Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Deveryn]

- Only 4 servers instead of 8 servers like the rest

There are four more on the way next year!

[Atelier-Bagur]

People already outlined most of the reasons but honestly the new servers are still in their early stages of development.

Ofcourse people flocked there initially for the free million gil and available house plots but now that its been mostly gotten and were currently in a bit of a wind down in terms of content as well as the holiday seasons theres not a lot of people doing stuff (for the most part).

At the very least the queuing is easily circumvented with DC travel. Which is a godsend for situations like this, it really doesnt take that long for me to quickly hop over Crystal or whatever and get my daily roulettes done.

Just give it some time.

[Deveryn]

Here's the DC expansion announcement again.

[Jojoya]

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

It's been less than 3 weeks. Players have been very involved in decorating their new houses and apartments, which is taking them away from other content they'd normally be doing.

I haven't had any problems with queue times myself. I've been leveling a tank so that might have something to do with it despite the roulette bonus being for DPS about half the time. I also haven't be queuing for max level content yet so I don't know what things look like for Expert roulette or the raids.

I haven't heard any complaints about queue times from anyone else on the data center except regarding PvP (which I don't do).

Attendance for S ranks has been good overall though it's been on the low side for trains and the big FATEs (still enough to kill things, just slow). I imagine Eureka and Bozja are probably dead.

Is there something else you're thinking of that I missed?

You can always data center travel if you're unhappy with activity on Dynamis.

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) while the others are either social or for your house. We're also in the content lull, which is by design so that you can play other games published by Square Enix. You're not really supposed to be queueing for content right now unless you're progging the tier.

That's not SE's design. That's how players use the data centers.

WOW is about to release a new expansion.

The new server launched at pretty much the same time that pre-patch came out.

WOW (despite what some people think) has a greater population than FF14. it consistently sells 3-million launch day expansions (and has done with everything except Mists). Expect the servers to be even quieter for at least a month shortly.

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

It's more than we're running into the normal second half of the patch cycle lull when players start playing less waiting for the next patch to be released.

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.

30 of what though and at what price? Being a fresh data center, what players are looking to buy is different from what is popular on an established data center.

Housing items have been selling like crazy, which was 100% predictable and many prepared for it. They've been making gil. I've made over 80 million myself and I've been more focused on decorating my own house and helping with hunts than selling items.

I've also seen some ridiculously overpriced items on the marketboard. We're not a closed market system. We're competing against other NA worlds. We've got a population that came in expecting to need to use data center travel at times. If someone is listing their item at 1 million gil when it usually sells on other NA worlds for 150k gil, hope they have fun sitting on it for months.

[Zsolen]

Low active population is a benefit for those looking for house.

The only real negative is you cannot play ranked pvp, except at the start of the season.

It's different than Australia's DC, because you can queue PvE and most PvP content (including casuals) on any of the 3 other DCs in NA.

[Wolfsbane706]

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.

[NekoMataMata]

It's been less than a month, what do you expect exactly?

I have my obvious anxieties about the DC becoming a hub and activity never propping up there due to DC travel, but it's way too soon to tell.

[Avoidy]

This was predicted by so many people. There's simply no reason to stay on dynamis and play the game, when you could go to an established DC and have good queue times. Dynamis won't be good until 7.0 at best, and only then if SE closes the other DCs and basically forces new players to join dynamis. And even then, since DC travel is an option, they might just join dynamis and then hop over to crystal or aether or whatever. No matter how it's implemented, new DCs are just screwed in this game. Materia is an island, so people paid to transfer off. Dynamis is connected, so people use DC travel to get away from it and go where the people are. Maybe something else has to change before more DCs get created, because everyone I know who went to dynamis just did it for a house and then immediately hopped back to crystal; none of them were in it to build a community, which sucks for the people who join it unwittingly.

[Allegor]

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.

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

[Aword3213]

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.

Apparently paying 12.99 for subscription is enough for you to feel entitled to state-of-the-art military grade technology and expect SE to break the laws of physics for you.