Incentives for moving Data Center

[OliverQ]

At this point, Dynamis should just be merged with the other DCs. It's never going to get popular. I get some people like being on a dead DC because it's quiet, but it's a failed effort. With the drop in popularity of the game since DT, I think the other 3 DCs would benefit from Dynamis people moving over to Aether/Primal/Crystal

[FeyFavilla]

At this point, Dynamis should just be merged with the other DCs. It's never going to get popular. I get some people like being on a dead DC because it's quiet, but it's a failed effort. With the drop in popularity of the game since DT, I think the other 3 DCs would benefit from Dynamis people moving over to Aether/Primal/Crystal

I would honestly prefer that too as stated at the beginning. It just makes sense to expand the existing space more. I just suspect that, since their answer to congestion has always been 'just add more servers' instead of adding capacity to existing ones this will not come to pass so I am trying to look at alternatives. I kind of also don't see them nuking dynamis and risking the backlash for basically uprooting the players there against their will.

[Alicie]

At this point, Dynamis should just be merged with the other DCs. It's never going to get popular. I get some people like being on a dead DC because it's quiet, but it's a failed effort. With the drop in popularity of the game since DT, I think the other 3 DCs would benefit from Dynamis people moving over to Aether/Primal/Crystal

SE had to separate extra worlds from JP into their own data center because data center could not handle 10-11 worlds. I have huge doubts that it suddenly will be able to do so on NA.
Sure, hardware has advanced a lot but I doubt FFXIV servers are using cutting-edge servers.

Wait, hold on, if no one is even bidding on even the large plots, doesn't that mean it's easy to get one in the first place already?

I kinda get that grinding a new FC to lvl 30 is tedious, but nothing is locked away at max rank other than being able to store more FC buff items. Also, many players have already moved to Dynamis for housing since its launch, and SE won't suddenly nuke them from existence so it can be merged with the older DCs, which in turn will make them less efficient or stable before being sundered.

Finally, the biggest incentive so far from the latest patch is that both aether and crystal are Congested so the only way for new players to join is join Dynamis or Primal too.

Nah, larges are all picked out on Dynamis. You do see one-two less desired plots, mostly in Goblet and Empy free up per period, but you aren't just getting prime plots in mist/shiro/lb.