Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Oizen]

So your arguments have gone from:
Dynamis isn't dead, queue times aren't that bad.
to
Ok well just PvP and Alliance raids are bad but it will get better and it's actually not that dead.
to
Just give it time, it's dead now but it'll be better in a year.
now to
Well it's your fault that you fell for moving to a dead DC, you should have known it would be dead and not locked yourself into being stuck on there for 3 months.

It's just a never ending cycle of backpedalling with you

Well actually the thread has been more like:
-this is why I think dynamis is dead, with proof
-XIV Cultists: NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! NOT TRUE!!!!!! YOU PHOTOSHOPPED THAT! WHAT JOB WHAT TIME, YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE THE GAME LOOK BAD AAAAAHHHHHH

Its more like the people who are convinced its alive are plugging their ears and screeching for yoshida to save them from the blashemous traitors tarnishing his sacred vision.

I mean I don't really get it but man people cant come to terms with the fact that Dynamis is dead, (which it is)

[Deveryn]

Frontline queues can get pretty iffy on established servers depending on where we are in a patch cycle, so whatever, but I don't see how it's disingenuous to be looking at Alliance roulette times. I've only managed to get into Labrinth and Syrcus Tower when I queue, and it's a bit disheartening that it's taking as long as it is to scrape together 24 people, across four servers, who are wanting to run the most basic of raids at any given time.

We've had several threads about alliance roulette cheese in the last month or so. People are more actively avoiding that roulette. I can't imagine people wanting to take a chance with that on the new DC. As you point out, that's all you can get into. Where's the appeal? My point stands.

I mean I don't really get it but man people cant come to terms with the fact that Dynamis is dead, (which it is)

You can't come to terms with the fact that it's just a dead time of year and dead time in a patch cycle. You're being unrealistic about the situation.

[Skivvy]

We've had several threads about alliance roulette cheese in the last month or so. People are more actively avoiding that roulette. I can't imagine people wanting to take a chance with that on the new DC. As you point out, that's all you can get into. Where's the appeal? My point stands.

Alliance roulette is a good source of tomes and XP, and it's a popular roulette in general.

I mentioned the CT raids as those are ones that a greater majority of people will have unlocked vs something like Nier or Aglaia, and if even CT raids are struggling to fill, it's not great. It had nothing to do about cheesing ilvl.

[SturmChurro]

Frontline queues can get pretty iffy on established servers depending on where we are in a patch cycle, so whatever, but I don't see how it's disingenuous to be looking at Alliance roulette times. I've only managed to get into Labrinth and Syrcus Tower when I queue, and it's a bit disheartening that it's taking as long as it is to scrape together 24 people, across four servers, who are wanting to run the most basic of raids at any given time.

Dynamis queues are dead, plain and simple. The DC itself is not dead necessarily, but anyone actually wanting to run content goes wherever they were before. The players here largely came here for private housing. More specifically: medium and large private housing.

Unfortunately, Dynamis came too late into the expansion. At best, this DC will fill during future expacs, or if there was hype - similar to last year - that directed players to Dynamis specifically. At worst, depending on how you look at things, they could probably just merge these worlds with the other DCs.

[CelestiCer]

Main appeal to migrate to Dynamis DC? was for players to obtain their own " House ".
Players had plenty reasons to pick Dynamis. Rather it's cause they are new and unknowingly picked a new DC. Players venturing to economicially conquer new marketboards. Established FC's migrating together and obtain a Large FC Plot together. Second highest reason? probably is cause " Dynamis - Seraph " sounded really cool to have with their character name. There are also players who like less overcrowded cities that aren't about naked dancing players, public ERP... in your face... like all the time... everywhere... 24/7...

But the main appeal was obvious, " Housing ".
Thus to the surprise of no one... Players flocked to Dynamis with prepped alt characters, to bid multiple times on FC plots pet alt character in their own created solo FC's to bypass the otherwise private housing lottery competition. Heck, Some? even did this to own houses just to resell them... I don't approve, but is it really a surprise?

Are the servers dead on Dynamis? it's certainly " Less active. "
I reserve " Dead servers " for " Dying Games ", and I been part of a few to not call Dynamis Dead. It's just less active, for now. I found a very lively FC community here. I am not even part of the FC, yet I sometimes partake in the FC events that are open to the entire server and DataCenter. I care not for queue times since I don't rely or want to do them. My main appeal is (Community-Service) Raiding, of which I DC travel to Aether. Did a funny P8S prog to help Zepla a few days ago, and friends on Crystal who honestly do the ame thing - travel to Aether for raiding cause Crystal PF raiding has less, yet we don't call Crystal PF dead either.

• Crystal = primarily the RP DataCenter
• Aether = primarily the Raiding Datacenter
• Primal = a balanced mix of both RP and Raiding
• Dynamis = primarily a Get a House Datacenter

Players will DC travel from Dynamis to any of the other 3 NA DC's to do the activities they desire to do if they can't do them on Dynamis, making Dynamis's queue times longer, their PF the most empty.

Dynamis aside from being new? only has 4 servers. However? 4 new servers will be added and players will flock to it for the same opportunistic reason... " To obtain a Plot of land for the House they never we able to get".

It takes time for something to flourish, just like a new DataCenter with Communities to grow. Although players should have had those expectations migrating to Dynamis ,it isn't rocket science... its to be expected. I'm happy on Dynamis, I finally have my Large house... I found new friends and I found friendly FC's to do activities with if I ever want to.

So some might call this place dead? I call it " Home ".

[Raoabolic]

Alliance roulette is a good source of tomes and XP, and it's a popular roulette in general.

I mentioned the CT raids as those are ones that a greater majority of people will have unlocked vs something like Nier or Aglaia, and if even CT raids are struggling to fill, it's not great. It had nothing to do about cheesing ilvl.

*taking that poster seriously*
No point in banging your head against a brick wall like that. Just laugh at the hot takes around here and enjoy yourself!

[VerdeLuck]

So some might call this place dead? I call it " Home ".

Yes, home, where you have to make a PF to get through the MSQ or Side content, because otherwise you sit in a 4 hour queue that doesn't pop. Where there's 4 players max in the southern front AFKing waiting for a duel or CE to spawn and then 1 guy trying to do Fates.
This is definitely not a poorly thought out expansion of servers that makes it difficult to complete content, and requires you to spend 10 minutes DC travelling every hour to go do content on crystal, then go back to dynamis every time for retainers over and over.
For a company and a game this size, it's pretty unacceptable for them to just leave a whole DC hanging like this without any effort to seed it, and the people who tell everyone to just leave to do any content are probably just as bad, since they're actively reducing how many people queue for any given roulette.

If all Dynamis was supposed to be was housing overflow, then they could have just added more wards, like they're doing right now, except they could have announced it before they locked people into a data center that was dead for 3 months.

[Deveryn]

Keep acting like this wasn't supposed to launch with a major patch.

[LaylaTsarra]

[B]MSo some might call this place dead? I call it " Home ".

I love it here and well said.

[Skivvy]

*taking that poster seriously*
No point in banging your head against a brick wall like that. Just laugh at the hot takes around here and enjoy yourself!

One day I'll learn! D: