1017 - An origin information request

Hey all you moderators at there,

Myself and I'm sure many others would love to know the story behind how the 1017 came to be an issue at all. Considering that this is a reboot launch, that the mmo market has been around for awhile, statistics abound, etc. It seems very peculiar that we had these issues at all.

Being that this heavily reflects your organization I'm sure we'd all like a little more than 'we apologize for the inconvenience, we appreciate your consideration' a.k.a. the same semantics employed by any company in such a pitiful situation with it's clientele. We all know it's a routine response that simply amounts to nothing at all.

I understand that companies generally silence their employees on matters such as these, but is there anything at all you can share with us? I'm just looking for something to justify speculating on ever being able to get on the server tonight (or the weekend?).

Thanks in advance for your consideration, which I so appreciate, and I of course apologize for any inconvenience such consideration may bring you. :p


Just to be clear, no one is looking for a scapegoat (hopefully), just a little bit of integrity.

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Originally Posted by Jettison

Hey all you moderators at there,

Myself and I'm sure many others would love to know the story behind how the 1017 came to be an issue at all. Considering that this is a reboot launch, that the mmo market has been around for awhile, statistics abound, etc. It seems very peculiar that we had these issues at all.

Being that this heavily reflects your organization I'm sure we'd all like a little more than 'we apologize for the inconvenience, we appreciate your consideration' a.k.a. the same semantics employed by any company in such a pitiful situation with it's clientele. We all know it's a routine response that simply amounts to nothing at all.

I understand that companies generally silence their employees on matters such as these, but is there anything at all you can share with us? I'm just looking for something to justify speculating on ever being able to get on the server tonight (or the weekend?).

Thanks in advance for your consideration, which I so appreciate, and I of course apologize for any inconvenience such consideration may bring you. :p

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Technically its not a issue its them forcible controlling the server populations, so that the servers don't get overloaded and cause issues with the dutyfinder which the game relies heavily for solo/group instances.

Them forcibly restricting the servers is a consequence. I want to know what led them to such a consequence. How could they not be aware of their own capacities? Did no one run the numbers of pre-orders to speculate on future demand? Or was this all part of their grandiose plan?

However you cut it it seems rather ridiculous that a situation like this could have ever occurred in the first place given all the information available to them.

Really I'm looking for a response or a shutdown from some form of moderator. I don't want this to turn into us players speculating or fighting each other because we don't have any information to guide us better.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...72#post1111872

1017 !!!!!

I really appreciate Yoshida's response and further appreciate him being the scapegoat to the public (which works very well, him being the most untouchable to us having managed a great game).

But I feel it was probably really a decision of upper-management to gamble on limited server spending. It makes no sense that they wouldn't accurately count the amount of orders and track traffic. That information is probably the most important to an mmo company before launch.

Anyway my anger is quelled. Thank you Yoshida.