Why Is Dynamis Dead

[DeNada]

The entire reason for the new data center is to reduce player log in congestion on each logical data center. Merging the Dynamis worlds into the existing worlds would end up increasing it and put it right back to what happened at Endwalker release, with multi-hour queue times and SE having to temporarily discontinue game sales/account creation in an attempt to reduce the queue times.

Keep in mind that the player search results do not include players who are in instanced duties or who are on other worlds/data centers. Dynamis players deciding they want to go back to Aether or Crystal or Primal to play only make the perception of a dead data center worse.

If they want a healthy data center, they need to put in the effort to make it one by playing on it, and asking their friends to come play with them on Dynamis occasionally instead of it only being the other way around.

In the meantime, I've only been seeing a negligible difference in queue times between what I get on Crystal with my Crystal characters and what I get on Dynamis with my Dynamis characters. It certainly hasn't been enough to deter me from continuing to queue on Dynamis. How radical a difference it is for players who had come from Primal and Aether, I can't say.

Agreed.

There's a reason why SE reorganize the original 3 JP data centers into 4, which is to improve queue times, I don't ever foresee them merging new worlds to existing data centers unless the population is in serious decline which is not the case here.

That being said, I'm not too sure what else SE can do to incentivize more players from existing servers to move to new ones. In the past few months, we have seen that the new OCE, EU and NA worlds have severely reduced player population and they are not likely to increase much further as most players who wanted to switch servers for a better chance at housing would have done so by now. Even when 7.0 is released in the future, I seriously doubt that returning players would want to switch to the new worlds as these are likely to be casual players who want to mainly experience the new story content and would rather remain in their existing servers with their friends/FC mates.

Which is another reason I believe SE would be over-extending themselves if they still intend to go ahead with 4 new NA worlds and a brand new EU data center in 2023, those worlds will practically be worse off than even Materia in its current state.