Why Is Dynamis Dead

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That's because Aether has the reputation as the raid DC and now its a self fulfilling prophecy. The reason raiders go to Aether is because raiders go to Aether. Same reason roleplayers go to Crystal.

And majority of the ffxiv streamers play on aether so people want to be on the same DC as those streamers as well.

[TaleraRistain]

As someone who has been there on main since Day 1, the population of Limsa in Marilith is a lot larger than it used to be. Is it wall to wall packed like the other 3 DCs? No and frankly I never expected it to be. However, considering where we are now to where we were at the beginning, there's a noticeable increase especially in the afternoon/night hours.

As far as I'm aware of, the game is still putting new players into Dynamis automatically so it's not really a shock to me that end-game content isn't pulling the same crowd as the others, we got a large portion of the population still getting through everything else and they still would have to be interested in raiding to begin with.

Everyone there seems to like congregating in Gridania I've noticed, at least when I've logged in. I chose Twin Adder so I have reason to be there a lot. Lags me a little sometimes with just how many peeps there are around. So many sprouts still. People are still working their way through the story.

[LianaThorne]

I'm on Aether now, and honestly, I'm not feeling this place either. People are really rude. Does anyone have a better suggestion on where to go? I'm just looking for a chill place to play. I went over mainly because of Eureka, but these people are the most anti-social players I have ever seen. All I wanted to do was party up for NMs, and I was asking for 20 minutes. The only reason I didn't start my own is because I didn't know what they were prepping, and I was asking that as well. I just want to actually play with people in my mmo.

Dynamis is the chillest DC in my opinion. I've had chars on every DC and I've never felt more cozy than I do in Dyna. Aether is full of raiders and elitists now, Primal is kind of okay but I've had more bad experiences there than any other. (and their raid scene is apparently dying slowly because everyone just goes to Aether now), Crystal is basically just RP (I had an ex that literally had to go make a boosted char on Crystal to help his friends with raiding because they couldn't ever get a full PF of people in a timely manner).

The thing also with Eureka is that I rarely ever see people partying up unless it's a group that's come from a Discord. I met a really nice group while in the second zone that helped me farm and they were ironically on Dynamis lol. They even offered afterwards to have one of their more experienced group members powerlevel me. If you ever wanted to venture back to Dyna I (and most likely my partner) would be happy to help you out with leveling.

You were in a good place, I'll be honest. It might not be to the standards that people have coming from the DCs that have existed for years now, but I've never met more kind people than those on Dynamis. The people who wanted something different from the norm were the ones that went there (outside of trying to get easy housing of course).

[Ardeth]

Dynamis is the chillest DC in my opinion. I've had chars on every DC and I've never felt more cozy than I do in Dyna. Aether is full of raiders and elitists now, Primal is kind of okay but I've had more bad experiences there than any other. (and their raid scene is apparently dying slowly because everyone just goes to Aether now), Crystal is basically just RP (I had an ex that literally had to go make a boosted char on Crystal to help his friends with raiding because they couldn't ever get a full PF of people in a timely manner).

The thing also with Eureka is that I rarely ever see people partying up unless it's a group that's come from a Discord. I met a really nice group while in the second zone that helped me farm and they were ironically on Dynamis lol. They even offered afterwards to have one of their more experienced group members powerlevel me. If you ever wanted to venture back to Dyna I (and most likely my partner) would be happy to help you out with leveling.

You were in a good place, I'll be honest. It might not be to the standards that people have coming from the DCs that have existed for years now, but I've never met more kind people than those on Dynamis. The people who wanted something different from the norm were the ones that went there (outside of trying to get easy housing of course).

It just seemed like nobody cared so I left. I tried to do stuff with them, but I didn't make it into the clique I guess. I don't know I've been unhappy since I came to Aether. The queues are way better, but the people are the worst. Or at least the ones I have interacted with.

[NanaWiloh]

Dynamis is the chillest DC in my opinion. I've had chars on every DC and I've never felt more cozy than I do in Dyna. Aether is full of raiders and elitists now, Primal is kind of okay but I've had more bad experiences there than any other. (and their raid scene is apparently dying slowly because everyone just goes to Aether now), Crystal is basically just RP (I had an ex that literally had to go make a boosted char on Crystal to help his friends with raiding because they couldn't ever get a full PF of people in a timely manner).

The thing also with Eureka is that I rarely ever see people partying up unless it's a group that's come from a Discord. I met a really nice group while in the second zone that helped me farm and they were ironically on Dynamis lol. They even offered afterwards to have one of their more experienced group members powerlevel me. If you ever wanted to venture back to Dyna I (and most likely my partner) would be happy to help you out with leveling.

You were in a good place, I'll be honest. It might not be to the standards that people have coming from the DCs that have existed for years now, but I've never met more kind people than those on Dynamis. The people who wanted something different from the norm were the ones that went there (outside of trying to get easy housing of course).

Dyna is in its infancy right now and does not have near the pop the older dc's do. So naturally people are helping each other out and coming together. Only time will tell if it becomes a true Heaven or a Flaming turd.

[Mcg55ss]

I'm curious what the downside to that would be in their minds.

The downside to be the same thing that happened in WoW. The cross realm ability to que while helps que time, that led to a vast increase in toxicity, a lot of community who at the time before was welcoming to teach and for new players to learn became a burden to them because they could just leave and req faster. Shortly after this Wow sub progression stagnated and declined after. The player base season is one of the worst patches and one of the leading causes to the downfall and the one big difference between vanilla and retail. Despite hearing this he's ignored this and said there's no relation between the two just cuz it doesn't agree with his argument.

[Ardeth]

The downside to be the same thing that happened in WoW. The cross realm ability to que while helps que time, that led to a vast increase in toxicity, a lot of community who at the time before was welcoming to teach and for new players to learn became a burden to them because they could just leave and req faster. Shortly after this Wow sub progression stagnated and declined after. The player base season is one of the worst patches and one of the leading causes to the downfall and the one big difference between vanilla and retail. Despite hearing this he's ignored this and said there's no relation between the two just cuz it doesn't agree with his argument.

To be fair, that's conjecture. This game doesn't have a cross realm queing yet, and it still has the same issues as retail Wow has now. People just prop up their FC as a community when really the majority of players on your given realm couldn't care less about you. I can say hello to a stranger and be absolutely apathetic to their issues. Party chat, shout chat, and yell. It doesn't matter. People are cruel it's in our nature. My idea, which isn't even my idea as stated above by you in Wow, is still a solution to the problem of Dynamis being dead. Again, we agree to disagree, but you can qoute me properly if you want to talk some smack. At least I have the good grace to quote you.

[Mcg55ss]

To be fair, that's conjecture. This game doesn't have a cross realm queing yet, and it still has the same issues as retail Wow has now. People just prop up their FC as a community when really the majority of players on your given realm couldn't care less about you. I can say hello to a stranger and be absolutely apathetic to their issues. Party chat, shout chat, and yell. It doesn't matter. People are cruel it's in our nature. My idea, which isn't even my idea as stated above by you in Wow, is still a solution to the problem of Dynamis being dead. Again, we agree to disagree, but you can qoute me properly if you want to talk some smack. At least I have the good grace to quote you.

Lol this game has NO WHERE NEAR the issue retail WoW has, as a veteran of WoW for 17 years (05-22)to even try to make the case that two comparable is hilariously one of the most inexperienced comments from someone I think that could exist on the internet

[Ardeth]

Lol this game has NO WHERE NEAR the issue retail WoW has, as a veteran of WoW for 17 years (05-22)to even try to make the case that two comparable is hilariously one of the most inexperienced comments from someone I think that could exist on the internet

So you said, actually, nothing in this comment. No new ideas. Just the same vitriol you are claiming doesn't exist here. If anything, you're proving my point. I'm not going to argue with you. I can see the pigeon knocking over the chess pieces now.

I really don't understand this obsessive need to prop this game up above Wow. It's literally the same genre that attracts the same players. It is lunacy. And if you're right and it is so different, then let's try my idea and see if FF can weather the storm of it. What do you have to lose? What is so important to protect while my servers shout chat is dead. Filled with nightclub adverts and gil sellers. Omg the horror of it all.