They really need to merge Dynamis worlds into Aether, Primal and Crystal

[Hasrat]

This is a really, really, really dumb suggestion, when you look back on the history of the game and see players used to call for Mateus to be merged into Balmung because Mateus was the emptiest deadest world. Now look at it.

Or when the first new EU worlds launched and players cried out at fragmenting the already thin player base. Fast forward just a few years and suddenly players are crying for new worlds because everything is congested.

Just a little bit of time all too often makes these suggestions look ridiculous in hindsight.

[Darnath]

I was thinking the same thing.

Dynamis would've just been what Shadow for EU was. A temp DC to deal with the initial surge of players during expansion launches. As others brought up, they probably seen the Shadowbringers surge thanks to the WoW (temporary) exodus and thought the players would stay. Fairly certain between the turnaround WoW has done (most of my WoW friends who migrated have returned with latest expansion) and unless there's some major changes in development (even a casually skilled player as myself is struggling to find reasons to log in short of just doing society quests to level up jobs. Don't even bother with Roulettes since thanks to the even longer patches have 2 jobs at full tomestone gear and leery on doing Jeuno until 7.2 and new tomestone gear to make it less lethal for mistakes) I really don't see numbers climbing to justify needing four DC's for NA. As suggested, splitting the servers up and merging them into the current 3 could salvage the situation.

Only problem I see is if they announce in advance which servers go to Aether you'll see a flood of transfers to them to get to be part of the big raiding DC that's been and probably will be on lockdown until who knows when.

[Archeron]

The context of the situation in the past is important. The game was growing pre-Endwalker because the story was good. There was content to look forwards to, patches didn't take as long to come out, and there was more to do. (Relics generally came out closer to launch, or at launch, Exploration zones, ect) that kept people playing. The devs communicated more openly with the community and Yoshi P generally seemed to be more involved. That is no longer the case anymore. The goodwill with the community they had is gone.

The reality of this game currently is that the Story turned a lot of people off, there is 4.5 months between patches that hardly add anything, we haven't had an exploration zone since ShB (Who knows when the DT one will come out with the content they keep pushing back to later patches.) and the competition is heating up. WoW wants its players back, and they're busting out the content to try lure dissatisfied XIV players back. Free to play games are constantly updating themselves every month with new content, meanwhile XIV is sitting around like a rotting carcass between its 5 month patches. I doubt that this game will ever have a popularity surge on the scale of the WoW exodus again. Consider also that they've talked about linking JP/OCE/NA/EU and I don't think that Dynamis can sustain itself, even in a long term scenario without changes being made to address the bleed off between expansions/patches. Call me pessimistic.

[Oizen]

I doubt much of anything will be done about it, the game is bleeding players right now and SE can't even admit why.

[Toutatis]

One of the main issues with Dynamis is that it opened right after DC travel started and a lot of the initial population were players who wanted a house or a bigger house or just wanted the bonus but already had friends elsewhere. I was looking for a house there but didn’t transfer because I foresaw that issue and just waited for others to transfer to nab houses they left behind (managed to get 3: 1 personal on Primal, 1 on Aether and an fc on Primal with 2 friends).

Adding the new worlds to existing DCs back then may have been a good idea but now it’s too late as it would just create issues. What they really need to work on is regional cross DC queuing and PF. Atm the situation is the worse: part of the players can DC travel to aether, reducing the PF population elsewhere while others can’t travel. It’s still decent on Primal but it did take a hit when that happened.

[Larirawiel]

They should upgrade the login servers and merge all DCs into one DC in a region. It would solve all the problems with DC travel, empty party finders etc.



Cheers

[hynaku]

No thank you. I like how small it is, and you don't have to fight over trying to get a house because there is so many open plots. My queues are about the same as they were on Crystal.

[RedLolly]

There are hundreds of houses open on Maduin. But… If I wanted to do any that couldn’t be completed with trusts, I would be waiting “Over 30 Minutes” to do it. The Marketboards are barren. No one bothers to stick around for PF. FATEs are always scaled to as easy as they can be. Duty Roulettes are never instant let alone only a few minutes wait.

So I moved to the Primal data center. Zero regrets.

According to Lucky Bancho’s last census, NA servers are very lopsided in population distribution compared to Japan’s. We don’t spread out evenly, likely because we all collectively designated certain servers/data centers for PVP or RP years before Dynamis was added. So this issue isn’t that we don’t have enough players to fill those servers up. SE even incentivized us already with fast leveling and gil.

I really don’t know if it’s a problem that can be fixed unless SE makes established players move or gives them huge incentives like they have for new characters.

[DynnDiablos]

This is a really, really, really dumb suggestion, when you look back on the history of the game and see players used to call for Mateus to be merged into Balmung because Mateus was the emptiest deadest world. Now look at it.

Or when the first new EU worlds launched and players cried out at fragmenting the already thin player base. Fast forward just a few years and suddenly players are crying for new worlds because everything is congested.

Just a little bit of time all too often makes these suggestions look ridiculous in hindsight.

You seem irrationally angry and emotional about this.

[Menriq]

Since they are working on the cross DC PF, my guess would be that they are going to keep Dynamis as is. I would imagine once they get that implemented, a lot of this becomes a non-issue since a lot of people would no longer need to leave their server to do most content, leaving the actual travel to those doing venues, map parties, etc.