Well I dont personally see why anyone other than an FC would need a mansion and 700 pieces of furniture, but that's the choice you've made.
Im not ok with having to pay money to be inconvenienced, but at the same time, people like yourselves who have over invested in housing are the minority. Setting up an entirely new system of storage for people who cant be accommodated by whats already available is unlikely to happen. In a perfect world it would be great but realistically theres only so much they can do.
Giving more than 3mil would be overkill for the majority, and setting up new storage options would take further resources, snd may not even be possible given the restrictions of the base code.
At most, they could offer a free retainer or two for that month.
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11-24-2018, 10:43 PMSeraphor
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11-24-2018, 10:49 PMJohnSpawnVFXThe new servers are only coming at/after 5.0. That's what they said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nalien
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11-24-2018, 10:49 PMNalien
It is a Free Company Mansion... Why do you think I have two Private Rooms?
Oh that reminds me, actually... Free Company Estates aren't even eligible for the Gil refund, right? Excellent.
Like I've said, they could be handling this a lot better, but well... If you want to go for the "you're a minority so this is fine" defense, I guess I'll just stop now. No point continuing this.
LMFAO? Are you serious? So they're adding new servers and they wont even benefit from the free transfer? Come on... How the flip can anyone be defending how SE is handling this right now? What a complete joke... I hope you're mistaken, but honestly I kind of expect that level of tact from SE at this point...Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnSpawnVFX
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11-24-2018, 10:53 PMJohnSpawnVFXOr they'll do free transfers when they come out, like they did with Omega and Louisoix. Cut the kneejerk reactions just to attack SE.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nalien
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11-24-2018, 11:12 PMNalienIt was one thing when this was two weeks around 4.5, but drawing out this uncertainty til early summer? Yeah, sorry, but this is a mess... Why even wait that long to add new servers? Just slap them in along with the split like any sensible person would... Really not looking forward to months of "I hope I can regain this plot" when I want to be excited for the damned expansion instead... Now I potentially have to move server twice? Seriously, this is just a mess... I can't believe how ineptly this whole split is being handled so far...Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnSpawnVFX
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11-24-2018, 11:20 PMIscah
Yeah, I think there's always incentives for moving to new servers.
As for fixtures, those are now retrievable - you can't remove them directly, but replace them and the item should reappear in your inventory. -
11-24-2018, 11:27 PMBourne_EndeavorNo they didn't. They waited because it was profitable. Balmung's uneven population totals were evident before Heavensward even launched. They had years to address it and did absolutely nothing. SE didn't give them anything as the server stayed locked despite what amounted to only a handful of complaints. And we're once again back to this congestion nonsense. You know what caused the DC to implode? The devs put an instance roughly ten quests into the MSQ, thereby making it inevitable virtually every single player would all attempt to queue at nearly the same time. If it were merely a Balmung issue, why did Primal and Chaos also explode? NEST even posted a mock video where Drak waited two days to access Duty Finder. Going a step further, this exact issue occurred again during Deltascape. Why? They put another instance almost immediately into the quest chain. Yoshida even admitted outright that caused the servers to crash.Quote:
Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman
The other issue is their auto log-off system is laughably easy to exploit. Target a market board, craft, summon your retainer; the list goes on. This rendered it useless since people were sharing how to get around being logged out even in-game. Now yes, Balmung obviously had a larger volume but every server had people doing this. The queue times subsided when they implemented a forced log out. Even Balmung had queues less than ten minutes afterwards.
Good for you? While you may not harbor attachments, others do. And once settled into their communities, they had little incentive to leave. A free transfer to only preferred worlds certainly wasn't going to motivate them.
As for going to the server. Many people were entirely unaware. I used to be on Balmung myself; transferring three days after my free trial ran out because I had friends on the server who sold me on the game and roleplaying. They, themselves, were also relatively new and simply went to Balmung because it had been deemed the unofficial RP server. I wager most players had similar experiences to me. Meanwhile, FFXIV's closest competitor avoided this problem by actually locking overcrowded servers and not taking extra money to get around it.
People blame the product because the product is at fault. You can't ignore a problem for almost four years than point the finger at the playerbase for not fixing the very problem you created. -
11-24-2018, 11:32 PMHamadaQuote:
Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman
SE's fully at fault for this problem, why are you saying otherwise? Fun to insult a group of people? fun to argue with people? Fun to get people upset for no reason?Quote:
Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman
Also people do not have to accept it, I think people here are missing something critical here. We do not need this game, people are free to unsub to cause SE loss in revue due to disagreeing with these poorly made decisions. The Server crashing a full DC is SE's fault for running outdated hardware/software/ 1.0 coding. The playerbase shouldn't have to put up with it.
More of "this does not effect me so it is not a big deal" It is a big problem, free transfer is not enough, getting gil back is not enough, getting 3 Mil for SE not giving enough inventory space is not enough, we should be getting a house back for SE's shortcoming. We should not be losing anything for a problem SE made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doozer
Also to echo, 700 furnishings is very realistic number for someone. do you want to know the number for 1 character that owns a large house, founder of a FC where the FC house is a large, furnished that, who solo built the shop of 4 airships and 4 subs to max level, a FC room and an apartment? Do you really think 3 mil is anything close to reasonable to put all that together? No gil amount would be, the time invested far outpaces anything SE can offer gil wise, because offering enough gil to everyone in situations like that would cause insane hyperinflation.
We do not want gil, we want our house back, something we earned, something we put a lot of time into, something a free transfer and 3 M gil does not get back.
Lastly, don't you dare think we should ne "grateful" or "thankful" for SE not charging for transfers for 2 weeks. SE knows better then to kill off their game outright. It is not for our benefit. They only care about money and profits.
Then lets not forget players like hosuing cat (a house hoarder that posts here who happens to be on gilgamesh) Guess what kind of players are going to be really making out after this change? The aether playerbase like housing cat who will be able sell Aether housing at insane prices because of the shortage.
So why do you think some want to blame the playerbase?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor
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11-24-2018, 11:50 PMDoozerIt literally does affect me. I'm transferring worlds once the free transfer period starts, so at the moment I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row, packing all my stuff, dealing with having to disband my FC, etc., and making sure everything is in order to leave.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hamada
I also never said that. I said nothing about being grateful, I said it was less of a problem because transferring is free.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hamada
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11-25-2018, 02:21 AMCleanseThat was the point. They have the server visitation tech, find a way to use that feature to spread the load on bottlenecks. Investment in their servers should be the #1 priority. All of the fantasias people buy should have it be worth it. It's 2018 and people still need to use a vpn in order to have a stable connection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor
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11-25-2018, 02:32 AMCleanseIf the server is unlocked and/or accepting paid transfers, how is it the player's fault?Quote:
Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman
In a pay to play game (with a cash shop on top), SE should feel that investing in modern server technology is well worth the expenditure. They have had a few years to plan for an overhaul. Tacking another datacenter on and calling it a day is a bit silly. There is a reason people congregate to a bigger server, people to play with. MMOs are more fun on populated servers. -
11-25-2018, 02:35 AMValkyrie_LennethA VPN has nothing to do with server stability.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleanse
Server visitation has nothing to do with spreading the load for bottlenecks. Instances aren't per world, they are per datacenter. Adding 50% more instance servers with a new datacenter will solve bottlenecks, hence the solution they came up with. -
11-25-2018, 02:47 AMCleanseSorry my context was not clear. My point was that since ARR people have had to pay for a vpn in order to play with a stable ping, people have had to pay (financially and socially) to move servers, and have had to pay a subscription fee. Putting the burden on the player-base again is a big letdown. Instead of investing in a proper, modern server infrastructure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
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11-25-2018, 02:51 AMNalienThey are investing in modern server infrastructure... Just not for this game.... Final Fantasy XVI Online, please look forward to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleanse
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11-25-2018, 03:12 AMErryK
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11-25-2018, 03:47 AMxbahax92Eh... Wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hamada
It effects everyone equally at this point. There are people who agree with this decision since the beginning, players that accept the decision (some faster, some slower) and there are people who act like special snowflakes. To be honest, I feel like people that come here arguing about losing their houses are nothing but selfish. Selfish in a sense, because its all about "Im gonna lose my house! Im gonna lose my free company!"
You should think about the whole community, and not about your own house. You get the chance to play during the early access of a expansion release. Do you really want to bother with the instance issues like last year? Even if they dont put new content behind another Raubahn Ex, the login servers will still be overloaded. And Im sure nobody here has the desire to wait 30min to actually get in the game, then get disconnected and wait another 30min in the que.
The decision is all yours to stay in the game, your server, your data center. Yea, they had a choice to upgrade their servers, but if they cant? What else they can do? Just leave things as it is? -
11-25-2018, 04:10 AMDerio
Pretty much
Aether will be raiding.
Primal- Casuals.
Crystal - Role playing
Those titles are already starting to stick when people were talking about it at fan fest. -
11-25-2018, 04:46 AMthegreatonemalThat will be the fault of NA players then the bottle necking and future proofing for the game is fixed with this new data center. Now if teh great wave people are saying is going to happen occurs its as simple as locking aether a day into the transfer period.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derio
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11-25-2018, 04:46 AMHamadaSorry, that is not really my point or what I was getting at. I mean I guess I could of just quoted "It would be a Big Problem if everyone had to shell out $18 to transfer" but I did not know it was necessary to show that was my sole focus while adding reference to other threads and comments. The blame balmung playerbase is driving me nuts, and I do not get why people want to blame a playerbase for a problem SE made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doozer
Anyways that one line I am quoting from you implies it is not a big deal because the cost in IRL is nothing, free transfers (thus the reason to relate that to the other posts)The problem with this is that it neglects the time people put in housing and those that manage not only their personal house but FC house as well, on top of their own FC rooms, on top of apartments, on top of the workshop.
The other idea here is, the playerbase shouldn't be having to pay 15 dollars a month (some up to over 45 dollars a month) just to get knocked around like this. I really suspect a lot of people will want to return to Aether in fear of having dead PFs, making the situation SE trying to fix, be a bigger problem then it is now. Not only that you have a lot of lost housing.
I also feel a lot of people miss what housing means to some people. "what is a digital house, it does not help you play the game any" the problem here is what is missed (and likely SE as well) is the time and effort one goes though to get one, along with furnishing it. A lot of people are not willing to toss that time investment away, while others may not want to repeat that time investment, some may chose to simply quit over not finding it worth it to venture that again, while finding themselves on a dead data center, be it raid or PvP (and may even effect casual stuff like maps) If it has a snowball effect, you should see why some are very concerned about this. Having 2 "RP" servers to carry most of the weight of activity issues is not a smart move.
HOW? how does it effect someone who does not have a house vs someone that owns 700 + furnishings "equal"?Quote:
Originally Posted by xbahax92
You want to talk about selfish? ok, whining about 2 weeks of congestion so we need smaller dead DCs just so some "Special snowflakes" (a term you used) don't have to wait for to access an instance while demanding others lose their house and friendship ties is how I define selfish.
What you said should be reflected right back to you:
You should think about the whole community, and not about your own qualms over Raubahn Ex
Who cares about 2 weeks of congestion if it means keeping the community together. The only selfish I see is you. Did you read posts of other people? I am not the only one saying 2 weeks of congestion > breaking up the community. Also I find it funny how people in your position never address PvP and queue problems during slow times (time that outnumbers congestion by a long shot) Every 2 out of 3 months the game is slow and lowly populated, how in the heck can you justify this split? Selfish? look in a mirror, your stance is the selfish one, not mine. -
11-25-2018, 05:18 AMAlien_GamerYour ping time is a result of many different things, only one of which are the servers themselves; by far the vast majority of what affects your ping is the ISP networks your data travels across and how they chose to route your data which SE has no control over. Using a VPN is a player choice to bypass that and hopefully get a better ping, its not something SE forces them to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleanse
Moving servers is a player choice, nothing SE does forces a player to move. Blaming SE for the cost of transfers is simply not taking responsibility for your own choices.
The only burden on the playerbase is the sub fee, everything else is optional for the players. You don't have to transfer servers at any point nor do you have to use a VPN. Those are personal choices for personal gains but they are not mandatory to play the game.
SE has a proper server infrastructure. They're leasing rackspace from the ISP to host their games and ISPs typically have a 3 to 5 year refresh cycle for internal hardware which means FF14 is not running on antiquated hardware or poor infrastructure. If you wanted to blame SE for how inefficient their game engine is and how it handles network traffic or their decisions for back up times or character updates, that would be fair but none of that is server infrastructure.
This new DC is new physical rackspace and server blades to host the game. Its balancing the load across more hardware leaving more room for overhead and growth which means the servers are more stable and have less issues with bottlenecks and server slowdowns. Each DC will have more room for instances preventing things like Raubahn EX at the beginning of SB, more room for housing wards, more room for dungeon/trial instances, more room for inventory, etc. This move sucks for statics, and people that try to play with others who will no longer be on the same DC but ultimately this is a huge benefit to everyone in the game and for the game in and of itself. Your request to merge the DCs would only exacerbate every issue people have had with the servers for literally no benefit to the game or players. -
11-25-2018, 05:35 AMxbahax92Yep I value "having a good start and less problems" during an expansion higher than people who could lose their plots. There are people like me who are working, having a real life even and some even reserve their few days for vacation to play the game during early access. Its kinda funny that you bring up housing as a strong argument, while lets be honest - housing is empty as it is, the majority is afking in main cities and sub-cities (Rhalgr's Reach). Only a handful of players are owning plots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hamada
You mention PVP and que times in general but whats the problem with that? PVP is done by a small portion anyway. And que times? It will be like before, you have to wait as a dps most while tanks or healers get insta-pop. Always been, no big change. In my opinion this shuffle had to be done at some point, because as it seems that 2 DC on NA and 1 DC in EU was not enough. And opening brand new data centers with only new servers would lead to one thing > closing the older ones.
Also I didnt mention the aspect "friends" on purpose, because I can relate to people giving up a lot of friendships and I dont see a good solution for that either. All I could advice people in this case is, to either decide if a friendship outweighs giving up a plot and move to 1 server all together. Or if not, add yourself on other platforms - discord for example. Friends come and go, and Im sure everyone will eventually make new friends on their new DC's as well. -
11-25-2018, 06:50 AMRosa_FrandliaI should mention I feared the new data center causing a split between West and East Coast North America, meaning an even worse split on worlds. When the servers were in Montreal, I had bad pings. Now that thy are in California, I have good pings. Why? Because I'm on the West Coast. You look at other games and they have East and West Coast data centers, something Final Fantasy XIV does not. A split with Crystal being on the East Coast and Primal being on the West Coast would have meant for logistics I'd need to leave my world as we are being moved too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer
And if anyone is saying that all the Primal worlds coming are dead, I had a que (be it 7 people) of world full yesterday. I wouldn't exactly say that is a dead server and we are known on Primal as being the one for crafters and gatherers. I welcome people coming to visit and buying the 380 gear I make as that is a larger market. -
11-25-2018, 06:58 AMHamadaYou are missing the point, this should not be a debate at all (friends vs housing). SE should be upgrading their servers and addressing their netcode. I am so sick of bandaid fixes to things, and this is one thing that should be addressed properly. Also SE should of done housing properly by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by xbahax92
I noticed you withdrew your selfish and snowflake argument. It is good seeing you took a look in the mirror on that idea. I can't believe people think this is SE's only solution, it isn't it is just their cheapest while making the playerbase suffer, they only are about money, not the playerbase.
What about all the people that had good pings on the east coast that now has bad pings?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rosa_Frandlia
the buy only for the markets is also a very bad idea, you will not sell anything if you are in a DC with a crafter bot, like what Cactuar complained about. -
11-25-2018, 07:24 AMZumi
SE should look into newer tech that other games use like mega servers. They can expand areas to as many zones, and instances that are needed based on player demand. That way you can play with everyone in their region. With a 3rd data center and the way the game currently works it feels like we are going from being split in half to split into 1/3 of the people we can play with.
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11-25-2018, 07:25 AMdragonseth07
I'm REAL sick of DC'ing. Split up the data centers more.
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11-25-2018, 07:39 AMNalienI'm REAL sick of long queues and empty party finder. Merge up the data centers more.Quote:
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11-25-2018, 07:41 AMCleanseThe servers can be unreliable during peak hours (the routing from certain regions gets bottlenecked -- maybe it's a fault of the US's infrastructure) and the go to suggestion by the player base is to get a vpn. It is a choice to get a vpn, but at the same time, a better host for the servers would appease their customers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer
I wasn't really blaming them, but stating they have made money from their server transfers due to the instability.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer
I feel the backend management software would be included in the infrastructure. Load balancing based on demand (beginning of an expansion). If we are being nitpicky though, I will just concede.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer
Throwing more hardware at it seems backwards. Aether most likely will have another (or few) mega servers that will cause the same issues Balmung has.
Advancing their tech to support a united North American playerbase is where most companies start or have moved towards. -
11-25-2018, 08:04 AMLaylaTsarraFor only two weeks? Really? That's acceptable to you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor
No it's not acceptable in my opinion and that's not to mention the fact that many after waiting forever in queues of over 3000 to get in only to get kicked and to have to get back into line again. I applaud SE for taking measures to try and prevent that from happening again. One can hope that this will in fact work and I'll guess we'll find out when expansion hits. -
11-25-2018, 08:12 AMKurandoUnless you are trying to queue at 3am when it's dead or you go as DPS, then there shouldn't be long queues at all. Same with the Party Finder, I see dozens up every day, but if something isn't there for what you need, make your own or pre-form. Just don't lie and say it's empty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nalien
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11-25-2018, 08:47 AMJojoyaExcept this won't prevent it from happening again because most players refuse to make smart choices. They'll once again zerg the game at release, causing bottlenecks and crashes.Quote:
Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra
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11-25-2018, 09:03 AMLaylaTsarraWe'll have to wait and see if it makes a difference. I don't have a crystal ball but what was happening wasn't a good thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jojoya
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11-25-2018, 09:51 AMBourne_EndeavorI'll reiterate one more time. This wasn't a player issue but a SE one. They put an instance ten quests into the MSQ, thereby ensuring virtually everyone would all queue at roughly the same time. Move that instance further down and this doesn't occur. Why? People will naturally veer off. Some are going to blitz the story and skip everything, others will take their time. Some will go level other jobs or do side quests along the way. Speaking of leveling jobs. Guess what also had instances in their first quests: Red Mage and Samurai! It's almost like having three instance extremely early on during an expansion launch is a very bad idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jojoya
If the choice were between what ultimately is a mild inconvenience for 4% out of a given year's total weeks, yes. I would rather have the larger pool we currently have for PF and DF since I intend to play far larger than those initial two weeks. So less people means potentially slower results long term. And those massive queues weren't an issue on other servers. Said queues also died down completely when they did force log outs. So the tools are already there to mitigate the problem. Implement the forced log out immediately and don't put three instances super early into quest chains and maybe the problem doesn't occur.Quote:
Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra
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11-25-2018, 10:01 AMLaylaTsarraIt's not a mild inconvenience it rendered the game unplayable for many people during the prime time of the expansions release. Sorry but your willingness to accept that isn't what the development team is willing to accept and they are making choices to try and prevent it from occurring again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor
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11-25-2018, 10:49 AMBourne_EndeavorIt is when you compare it to the alternative, especially as two weeks out of fifty two isn't exactly a lot. Nor was the game actually down for two weeks. Several hours were lost, yes—more, admittedly, if you were on Balmung and Gilgamesh. But like I said, the issues primarily occurred because of the instance quests they put so early into the MSQ and both new jobs. Many people now are inconvenience far greater as they have give up their static, house, FC or some of their friends. Ironically, if queues do slow down due to a less populated DC, then you'll lose similar hours stretched over the course of Shadowbringers. Making it a moot point regardless.Quote:
Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra
For reference sake, Heavensward had no such issues despite Balmung and Gilgamesh's population being roughly equal to what they were at Stormblood's launch, if we go by Lucky Bancho's census. What differed? There wasn't an instance where everyone dog-piled onto within the first hour. Furthermore, like I mentioned earlier, these log in issues happened again during Deltascape. And what did Deltascape have very early into its quest chain? An instance. Yoshida even acknowledged he shouldn't have allowed the dev team to go ahead with it. -
11-25-2018, 03:08 PMHamadaYeah this is why this DC split is a bad idea, outside 2 weeks, what happens during the other 50 weeks? dead PF? slow queues? PvP not existing on crystal? They did not even explain why this is being done, all we can assume it is based off SE is unable to figure out not to put instances so early in a new expansion where we did not have this issue in HW.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor
Keep in mind for those that want to blame balmung and the playerbase, SE did completely unlock balmung in SB not to long ago ( I do not remember exactly) but like 4.3? or so? that is fairly recent, so why the sudden turn face making the playerbase it was fine then, to now OMG SPLIT DCS for short cutting to avoid more costly and permanent solutions? Stop bandiading problems!!!!
For people supporting the split for DC, you do realize the amount of active players at any given one time in this game is not very large when you compere it to wow or something and didn't others say they actually fused data centers because they upgraded their tech? SE can't do this why? I do not see an excuse other then "we do not want to spend money but we can milk the playerbase out of money from retainers, app and 18 dollar outfits for one charter." (btw , they had tech excuses for not sending account wide stuff, then proceeded to send account wide stuff) -
11-26-2018, 12:48 AMaestevalPart of the additional datacenter is due to events like Raubahn Ex. Primal was also hit by Raubahn Ex. Raubahn Ex happened without Balmung's influence. The new datacenter is not *just* about Balmung.Quote:
Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman
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11-26-2018, 01:08 AMColorOfSakuraExactly. Balmung isn't the problem here - the problem is the game being too popular and needing more infrastructure to support it. Yes, Balmung was moved away from Gilgamesh because they're the two most populated servers on the game in terms of active players and splitting them up is a smart idea in general. But this was something that was a long time coming - Balmung isn't the sole factor of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by aesteval
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11-26-2018, 02:32 AMWaterShieldExcept this doesn't actually add any infrastructure. This is a move to more evenly balance people (see load balancing) across the same existing hardware (no new servers being added). That is not much of an investment at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColorOfSakura
Also how do you explain Arena Net's ability to do Mega server tech? Bethesda as well with ESO. Are they just that much better funded than SE? I find that hard to believe.
As many people before me have pointed out, the dated code SE is using is impeding their ability to grow the game. Rather than fix it properly, we are being given a band aid that can be completely invalidated by people transferring back to Aether and Primal.
Shortsighted at best. Purposely negligent at worst. Is it any wonder people think they are using the majority of the money from this game to bankroll their other operations? -
11-26-2018, 03:28 AMValkyrie_LennethNot exactly, it will add new infrastructure in the form of 50% more lobby and instance servers to accommodate a whole new datacenter (as each datacenter requires its own). So thats at least an improvement there.Quote:
Originally Posted by WaterShield
As for the "SE is being cheap" part. I agree, but not financially. I believe they are being cheap with time, as any kind of effort to do this would require a massive amount of manhours to rebuild. It would also take the people away from the improvements we ARE getting in terms of QoL for backend and the like. The difference between now and what the game was like at launch is vast, however much people like to say "they havent made any improvements at all!" -
11-26-2018, 03:32 AMreiichiDo we know if they make use of something like AWS or GCP? AKA, cloud computing platforms where you pay for the number of instances you need on a dynamic rate and scale (literally clone and boot up) additional servers as needed. It works great for -certain- use cases designed specifically for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by WaterShield
FFXIV's not doing the same. Instead, it looks like they're using dedicated machines with hard-set numbers of servers and instances for things. There are pros and cons to both. (Usually cost IMO, but one server with a lot of resources can also work out better than a bunch of tiny servers with few resources depending on how the product is designed.) This is why things like housing wards are hard-set and don't just expand based on demand/availability. (Aside from UI constraints like supporting people who play this game in 720p).
Chances are, the new datacenter IS going to involve adding a new rack (or however many they need) of new hardware instead of just spinning up a new lobby server instance and setting which worlds it can talk to. Anything that goes through Content Finder (Duty Finder, PoTD, HoH, instanced solo missions, etc) is shared among all users at the datacenter level. My assumption is that they're not going to de-allocate those servers from Aether and Primal in order to make Crystal's set. They'll get that many more servers/vms/logical partitions in addition. And that means an actual improvement for everyone.