Pop cap

[blowfin]

Genius! So the solution to "too many people being in a zone is causing it to crash" is "we imposed a limit so high that you're unlikely to ever see it".

Came across the cap the other night for an Odin during prime time.The funny thing was, with less people, the FATE got failed pretty hard apparently. Folks have enough trouble not having a premature LB as it is...

[Tyl]

Why not adding overflow servers if that really is a problem? o.o
we're not in 1800 anymore ~ x:

[Dragonheart]

Why not adding overflow servers if that really is a problem? o.o
we're not in 1800 anymore ~ x:

Having some cool features that a B2P MMO has like overflow server, world-wide cross server AH, cross server Friend list, "server guest feature" to party with any friend in any server, and many others cool ideas?

Go away witch!

[Soukyuu]

I think this post just made my day -^
I might not like GW2 as a game, but their server architecture is just so much better.
SE should have copied that instead of FATEs imho.

[Zfz]

FATE as a form of "content" is just failing miserably at the moment. It's a very cool idea implemented badly.

[Dragonheart]

FATE as a form of "content" is just failing miserably at the moment. It's a very cool idea implemented copied badly.

*fixed

/10char

[Bladenite81]

Having some cool features that a B2P MMO has like overflow server, world-wide cross server AH, cross server Friend list, "server guest feature" to party with any friend in any server, and many others cool ideas?

Go away witch!

Problem is Economics. Lots of cost to do those things for GW2 and now they have barely anything to show for it. They are scraping by since the profitable first quarter. Where as less cost for ARR has proven to bring in 500k more subscribers and more revenue. You want them to put in all kinds of infrastructure, then prove to them it will make them more money. Tears dont cost them anything.

[Tupsi]

Having some cool features that a B2P MMO has like overflow server, world-wide cross server AH, cross server Friend list[/IMG]

FFXI had a cross server friendlist..so...

[blowfin]

I think this post just made my day -^
I might not like GW2 as a game, but their server architecture is just so much better.
SE should have copied that instead of FATEs imho.

Why does everyone seem to think that GW2 came up with open world events first? Warhammer Online was an earlier originator as far as I'm aware, from memory the events were a lot more interesting than FATE's, usually comprising of various stages and maybe a boss thrown in.

[Tupsi]

Why does everyone seem to think that GW2 came up with open world events first?

Just like we know WoW wasn't the first MMO to put kill 5 boar quests over and over to progress your character but it's the more popular one. GW2 is popular and recent and it's pretty obvious where SE drew their "inspiration" for it.