Right now we all have trouble logging in. We can't, servers are congested and we can't possibly play right now.
What bothers me is that they know these things are going to happen before it happens. They know when a new patch hits, especially with the new housing area that there's going to be LOADS of logins. Every single time there's new content this happens.
You'd expect a billion dollar company to invest more money into proper servers. This is just sad.
Billion dollar company, still bad servers
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10-10-2017, 07:10 PMLittleSparrowBillion dollar company, still bad servers
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10-10-2017, 07:11 PMSnowyPoupa
Yes its really sad
I was at 442 queue and then Errors started
This is no by any means fair chance for everyone to buy a house
Some people in my FC ended with 3-4 houses!
Well done SE.Well Done! -
10-10-2017, 07:13 PMGleipni
They have other things more important to use that money for,coke and hookers
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10-10-2017, 07:13 PMtymora
Don't think any game servers on this planet can handle so many simultaneous accesses...this is effectively a legit DDoS.
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10-10-2017, 07:14 PMElspath
Costs them more money to pout up extra servers then it dose facing a small bit of bad pr during major lunch patches, witch after its over people shrug it off and saying "oh well"
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10-10-2017, 07:21 PMIcehunterSorry; but it doesn't cost that much to host housing servers. I've written services capable of serving 500+ million people; on very little hardware.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elspath
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10-10-2017, 07:23 PMBerethos
Billion dollar company...with more than one development team and property. The FFXIV dev team is only ever going to get a certain portion of that budget.
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10-10-2017, 07:24 PMBerethosIf your services aren't related to online games, something tells me your experience doesn't translate as well as you think it does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Icehunter
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10-10-2017, 07:25 PM-Teria-There are games out there with less budget that have more housing options available.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elspath
The problem is that SE is just so freakin' greedy with this crap.
They keep cutting corner after corner with every system in the game.
Every patch gives us less and less content to enjoy. It's disgusting.
And the "PS3 limitations" and "We need better servers!" excuses don't fly anymore, since they nipped both in the butt with Stormblood. -
10-10-2017, 07:28 PMAshewalker
You all are aware that NO SERVERS IN THE WORLD can stress test Millions of players logging in at the same time, right?!?
If you are salty about not getting a house, then too bad, it was a lucky chance, some people got it, some didn't, get over it! -
10-10-2017, 07:30 PM-Teria-No thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashewalker
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10-10-2017, 07:32 PMBerethosWith what additional restrictions? Instanced housing per plot? Significantly less freedom in customization in open zones?Quote:
Originally Posted by -Teria-
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10-10-2017, 07:33 PMIcehunter1million concurrent requests per second target is large enough to say I could understand what they might be thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berethos
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10-10-2017, 07:41 PMKremlinDuskFunny thing is though, that most of their budget comes from Final Fantasy XIV subscription. XIV pays for almost everything that Square Enix does now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berethos
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10-10-2017, 07:43 PM-Teria-If Lucas Arts circa 2003 can make a rudimentary MMO where hundreds of players can drop multiple houses per person (Some players having entire towns all to themselves made up of main houses and alt character houses), as well as several guild halls, all persistent non-instanced interiors with the exact same decoration system as FFXIV has today, and have this same thing repeated on multiple planets each server?...Not to mention starships with interiors they can also decorate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Berethos
SE should be able to do it in 2017 with everybody getting one single house with instanced interiors in instanced wards.
And don't knock instanced housing. If we had instanced housing, we wouldn't have this problem. -
10-10-2017, 07:46 PMNellMoshroca
Instanced housing would fix a lot of things. But I think it's to late for that now. SE HAS TO fix the monster they created or it will start to cost them subs.
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10-10-2017, 07:54 PMRodaWildstar has small player made wards that give you ultimate freedom on furnature placement, scale, coloring, skybox, music, ground texture, and so much more. House size is only restricted by your imagination.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berethos
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10-10-2017, 07:58 PMBroodingFicusThis. I don't think many people realize that the success of FFXIV saved Squares bacon. Once it did, they started redirecting a lot of the money it made into other projects. That isn't to say I don't find this frustrating. If anything I find it more so because not only am I paying for a beautiful new ward I'm never going to get to move to, they're taking the money we pay and spending it on things that don't benefit ffxiv whatsoever.Quote:
Originally Posted by KremlinDusk
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10-10-2017, 08:00 PMTalossar
They should know that will happen and they didn't do any improvement so after all is GL players&fans who save our company.
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10-10-2017, 08:01 PMLunarEmerald
It's a stupid idea to have them available upon log in. To make it more fair they should wait a bit to give people time to log in then make them available.
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10-10-2017, 08:15 PMAldotsk
This money spending towards this developers has convinced me that they are just phasing over to FF15 multiplayer online. Which is sad.
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10-10-2017, 08:20 PMKuponutz
Watch they'll announce it as a DDOS attack, like they do, every single other time their servers can't handle the stress. Someone should let them know that if it's legit people trying to login that doesn't constitute a DDOS attack.
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10-14-2017, 08:34 PMLittleSparrowExcept I got my house and I am nowhere near salty. This is simply an existing problem that needs to be addressed until it gets handled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashewalker
I agree. They should've added a 30 minute lock or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by LunarEmerald
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10-14-2017, 09:17 PMPentheaOP either never played WoW or has bad memory. Blizzard likely have far more money to throw at their mmo than SE do and players of that game also experience various issues on patch day, especially on very high populated servers.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleSparrow
Yes it sucks but that's how it is with mmos. If something under great demand has just been released a huge chunk of the player population will want to engage in it ASAP. So many login requests will cause any servers to run slower or cough up errors. If you can't deal with it then don't play a successful mmo.
What SE need to do is not have new wards be released along with loads of other unrelated content at the same time. The queues were full of players who wanted housing and those who were uninterested. This messed up chances for loads of players hoping to buy a house. -
10-14-2017, 09:24 PMArriusInstanced is good for single player housing, but having housing out in the open makes MMOs less of a game and more of a world. Persistent housing with neighbours nearby makes each server feel more unique and 'alive'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roda
There's a reason people make towns and cities all by themselves in minecraft or any other suvivor multiplayer title - It makes the place less lonely and more busy, giving it the illusion of life.
And, yes, I tried the Wildstar housing myself and I didn't liked it because being seperated from anyone else's place drove my motivation down after a while to do anything on it. -
10-14-2017, 10:22 PMAerlana1) monthly sub for each playersQuote:
Originally Posted by Berethos
2) many money from cash shop, with some aesthetic (minions, mount, outfits...) comfort (lvlup) and usefull thing (retainer)
There another thing than anyone can easy find (thank you to google)
Before ARR : company was not in good health
Now : really good health, even some fail are not a real matter.
Maybe i am silly, but i think that we could change what you said this way :
"Billion dollar company...with more than one development team and property. The FFXIV dev team is only ever going to get a certain portion of his own benefits."
and THIS is the full matter. We can see it well with housing issues but... not only. Lets speak about all release? the numerous fail from the last release? (raubahn Xtrem, a little Pipin Xtrem, world congestion, DF congestion, Area congestion,) We didnt played FFXIV : SB but FFXIV : congestion
And yes i know, all games get issues with release yes. for this i totally accepted apologize for ARR. and admit fail may happen for HW... Enough is Enough now
Most of game, expansion release matter last 2, 3 days? 1 week? 1 month if it is the full game release... WAS 1 MONTH FOR SB...
SE allow only part of his money to FFXIV, we all know this. SE wants FFXIV to get many money to bank account, we know that... we all understood this when cash shop came out.
But when SE have to use money to do FFXIV better, make people happy, here we are :
https://imgur.com/mge22xE
Probably SE are Pink Floyd's fans...
Others housing are not so good FFXIV is?
Lets speak about one i had full use, BDO, there is a bad part of this (getting as much point as possible to make profit) but the "RP use" is really good, With various size / form of house, you can do many thing. Less than FFXIV from some view, more for other view.
AND ALL ACCOUNT can get up to 5 houses EASILY (cost nothing), And there isnt anything that we will ever get in FFXIV with ward system : You can ALWAYS get the house you want, event if all other players already bought this house.
Because yes, FFXIV, even if we all get a house, what about people that want L or M, and are block on S because no more M/L avaible? what about "the plot they want" (30/60 in shirogane for example).
Others game can do anything different and as good as FFXIV (some better point, some worst point)... AND make it avaible to all. WHY cant FFXIV do the same?