Dynamis DC needs help.

[SalamanderIX]

Oh they care about it, But their solution isn't great. It's known as "World Population Balancing Incentives" They just shut down half of the servers on Aether/Crystal/Primal every patch and give them "congested" status. So if somebody wants to move or create a character on a particular server they are SOL. To go one step further, they have travel restriction, which means you can't travel to certain servers if they are "too busy" at a given time.

Newer players should mind, this didn't used to exist. In Shadowbringers and early Endwalker no server was closed entirely. If it was too busy at a time you couldn't create a character, but they were not outright locked it arbitrarily for a patch.

The plus side is the "Preferred+" status of most Dynamis servers. You get a million gil on a new character, once per account. People transfering to one get to have their house refunded, they also get to transfer for free. Back in Stormblood they had an even better system... They let people relocate their houses outright. Since there's a lottery now though, they do the housing refund instead.

It's obviously not enough, because Data Center travel exists now, and because Dawntrail lacks the numbers. If Data Travel didn't exist, and if Dawntrail was successful - Then I have no doubt Dynamis would be thriving. At the moment it's mostly a hub for Aether venues, because the venue system on that data center got broken since nobody could get to a Aether server. Data Center travel messed up a number of things, such as hollowing out Primal and Crystal for party finder, with Aether being the "mega datacenter". They did not antipate the problem and any real solutions may be over a year from now. The solutions may not be pretty either.