Merge Dynamis Into Other DC's

[Oizen]

Alternative, merge the other servers into dynamis

[Rongway]

The three JP DCs used to have 11, 11, 10 worlds respectively. Each DC has a set concurrent player limit, and so this meant that each world on the DCs couldn't handle as many concurrent players as they could if the DCs had only 8 worlds each. Because of this, they recently split the three DCs into four, so that each would only have 8 worlds. They wouldn't merge or distribute Dynamis with or among the other NA DCs because that would only cause NA the same problem that they just recently fixed on JP.

[ForteNightshade]

Or we can be given a fair shot to grow and come back to this in a year or two. As was said in another thread, this is similar to how it felt when Crystal first formed and look at that DC now.

While I agree with your overall sentiment. Comparing Dynamis to Crystal is, quite frankly, laughable. Every single server on Crystal had an established amount of players; Balmung being the largest server in the entire game. Neither the queues nor population was even remotely close to what Dynamis has been experiencing. Only high end raiding really suffered because so many of them transferred back to Aether.

I'm not saying get rid of Dynamis all together, just release it with the new Xpac, or shortly before so it actually has some sort of chance to thrive. Right now we're expected to wait it out a year or two? All the current FC's wont last that long, and more people will leave as the months go on. (people literally are dropping their mediums and larges to leave. housing isnt enough to keep players here.) The original delay on Dynamis getting released didnt help, ontop of them making new housing wards and holding them for us, resulted in more players leaving. They've made poor choices on how they went about releasing this DC And its now suffering.

I think I have right to be slightly upset over the fact there are things they couldve done differently, or planned ahead to not have this happen. /shrug

To be fair, launching closer to 7.0 wouldn't really change things once the initial expansion hype died down. Unlike Crystal before it where they moved existing servers from Aether and Primal to help establish a population, Dynamis has to start with quite literally nothing.

Alternative, merge the other servers into dynamis

I suspect the reason they didn't was due to the very poor reception they received at NA fanfest following the announcement of Crystal. They were actually booed, though part of that also came from Blue Mage being a limited job. Nevertheless, it did not go over well. As noted above, a good portion of the raid scene immediately transferred right back to Aether. With DC travel existing nowadays it may soften the blow but I doubt they want to risk the backlash.

[LaylaTsarra]

Dynamis is fine where it is. No thank you!

[Seraphor]

Dynamis was created precisely because there's a limit to how many players can log in per datacenter.
That log in queue when you first load up the game? That's not just server specific, that's also datacenter specific. The Datacenter hosts the lobby server which all players are funnelled through before they reach their home world server.
That's why additional datacenters are required.

What they should have done, is moved 2 servers from each of the other datacenters and put them on Dynamis, then thrown 2 brand new servers on each datacenter. Instead of just 8 brand new servers on a dead datacentre.

[Reinha]

Don't complain about login queues and lack of housing then if NA insists on moving to megaservers.

[Mosha]

Crystal is NOT good for high end raiding.

Due to having two of the biggest RP servers, Its a very obvious that crystal isn't good for high-end raiding.

[Jojoya]

I've been playing 14 for about 10 years, since ARR release. This game is part of my life and I dont plan on quitting...but the current state of Dynamis is becoming really defeating. And the current FC's who've been trying to establish since day 1 are dwindling.

I started the game on Exodus, and Transferred to Gilgamesh long before PF and world travel was a thing. As much as I love the World/DC Travel system it's made it that much harder for the new DC to survive.

FC's are fighting tooth and nail to keep their current members, and are getting no new members in the door. My FC is running events weekly, Discord, Lrg House, 24/7 buffs, Choco care, etc. We really are trying, but even now we are still loosing members, some of these being our more active members as they've lost hope in Dynamis.

At the rate that Dynamis is going housing isn't enough to keep people here. And waiting around till 7.0 will leave us with an FC of no members, and a DC of all new players. And Yes I understand I made the choice of moving to the new DC, after spending 9+ years on Aether...Thats on me.

But please Square i'm begging you...Merge the 4 current Dynamis servers (Like you did with Balmung way back when) And maybe just reopen Dynamis with a new set of 4-8 servers come xpac.

- Kels

What were your FC members expecting Dynamis to be? Why did they transfer to Dynamis in the first place?

Dynamis doesn't need to be merged into the other data centers. That would just make the problem SE is trying to solve, or at least mitigate, by adding the new data center even worse.

Players need to have more realistic expectations about what it means to be on a new data center instead.

It will be funny when your FC members who are transferring back to other worlds start complaining in 7.0 about log in queues that are keeping them from playing the game while those of us who leave our characters on Dynamis are having a good time doing the new content. By then, there will be a lot more characters on Dynamis at level cap to help reduce the level 90 queue times.

[Rehayem]

Due to having two of the biggest RP servers, Its a very obvious that crystal isn't good for high-end raiding.

As a fellow Crystal-er, I can confirm. It's bad. I just travel to Aether to Primal for that.

[Zsavooz]

Not being toxic, just stating a fact. It's going to take Dynamis time to grow. Who knew? Oh that's right anyone with critical thing skills

do you always have to be insulting to others?