Why Is Dynamis Dead

[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.