Dynamis

[Basteala]

Dynamis was made with the thought that Endwalker's playerboon was permanent.
We're now 6 months into Dawntrail and we've been bleeding players back down to Stormblood levels. I don't believe on the game's current trajectory Dynamis will ever fill up the way the other DCs have.

You can either move data centers or pray that they one day add cross-dc PF/DF content something they've stated would take a very long time.

Given the wild success of Shadowbringers, and EW having those massive queue problems, I can understand the desire to make the extra server. It wasn't a bad idea at the time.

Unfortunately DT seriously dropped the ball--in MSQ, in gameplay, while WoW has had its first (as I understand it) properly successful expansion since Legion. FF14 is trending down, WoW is trending up. A fair few of the refugees are going back to their old flame.

[Archeron]

I think Dynamis should never have existed. While extra worlds may have certainly been needed, the reality is that ShB and EW were never going to maintain the monsterous growth driven by WoW and Blizzard imploding. Dynamis is empty, and nothing has changed that. People said Xbox integration would fill this DC, and it did not. People said that Dawntrail would fill this DC, and while it DID do that for a brief 2 weeks, it became quickly apparent that this wouldn't last. I was in Cuchulainn today, and had to do a double take because when Limsa loaded in, and I didn't see any players around. Anywhere. I counted 3 people in the Lower Decks, on a Saturday afternoon. The housing zones while they did solve a major problem with the lack of housing, only ended up enabling RMT bots to set up shop in FC wards. They bought out almost entire wards in some cases, and they're not going anywhere. The Marketboards are absolutely lethargic on this DC. The undercutting is atrocious on some worlds. To demonstrate that point, I made a new alt, and went around vendoring items listed for less than vendor value. By the end an hour later, my fresh alt had over 100,000 gil. Never stepped a foot outside of Limsa.

I have always thought that it would have been better to just add worlds to the existing Data centres, rather than create Dynamis. Now I think the best solution moving forwards to remedy the mess Dynamis, and other DC's are in is to enable Cross DC Duty + Party Finder. That will at least make staying on our home worlds viable, instead of forcing us to DC travel every single time we need to do anything that isn't ARR - StB content, and this would allow for generally faster queues all around. (Which makes things easier for all of us as the game population continues to shrink in the future assuming the downward trend continues.)

[Menriq]

We can't even carve a niche for ourselves because raiding, PVP, and RP are already taken and... well... what's left at that point?

That's the thing. Depending on if the cross DC is both PF and DF, there will no longer be a "Raiding" DC, a PvP DC (except for ranked, which is forced and not DC specific since they can rotate it). That's why I played the long game of coming to Dynamis. I have the luxury (not bragging, but just explaining my PoV) of being here for my house, but getting to any DC I want before they get locked down each day. Once they implement their cross DC stuff, I have a feeling Dynamis might see an influx because then people will be able to come here and do a lot of content that is locked to DC right now.