Why Is Dynamis Dead

[LianaThorne]

I think people need to be a little more honest about queue times rather than slapping 30m+ waits on EVERYTHING. I literally had Expert, 90, 50/60/70/80, Leveling and Trial pop within 5 minutes yesterday (3-6 PM EST) by being the role in need. The only one that flat out gave me difficulty (30-60m range) was Alliance Raid and Frontline. However, I have seen people PFing unsync CT raids so maybe that's just becoming the new way of doing it there because of how simple they are.

People who are also saying savage doesn't exist...no duh. People already had established statics on other DCs before Dynamis existed and anyone starting savage in general now is extremely late to the party. I wouldn't expect to see savage queues on Dynamis until the new tier drops and people reform their groups.

I'm really not trying to be that person but some of yall dramatize certain aspects of the DC. Again, it has been active for ONE MONTH. If it's in the same shape a year from now, I will gladly concede that people were right but judging it this early (especially when it's a dead period of content so not as many people are playing across all DCs rn) is jumping the gun.

Also, I find it strange how I can open the PF at random times and find 10-20+ PF ads but people here are only highlighting the times it's not active. I no-life this game pretty much (outside of the last few weeks because of a death in my family that pretty much turned my whole life upside down) so maybe I'm just seeing things others arent? I'll grab a photo next time lol.

[NekoMataMata]

I understand this is a new server but the data travel is ruining the new server experience.
New people can't even play like this.



We need GMs to focus on this. At least disable the Data Travel for Dynamis.

When was this taken? Early morning NA time? Usually during the day until around the first few hours of the a.m. there's a handful of parties along with another handful of ads.

[ForteNightshade]

I understand this is a new server but the data travel is ruining the new server experience.
New people can't even play like this.



We need GMs to focus on this. At least disable the Data Travel for Dynamis.

Data Travel is literally the only way I've been able to level my alt through the MSQ. If they disable it, I'll immediately transfer her back to Aether. I suspect most people will too for precisely the same reason. You can't force people to stay. They tried that back when Crystal first released and it led to a massive exodus back to Aether. They just need to give better incentives to stay and let things play out.

[R041]

I think people need to be a little more honest about queue times rather than slapping 30m+ waits on EVERYTHING. I literally had Expert, 90, 50/60/70/80, Leveling and Trial pop within 5 minutes yesterday (3-6 PM EST) by being the role in need. The only one that flat out gave me difficulty (30-60m range) was Alliance Raid and Frontline. However, I have seen people PFing unsync CT raids so maybe that's just becoming the new way of doing it there because of how simple they are.

Not being dishonest, just not talking about Roulettes. Like sure if I wanna do Navel or Crystal Tower all day..

Do players roulette through their MSQ?

[Iscah]

I think people need to be a little more honest about queue times rather than slapping 30m+ waits on EVERYTHING. I literally had Expert, 90, 50/60/70/80, Leveling and Trial pop within 5 minutes yesterday (3-6 PM EST) by being the role in need. The only one that flat out gave me difficulty (30-60m range) was Alliance Raid and Frontline.

Were you queuing with a max level character, or doing it for EXP? I've similarly had long waits for alliance raids, and wonder if the "in need" thingy is fishing to fill a queue for Aglaia.

Do players roulette through their MSQ?

As in, do they run roulettes while they're still working through the story? I do when I'm playing with alts, because I'm usually levelling several jobs at once to share quest EXP or pursue glamour ideas.

[strawberrycake]

Ngl surprised this thread is still going.

That being said, the issue is simple, people should try to build their own server up instead of running to other servers. Thats simply how I feel. Don't really care if people think, see or feel differently as I am allowed to my own PoV.

That being said I'm very aware the game doesn't give players much reason to build up new servers. As for my own Experiences with Queue times, they've been bad, if not for you good, I am happy you've been lucky, but player experiences vary and always will. I think it's bad design to not incentivize players to build up a new set of servers bar housing and an exp buff. That being said.

Yeah it's barely been a month, got the houses I wanted, thats neat, still throwing up the occasional PF with friends hoping I can help people get into harder content on Dynamis, still helping people with low lvl content. Doesn;t change the dead feeling, Dead as in quiet/barely alive/not active.

It also makes no sense to me that I can see so many people standing in limsa afk, but thats just the norm for XIV as an MMO. Heres to 7.0 being more lively

[R041]

As in, do they run roulettes while they're still working through the story? I do when I'm playing with alts, because I'm usually levelling several jobs at once to share quest EXP or pursue glamour ideas.

It was a joke.

That's a bit different, but I respect your playstyle. New players still need to queue normally for story progression for the most part.

(Side rant) Maybe I wouldn't even have such a horrid taste for something like Duty Support if it didn't literally take twice as long as a normal run and feel twice as bad. Unless I'm the one healing - trying to do W2W is super sketchy most of the time, and they only like to even single target DPS.

And yeah, time will tell with 6.3, or worst case 7.0. I got my houses, and I tried not to be greedy about it - Hopefully things fill out.

[DeNada]

I think the issue is 90% of the population on Dynamis are made up of alts trying to get a house when they couldn't do so on their main servers.

So after finally getting a house, everyone just went back to playing on the main on their home servers, leaving the remaining 10% of actual new players diddling their thumbs waiting for the queues to pop. When that didn't happen, they too DC travel to other data centers to get working queue which exacerbates the situation even further. I honestly have no solutions for this problem unless SE decide to take drastic actions to even the server population by designating all old servers as congested, leaving people with no choices but to create new characters only on Dynamis but that would never happen.

[Deveryn]

Ngl surprised this thread is still going.

That being said, the issue is simple, people should try to build their own server up instead of running to other servers. Thats simply how I feel. Don't really care if people think, see or feel differently as I am allowed to my own PoV.

That being said I'm very aware the game doesn't give players much reason to build up new servers. As for my own Experiences with Queue times, they've been bad, if not for you good, I am happy you've been lucky, but player experiences vary and always will. I think it's bad design to not incentivize players to build up a new set of servers bar housing and an exp buff. That being said.

Yeah it's barely been a month, got the houses I wanted, thats neat, still throwing up the occasional PF with friends hoping I can help people get into harder content on Dynamis, still helping people with low lvl content. Doesn;t change the dead feeling, Dead as in quiet/barely alive/not active.

It also makes no sense to me that I can see so many people standing in limsa afk, but thats just the norm for XIV as an MMO. Heres to 7.0 being more lively

Don't be surprised. It's gonna go until well past 6.3 when people are actually returning and populating the DC.

[R041]

We're saved!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW5GUWu1xxw

Hopefully Zelpa can help bring in some real activity instead of alts buying houses. lol