:::Petition:: Removal of 1017 and Reinstatement of Global Queue System

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Please note that all US consumers should write a complaint letter similar to the one in http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...22#post1139422 and follow through with an official complaint.

It has come to my attention that you guys have not considered why THE que they have now is not working. Keep in mind currently they are manually adjusting the server limits, don't you think for a moment if the que that we do have thought you were supposed to be 400 in line or w/e that as soon as they changed the limits like they have been doing constantly that you might end up with a world that is now full?

(oh wait does that explain why people get in que's and then it says server now full and kicks them out???)

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Originally Posted by Aytri

... a car with no engine isn't a problem; if you can get in it and someone pushes you can still 'ride it' to work...

If I could propose a change to your metaphor, instead of a car without an engine, make it a bicycle. No one is saying you can't ride your bicycle whenever you want, you just can't ride it with friends. The bike paths you and your friends take to meet up and ride together are all closed. You can still ride, just not together with anyone you know. Of course you can try new paths and make new friends, maybe even some of your old friends will happen to find one of the different paths. If you bought a bicycle to ride with friends, it defeats the purpose if you can't ride with them.

Is that any better? maybe not, I'm trying to write coherently at 2am.

Playing on a different server is fine. It would give me a chance to try different starting worlds, classes etc. But when all my friends (the few I have) are waiting for me to log on so we can do dungeons and other Duties, not being able to log in is a serious pain. Or when I get disconnected while dungeoning and now can get back in...that's even worse. I wish we could always play at non-peak times, but we works different jobs with different schedules. Surprise, surprise, most of the time we have off together is the same as the majority of other people.

I'm fine with believing that the current queue system would cause the servers to crash if completely re-enabled. Really, I am. That just means you don't re-enable it. You fix it/rebuild it. Plenty of games have a queue that works and doesn't crash the game servers. There must be a way to correctly implement them. What ever that way is, do that. I don't think anyone would want them to just "reopen the flood gates" to a bad queue, they'd want it fixed first.

Maybe it's just my pessimism, but the post from Yoshida didn't exactly make me feel better. Unless server transfers are created (which wasn't mentioned, unless I missed it) the addition of new worlds will only allow them to reopen digital download and get more people into the game, but won't do anything for people already in a world. Yes you could reroll, but then so would all of your friends. If I understand it, that also means you lose any legacy character--I don't know if you got any levels, skills etc with them, if it was essentially a direct port of your 1.0 character that would really be a pain.

I realize this is kinda a long rant. It's after 2am. I'll head to bed and try getting in later today or Monday. I'll stick it out for a while...just not sure how long yet.

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Signed/Meowla

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