Free days coming!

Sorry, had the summary up on twitter when it was first posted thinking the official one would be up right away. It's up now, sorry if it's hard to read some parts. http://goo.gl/IKxjkB

This is why I wasn't that worried about the disconnection and log in issues. SE is a good company, and they might be a little slow at getting things done, but they always make it up to us.

It is a beautiful game that I love, and I am so glad that it seems to be doing so well despite the few issues here and there. SE deserves this~!

This is definitely a good way to make up for the issues we've been experiencing. I knew that SE would try to make it right and I hope this makes everyone feel bad about trash talking the people who are working so hard to bring us some damn good entertainment.

+1 SE.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Sorry, had the summary up on twitter when it was first posted thinking the official one would be up right away. It's up now, sorry if it's hard to read some parts. http://goo.gl/IKxjkB

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Good job as usual rein, thanks :D

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Originally Posted by Doowangle

Yes, must be a troll if we won't bow down and lick the devs feet for giving back days that their OWN INCOMPETENCE took away from us. It isn't a gift to correct a mistake, that is the bare minimum. I don't understand people like you. Do you think square devs are gonna pat you on the head and call you a good boy because you defended the indefensible?

There have been people with your mindset throughout time. In the slave days you woulda been one of the house slaves, kissing massas boots and telling all the other slaves how kind and sweet massa is on the inside, and how he only whips the slaves because he has to! Disgraceful.

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Wow... you just compared a VIDEO GAME and time lost PLAYING a VIDEO GAME to...the slave trade. Because the two are so similar.

/sarcasm

Well, I for one am glad to see this kind of response. It's eye opening for those of us that don't have a clue how these things work (including myself, ofc). Just knowing they're doing their best is enough for me. Hope their solution comes quickly. Hoping to get my fiance to play the game too, but currently no point if the char creation and worlds are locked. Good thing we're generally patient about these sort of things.

i can see both sides to this argument, personally. on the one hand, SE was unprepared for the mob. on the other hand, everyone in that mob made an investment. while it is natural for anyone to make a mistake (especially disappointing to make a critical mistake when one has poured their all into a project), it is also natural for someone who has made an investment in something that has gone badly to be pissed off.

if i was a chef, cooking an epic meal for someone, and the dipshit waiter drops half of it on the floor in transit... as the chef i would have every right to feel disappointed, but as the customer, i would have every right to express frustration.

Thanks for this, I knew we'll be getting compensated with free days due to the server congestion, not being able to login, creating characters, etc.

Hi, sorry to ask this, but i read the whole tread and didn't find this answer.
I'm a 1.0 non legacy player.
From what i understand we started our 15 free days on the 27, Do we also get free days? or only new subscribers? and how many days?
Ty :)

218k doesn't sound like that much.

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Originally Posted by darthkyron

Hi, sorry to ask this, but i read the whole tread and didn't find this answer.
I'm a 1.0 non legacy player.
From what i understand we started our 15 free days on the 27, Do we also get free days? or only new subscribers? and how many days?
Ty :)

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I would also like to know this, I'm a 1.0 non-legacy player as well. But I hope the free days will also count for any 1.0 players, not only just the new customers that bought FFXIV ARR.

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Originally Posted by Riv

218k doesn't sound like that much.

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It's more than any Japanese company has ever held at any time concurrently in their nation's history. And it has surpassed the second runner up by more than 50k users now.

Keep in mind that 218k is more than the entire population of Richmond, (Capital of) Virginia playing at once. (Virginia is 102/289 on the list of most populated Cities in the United States above 100k people. )

That's a hefty number of people.

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Originally Posted by Hyrist

It's more than any Japanese company has ever held at any time concurrently in their nation's history. And it has surpassed the second runner up by more than 50k users now.

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Actually, by more than 100k. As the second runner was Phantasy Star Online with 107k this july when they launched the new expansion. and that's a F2P game to boot.

If anyone thinks 218k doesn't sound like that much, either he needs to buy a sense of proportions, or he's intentionally trying to downplay what's a very solid success. 218k concurrent connection is a VERY high number for a P2P game.

By the way. The official translation of Yoshida-san's message has just been posted for those that were complaining.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...72#post1111872

Didn't take that long at all.

Pretty awesome!

Uhhh that's nice and all that there adding a few more days but what's the point if you can't even log in?

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By the way. The official translation of Yoshida-san's message has just been posted for those that were complaining.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...72#post1111872

Didn't take that long at all.

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*beams* I got the first 'like' on that page, pure luck.

But my mistake, I thought the record was somewhere around 130k. We've more than doubled the record then. I hope that gives people a proper understanding of just how much we've blown expectations out of the water with our interest.

I do hope Yoshida isn't too hard on himself.

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Originally Posted by Mobywan

Uhhh that's nice and all that there adding a few more days but what's the point if you can't even log in?

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I think you missed the part where he said they were optimizing the servers and adding new ones. As in for, they're fixing it.

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Originally Posted by Mobywan

Uhhh that's nice and all that there adding a few more days but what's the point if you can't even log in?

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Hopefully when they add the new servers and optimization to the duty finder by end of this week/beginning of next week, we should be able to login... I hope lol

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Originally Posted by Mobywan

Uhhh that's nice and all that there adding a few more days but what's the point if you can't even log in?

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*facepalms*

That's what they're working on addressing, and that's exactly why they're giving more days.

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Uhhh that's nice and all that there adding a few more days but what's the point if you can't even log in?

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Whats the point of answering your question when you clearly lack the will or capacity to process the answer? Spend 10 seconds actually reading instead of feeling sorry for yourself and you'll find that they are adding new servers and increasing capacity at the beginning of next week.

so the people that don't get to play and cant log on will get free days but also the people that are on and never log off and can play all they want get more free days? Equality... I think not :(

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Originally Posted by darthkyron

Hi, sorry to ask this, but i read the whole tread and didn't find this answer.
I'm a 1.0 non legacy player.
From what i understand we started our 15 free days on the 27, Do we also get free days? or only new subscribers? and how many days?
Ty :)

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I would think 1.0/legacy players would get them too, but I don't think there is a confirmation. I'm pretty sure it's all players since it would be a lot simpler to implement. I don't think they said how many days it wil be though. Probably a week imo.

More news regarding this!

230k connections and we are possibly getting 1 free week.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/08/...ay-considered/

I will update the OP now too.

Hopefully it means a free week of being able to play and not a free week of being able to see "This world is full, please try again later." error messages some more.

So uh...can I not get a free week? I mean I've had very little issue logging in, I never got EA because I was a 1.0 person. The 2 free weeks I got is more than enough. That and I want to pay the 90 day so I can get the swim suit voucher and mount...mainly the swim suit.

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So uh...can I not get a free week? I mean I've had very little issue logging in, I never got EA because I was a 1.0 person. The 2 free weeks I got is more than enough. That and I want to pay the 90 day so I can get the swim suit voucher and mount...mainly the swim suit.

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You can give yours to me.

Seriously. It's free stuff.