My Thoughts on Server Issues

What I don't understand is why the NA/EU servers (i.e. players) are getting hosed with all of these problems, when it appears that the Japanese players aren't having these issues. If I'm incorrect, please correct me; but whenever I search to see which servers are up, it always appears that the JP servers are going strong and the NA/EU servers are down for some kind of maintenance.

So if I am not incorrect in my assumptions/findings, then why are the Japanese players getting catered to and the NA/EU players getting dumped on? Don't we make up a large majority of the overall players for this game? If so, why do the Japanese have an equal amount of servers devoted solely to JP players as the NA/EU players have (which are split amongst the two groups.)

All I have to say is "Equity." Where is it with Square-Enix?

Error 1017 is killing me on Excalibur

Lol equality. No mmo can ever cater to every region I.e blizzard used to have maint during oceanic prime time and we just had to wear it.

Tbh I think the data centres in jp were overseen in establishment by SE whereas I can imagine they out sourced the work to a US company to set up your data centres. Finally I think it partly comes down to the nature of the two communities on the jp servers from what I can tell no one afks for extended periods of time just to have a spot when they get home etc , whereas from what I can tell this is a common thing on the NA servers which is a bit selfish

Do you want to know why only the NA/EU cluster is getting hammered?
We far, far outnumber the JP players are apparently are deeply alergic to playing in japanese servers.
So we all huddle in this sinking boat.

Why would they NOT cater more to Japan?

Or maybe there Japanese branch has their crap together and the other branch is absolutely terrible.

Don't assume they are on purpose ignoring us.

25 servers for Japan & 25 servers for NA/EU. Some guy at SE who didn't learn geography in school, thinks the entire population of NA & EU is the same for Japan. That's why NA/EU servers are having ridiculous amounts of problems & people not able to log in to their servers.

It tells me the outsourced their NA/ EU servers to a third party and the people they outsourced to had no idea what they were getting in to.

It's too bad too. When you can get in to play, the game as for the most part fun. When you can get in.

It's funny how one categorises the data center. It is not based on one country. The jp data center houses for ppl near it, I.e most of Asia, china, n so on. Alot of us are on it. Even a bunch of eu Na n such too that form a mix international base in here.

Likewise the Na/eu center houses for ppl nearer the other side of the world. N it is also not region locked n thus have a mix of people.

Don't assume 25 server is just for jp when a whole bunch if ppl from this side if the world are on it. I just hope they get the server all stable in this couple if days, so all can have fun

JP server and its team has been used and utilized since FFXI, when NA/EU server is a brand new server with newbies
that's what i've heard

I was happily playing with Avenes and she decided to restart the game.

I said "Nooooooo~" but it was too late and our misfortune began.

I heard Avenes scream in horror so I called her name!

She said "Nnnngh..." and I knew it struck again!

I hope the server will be stabilibleleized soon!

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The question I posed earlier was something that I already knew. Mathematically, socio-economically, and geographically, the data centers/servers equal each other. Yet, the number of players using each server is significantly different. While the total population in Japan and Asia might outnumber that of the total population of North America/South America/Europe (right...) the socio-economics of these areas are drastically different. There is more money per capita of household is being spent in the NA/EU markets then in the Japanese/Asian Markets. What this means is that you have a higher probability that a household will purchase the game and play it for the first 2 months since release from the NA/EU markets then from the Japanese markets.

/r/armchairadmins

They've admitted to misconfigurations and reaching maximum facility capacity for the NA datacenter, that's why it's shitting the bed. It means someone or some group fucked up when setting up the datacenter initially, which they fixed with the maintenance. Some other person or group fucked up when calculating how many machines they needed and didn't implement a solution for bringing more worlds online, which is why they said they're expanding the facility some time early next week.

I Hope this littler Diagram Shows you why. Simple Calculations show you exactly why
______ Blue: On 1 Data Center - Red: On 1 Data Center _______
They're still use Server & Server Software from FFXI ONLINE Release
http://i.imgur.com/Bfa4NQO.jpg

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Originally Posted by Londis2013

All I have to say is "Equity." Where is it with Square-Enix?

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JP is getting hammered now. It just shows a huge difference between how JP and NA/EU buy their games. NA/EU massively pre-purchased creating problems during Early Access, but jP are massively buying at 5am this morning, almost no pre-orders.

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Originally Posted by RamzaBehoulve

JP is getting hammered now. It just shows a huge difference between how JP and NA/EU buy their games. NA/EU massively pre-purchased creating problems during Early Access, but jP are massively buying at 5am this morning, almost no pre-orders.

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Honestly they're r not getting slammed by JP players as you think. It's alot of people fed up with NA servers and they r Intently going on JP servers to crash it and JP players r throwing a fit NA players r jumping on their servers.

@OP

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What I don't understand is why the NA/EU servers (i.e. players) are getting hosed with all of these problems, when it appears that the Japanese players aren't having these issues.

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I don't know what you are talking about. At the moment both AEGIS (JP) and Mandragora (JP) are unaccessible due to congestion.

@Peterlogi

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It's alot of people fed up with NA servers and they r Intently going on JP servers to crash it and JP players r throwing a fit NA players r jumping on their servers.

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That makes no sense, since if all NA players were on the JP servers, the NA servers would be empty. Which obviously they aren't.

just a little while ago i looked at the list of worlds that are full and you cant make new characters on and it is all of them, so i am assuming they are going to go to the japanese servers now

From the Lodestone:

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08/28/2013 12:03 AM
Regarding Congestion in Japan Data Center Worlds (Aug. 27)

Currently, an extremely high number of players are enjoying the game. Should the number of players continue to increase at the current pace, there is the possibility that our expectations and server capacity will be greatly surpassed. Therefore, in order to maintain a stable gameplay environment, we are implementing login and character creation restrictions.

In order to be able to welcome a drastically greater number of players, we are starting as early as this week with preparations to increase our facilities, to be ready by early next week. Until that time, we will be continuing to implement these restrictions as required, and we ask for your understanding and patience.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, and once again thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.

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Hang tight, help is otw!

The point I'd like to make is this. Where as the Japanese players are just now experiencing these issues, the na/eu players have been plagued with these problems beta phase 4. I believe it that it is only right that the na/eu players join servers in which they are able to play, and if that means the jp servers must now face the same issues as the na/eu ones, then so be it. Now they can understand our frustration with the situation.