I dont care bout new servers

[fiendster]

Are they going to alleviate the congestion for full servers, they keep mentioning duty finder, is that going to effect the login issues?

[Wavecreator]

please read this sticky its all explaind in there http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-Restrictions

[fiendster]

So it seems they are not expanded or fixing the current full servers but opening and closing the flood gates during certain times.

[fiendster]

Am I reading this update wrong?

[Wavecreator]

they are adding new servers, the current ones work yust fine. cannot really say what influence it will have on the current full worlds. and yes they are monitoring login/restricting them to make sure the servers dont crash

[Greywizaqrd]

LOL opening new servers and changing the duty finder.... But screw those full servers, they'll have to buy server transfers to not experience 1017 on a daily basis.


SE is missing the point with this upgrade and it will become glaringly obvious on Wednesday.

Server capacity is the problem and new worlds are not the solution unless they are capable of offering free, fast transfer to new servers. They are not, so this is going to do little to nothing.

[fiendster]

So basically, people on full servers have a extremely high chance of getting the dreaded error 1017 after this half a day maintenance?

[Riyo]

I'm pretty sure the current servers are being artificially capped. If that is the case then after they do their fixes they should be able to lift those caps while bringing new servers up for others.

[GrizzyGrey]

So basically, people on full servers have a extremely high chance of getting the dreaded error 1017 after this half a day maintenance?

I can't imagine they would take the game down for ten hours and not fix the issues. I don't know exactly what they're doing but I imagine the whole purpose of this maintenance is to solve that issue.

[Greywizaqrd]

I'm pretty sure the current servers are being artificially capped. If that is the case then after they do their fixes they should be able to lift those caps while bringing new servers up for others.

Did you read the Yoshida post? The servers are capped at 5k concurrent users. Unless they add resources to increase that capacity it WILL NOT fix the current issue for full servers. Instead of adding that capacity to current servers, they are adding new servers.

Can you see the problem here? Without free and extremely fast transfer service, which they currently are not equipped to offer, hardly anyone is going to move to the new servers. Most of us are already invested in our characters too far to abandon them. Therefore, full servers will remain full, new accounts will go to new servers, and error 1017 will remain in effect for the foreseeable future.