Why Is Dynamis Dead

[RobynDaBank]

Genuinely asking: have they? Honestly I wanted to wait to see how the communities in each world settle first, like how Balmung is the RP world, Behemoth is the Hroth world etc etc. so I don't end up in one where I don't "fit in". All I know is Seraph seems to be the one everyone went to lol

It was said that Seraph is to be the RP server because of its cute name. I think Halicarnassus was the PvP one?

[Nav_Fae]

A few things I need to point out.

- It's only been a couple of weeks.
- Holiday season is kicking off in NA, so people are busy.
- We're late in a patch cycle, this is when people tend to float to other games.
- Most people on Dynamis are focusing on building FCs, decorating their houses and other transitory activities.

If you're that impatient, you can always DC travel to get your dailies done.

There are new games out too. Sonic Frontiers, God of War, Pokémon Scarlett and Violet. There is just a lot to play right now.

[Nav_Fae]

The funny part is that there was at least one post that claimed that the servers on Dynamis had already been "assigned" roles by the community.

They were assigned roles by unofficial groups of the community and the upkeep to maintain those roles have fallen short as everyone DC travels back to Aether and Crystal as needed. There currently isn't a need for Seraph to be an RP server when you can visit Balmung. Plus it's just people on standby to make night clubs. (I am not even exaggerating either, shout chat has been vocal about it).

[Shandrith]

I think the timing and reasons that people haven't been on much have been sufficiently covered, but I wanted to point out, once play does pick up with 6.3 and into 7.0, people will also stop going to other DCs as much, because the transfer time will jump drastically. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I could swear that I read somewhere that you are put at the back of the queue when trying to transfer, meaning you have to wait until no players from that DC are trying to log in before you get to transfer your character from Dynamis to another DC. When the new patches and especially the new expansion are out, that's going to be a loooong wait, so people are going to stay and que on Dynamis. Add to that the fact that all of the new players and alt accounts will finally be at decent points in the MSQ, and things should be popping pretty quick

[PirateRyanG]

I doubt there's that much crossover in the games' populations.

There is a huge crossover in the game's populations. The term 'WOW refugee' is literally a term thrown about in game.

Half the last FC I was in game from WOW during a content drought. They were on 6-8 hours a day on FF14 for the 2 months I was in that FC. None of them have been online since the WOW pre-patch.

[MsMisato]

It was said that Seraph is to be the RP server because of its cute name. I think Halicarnassus was the PvP one?

LOL no its not. Hailcarnassus is the least populated one on the DC. Most times queues are pretty atrocious there for any early content and pvp. WHile I don't mind DC traveling, it does make the new DC feel empty as hell.

[MisterNublet]

Wait... people actually thought Dynamis was going to have an active population?

The only people who moved there are hoping to win a housing plot, or for the first time lv30 bonus. After that, they'll proceed to do what everyone else is doing, travel to Aether to do literally any content.

Dynamis could have work, if they have been physically located on the east coast.

[Chiharu_Sakurai]

Not sure how you get the idea that Dynamis is failed and dead.... it isn't, this is coming from someone who has been playing and queueing on Dynamis exclusively since it came out.

But a few things that you may not have thought of. We JUST got done with round 2 of housing lottery, and Seraph is pretty full on the housing market so right now everyones crafting, selling housing items, or decorating. A few are making millions (I've made a fair amount just reselling rugs LOL). Anyone who doesnt do housing at all will fail to understand just how much time that will eat up. I've spent 3-4 days before just decorating a small FC room, NM a cottage or medium house. I've spent HOURS in my basement section getting it set up and I still have items to craft, flowers to grow, and never mind the upstairs which I havnt touched.

Then theres the alts. Most of our FC transferred over here, but most are just alts looking for the 1M bonus on hitting level 30 and leaving. Trust me, the population has died down, but its not dead. I can still queue for CT, and ARR dungeons and still not be able to finish my CS before it pops. If you're having a problem getting queues for level 90 content... well yeah. While alot of people did transfer it wasnt like half of aether/crystal/primal jumped ship. This is also a good time to make alts and unless you get a story skip, most of those alts are starting over at level 1 of the MSQ. I've met alot of new players.

Is PF a bit dead? Yeah but then thats because everyone is going over to Aether for that. Despite that I've still been in an EX1 farm, EX2 and 4 Prog, along with a Titania farm party.... and that last one was before noon. I've been too busy with leveling an alt, doing tribal quests and housing to bother with PF ATM.

Its also mid-patch, so bit of a content drought, AND the holidays. Time is finate. There are other games out there and people will gravitate towards that. WoW is coming out with a new expansion and I have a friend prepping for that, Terraria came out with its 1.4.4 update recently, plus there are a bunch of other games that have come out, One of which is a SE title, FFXVI is on the horizon.

Point is, its not been a month since the new servers came online, It wasnt released during a new expansion (thank god for that) and when 7.0 comes out, mark my words, Aether will be locked out of anyone wanted to create a character, plus see the return of 10K|2 1/2hr queues, along with Crystal and probably Primal. The only options for new players will Dynamis. Will it ever rival Aether? probably not but I dont care. I knew moving over was gonna have some growing pains but I dont want to have to reprog The Login Queue (Savage) which is one of the reasons I transferred.

[Illmaeran]

The dev team largely doesn't care if the community opts to create one centralized hub Data Center. Yoshida even said as much in the recent Q&A. One of the questions asked if they were concerned how over on JP, Mana has essentially taken over for raiding. They more or less said, DC travel is working as intended. So their solution to slow queue times on Dynamis is "go try Aether, Primal or Crystal". Make of that what you will.

The new NA and EU data centers are being put in place to prevent the congestion problems encountered when EW dropped. They've given people the ability to spread out and reduce load on the login and game servers, which is likely all they care about. If players want to transfer to Dynamis but actually play on Primal, I doubt that means anything to them, all the people doing DC travel now are still based on a low-pop datacenter which will have fewer issues come 7.0.

[MonsutaMan]