So has Aether crashed again?

Lost access to the FC menu, retainer bell and got kicked from the game when I zoned and can't get back in. I'm also getting "unable to obtain character data due to server congestion."

was just disconnected and in queue to log back in...very slow though

I was wondering what was going on. The game wouldn't let me sign up in the DF.

Aye, failed to load back in after my duty trial.

Yep. Was getting server congestion notices earlier when mousing over some characters instead of a visual on them which happened last time. Now all my characters show up with the congestion message and the huge queue showed up.

Seems so -_- this happens every time there's a new patch

Aether be borked.

I wonder if they can move Balmung or Gilgamesh to the other cluster, and if that would help o.o

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

unable to log in. rip

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Aether be borked.

I wonder if they can move Balmung or Gilgamesh to the other cluster, and if that would help o.o

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Oddly, it might. I suspect it has to do with PF suddenly pulling from a massively larger pool and whatever they're using to sustain it can't.

Deja vu.

/10char

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Originally Posted by Beeraga

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

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And this issue commonly happens like EVERY patch too it seems x.x

The 2 most populated servers in the game are on the same datacenter. I'm not surprised there are issues.

The game hasnt had downtime in weeks, major patch, crap happens.

Oi not again.

Down again - confirmed 90k on my end.

Honestly though, we all need a break from farming light.

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Originally Posted by Beeraga

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

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Agreed.

In fairness, I'm not sure the dev team (or anyone directly involved with FFXIV) is to blame. This reeks of corporate pinching pennies and forcing sub-standard equipment on everyone. Hard to say either way, but it's ridiculous to take 24 hours for a patch / maintenance and then have so many problems crop up.

I got kicked off as well

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Originally Posted by Beeraga

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

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There is only so much bug testing they can do without actually putting stretch on the serves. That only comes with allowing people to populate them again and adjust accordingly.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

The 2 most populated servers in the game are on the same datacenter. I'm not surprised there are issues.

The game hasnt had downtime in weeks, major patch, crap happens.

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Sorry I have expectations that a service I pay for wont Trump the bed repeatedly. Its like they either refuse to learn from past mistakes, or do not invest properly in their testing process and you the consumer gets to pay for it.

I have no idea whats wrong with people that defend garbage service from am unfeeling bottom dollar corporation. Get your head checked and let the rest of us hold them accountable as consumers should.

Who was fishing?

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Originally Posted by Beeraga

Sorry I have expectations that a service I pay for wont Trump the bed repeatedly. Its like they either refuse to learn from past mistakes, or do not invest properly in their testing process and you the consumer gets to pay for it.

I have no idea whats wrong with people that defend garbage service from am unfeeling bottom dollar corporation. Get your head checked and let the rest of us hold them accountable as consumers should.

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Sounds like you are more emotionally invested in a simple issue than I am lol. I just understand shit happens, since I work on server hardware for a living. It breaks, code breaks, its not perfect.

Here we go....again

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

There is only so much bug testing they can do without actually putting stretch on the serves. That only comes with allowing people to populate them again and adjust accordingly.

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This isn't being caused my a bug; server uptime should in no way be affected by a patch. Plus, as others have stated, other companies really haven't had issues nearly this bad. In fact, even FFXI was better than this, to my recollection, and that was a far older game.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Sounds like you are more emotionally invested in a simple issue than I am lol. I just understand shit happens, since I work on server hardware for a living. It breaks, code breaks, its not perfect.

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I share Beeraga's frustrations here. It's not so much a matter of emotional investment; it's the fact that saying 'well, shit happens' excuses SE completely for what borders on incompetence in this case.

I would understand your perspective if someone were blaming an individual, but a company...? SE could easily be investing enough in this title to not have this happen. I'm sure you know, as someone who works on server hardware for a living, that hardware on its last legs (as an example) is far more likely to break down than high-quality stuff. Coupled with the fact that this doesn't happen nearly as often with other major titles, even F2P titles, and we have a right to criticize.

I think you guys might have an addiction. Relax.

Gah connected, then gave me a 10105...

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Originally Posted by Vhailor

This isn't being caused my a bug; server uptime should in no way be affected by a patch. Plus, as others have stated, other companies really haven't had issues nearly this bad. In fact, even FFXI was better than this, to my recollection, and that was a far older game.

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It also had less people playing on it, and the servers didn't really give you a choice on where to go. Aether is the most populated datacenter in XIV, and this, it has issues the others don't, namely, it can't handle the stresses it wasn't designed for. And more people keep transferring to Balmung and Gilgamesh.

SE just needs to perma lock the servers.

I was in Bismarck for my trial and when I left I got kicked. It said there were 426 people in que, yay? Welp guess I'll try early tomorrow.

Well, this is frustrating. Oh well.

So is this just going to be a daily thing now? I mean I'm sure I'm not the only one that wants to get my chores (Anima) over and done with and then just go back to doing dailies and playing fun games in between those (thinking DQ 8 and KH 2.8).

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Originally Posted by tymora

Gah connected, then gave me a 10105...

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Yeah even if you get through it gives you the other error.

I noticed my connection to the server says low/poor now so I think that's what the 10105 error is from.

yup as soon as i crashed and the re logging back in failed i figured this happened and i agree this happens more on ff14 than any other mmo i have ever played as well though that list is small XD

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

It also had less people playing on it, and the servers didn't really give you a choice on where to go. Aether is the most populated datacenter in XIV, and this, it has issues the others don't, namely, it can't handle the stresses it wasn't designed for. And more people keep transferring to Balmung and Gilgamesh.

SE just needs to perma lock the servers.

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Or... you know... upgrade its hardware. If it has a lot of people playing on it, it stands to reason that they should be able to invest more money in it. I don't see Blizzard having trouble, and they have FAR more people playing than FFXIV has ever had.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Sounds like you are more emotionally invested in a simple issue than I am lol. I just understand shit happens, since I work on server hardware for a living. It breaks, code breaks, its not perfect.

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There's no emotional investment in getting half a tube of toothpaste when I pay full price.

Well, that was rather rude of the server to kick me in the middle of a conversation! Guess there's nothing to do but try again tomorrow.

(Hey, SE? Maybe get some more power for poor Aether if you can!)

Either way, they have to do something considering this isn't going to be some freak accident issue anyway. I'm not opposed to locking down Balmung and Gilgamesh (there's already plenty of players there), but they'd probably also have to update the server hardware regardless.

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Originally Posted by Vhailor

Or... you know... upgrade its hardware. If it has a lot of people playing on it, it stands to reason that they should be able to invest more money in it. I don't see Blizzard having trouble, and they have FAR more people playing than FFXIV has ever had.

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You can't just "do a hardware upgrade"

That may be what some of 4.0s budget is for, just like 3.0s.

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Originally Posted by Beeraga

There's no emotional investment in getting half a tube of toothpaste when I pay full price.

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I dunno, you seem pretty upset, that shows emotional involvement.

i didn't do my pvp roulette today.........smh.

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Originally Posted by Cyreil

I think you guys might have an addiction. Relax.

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So if you plan your date night and go to a movie and the reel breaks halfway through and the theater says "Sorry, please wait 5 hours for the 1 1/2 hour feature to continue." and you get mad about that, your logic suggests I have an addiction?

You have a non-accountability problem.

"I dunno, you seem pretty upset, that shows emotional involvement." Valkyrie_Lenneth

Its cool you are not upset, I have no problem with that. But don't judge me for having a higher standard on a product I pay for. If I keep buying garbage clothes from a retailer that becomes threadbare after a few wash cycles, I stop buying from them. If you don't think that's a problem for that company, and you choose to defend them, OK.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

It also had less people playing on it, and the servers didn't really give you a choice on where to go. Aether is the most populated datacenter in XIV, and this, it has issues the others don't, namely, it can't handle the stresses it wasn't designed for. And more people keep transferring to Balmung and Gilgamesh.

SE just needs to perma lock the servers.

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This I agree with, especially Balmung.

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Originally Posted by Vhailor

This isn't being caused my a bug; server uptime should in no way be affected by a patch. Plus, as others have stated, other companies really haven't had issues nearly this bad. In fact, even FFXI was better than this, to my recollection, and that was a far older game.

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"Bug testing" in a colloquial sense. Keep in mind, few MMOs have major updates near as frequent or with as much added content. Compare WoW's update cycle (12-15 months) to XIV's (3-4 months). While the scale may be different, the constant updates give chance to more errors, especially if you're at all familiar with how easily code can break.