Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Kyrj]

Also, people like me will just leave Dynamis and fix their problem. It was a selfish move, and I regret losing my old FC, but the queue times are fantastic.

It sucks having to DC travel to just to do things like Bozja/Zadnor and Eureka.

[Ardeth]

How much time? It's been what, 6 months now? I'm tired of hearing "give it time".

That's the mean reason I left. I gave it loads of time, but it restricts your options, especially if you have limited gameplay time. It's like paying the same subscription as someone on Aether, but having half the features. But it makes them $18 everytime one of us gets fed up with it. So why would they fix it?

[Kyrj]

That's the mean reason I left. I gave it loads of time, but it restricts your options, especially if you have limited gameplay time. It's like paying the same subscription as someone on Aether, but having half the features. But it makes them $18 everytime one of us gets fed up with it. So why would they fix it?

Having come from WoW Classic I can tell you this is most likely the reason. They pulled the same thing when they added new servers but in the end all it did was nothing. Once the people on mega servers who aren't serious about sticking around after an expansion dropped left, the people who transferred or rolled on the new servers just transferred back to the mega servers when it was safe, and they were allowed to.

[ZJyn]

They really should have released Dynamis as a full datacenter. There was no reason to put it out in parts. Doing so created the issue at hand.

We aren't at expansion time yet (and not even close), so the need for new worlds outside of housing was minimal.

As their original plan was to release the final parts of the data center this summer, best bet would have been to wait until right before fanfest, release the servers, then let the hype that will inevitably come from the event draw people toward the new servers and housing.

... Sad thing is, now that the genie is out of the bottle, I don't think that's even possible anymore. The reputation of the servers has been established. Good luck getting rid of it.

[Meillquei]

I get sad every time I see this thread making the rounds
I transferred to Dynamis about a week after it opened. And so far I have absolutely not regretted my decision.
Everyone I've encountered on Dynamis is super nice. Found a great FC, the hunt community is absolutely wonderful, I've never had problems finding groups for anything I need to do.
I used to be on Leviathan and never had problems there, but it's so nice here

[PredatoryCatgirl]

So, I'm on Aether, but it seems like the majority of people talking about how dead Dynamis is don't play on Dynamis.

[Sotaris]

The problem is that a lot of people are currently satisfied with things as-is:


So how do you change the infrastructure for this game while keeping those people happy? They like the system as-is. Maybe they like being in a dead DC. This is likely why Square Enix won't do any upgrades, because people just like everything they're currently doing. The fanbase of this game is very easy to please, Square can throw anything at them and they'll like it no matter what it is. It's hard to incentivize drastic and costly changes when everyone basically likes everything no matter what it is.

That's a really good question.

I can't speak for NA or OCE as I'm in the EU but for ours, it was unfortunate as we needed new servers badly after the EW launch due to covid and chip shortages it was delayed until last summer. I actually anticipated more people to transfer over given the housing issues on large servers but alas, it's pretty dead on that front. Although, we haven't got our new DC yet and these servers were added to the Light and Chaos DC respectively so DF/PF matchup hasn't been affected at all. I feel for anyone playing on a brand new DC where this would be an issue.

While I fully support adding more servers and DC, as the game continues to grow it is just unfortunate with the timing for some regions. It will (hopefully) be much better later this year and next when 7.0 launches.

[Stormpeaks]

That's a really good question.

I can't speak for NA or OCE as I'm in the EU but for ours, it was unfortunate as we needed new servers badly after the EW launch due to covid and chip shortages it was delayed until last summer. I actually anticipated more people to transfer over given the housing issues on large servers but alas, it's pretty dead on that front. Although, we haven't got our new DC yet and these servers were added to the Light and Chaos DC respectively so DF/PF matchup hasn't been affected at all. I feel for anyone playing on a brand new DC where this would be an issue.

While I fully support adding more servers and DC, as the game continues to grow it is just unfortunate with the timing for some regions. It will (hopefully) be much better later this year and next when 7.0 launches.

Sagittarius and Raiden both are barely surviving with an absolute dead marketboard and economy, let alone fc wise, there really isnt much, the population is extremely tiny.

If anything it gives a good idea of what the new EU DC will be like, not only 2 worlds or 4 worlds but 8 entire new worlds, with 2 new servers that they couldnt even fill, I'm sure 8 will go better right ? People might go over for housing, and then it'll be the new Materia, except that it'll have DC travel, the entire DC will be dead and everybody will DC travel to chaos or light to do content or hang out with friends, the fact they are going ahead with spreading an already medium sized community over an entirely new DC is ridiculous, and sure it might peak a little bit at release of 7.0, and then what when it dies down ? People will be stuck there on a dead datacenter and will be forced to pay to move.

Also it really is time to stop talking about this game "growing", it isnt, if anything its stable or trending down slightly thanks to there being barely any content, I could pull up charts number but people will yell that it isnt accurate (yet it is).

[Sotaris]

Sagittarius and Raiden both are barely surviving with an absolute dead marketboard and economy, let alone fc wise, there really isnt much, the population is extremely tiny.

If anything it gives a good idea of what the new EU DC will be like, not only 2 worlds or 4 worlds but 8 entire new worlds, with 2 new servers that they couldnt even fill, I'm sure 8 will go better right ? People might go over for housing, and then it'll be the new Materia, except that it'll have DC travel, the entire DC will be dead and everybody will DC travel to chaos or light to do content or hang out with friends, the fact they are going ahead with spreading an already medium sized community over an entirely new DC is ridiculous, and sure it might peak a little bit at release of 7.0, and then what when it dies down ? People will be stuck there on a dead datacenter and will be forced to pay to move.

Also it really is time to stop talking about this game "growing", it isnt, if anything its stable or trending down slightly thanks to there being barely any content, I could pull up charts number but people will yell that it isnt accurate (yet it is).

It may not grow as much right now but wait until 7.0 and we'll see a rise again, like with EW but that's just speculations.
As for how the experience going to be like when we get brand new servers on a new DC, it's hard to say. It's been over a decade since we had brand new DC for EU playerbase and game has changed a lot since 2013.

[Stormpeaks]

It may not grow as much right now but wait until 7.0 and we'll see a rise again, like with EW but that's just speculations.
As for how the experience going to be like when we get brand new servers on a new DC, it's hard to say. It's been over a decade since we had brand new DC for EU playerbase and game has changed a lot since 2013.

Of course there will be a rise with 7.0, and what once these people are disappointed and leave (which is bound to happen, it happens with every single mmo in the industry), what will happen to people on those servers ? They'll be left with a shell of a server and a completely dead datacenter, forced to go over to chaos or light to do any sort of content, why even have it in the first place ? To pretend that the game is full to the brim while it isnt outside of the new expansion release ? Is it really worth spreading the community even more on EU for that reason ? I dont think so