Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Jojoya]

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.

No, it's not huge.

My Marilith FC is composed of players who originally met playing WoW unless they were already real life relatives. How many of them stopped playing FFXIV to return to WoW for the pre-patch?

One, who's already back to playing FFXIV because nothing in the pre-patch made him excited for Dragonflight. The rest are done with WoW. They're far happier here than they'd been with WoW in years.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

There is some crossover but it's not huge like you claim. They're two different MMOs that appeal to different types of players.

If you think WoW is to blame, then explain why we had the exact same complaints at the same point in 6.1's patch cycle where there was nothing going on in WoW to cause it.

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.

Some players were trying to make Hali the raider/PvP server but I don't think that stuck. It's really just Seraph that has an identity. The rest are just normal worlds.

Hali isn't the least populated, either. That honor goes to Maduin, though not by much. Hali, Maduin and Marilith are all fairly close in population - and dwarfed by Seraph.

Queues also aren't world specific. They draw from the entire data center. I see a lot more Seraph players in my roulettes than players from any other world, which is what I would expect to see.

[Zsolen]

No, it's not huge.

My Marilith FC is composed of players who originally met playing WoW unless they were already real life relatives. How many of them stopped playing FFXIV to return to WoW for the pre-patch?

One, who's already back to playing FFXIV because nothing in the pre-patch made him excited for Dragonflight. The rest are done with WoW. They're far happier here than they'd been with WoW in years.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

There is some crossover but it's not huge like you claim. They're two different MMOs that appeal to different types of players.

If you think WoW is to blame, then explain why we had the exact same complaints at the same point in 6.1's patch cycle where there was nothing going on in WoW to cause it.


Some players were trying to make Hali the raider/PvP server but I don't think that stuck. It's really just Seraph that has an identity. The rest are just normal worlds.

Hali isn't the least populated, either. That honor goes to Maduin, though not by much. Hali, Maduin and Marilith are all fairly close in population - and dwarfed by Seraph.

Queues also aren't world specific. They draw from the entire data center. I see a lot more Seraph players in my roulettes than players from any other world, which is what I would expect to see.

Seraph has a lot of ranked pvpers. Mostly alts.

[LittleImp]

No, it's not huge.

My Marilith FC is composed of players who originally met playing WoW unless they were already real life relatives. How many of them stopped playing FFXIV to return to WoW for the pre-patch?

One, who's already back to playing FFXIV because nothing in the pre-patch made him excited for Dragonflight. The rest are done with WoW. They're far happier here than they'd been with WoW in years.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

There is some crossover but it's not huge like you claim. They're two different MMOs that appeal to different types of players.

If you think WoW is to blame, then explain why we had the exact same complaints at the same point in 6.1's patch cycle where there was nothing going on in WoW to cause it.

Weird, nearly my entire community is currently playing the WoW prepatch, and a bunch of FFXIV content-creators are very publicly burning out from the game and choosing to try WoW. The Endwalker endgame is honestly one of the most widely and openly derided endgame experiences I have seen since I started playing back in HW, and my friends have been burning out of the game at an unprecedented rate.

It's actually rarer to meet someone on FFXIV who hasn't played WoW at some point; FFXIV is a WoW clone, so it's really not a stretch to imagine they have a lot of players in common.