)
have to keep moving DCs for retainers and FC then going back for content multiple times an hour.