Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Deveryn]

Can you tell me what drugs you're onto? WoW's done similar stuff for several years and they're by no means using military grade technology.

It sounds more like you're the one partaking a little much if you expect them to have cross DC queues ready to go after travel only launched this year. They've been testing it out, but it'll likely be a while before they decide to launch that feature.

[LittleImp]

No, it's not huge.

My Marilith FC is composed of players who originally met playing WoW unless they were already real life relatives. How many of them stopped playing FFXIV to return to WoW for the pre-patch?

One, who's already back to playing FFXIV because nothing in the pre-patch made him excited for Dragonflight. The rest are done with WoW. They're far happier here than they'd been with WoW in years.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

There is some crossover but it's not huge like you claim. They're two different MMOs that appeal to different types of players.

If you think WoW is to blame, then explain why we had the exact same complaints at the same point in 6.1's patch cycle where there was nothing going on in WoW to cause it.

Weird, nearly my entire community is currently playing the WoW prepatch, and a bunch of FFXIV content-creators are very publicly burning out from the game and choosing to try WoW. The Endwalker endgame is honestly one of the most widely and openly derided endgame experiences I have seen since I started playing back in HW, and my friends have been burning out of the game at an unprecedented rate.

It's actually rarer to meet someone on FFXIV who hasn't played WoW at some point; FFXIV is a WoW clone, so it's really not a stretch to imagine they have a lot of players in common.

[Lunalepsy]

Move to Crystal!

[Sarevok_Thordin]

DC visit, it's one of the perks, at least you have it unlike Materia.

[Jojoya]

Can you tell me what drugs you're onto? WoW's done similar stuff for several years and they're by no means using military grade technology.

I guess that depends on what you mean by similar stuff.

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/7558

Blizzard Global Play allows you to connect to game servers in regions outside your own, making it easy to play with your friends in other parts of the world. Global Play is available for all our games except for World of Warcraft.

OCE is still connected to NA because the OCE logical data center was originally hosted at the LA physical data center before the OCE physical data center was added. Blizzard moved the entire logical data center so it was composed of realms that already had mostly healthy populations.

If OCE was treated as a separate region by Blizzard like SE does instead of it being considered part of NA, OCE and NA players wouldn't be able to play together there, either, just as NA players can't play with EU players unless they purchase a separate EU game license or Asia unless they purchase a separate Asia license.

At least with FFXIV, it's a single game license regardless of whether you want to play on JP, OCE, EU or NA. Only CN/KR remain completely separated.

[AnnRam]

DC travel and "wanderers" ruined every single DC/Servers/Community.

[RobynDaBank]

The difference between WoW and FFXIV is that the former's "DC" is just one with many servers. OCE realms are within NA. EU is a separate region and can't communicate with NA. Now that DC Travel is a thing the only missing thing is getting people from a different DC in DF.

[Kit_Lakshmi]

dunno my server is always busy. Also have a thriving bot population.. squeenix need to make reporting easier

This is why I'm done with Dynamis. Constant flow of bots zipping through walls, ceilings, and under the terrain while going through MSQs. It irritates me when bots spawn additional mobs when I'm doing the same MSQ. It's fun when a genuine player spawns more mobs, but not when bots are doing it while hacking under the terrain. And it's also irritating when bots are grinding FATEs. None of this prevents me from progression, but the game looks like a hacking fest and completely spoils the mood for me.

[Enkidoh]

This is why I'm done with Dynamis. Constant flow of bots zipping through walls, ceilings, and under the terrain while going through MSQs. It irritates me when bots spawn additional mobs when I'm doing the same MSQ. It's fun when a genuine player spawns more mobs, but not when bots are doing it while hacking under the terrain. And it's also irritating when bots are grinding FATEs. None of this prevents me from progression, but the game looks like a hacking fest and completely spoils the mood for me.

Bots are found on every server and in every data centre though, it's not just a Dynamis-specific issue. Unfortunately it's a zero-sum game, no matter what SE does to try and deal with bots, the companies that run the bot farms find out new and creative ways to circumvent it, and ultimately players end up suffering either way no matter what happens.

And before you pass judgement, SE were never able to fully eliminate them from FFXI either over the many years that game has been running.

[Kit_Lakshmi]

Bots are found on every server and in every data centre though, it's not just a Dynamis-specific issue. Unfortunately it's a zero-sum game, no matter what SE does to try and deal with bots, the companies that run the bot farms find out new and creative ways to circumvent it, and ultimately players end up suffering either way no matter what happens.

And before you pass judgement, SE were never able to fully eliminate them from FFXI either over the many years that game has been running.

I do acknowledge that bots are active on all servers, but the current intensity of bots in Dynamis is the reason I've stopped playing in that DC. It's been less than a year since I first started playing FFXIV and I've done MSQ progression on three characters prior to the launch Dynamis. I did notice some bots in the past, but it was quite infrequent and never came close to a level that I felt like posting anything about it. In contrast, it's so bad in Dynamis right now that I've already decided I'm done. Back to Crystal for me.
And I'm just stating why I decided to stop. I have no suggestions for SE nor any expectations.