Login Restrictions!?

Login Restrictions are NOT a solution! What makes you think you'll get subscribers by making the game unable to be played!

You need to open up about 10 new NA/EU servers and allow free transfers to them and some rewards for people who do move like a free month or something. Actually we should all get an extra free week because some people have played less than five hours over the Early Access weekend.

You need to start booting people off that have been afk for 30 minutes. People are not logging out because of your restrictions and hogging all the server space.

You need to stop character creation on Legacy servers too! Only people who are Legacy should be able to play on them, and those who are friends of Legacy who have received a code (World Pass).

P.S. I don't care if you guys say 'another one of theeeeeeeeeese threads'. There are issues that need resolving!

Extra free week wouldn't help much, but would make some sense. Some people haven't even gotten to be able to play at ALL because of work schedules and coming home only to maints that last all night for EST players. I also agree highly with booting people who are afk.

Legacy only servers would be alright, but not too many of them. That's just my personal opinion though, as I don't fully see why someone would want a maxed character right at start. World Pass sounds silly as well, just keep it for the Legacy memebers and if they want to play with friends, they can play elsewhere.

Seriously! Restrictions are cool for monitoring and testing during a beta test, I get that... but this is not a beta test, this is early access to a game that launches officially TOMORROW! Making it so that some can play and others are left to troll the forums is no good... I'd rather be in-game.

+1 AFK destroyer

Anyone else find it remarkably ironic that players can't create a thread in this forum unless they are over a certain level. And for many players, they can't get to that level because they can't log in to the game. I wonder how much worse this forum would look if it were a true measure of the attitude surrounding the players.

I know this, I'm a patient guy. But it is very clear to me (and everyone else) that SE needs to fire the people responsible for their infrastructure immediately. Get a competent team in there.

It honestly feels like they think this isn't much of a problem right now. Which is F-ing insane.

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Originally Posted by Demlix

Seriously! Restrictions are cool for monitoring and testing during a beta test, I get that... but this is not a beta test, this is early access to a game that launches officially TOMORROW!

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Launch has started. It was midnight JP time. The problems are only going to get worse now if they don't open up new servers with free transfers! We'll never get to play.

if restricting meant a longer queue that would be cool., not a mash the button hoping you even get a queue...then survive that too...

BTW where did the login queue even go? All I get when I try to log in is an error of the server being full and it boots me to the start screen. The queue broken too?

I think the queue is when multiple people are logging in at the same time (with open space). But it should be applied to when the server is full too. It's just silly to not be.

What number are they setting to the Limit Cap? I ask because people have been locked out even before the typical NA prime time. If these servers can't even handle pre-prime numbers...

This game is Pay-to-Play, but the inverse holds true as well :(

I agree, a free week could be a nice apology but I would prefer they implement a system that boots afk players. Its ridiculous that we'll be paying for a game that we wont be able to enjoy most of the time because of Login Restrictions. Especially for people with jobs or other responsibilities in general that can only log in at the most busy times.

I got in the que @ number 42 and "Holy crap on a cracker" I got the 1017 screen "And I jizzed In my pants"

Please SE! Add more servers + free server transfer. Specially Legacy servers. I love this game but it's becoming really hard to support SE when the problem is so obvious.

Sadly Square prefers to have their servers spammed by thousands of players trying to log in instead of doing very big queues

we don't need more servers, we need more processing/hardware for the logical servers we have now

They need to set up a Q system. Having played many mmos I am used to this but what I do not like is the luck factor involved in getting to play here.

A Q system would be far more fair and would allow us to go on about the rest of our lives without spamming our character and playing the ff14 lotto.

how long are the restrictions?!?!?! how many people get in at once? is the restriction lifted only after so many people log out?!?! this is such bullshit...i'm getting tired of reading empty apologies and absurd fake solutions. they've had MORE than enough time to fix these problems...I know i'm saying this out of anger right now, but if my patience finally runs out and I give up on this game, I hope it crashes and burns like before because, suddenly, SE is looking a lot like crooks right now.

so what happened on breaking bad last night?

I can understand not adding new servers because they expect the population to even out over time, but theres no excuse for not having a queue system in a modern MMO. I don't care if I'm 1000th in line. I'd just like to know where I stand instead of force logging hundreds of times.

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Originally Posted by Velcroy

Anyone else find it remarkably ironic that players can't create a thread in this forum unless they are over a certain level. And for many players, they can't get to that level because they can't log in to the game. I wonder how much worse this forum would look if it were a true measure of the attitude surrounding the players.

I know this, I'm a patient guy. But it is very clear to me (and everyone else) that SE needs to fire the people responsible for their infrastructure immediately. Get a competent team in there.

It honestly feels like they think this isn't much of a problem right now. Which is F-ing insane.

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bolded the genuine feeling/true problem right here

The even better part is the fact that it was easier to log in during open beta. Now it's launch and no one can even get into a queue? I can't even remember what I was excited for to begin with.

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Originally Posted by Velcroy

Anyone else find it remarkably ironic that players can't create a thread in this forum unless they are over a certain level. And for many players, they can't get to that level because they can't log in to the game. I wonder how much worse this forum would look if it were a true measure of the attitude surrounding the players.

I know this, I'm a patient guy. But it is very clear to me (and everyone else) that SE needs to fire the people responsible for their infrastructure immediately. Get a competent team in there.

It honestly feels like they think this isn't much of a problem right now. Which is F-ing insane.

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This problem will solve itself. People will stop trying to log in after a few days.

Problem solved.

edit: I wish I had a business where driving away paying customers worked.

I don't have a problem with there being server restrictions to protect performance of the server, but the sheer amount of people who are getting shut out during US evenings is unacceptable. It is further being worsened by the fact that there is no fair system to get people into the game when there is space, and idle characters are holding up people who are ready to play.

You can't even blame people for AFKing in game because otherwise you don't have much of a chance of getting to play after you log. It's just poor planning.

By law, people that pay for access to a service must be provided that service or be compensated for their losses. Reasonable maintenance is exempt from this requirement, server failure do to poor planing isn't.

So Square Enix, do you understand?

Have they said anything about lifting the restrictions on making characters on full realms? I have friends joining, but they can't even play on my realm. This is an absolutely horrible idea.

When I tried earlier all NA/EU servers have character creation restriction which would imply they're full. They need more servers and to boot AFKers! I refuse to subscribe until these issues are sorted. I don't say that as a threat because I will eventually pay because this game is amazing, I'm just not willing to pay until I can actually get on and play without jackasses hogging the server space.

I've already read about so many people who have given up and gone back to a previous MMO. How many customers are they willing to loose. They can't even say its because servers are expensive because granted they allow people to play and fall in love with the game they'll surely make enough profit to cover server fees.

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Originally Posted by Silverwalk

This problem will solve itself. People will stop trying to log in after a few days.

Problem solved.

edit: I wish I had a business where driving away paying customers worked.

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What if the exact opposite happens? And if people wait just like you for others to leave?