Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Reimmi]

It's not a perfect solution, but you can go toi the other data centers to queue for content without any penalties
we're in content drought so it'll be abit before it gets traction

[Mika_Zahard]

Because the majority of people that moved over were looking for housing/the free 1m gil bonus for leveling to 30 so now that they have it theres no reason to be active there if they have priorities in other places. Plus people would rather go to other DCs to get insta-queues than wait in line and help it grow. Sucks but I don't think anyone should really be shocked over that. You'll have to work around it while we're in a dead period patch wise and might not even see massive pop increase till 7.0 when the new expansion and graphics update brings people back/new people in.

Help grow what? That's a specific problem with SE. They could have done regional queues so if i was doing FL from Seraph, i should be able to get queued with people in Crystal, Aether and Primal. But nooo, smol indie company with multidollar budget.

So instead of waiting for a neverhappening queue, i'd rather visit Bry and get a 5 min FL queue.

FYI: I queued for 3 hours AR at 3am and when i logged out of the game i got the notification that i left the queue (LOL).

A lot of people are satisfied with Dynamis. They get to have their house while also going back to their home DC to queue with friends. This is what many people wanted to begin with, including Square. Their design is to have one DC function as a hub for content (Aether, Mana).

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[Deveryn]

Help grow what? That's a specific problem with SE. They could have done regional queues so if i was doing FL from Seraph, i should be able to get queued with people in Crystal, Aether and Primal. But nooo, smol indie company with multidollar budget.

So instead of waiting for a neverhappening queue, i'd rather visit Bry and get a 5 min FL queue.

FYI: I queued for 3 hours AR at 3am and when i logged out of the game i got the notification that i left the queue (LOL).



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No amount of money will speed up the process of getting this to happen. They're actually working on it, but keeping up with SIC is too hard.

[JamieRose]

The DC as a whole lacks anyone trying to do content, even dailies are a hassle to queue for during peak times. It's been a month, and this kinda suuucks

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.

[Lexi]

Plus, as others have mentioned, it only has half as many servers as other data centers, and only has been out for a few weeks. Plus a lot of people started new characters just give it time. I have hope.

[Deveryn]

People are also heading to other DCs for more serious roulette action.

[Renalt]

Dynamis = Feelings

Dynamis = dead server

Dynamis = Dead feelings.

I blame that song "All I Want for Christmas is You". It kills all.

[ForteNightshade]

As others have already said. It hasn't been a month yet. In fact, we're only barely hitting the third week mark. Which just happens to be right smack in the middle of American Thanksgiving. A lot of companies are also mandating more work hours and such in preparation for Christmas. Not to mention plans people themselves have for spending time with family. All of this alongside a content lull for the game itself and it's hardly any wonder things are quiet.

Frankly, I believe that was intended so players could get comfortable without feeling as though they were missing out on content. One of the many blunders with Materia's launch was releasing it three weeks into a major patch cycle—one which included Savage. It all but ensured people wouldn't transfer even if the lack of DC travel wasn't a huge problem.

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.

[Final-Fantasy]

It's not an issue though, because you can travel between the NA datacenters.
You want to see what Dead looks like? Make a Character on Materia! Queue times there are really bad, so bad most of us left, no option to DC travel anywhere.

What they should have done was given OCE one world to begin with, allow DC travel to JP, and then given the four wasted worlds from OCE to Dynamis and opened it with all Eight worlds.

Though they could have, and should have, just added Regional DC travel, for everyone.

Make it so SE, please!

/bow

[UnrealTai]

- DC travelers leaving for crystal/aether
- The annoyance of "having" to use DC travelling for anyone that "was" thinking of coming and then changed their mind. (It is indeed annoying, but I'm happy to have a Large again)
- Only 4 servers instead of 8 servers like the rest
- Mid major update position
7.0 should see quite a large boost to Dynamis.
- FC housing not even open yet for bids.
- Housing felt at as a medium want but not a major want by most, not enough of a reason to move JUST for it, rn its the only reason unless you hate extroversion.
- New News of a lot more wards on OG servers will give even more reservations to people thinking of coming over, when they can just stay. (Honestly I think this a horribly bad time for SE to do this since they just released 4 new servers, but too late now)
- "New world" bonus from congested is a sick XP bonus to lvl 80. But does nothing for most honestly, a large # of people will already have their wanted 90 above 80 at least. SE probably could give better incentives, then a few silly gold choco feathers.
Other games have nothing to do with it, especially not wow.
Maduin still has tons of free housing plots in nearly all wards/zones.

I was hoping to at least play with a fresh market a bit but the market is completely flat dead as well.
Something I would sell 30+ of on Mateus in a single day before, I've now been unable to sell even "one" on Maduin within 3 weeks.
I expected it to be dead though sure, just...not "that" dead. I was hopeful for at "least" a few casual pvp matches to pop since its only 10 ppl. But not even those have popped a single time yet. DC travel it is.

Time will either fix it, or SE will simply merge all 4 of these servers into Crystal/Aether/Primal (They've done similar in the past)

Edit: Oh sorry Primal, forgot you guys were even there XD.