5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

[Gilraen]

Honestly, I'd rather be inconvenienced for a bit than have to find out what was needing be fixed the hard way. Further, not sure if anyone else has noticed, but since the PS4 Beta launch things have been slowing down, lag here and there. I can only guess how bad it's going to get when all those PS4 players join us on the main servers. All this maintenance could well be them shoring up the servers for that eventuality to keep a repeat of post Early Access from happening.

[ReplicaX]

Further, not sure if anyone else has noticed, but since the PS4 Beta launch things have been slowing down, lag here and there.

Please explain how a PS4 beta on the Japanese Datacenter located in Japan effects slowdown and lag on the NA/EU Datacenter located in Montreal, Canada.

[Gilraen]

Please explain how a PS4 beta on the Japanese Datacenter located in Japan effects slowdown and lag on the NA/EU Datacenter located in Montreal, Canada.

While the beta is using a dedicated world server, seems they are using the same instance servers as the rest of us. At least, that's my guess considering how hard it was hit on Monday after the restrictions were reset, much harder than it has been in weeks prior.

[ReplicaX]

While the beta is using a dedicated world server, seems they are using the same instance servers as the rest of us. At least, that's my guess considering how hard it was hit on Monday after the restrictions were reset, much harder than it has been in weeks prior.

Have you read any of the changes with the Datacenters since launch? Instance servers have pre-assigned worlds. They are located in those pre-assigned worlds Datacenter (NA/EU and JP). They went even further to separate login congestion and gave the groups in each datacenter names:



Notice the groups are not mixed by physical location of the datacenters but grouped by physical location.

So again how does the PS4 beta which is located on the Japanese Datacenter effect the NA/EU Datacenter when each physical Datacenter has its own World Servers and Instance Servers.

[Gilraen]

Have you read any of the changes with the Datacenters since launch? Instance servers have pre-assigned worlds. They are located in those pre-assigned worlds Datacenter (NA/EU and JP). They went even further to separate login congestion and gave the groups in each datacenter names:



Notice the groups are not mixed by physical location of the datacenters but grouped by physical location.

So again how does the PS4 beta which is located on the Japanese Datacenter effect the NA/EU Datacenter when each physical Datacenter has its own World Servers and Instance Servers.

If that's the case then why even have the language choices at the top of the Duty Finder? The instance servers don't just draw from a single region, they draw from all regions. You don't see alot of people from those other regions probably because the Duty Finder weighs you more heavily against regions that speak your language than it does others. I've been partied with people from Japan and French areas before both pre- and post Data Center restructuring so the instance servers aren't as focused as you seem to believe.

[ReplicaX]

If that's the case then why even have the language choices at the top of the Duty Finder? The instance servers don't just draw from a single region, they draw from all regions.

This is my final response regarding this:

Lodestone Topic

The following are the results of the maintenance that occurred on Sep. 3, 2013 from around 5:00 p.m. to Sep. 4, 2013 around 2:10 a.m. (PDT).

-Alleviating Stress on Duty Finder Servers This maintenance has implemented countermeasures to alleviate the stress on servers. Previously, matching took place across all servers in the various region data centers, but following this maintenance, matching will now take place within the selected groups below.

*Japan Data Center

-Group 1
Aegis / Alexander / Atomos / Carbuncle / Chocobo /
Gungnir / Ifrit / Ixion / Ramuh / Ridill / Titan /
Typhon / Valefor

-Group 2
Anima / Bahamut / Durandal / Fenrir / Garuda / Hades /
Kujata / Mandragora / Masamune / Tiamat / Tonberry /
Ultima

*North American/European Data Centers

-Group 1
Adamantoise / Balmung / Cactuar / Diabolos / Exodus /
Goblin / Hyperion / Lamia / Malboro / Moogle / Odin /
Ragnarok / Siren

-Group 2
Behemoth / Cerberus / Coeurl / Excalibur / Faerie /
Gilgamesh / Leviathan / Midgardsormr / Phoenix /
Sargatanas / Shiva / Ultros

The answer to your DF ? is simple. Anyone is free to create a character on any server regardless of native language. So why remove the DF feature.

[Mjollnir]

This is my final response regarding this:

Lodestone Topic

Off topic, this has bugged me for a while. It stated matching for DF by Group, yet as a Sargatanasian, I have DF'd with Balmungers who are in the other group. Methinks it's actually done by datacentre, rather than group.

Please do continue with the exciting on topic comments now.