Thank you SE for sticking to your guns and NOT opening up new servers!

[seebs]

What they probably ought to do is open temporary servers. Say right up front, "these are temporary, you will have to leave them", then give free transfers off them in a month.

Everyone wins. People who don't care where they go get nice empty unloaded servers, and then when the rush dies down, everyone gets to play on servers with people, and no one is shocked and disappointed to find that their server is getting shut down.

[aray0002]

May 16, 2002 SE released a game called Final Fantasy XI Today FFXI is still being played and although nowhere near the same game when it first launched it never the less is still around and yes people still PAY monthly subscriptions for this 11 year old game. In fact they just recently released it's 4th expansion pack called Seekers of Adoulin. Quite impressive don't you think ?
Look SE knows how to handle MMORPG's Version 1.0 was only a disaster because the Devs didn't listen to the players... 2.0 re-boot they did.

[Dendoushi]

Your solution is for them to not let people play the game. Which guess what? Will run people off.

If they open up more servers it will allow more people to play the game. Will that run people off? Only if the game is BAD. See the problem?

Rift wasn't good enough to hold people's attention, so people left.

Square at least needs to give their players the CHANCE to see if the game is worth sticking around for.

So yes, more servers DOES fix this problem. If the servers are dead in 3 months and they need to be merged, then the game isn't as good as people hoped.

Again, its clear you have no idea what you're talking about. Move along.

So you know how their game is coded. Please tell me, do they run a server cluster with code that is dynamic and yet still fast enough to allow them to just add a new server and people trying to join a specific server can get in?

Most of the issues I keep reading of peoples complaint is that a specific server they want into is over populated. If you are saying to just open brand new server for people to join how can you be so certain they want to join it? So far I heard of like 20 people wanting to create a character to a specific server they seem resistant to go somewhere else.

Opening and Merging servers talking with people in the industry is more risky than cost alone. Cost is a factor but image related with it is scary too, if they start rapidly expanding while there are still freeloaders (Ones that will play till the first actual charge for subscription) they could accommodate people fine but then when the freeloaders leave sever populations will drop. Now they run the risk that servers are not populated enough to hold a social interaction.

There is also the image tied with adding and merging servers. Adding gives impression product is doing well which might draw more in but merging is far worse. When word of servers are merging in a MMO the first thought going to peoples mind is that the game failed, in turn causing even more loss of players turning to merging servers again and more players lost.

Anyone that releases an MMO is in a lose-lose situation when it comes to this. That is why I am glad they implemented the veteran rewards, those that want to play this game only have to suffer through the freeloaders. I am fully aware that this term is not precise, after all they at the least paid $30 which is good for purchasing the product and a discounted first subscription at $9.99. The first subscription is still discounted and Gross Margin is probably very minimal at that price.

[Dendoushi]

What they probably ought to do is open temporary servers. Say right up front, "these are temporary, you will have to leave them", then give free transfers off them in a month.

Everyone wins. People who don't care where they go get nice empty unloaded servers, and then when the rush dies down, everyone gets to play on servers with people, and no one is shocked and disappointed to find that their server is getting shut down.

That is a decent idea. It could help keep a good image while keeping players happy. It all relies on how their infrastructure is designed, showing such "good faith" though with how fickle a presence I see on the forums seems risky and I wonder how worth while it really will be.

[KingXRay]

Why will you need more servers? Devs already said they will increase the player slots of the servers when they finsih stabling the server problems, because there are alot of people having login issues currently.

[Wakaflaka]

They've already mentioned that most servers are about to reach there maximum capacity, so yeah if they want to bring in more ppl they will need more server's, the login issue is something they just didn't plan for they overloaded servers, an they didn't have the capacity to have all these ppl on at the same time.

[Omnerabdator]

just get the queues working first! most of the hate will die down then. what annoys me is all the damn clicking over and over again to get into my server

[kelsethel]

Well, considering not all of the servers now are full, and 90% of the server bitching is coming from people who can't join 3 of the servers while 6+ sit able to be played on at any time shows that new servers would not be the answer.

really 90% are you kidding me so there expecting no growth
wow how the hell do you get dressed in the morning

[Merix]

just get the queues working first! most of the hate will die down then. what annoys me is all the damn clicking over and over again to get into my server

I agree. Queues are the biggest problem.

[emjay2dalr]

Stop feeding the TROLL... and btw I havnt been able to log in in over 3 days.... I was planning on playing this game for many years to come... I highly doubt that will be the case... giving it two more days and FFXIV will be dead to me. Mainly because they refuse to respond to this 1017 issue.

Lack of service and respect gets you lack of subs.