Why Is Dynamis Dead

[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.

[LittleImp]

It is going to be extremely funny given that the earliest date anyone who transferred to Dynamis can leave is right at the end of January and the "holidays".

[Jojoya]

It is going to be extremely funny given that the earliest date anyone who transferred to Dynamis can leave is right at the end of January and the "holidays".

And would also be in the middle of a new patch release with new content to do.

Guess we'll find out how many are actually unhappy enough to transfer back and how many are staying.

[R041]

TLDR

And before you comment "YEAH BUT PLAYSTATION" - Most of the games on the Steam Charts are also multi-platform. So what, 3x it? We'd still be around #30.

If they actually gave us the real breakdown with all platforms and removed the bots.. I log in Marilith in the morning and there's only about 60 (A lot afk) real players online with 120+ bots. I don't think the numbers would be great. All I'm saying.

[Duskane]

games been dead for awhile in general
hopefully 6.3 picks it up with alliance,Deep dungeon,ultimate and relic

[Oizen]

You're trying to draw numbers out of the internet to prove something and it's not working because your assumptions are wrong.
Steam doesn't track all users for a game. They track the Steam users. Those numbers only mean something if the majority of a game's players are PC users and they are using Steam to log into FFXIV.
I don't think SE has ever shared a breakdown of FFXIV players by platform. I also doubt that the majority of PC users are using Steam for FFXIV considering the annoying license issues.
It also doesn't matter how many other people are playing a game or how that game's numbers compare to other games. All that matters is whether or not you enjoy it.

Steamcharts is not the whole picture, but to act like it isn't a large sample size and indicating a larger trend across all platforms is just coping.
The game has been on a decline post Endwalker, Its pretty safe to say that every platform is probably following the same trend that steam has shown with its playercharts. The numbers aren't mean to be taken literally, more of the direction the numbers are moving

[RemiRose]

I came for the house. I got my two mediums. I leave for content. I'm happy.

What is your excuse?

[caffe_macchiato]

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.

“Touch grass” is an excuse. It’s a funny one—usually used ironically due to its absurdity—but still an excuse.

Let’s take this a step further. I’m sure that all of these parties are likely more fun than playing some video game, which is why everyone is going to them. Why doesn’t SE extend the patch drought so that we have more time to do all of these fun IRL things? No one should feel forced to play a video game against their will. It’s so nice that SE gives us the privilege of going outside.

(By the way, the developers live in Japan, and their holiday season is different than ours. You forgot!)

Quit being so obtuse about this. You (should) know very well that the DC launch was originally supposed to accompany a major patch.

Bingo! Something went wrong with this roll-out, and it’s not on us. And no, I’m sure we’re not “supposed” to know that. We’re not management at Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. (a billion-dollar multinational corporation), and neither are you.

I came for the house. I got my two mediums. I leave for content. I'm happy.

What is your excuse?

Because DC travel severs us from all community features in our home DCs. We cannot talk to our FCs or message friends. We have to play content solo, which is a major caveat when we might otherwise have at least a friend or two on Dynamis to help out. It’s not ideal, and there is no reasonable excuse.

Cross-DC queues and parties need to be implemented as soon as possible.

[Deveryn]

It sounds like someone doesn't even get invited to these parties and it's pretty clear why.

(By the way, the developers live in Japan, and their holiday season is different than ours. You forgot!)

You do realize we're talking about how quiet things are on a North American DC, right? All of them have actually quieted down some.

I swear, some of you people get so caught up in your nay-saying, you forget what the thread is about.

"Deveryn is making excuses again and Kaiten should never have been taken away"
everyone else: "???"

[VerdeLuck]

Instead of adding 4 more new servers to the Dynamis DC in the next server expansion, SE should take 4 populated servers from the existing DCs to add to Dynamis, and then add servers back to each DC to replace the ones moved to Dynamis. If they add more empty servers to Dynamis it will just encourage everyone to DC travel to Crystal or Aether for content and players on it will continue to struggle to fill PFs, Complete Roulettes, and struggle to complete the MSQ on their home servers. The community on the DC won't take off if it's just left as the housing overflow DC no one actually plays on or puts their rarely played alts on the DC.

The problem is the compounding issue of:
There are no players and queues take forever -> I'll just DC travel and queue somewhere else -> The queues are even less populated now and take longer for the people who didn't DC travel -> They are encouraged to also move making the queue times even longer

This just feeds into itself, and there needs to be some effort to seed the population to get DF to pop and PFs to fill.