[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Qorani]

You cannot seriously be arguing that Dynamis's PF and population issues are because of DC travel. You know what would happen to Dynamis if DC travel stopped working or never happened? People would have left. You can't tell me that people would be willing to stay in an extremely low population DC and hope that more people show up to help their queues and pf when they could just go back to any of the other data centers. The reason that some people were even on Dynamis was because they could go there with relatively low risk.

[VoidsentStatus]

You know what would happen to Dynamis if DC travel stopped working or never happened? People would have left. You can't tell me that people would be willing to stay in an extremely low population DC and hope that more people show up to help their queues and pf.

So, this is exactly what Materia is. Materia has an even lower population than Dynamis does and they literally created community discords and organized with Elemental from JP (where most of them came from) to host events and get content done because it didn't happen naturally. They still have FC's and venues, statics, gpose studios, streamers, etc. The people I know from there, actually got pissed off when Square Enix opened up Cross Region travel because most venue people from NA and EU disrespected the culture they had from JP, shouting and advertising everywhere including in Novice Network when spam isn't part of what they do. Everything was loud and annoying after people showed up and a decent amount of natives avoided the new crowded public areas because the entire vibe of what they were used to for years had changed. I had to reach out on discord to find out why my friends weren't in Limsa where they normally were. Materia isn't dying, it's just not growing because OCE is a small section of the community. I expected Square Enix to funnel Xbox entirely into Dynamis when it came out because that would've pumped the queue's for lower content and given them the buffs they needed along with housing opportunities, but I guess funneling travelers was a better idea to them.

[CidHeiral]

You can't tell me that people would be willing to stay in an extremely low population DC and hope that more people show up to help their queues and pf when they could just go back to any of the other data centers.

I'm not sure why you're so mind blown by this concept. Launching new servers to accommodate a growing population is nothing new to the genre. Server communities grow organically over time as new players make their first characters and old players transfer for any number of reasons. The only unusual wrinkle in this case was the introduction of DC travel which killed the DC before it ever had a chance to naturally grow that community due to everyone spending all their time elsewhere.