Dear Square-Enix. Please preemptively stabilize servers.

[AnaviAnael]

I have a feeling it's going to be like Walmart on Black Friday.

[Ophie-Mio]

Some people clearly have the right idea about what's going to happen. Yea, SE knows based off its pre-orders alone just how many people are going to be hitting these servers at first...and then the massive flood of the actual release.

Will it stop the game from being the most unstable, Queue-intensive, hair pulling aggravation that all expansions tend to be? No. It's why people were telling others on the forums who had taken off work for the first days of the expansion that they would want to rethink that. Everyone knows that first days of the expansions are the worst. For every login, there's ten being booted off and then maintenances to fix bugs/add in content that are shooting out the batunga.

SE can't stabilize the server for an expansion. They can hardly do it when it's just running normally. The first day is gonna be rough and better learn that now and figure out other things to do while you deal with that frustration.

You know that SE is going to "Fail to foresee just how many people would be signing into the game at once." They're good, but they never think things through. ): I'll be genuinly impressed if they don't have to take down the servers for "Emergency maintenence" within the first 3 days (early access.)

See? This person knows exactly how it's gonna be.

[Fynlar]

I'm sure they will obviously be trying to do this after the various debacles they've had before, but you have to understand from a maintenance standpoint that there's only so much that can be done.

They'll be as ready as they can be. But when you're recieving 2 million concurrant connections from around the world every few seconds it's similar to being DDoSd.

Pretty much that.

[SDaemon]

I have a feeling it's going to be like Walmart on Black Friday.

As someone who has worked for Wal-mart in the past and on Black Friday to boot. I fear for your lives!!!

[Causality]

It starts at 2am not that many people will be on.

I'll be on.

I have a feeling it's going to be like Walmart on Black Friday.

The most wonderful time of the year!

Players can help reduce the problems by....going to work/school/sleep/your usual stuff, and playing at your usual schedule, instead of taking days off, and staying/getting up at 4am, to spam log-in.

I had to take my Vacation around this time or loose it. So the timing of the x-pac couldn't have been more perfect.





I might have issues :P

[SakuraMidori]

Least it's not like psu {phantasy star universe} anytime they had a update or the lol expansion ppl crash out and Segas fix was roll backs non stop