Launch Day at SE

I can only imagine the offices at SE on launch day. The moment they flip the switch, start the projector and watch the stars on the big screen start logging in. Open the flood gates because here they come!

I just want to express my joy, excitement and thanks to everyone at Square Enix for working so hard to bring our game back to us. Thank you for making your dreams our reality.

I would love to be able to experience August 27 inside the SE building. So...someone in the office have your video recorder ready and take as many videos of the official launch day at Square Enix! Really^^.

And then... Emergency maintenance!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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Originally Posted by Neasa

And then... Emergency maintenance!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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Naw. Maintenance will have to wait until someone wakes up. They'll all be catching up on years of missed sleep.

when we see how the final 1.0 event went and how the Beta started I guess we can expect some network problem at start...

Part of me is expecting some one to collapse from the pressure, but we won't hear about it.

And yeah, I wouldn't be shocked if there's some sort of server crash, but I don't see it as a huge problem as long as I'm there to witness it all going online.

Actually, I firmly believe the servers will be stable.

1. They have been really good in phases 2+ at directing people to only start in worlds where there is room for more people in starter areas.
-Rotating the Names of the Worlds so the same World isn't always 'on top'
-Locking out world options if that particular world's starting areas are full/server stability issues

2. Early Access while only from the 24-26th officially is supposed to 'carry through' into launch with no downtime. So it seems like on 8/27/13 at maybe JA midnight, we'll just now have access to the full game, no patcher/update etc. Meaning many of us will already be logged in and playing.

3. Even if there are updates/maintence, unless you are in a populated starting area and/or spamming the login when it goes live, you'll get in fairly easily


4. Beta 4 limiting character progress to level 20 and only being roughly a weekend long. This will force many people to level at least 2-4 classes to 20...but it gives them enough time to get at least one class to 20 and out of the starting areas.


My point, even at launch of 1.0 and it's Early Access, when everyone was level 0 to start, there was a huge amount of lag but typically, you could log in and get into the game....no whether you could play it with the lag, that was a different story. But judging from Beta 2-3 starting weekends, they really seem to have fixed those 1.0 issues. And Beta 2-3 was when we all were forced to start in the same zone(s) at level 1 and begin to level like banchees. Add in the new variables that now a decent-sized portion of the population will be level 20+ on every server, and past the 'beginning CS's/leveling/storyline...and server load is lessened even a bit further.


The trick is if the level 20-30ish DF is ready for the onslaught :P

I just hope Yoshi and co. get a well deserved paid vacation that doesn't eat up his sick leave.

I agree it would be interesting to see. It seems like there is soooooo much riding on it. ;)

All those overworked programmers and designers can finally get some rest, I'm hoping. It's been a long time having to remake the game all over.

http://i.imgur.com/yBHszKG.gif

Flips switch, watching log in crowd hits 500,000. The next week highest log in 2,000.

I personally imagine SE offices being pounded with billing help.

I just hope they get some rest soon. They deserve it.

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Originally Posted by shanvhere

Flips switch, watching log in crowd hits 500,000. The next week highest log in 2,000.

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Quit being negative. I've seen your posts before and all you post is negative stuff about this game. The dev team have worked their asses off to rebuild a game from scratch. There has been so much positive press with ARR. Even then, only one person who is a naysayer cannot bring the game down. ;(

There's a whole forum of them in 'the other place'. That's probably the best place for.. uh.. constructive criticism of the game at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Ticks

I would love to be able to experience August 27 inside the SE building. So...someone in the office have your video recorder ready and take as many videos of the official launch day at Square Enix! Really^^.

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I really like this idea. Record the events of launch day and upload it later.

If there is some major problem that occurs which makes the video inappropriate for uploading, then just don't upload it. Actually, that kind of video could be useful in the future internally as a means for analyzing and improving methods of responding to problems.

Also, no matter what happens on launch day, in 20 years time you may find yourself wanting to include footage of it as part of a documentary or something. So roll camera! :)

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

Quit being negative. I've seen your posts before and all you post is negative stuff about this game. The dev team have worked their asses off to rebuild a game from scratch. There has been so much positive press with ARR. Even then, only one person who is a naysayer cannot bring the game down. ;(

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I am being the dark where there is so much light, balance!

I don't see Launch Day being a real big "throw the switch" Hollywood drama moment. (SE probably doesn't want any drama moments. :)) The full version of the game would have been running since early access about 3 days before.

As for login numbers, only SE knows. Phase 4 should be the biggest ("come play FREE!!"), but at least it's "beta" and SE has leeway to smooth any rough patches. Then after a little downtime it's Early Access and perhaps the fewest logins because it's just pre-orders and legacy. "Play for free" time is finally over.

Then 3 days later we roll past "official start of service", probably without downtime, but v1 are back, plus any new launch day starts. There will be a lot of registration code registering that day. Like Dhalmel says, it may be the most stressful at the accounts customer service.

In Japan it's actually a good thing for bosses to see employees fall asleep on the job.

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Originally Posted by Hysterior

when we see how the final 1.0 event went and how the Beta started I guess we can expect some network problem at start...

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I prey to IRL God and the Twelve that doesn't happen.

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Originally Posted by Kinseykinz

Actually, I firmly believe the servers will be stable.

1. They have been really good in phases 2+ at directing people to only start in worlds where there is room for more people in starter areas.
-Rotating the Names of the Worlds so the same World isn't always 'on top'
-Locking out world options if that particular world's starting areas are full/server stability issues

2. Early Access while only from the 24-26th officially is supposed to 'carry through' into launch with no downtime. So it seems like on 8/27/13 at maybe JA midnight, we'll just now have access to the full game, no patcher/update etc. Meaning many of us will already be logged in and playing.

3. Even if there are updates/maintence, unless you are in a populated starting area and/or spamming the login when it goes live, you'll get in fairly easily


4. Beta 4 limiting character progress to level 20 and only being roughly a weekend long. This will force many people to level at least 2-4 classes to 20...but it gives them enough time to get at least one class to 20 and out of the starting areas.

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I do too! I see how they're trying to minimize the stress on the servers even more by providing early access to some players who stuck around in BETA-3. This is a good idea though there'll still be some "Bottle-necking" at the start of BETA-4 and launch.

There'll still be a big quantity of players entering the game for the first time and how ever the world or SE calculates the surplus of subscribers to the ones alredy on board, it'll be a great success.

If it is, then...

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Originally Posted by Goufunaki

All those overworked programmers and designers can finally get some rest, I'm hoping. It's been a long time having to remake the game all over.

http://i.imgur.com/yBHszKG.gif

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Priceless...