When will Dynamis ever compare…?

[DynnDiablos]

I wish I had an answer, but it seems never. For some reason, Dynamis never took off - at all. And as long as there is DC travel, folks will keep creating characters on Aether, Crystal and Primal. Honestly, world integration needs to happen and soon. Dissolve Dynamis and split the new worlds among the three other DCs. I am thankfully on Seraph, which is the most populated, but it is still a ghost town. It was sad for me when everyone left after DT.

[Darnath]

I'll agree with VerdeLuck 100%

Crystal took off because they split off already populated servers from Aether and Primal to birth Crystal rather than starting from scratch IMO.

Between DC travel and not having already established communities Dynamis is basically doomed unless there's some extreme measures taken (DC Travel cut, even more incentivizes to re-roll on Dynamis including having progression groups done there although I dunno how they'd ensure such groups were legit).

[Gember]

I think the main issue is that they released Dynamis as a new datacenter while releasing datacenter travel roughly around the same time. It didn't have a single chance to grow all throughout Endwalker due to the open travel. Nowadays they sort of have a restriction to help it grow, but honestly; Endwalker just taught a bunch of players that its okay to do different activities on different datacenters; which sadly is a slow death for a lot of unpopulated servers. The amount of complaining that the worlds aren't opening up is a good indication of that. I think SE had good intentions when they implemented DC travel, but the playerbase ruined it.

[CuteBucket]

The current DC restrictions have only made this worse. Now being stuck on Dynamis feels like a punishment and I hear Dynamis players wanting to transfer back to any of the other big three as soon as they can, because they transferred there under the assumption that they would still get to see and play with their friends across all the other DCs, which isn't true anymore. And it also feels like a punishment for me on Aether who made friends across different DCs in Endwalker and has been raiding with them since the beginning of Pandaemonium now that we all finally could get together, because they can't come ever visit me and my house and FC anymore, I can only go visit them.

People want to play with other like minded people, and will find ways of doing this. If they learn that X place has the best of Y activity, they will go there. That's just how people operate. If SE really wants people to go to Dynamis, they need to make it worthwhile. Free transfer and bonus EXP isn't worthwhile for a lot of folks. Shuttering Aether and half the other DCs at primetime just makes going to Dynamis feel like a punishment, like you lost out getting to play on the active servers and are stuck there now, which only makes people want to get out the first opportunity they can.

Dynamis needs its own server identity to thrive. Unfortunately, I don't know if that will ever happen, because right now identity seems to be "sprouts and housing land." I think the best solution would be to make a Cross DC Party Finder. Duty Finder would still pull from local players, but anyone anywhere could make a PF and run raids and harder content from anywhere. Being on Dynamis wouldn't feel like a mistake or punishment then.