An Open Letter to Yoshida-san: Please Slice One Zero Off the Housing Prices

[Edellis]

ARR had a successful launch?....did you sleep through those 2 weeks of not being able to log in?

This is exactly what im talking about. An unexpected amount of server stress from player activity = unsuccessful launch? On which planet, can I ask?

The amount of data you can get from something doesn't create an infinite pool of money or resources (or "hindsight") to adequately deal with an issue. And that's assuming that the current housing problem is even a server issue -- that just sounds like another corporate evil theory from people who like to complain about stuff.

Whatever the real issue is, you guys just don't know. I haven't even been playing this game for a month and I can tell, it handles alot more server activity than your typical MMO would. I understand that many typical players wouldn't understand that type of thing, but the QQ is still a bit baffling.

[Sayura_]

Whatever the real issue is, you guys just don't know. I haven't even been playing this game for a month and I can tell, it handles alot more server activity than your typical MMO would. I understand that many typical players wouldn't understand that type of thing, but the QQ is still a bit baffling.

So limiting the number of people in a zone (with no overflow) because Odin used to crash entire servers is handling a lot?

Instanced housing versus open-world housing that has been around since at least 2000 is handling a lot?

Not being able to even whisper or see your friends list in an instance is handling a lot?

Admitting they cannot PHYSICALLY implement more housing instances right now is handling a lot?

[Lingarn]

This is exactly what im talking about. An unexpected amount of server stress from player activity = unsuccessful launch? On which planet, can I ask?

Earth, where we expect to be able to play games we pay to play.

And that's assuming that the current housing problem is even a server issue -- that just sounds like another corporate evil theory from people who like to complain about stuff.

Whatever the real issue is, you guys just don't know. I haven't even been playing this game for a month and I can tell, it handles alot more server activity than your typical MMO would. I understand that many typical players wouldn't understand that type of thing, but the QQ is still a bit baffling.

This is incorrect. Yoshida stated that if prices were closer to what they originally said they would be, the wealthy people would buy all the houses (even though each FC can only have 1), and everyone else would have to wait a long time to get one, even if they had the money. The obvious fix would be to add more houses, but he stated that they don't have the server capacity to do that.

I will repeat.

Yoshida said that they don't have the server capacity to give everyone a house. The lack of server capacity is not speculative, or based on assumptions. It is a fact.

[Edellis]

Yoshida said that they don't have the server capacity to give everyone a house. The lack of server capacity is not speculative, or based on assumptions. It is a fact.

Of course they don't. But I don't think every player expected to be given their own house. FC restrictions on buying a house don't mean much. If players could buy them, they'd work towards getting one.

You guys are assuming they don't have the server space to accommodate the housing spaces that already exist. Which is something I find unlikely, even given Square's fibbing history.

[Centershock]

Earth, where we expect to be able to play games we pay to play.

Um, okay. What?

Let me throw out a hypothetical here.

SE, at launch, anticipates 50,000 subscribers. So they obtain all necessary equipment that will be able to handle 50,000 players at any given moment. But when launch actually comes, they have 200,000 subscribers and they're all attempting to login. Come to find that because their equipment can only handle 50,000 players at a time, people will have trouble logging in.

If that's not a successful launch, I'm not sure what planet you're from, either. Sure it's a huge pain not being able to login, but that's a successful launch.

And that has to do with, as you said, lack of server capacity. Lack of server capacity has barely anything to do with a successful launch, if any at all.