This maintainance fixes nothing for current players

[Ryuni]

Data Center Capacity =/= World Capacity.

They are adding new worlds, which will result in more players than their current duty finder servers can handle. Thus they are splitting the worlds into multiple groups, with their own duty finders.

This doesn't change the fact that the current worlds can only handle ~5000 players concurrently without suffering major stability issues, lag, etc.

So... the full realms stay full. People still can't log into them. New realms are created - people who can't log into their current servers roll alts there. But they aren't playing their mains, or able to play with their friends, or have to start over - because SE hasn't said anything about forcing server splits to distribute their current players to a larger pool of worlds, nor are they offering any free migrations to those new worlds - and the paid character transfer service isn't expected for weeks.

You're wrong, the servers can handle more people than they are limiting right now. Duty Finder was the bottleneck when that limit wasn't there, I was experiencing barely any lag, it was just rare occasions (and I'm from EU playing on NA server).

[Brugh]

You're wrong, the servers can handle more people than they are limiting right now. Duty Finder was the bottleneck when that limit wasn't there, I was experiencing barely any lag, it was just rare occasions (and I'm from EU playing on NA server).

Wrong, huh?

The Reasoning behind Login Restrictions

Each FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn World server has been designed to support a maximum of 5,000 concurrent connections. This is not the maximum number of characters which can be created on a World, however, but the maximum number of characters which can be logged into that World simultaneously. When more than 5,000 characters log into a World at once, there is a higher risk of server crashes and login errors. The restoration of crashed servers is usually followed by a rush of players attempting to log back in, which, in turn, puts a strain on our lobby server, and can ultimately have an adverse affect on all of the Worlds.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/73680?p=1111872#post1111872

[Sove92]

Wrong, huh?




http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...72#post1111872

Considering the amout of people you see on, the worlds are capped at less than 5,000 at the moment.