Dynamis getting 4 more worlds Tuesday, June 11 !

[LianaThorne]

Eh... it might help with initial congestion from the expansion, but it'll probably drop off and they all become ghost towns a couple of months later like the other Dynamis servers did because there's no real incentive to stay. Hell, would it even be appealing for people on congested worlds to perm-transfer over? Even for a house? They're likely to get frustrated with the lack of queues while they sit in their home for literally hours (not to mention the possible lack of furnishing options on a brand new market board) and then being forced to DC travel anyway (and therefore can't be in their house). Most will probably end up paying to go back to their original server (many such cases already on Dynamis) because having a house won't feel like a good trade-off for everything else they lose.

Agree. I don't know why people expect it to go differently when it's only going to be people who want a shot at housing going to the new worlds. I give it a week or two before they're dead as well once the mansions run out.

[OliverQ]

Not quite understanding the point of this right now. The 4 we have are already pretty dead. I'm on Seraph right now (the most popular one). Zero high-end duties, 2 Trials, and 2 raids in PF. That's it for the entire Data Center at prime time. I seriously doubt people are just going to fill up the four new servers when DT releases.

[justausername]

Not quite understanding the point of this right now. The 4 we have are already pretty dead. I'm on Seraph right now (the most popular one). Zero high-end duties, 2 Trials, and 2 raids in PF. That's it for the entire Data Center at prime time. I seriously doubt people are just going to fill up the four new servers when DT releases.

I agree people are only going to MOVE there for housing. I believe the purpose is for DC travelers to go to during DT to spread out ques. But no one is going to stay and actually live there besides alts and house hoarders. They would have been better off opening some cloud servers temporarily.

[Hasrat]

As a player that's been around a while, I will never understand the declarations of "we don't need more worlds."

I started on Mateus, when there were frequent calls to simply close/merge it with another world (Balmung, usually) because it was so dead and empty. Now, it's population rivals the high pop worlds.
I moved to Zalera when Crystal was broken off, looking for that low pop vibe again. Now, I can say from first hand experience, it's far more bustling than it was back then.
I've been here through the creation of the new worlds (and data center) for EU. At the time, everyone declared this killed DF by spreading everyone out too much, worlds are dead, we don't need this much space, etc. After only a few years, it was clear they were full to bursting and needing more expansion.

So, miss me with this whole "worlds are dead, why bother" rhetoric.

[Jojoya]

Now, it's population rivals the high pop worlds.

Rivals? Mateus is the highest population world now more often than not according to the Lucky Bancho census and has been since the start of Endwalker.

But as for your main point, you're correct. Worlds will start off small and gradually build up over time as more players join the game. Dynamis has a solid population now. The problem is that much of the level cap population got used to going to Aether or the other NA data centers early on so it's a habit for them now. They haven't seen the population increase like those who chose to play on Dynamis have. If they would all stay on Dynamis for a change, there would be little reason for anyone to head to Aether.

[Mistress_Irika]

This is a gamble. The only way I see Dynamis becoming active is if Dawntrail brings people in as well as Endwalker did. It's a shame that Yoshi had to restrict people from buying XIV before Dynamis came about. I mean...we'll see I guess. We are on a new arc. Fingers crossed that it gets a decent amount of outsiders interested.

[LianaThorne]

Rivals? Mateus is the highest population world now more often than not according to the Lucky Bancho census and has been since the start of Endwalker.

But as for your main point, you're correct. Worlds will start off small and gradually build up over time as more players join the game. Dynamis has a solid population now. The problem is that much of the level cap population got used to going to Aether or the other NA data centers early on so it's a habit for them now. They haven't seen the population increase like those who chose to play on Dynamis have. If they would all stay on Dynamis for a change, there would be little reason for anyone to head to Aether.

People would rather go for convenience. That's really all there is to say about it. Cross-DC allowed people to flood one particular data center because it had the reputation for being the raid/content DC and it's too late to change it now without removing cross-DC. People might flood over to Dynamis during the early days of the expansion to escape wait times but once queues calm down they'll go right back to Aether or Crystal, the already established hubs. Square shot themselves in the foot by releasing Dyna with cross-DC, all it did was allow people to come and go as they please or stay away for weeks on end (like those who only went to Dynamis for an easy mansion but still do all of their content on other DCs).

The original 4 worlds of Dynamis aren't even close to being full, considering houses there still run up into the thousands on 3/4 of the worlds. The next 4 will just be taken up by multi-owners/people who just want a house again and the cycle continues. Discords are already preparing for people to go buy up houses as soon as FCs are opened lol, with no intention of actually participating in the DC community.

[Nighthawky2010]

Gosh, why? We are so dead already. It's where alts come to die.

IKR...lol...my alt is on halicarnus

[justausername]

I mean for those who doubted they were doing this for use for DT DC Travel, they are opening the new EU DC the same day ONLY for the purpose of DC travel to alleviate congestion. So it really is primarily for that purpose. The only reason why they are opening it fully here is because it would be weird to have 4 open worlds and 4 'for travel only' worlds.

[1313]

I cant wait til 6 people own all of the new servers housing too