# Is NA slowly turning on sprouts? The quiet Dynamis problem 
Hello o/
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but over the last month or two it feels like the mood around sprouts and early-game content has shifted.
Not dramatically.
Just little things.
• More comments when ARR pops again.
• More people sounding annoyed before the duty even starts.
• More passive-aggressive remarks.
• More "of course it's this again."
What got me thinking about it is Dynamis.
I do not think Dynamis lacks players. The players exist. They are just queueing somewhere else.
Dynamis has been getting a lot of sprouts recently, which should be a good thing.
But when local queues are rough, many players travel to other DCs to keep progressing.
So Dynamis ends up in what feels like an ARR treadmill.
More sprouts arrive.
Queue issues push people elsewhere.
Some transfer.
Some quit.
Some become permanent travelers.
More sprouts arrive.
The treadmill keeps moving.
At the same time, the rest of NA already has plenty of low-level demand from new players, alts, returners, and normal roulettes.
Then Dynamis demand gets added on top.
People see the same early-game content more often.
People get tired.
And eventually some of that frustration starts landing on sprouts.
That is the part that worries me.
Queue problems are visible.
Community problems are not.
You can see a 45-minute queue.
You cannot see patience wearing out.
Cross-DC matching may help the queue problem. I hope it does.
But if the community gets colder toward sprouts while we wait, a technical fix may not undo that.
Some rough ideas:
• Stronger roulette incentives for Dynamis.
• Rotating bonus campaigns for queueing locally.
• Short periods where DC travel is limited.
• Better use of Moogle Tomestone events to push more optional older content into the roulette pool.
Maybe these are not the right answers.
I mostly just want to ask if anyone else is seeing the same thing.
I can’t shake the feeling that frustration is building, and some of it is starting to land on the wrong people.
Is anyone else seeing it?
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Hello o/
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but over the last month or two it feels like the mood around sprouts and early-game content has shifted.
Not dramatically.
Just little things.
• More comments when ARR pops again.
• More people sounding annoyed before the duty even starts.
• More passive-aggressive remarks.
• More "of course it's this again."
What got me thinking about it is Dynamis.
I do not think Dynamis lacks players. The players exist. They are just queueing somewhere else.
Dynamis has been getting a lot of sprouts recently, which should be a good thing.
But when local queues are rough, many players travel to other DCs to keep progressing.
So Dynamis ends up in what feels like an ARR treadmill.
More sprouts arrive.
Queue issues push people elsewhere.
Some transfer.
Some quit.
Some become permanent travelers.
More sprouts arrive.
The treadmill keeps moving.
At the same time, the rest of NA already has plenty of low-level demand from new players, alts, returners, and normal roulettes.
Then Dynamis demand gets added on top.
People see the same early-game content more often.
People get tired.
And eventually some of that frustration starts landing on sprouts.
That is the part that worries me.
Queue problems are visible.
Community problems are not.
You can see a 45-minute queue.
You cannot see patience wearing out.
Cross-DC matching may help the queue problem. I hope it does.
But if the community gets colder toward sprouts while we wait, a technical fix may not undo that.
Some rough ideas:
• Stronger roulette incentives for Dynamis.
• Rotating bonus campaigns for queueing locally.
• Short periods where DC travel is limited.
• Better use of Moogle Tomestone events to push more optional older content into the roulette pool.
Maybe these are not the right answers.
I mostly just want to ask if anyone else is seeing the same thing.
I can’t shake the feeling that frustration is building, and some of it is starting to land on the wrong people.
Is anyone else seeing it?
Continue reading...