Shadow DC vs Dynamis DC

[LibitIncarne]

Dynamis DC's Duty Finder is pretty much dead, and people are using Party Finder to fill parties for normal raids and normal trials. Everyone goes to another Data Center for content, only making their characters there to get the Road to 90 EXP boost.
Unless you have an out of game friend who made a character there, the only reason why people go there is to kill Hunt Marks.

Shadow DC has the worst of both worlds, so to speak.
People are unable to make a character there, leaving it without the playerbase boost of people who don't know what World Travel is yet, and while on the NA Datacenter you just grin and bear it, you aren't able to access your Retainers or your Free Company's 2 buffs because you're on a world that isn't your Home World.
People literally only went to Shadow DC to kill Hunt Marks because Party Finder was better on both Chaos and Light DC, or to abuse the fact that there was practically no-one on the DC to cheese Mentor Roulette or Crystalline Conflict.

If Dynamis was first made as a Probationary Data Center to "see what happens", we'd still have only 3 NA Data Centers.
Shadow was dead on arrival because it doesn't have any of the reasons why a group of players would want to play for a prolonged period of time.

[TDawnstar]

I don't think they intended Shadow to be permanent, only as an overflow. It is getting removed soon anyway.

[Rueby]

I don't think they intended Shadow to be permanent, only as an overflow. It is getting removed soon anyway.

Wait really? Why so

[CaptainLagbeard]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...153483dbda9ea6

The Shadow DC was only really meant for people to use during the launch of DT as extra space in-case worlds got too full as they did with EW launch... A lot of servers had queues in the thousands at EW launch, they wanted to avoid that.

Their plan was to make a new temporary DC, let people travel to it and play on it while their regular one was full.

[Hyperia]

Wait really? Why so

Shadow was designed as surge capacity to prevent long queues for people to play, it was never intended to last.

[Rueby]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...153483dbda9ea6

The Shadow DC was only really meant for people to use during the launch of DT as extra space in-case worlds got too full as they did with EW launch... A lot of servers had queues in the thousands at EW launch, they wanted to avoid that.

Their plan was to make a new temporary DC, let people travel to it and play on it while their regular one was full.

Oh I never knew that...interesting approach..??? I thought it'd be a permanent DC, but I guess it makes sense, EU isn't that large and no need to spread us thinly...

Shadow was designed as surge capacity to prevent long queues for people to play, it was never intended to last.

I see, I was out of loop since I didn't play for a long while, I only heard they were adding a new DC, just didn't know it was a temporary one

[Shinku_Tachi]

Sorry you're having a rough time on Shadow, but calling Dynamis dead is an outright lie.

[Amecoeur]

*Cries in Materia DC*
At least people in other region can data centre travel, materia can't go anywhere.

[LibitIncarne]

Sorry you're having a rough time on Shadow, but calling Dynamis dead is an outright lie.

Dynamis was very much dead when it only had 4 worlds in it.

[Shinku_Tachi]

Dynamis was very much dead when it only had 4 worlds in it.

Gotcha. I wasn't there then, so I can't speak on that. I was on Primal from 2013 to 2021, then Crystal from 2021 till a few months back. Since being on Dynamis over the past few months though, while the PF isn't as active as Primal's or Crystal's was, I've had no trouble doing content.

(also, I would like to apologize if my post came off as antagonistic, that wasn't my intention. I feel bad about coming at you like that after rereading my post.)