Servers congestion

[Eorinn]

So the congestion/queue on most populated servers were supposed to be a temporary thing for expansion launch to aleviate server load, now we have less players than Stormblood (according to bancho census). Why exactly do we still have servers locked to visit? I understand if its for creation, but it makes no sense for visiting. I think its time to lift the restrictions, they only make player experience worse. Its not like its protecting us from ddos every other day anyways...

[Bonoki]

The congestion probably won't go away until Dynamis is decently populated and can stand on its own two feet without having everyone DC visit to Aether or Crystal form there.

[Eorinn]

The congestion probably won't go away until Dynamis is decently populated and can stand on its own two feet without having everyone DC visit to Aether or Crystal form there.

they could've easily fixed that if they put balmung and sargatanas/gilgamesh in dynamis( like back when they split aether and primal and created crystal)

[Korrcen]

The congestion probably won't go away until Dynamis is decently populated and can stand on its own two feet without having everyone DC visit to Aether or Crystal form there.

As a Dynamis native (I wanted a house), this will never happen sadly. When they created Dynamis, they should've put an already popular server on it.

[Aidorouge]

The congestion probably won't go away until Dynamis is decently populated and can stand on its own two feet without having everyone DC visit to Aether or Crystal form there.

Having lived there for 3 years, I can tell you right now that this is never happening.

Xbox launch didn't help.
Dawntrail launch didn't help.
None of the major content updates helped, and Cosmic Exploration actually caused our 2nd exodus of players (the 1st being the Dawntrail lockdown) when we lost long-time gatherers and crafters.

I started playing on Maduin December 2022, by the time I left December 2025 for Excalibur, there was LESS people than when I began one month after Dynamis opened. It's a lost cause.
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they could've easily fixed that if they put balmung and sargatanas/gilgamesh in dynamis( like back when they split aether and primal and created crystal)

Unfortunately, the backlash from them "seeding" Crystal was so bad they apologized and promised to never do it again, so when Dynamis was made it was left to fend for its self.

The terrible irony is that we KNOW seeding a data center works in creating a sustainable population, because Crystal is the 2nd most populated NA data center and is often as locked up as Aether for transfers (visiting less so, but Balmung and Mateus are often blocked up during peak hours).

We know they won't do server merges, and they have nothing that can truly incentivize deeply rooted players from Aether/Primal/Crystal to move, on top of Primal still being open for new players too and its a much better destination for them if they want to actually get anything done (if they're forced to DC travel there anyway from Dynamis, why not just re-roll to Primal and skip the extra steps?)

Not even housing is enough reason to stay or join because I threw away two Mediums because it wasn't worth it to me anymore, and I doubt I'm the only one that's been abandoning ship this last year as players drop out making it even harder to find people to do stuff with.

[Drimn]

The congestion probably won't go away until Dynamis is decently populated and can stand on its own two feet without having everyone DC visit to Aether or Crystal form there.

Dynamis could be at least somewhat healthy on its own if it was actually locked up, at least until people start transferring characters to Primal or Crystal. The problem is the community would much prefer it as a bedroom community, somewhere to park their house and drop by to renew while they leave to another DC to actually play the game. That's a problem that compounds itself, because people that would otherwise wait another 5-10 minutes to queue are stuck waiting for an hour plus, so they leave, too.

They just need to admit that Dynamis was a failed venture. It's not going to get better because Dynamis mains don't want it to get better. I really hope the devs admit the sorry state of Dynamis and especially OCE at some point and what their plans are to try to make it better.

[AyahM]

Dynamis could be at least somewhat healthy on its own if it was actually locked up, at least until people start transferring characters to Primal or Crystal. The problem is the community would much prefer it as a bedroom community, somewhere to park their house and drop by to renew while they leave to another DC to actually play the game. That's a problem that compounds itself, because people that would otherwise wait another 5-10 minutes to queue are stuck waiting for an hour plus, so they leave, too.

They just need to admit that Dynamis was a failed venture. It's not going to get better because Dynamis mains don't want it to get better. I really hope the devs admit the sorry state of Dynamis and especially OCE at some point and what their plans are to try to make it better.

A little harsh. I transferred to Kraken on day 1 of the world opening and have only traveled for content once in the years I've been there. I do want it to get better, and refuse to travel. Now if just 15% of Dynamis tried that, I think we would be OK. Alas, no one else seems to have the time for that.

SE, please create a cross DC content queuing system.

[Aidorouge]

Dynamis could be at least somewhat healthy on its own if it was actually locked up, at least until people start transferring characters to Primal or Crystal.

The risk of being locked down again was a contributing factor to me finally giving in and moving out though. I was there for the first one during Dawntrail launch, and I pretty much got NOTHING done, least of all PVP, while it was in effect because even forcing Dynamis locals to play with each other still revealed how anemic our total player count was, to say nothing of those who rolled alts elsewhere instead (and never came back to their original Dynamis main) or just immediately transferred away after it was over because they weren't going to deal with that again.

Hell, I almost left myself right then (and I probably should have, there were still Aether and Crystal worlds open at the time), but I kept buying into the idea that Dynamis would improve "any day now" and well... I gave it over another year, only DC traveling for PVP and coming back to do PVE, and it didn't help. I was also going through Stormblood and Shadowbringers at the time, which I largely sucked at, so even though I was on Maduin the whole time I wasn't actually queuing for much if I didn't have to (and due to the strict player requirement, I had to break down and travel to complete Seat of Sacrifice because 7 other people just weren't showing up, sync or unsync).

Maybe its a different story for those who managed to find/bring friends or got into an active FC, but I didn't have either of those so it just made an already empty world feel lonelier. In fact, according to one census website, Maduin is the least populated world of Dynamis and therefore ALL of NA, so I had it extra rough it seems.

[Jeeqbit]

The status was actually created when Stormblood was about to release. So it checks out even if we have Stormblood level players (which I don't really agree with, the baseline back then was more like 500-600k while currently that stat is above 800k).

Even before Stormblood, we had certain worlds that were overly congested like Balmung and probably Gilgamesh, and they were a big reason for the creation of the status.

[Eorinn]

The status was actually created when Stormblood was about to release. So it checks out even if we have Stormblood level players (which I don't really agree with, the baseline back then was more like 500-600k while currently that stat is above 800k).

Even before Stormblood, we had certain worlds that were overly congested like Balmung and probably Gilgamesh, and they were a big reason for the creation of the status.

there was no world/dc visit in stormblood