Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Silvarer]

The majority of these posts from people not even having their MAIN here are garbage.

"I play an alt on dynamis and its fine, i do it for the story"

Garbage, that's what NG+ is for.

No one has a legit reason for alts in FFXIV unless storage/retainer usage.

Can’t say I have any sympathy for people who moved their max level characters to a new server without taking even two seconds to fully think it through and are now complaining about it because they somehow thought a new server would immediately be as active at higher levels as older ones.

[caffe_macchiato]

Talk about how it's dead after the holiday season is over. sheesh

December 11 isn't a holiday. In fact, most days in December aren't holidays.

I know that FFXIV isn't supposed to be a "main game", we're all supposed to be playing other stuff, there's tons of content but everyone's just busy with family, etc. But no other game has a blackout during holiday season. In fact, many games have special events during the holidays. So either you're putting up a straw man, or...perhaps, just maybe...the game is in fact going through a pretty tough drought right now, and Dynamis is affected extra hard. But the excuses are getting weaker and weaker.

Can’t say I have any sympathy for people who moved their max level characters to a new server without taking even two seconds to fully think it through and are now complaining about it because they somehow thought a new server would immediately be as active at higher levels as older ones.

And here's yet another excuse, but even weaker than most. Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. gave existing players a plethora of benefits, including a 1,000,000 gil bonus, for moving their characters. They also repeatedly advertised the expanded housing market. If existing characters were not supposed to move to Dynamis after all, then this is deceptive advertising and should be treated accordingly. So why are you not blaming the company? You're blaming players for doing exactly what they were told to do? Sure, queues are slower here, but why should it be impossible to queue for content? Perhaps datacenter travel had an averse effect across the board, and it's draining players from smaller DCs to play on larger ones? Maybe SE could rethink the system by adding cross-DC queues like other MMOs, making a win-win situation? Or are we going to just provide excuses? I'm eagerly awaiting the inevitable arguments as to why we should not have cross-DC queues.

[LaylaTsarra]

Or are we going to just provide excuses? I'm eagerly awaiting the inevitable arguments as to why we should not have cross-DC queues.

Those would be nice but hard to say if we'll get them one day. And I have a few alts on Dynamis one of which is a 90 level Gilga alt I moved to Hali. I don't see any reason why people would be opposed to cross DC DF but I could be wrong although given the way we have to DC travel I don't think that is something that would be too easy to accomplish.

I have no worries the DC will fill up and stand on it's own soon enough especially after the 4 additional servers are added and the servers have had time to build. Until then people are DC traveling for duties I know i do for PVP but in the long run Dynamis is going to be just fine.

In the meantime I'll enjoy my Beachfront private in Mist and my Lavender FC Medium on the water. I have no problem traveling to get things done and I only wish we on Materia could do the same.

[Silvarer]

December 11 isn't a holiday. In fact, most days in December aren't holidays.

I know that FFXIV isn't supposed to be a "main game", we're all supposed to be playing other stuff, there's tons of content but everyone's just busy with family, etc. But no other game has a blackout during holiday season. In fact, many games have special events during the holidays. So either you're putting up a straw man, or...perhaps, just maybe...the game is in fact going through a pretty tough drought right now, and Dynamis is affected extra hard. But the excuses are getting weaker and weaker.



And here's yet another excuse, but even weaker than most. Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. gave existing players a plethora of benefits, including a 1,000,000 gil bonus, for moving their characters. They also repeatedly advertised the expanded housing market. If existing characters were not supposed to move to Dynamis after all, then this is deceptive advertising and should be treated accordingly. So why are you not blaming the company? You're blaming players for doing exactly what they were told to do? Sure, queues are slower here, but why should it be impossible to queue for content? Perhaps datacenter travel had an averse effect across the board, and it's draining players from smaller DCs to play on larger ones? Maybe SE could rethink the system by adding cross-DC queues like other MMOs, making a win-win situation? Or are we going to just provide excuses? I'm eagerly awaiting the inevitable arguments as to why we should not have cross-DC queues.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t have transferred characters at all, just that they need to put some thought into it first and be aware of what they’re getting into. The majority of players are not going to transfer to new servers because of the ties they already have on their own, that should be self-evident.

Just because something is advertised doesn’t mean you have to leap at the chance to get it immediately. Also the one million Gil doesn’t apply to transferred characters, only new characters that were rolled on the new worlds. I transferred one of my low level alts there and didn’t get any money at all, so I don’t know why you’re trying to use that as part of your argument.

Also why would anyone argue against cross-DC queues? I certainly wouldn’t object if they did that.

[Deveryn]

December 11 isn't a holiday. In fact, most days in December aren't holidays.

I said holiday season. It's still a season, whether anything is happening or not on a particular day. From Thanksgiving on, there's partying going on til the 31st of December. Things slow down. I've already been to a few parties and have more to go to this weekend and others are likely to pop up. This has been going on since before MMOs even started.

Quit being so obtuse about this. You (should) know very well that the DC launch was originally supposed to accompany a major patch. What's going on in the real world has an impact on things here. It's not an excuse, but a proven fact. Bitching about it isn't going to do anything. There's nothing SE is going to do aside from wait until 6.3 and beyond to see what things are really like for the DC.