Aether Data Center Down

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Gilgamesh is a new server from the launch of 2.0. It is NOT a legacy server. It was impossible to know the 2 most populated NA servers would be on Aether. If they had locked transfers, people would be complaining. They didn't lock transfers, people are complaining. SE can't win here.

[Saccharin]

Gilgamesh is a new server from the launch of 2.0. It is NOT a legacy server. It was impossible to know the 2 most populated NA servers would be on Aether. If they had locked transfers, people would be complaining. They didn't lock transfers, people are complaining. SE can't win here.

Oh, ok then. True but they could pick the option that is better in the long run, i.e. locking for a longer period.

[Dyvid]

Should have offered free server transfer before the new xpac hit

[Catwho]

Balmung was my 1.0 server. Everyone in my old FC rolled new characters elsewhere, so I had no reason to stick around. I personally got weirded out by people RPing in public places constantly while I was trying to do mundane story things. So I paid the transfer fee and yoinked my Legacy Lala over to Lamia where my 2.0 main lived when the population problems really got serious.

Free transfers off the data center are the only solution. There are 1.0 players who feel like they shouldn't have to move, especially if it costs money - it's not their fault their old server got invaded by RPers. There are individuals who don't want to move unless their entire FC movies.

Make a new server on Primal or re-designate the lowest population server existing as the official RP server. Offer free transfers off Balmung and Gilgamesh to select servers (Lamia is also high population and doesn't need anyone transferring over en masse.)

[Rubeus_Carcer]

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I can't believe I'm about to agree with the devs for once, but...
It amazes me that choosing gilgamesh and balmung is "SE's fault" and players are expecting them to reprogram data centers as a result of this. Last time I checked, you had the option to choose whichever server you wanted at the start of the game. While I do agree that the launcher shouldn't kick you back to desktop and I agree that queue position doesn't count down properly and I agree that a data center's total server lobby count shouldn't all be interlinked and it's poor design on their part, you can't really be serious about asking them to rearrange all the servers just because a lot of people went to those 2. By that reasoning, every time a certain server becomes "Popular" it should get it's own data center, and new content for the game would grind to a halt (thus depopulating those now-isolated servers you bandstanded to have moved in the first place).

[Evangela]

Should have offered free server transfer before the new xpac hit

they didn't even offer us 30 days sub by purchasing CE. what a damn joke.

[Evangela]

Balmung was my 1.0 server. Everyone in my old FC rolled new characters elsewhere, so I had no reason to stick around. I personally got weirded out by people RPing in public places constantly while I was trying to do mundane story things. So I paid the transfer fee and yoinked my Legacy Lala over to Lamia where my 2.0 main lived when the population problems really got serious.

Free transfers off the data center are the only solution. There are 1.0 players who feel like they shouldn't have to move, especially if it costs money - it's not their fault their old server got invaded by RPers. There are individuals who don't want to move unless their entire FC movies.

Make a new server on Primal or re-designate the lowest population server existing as the official RP server. Offer free transfers off Balmung and Gilgamesh to select servers (Lamia is also high population and doesn't need anyone transferring over en masse.)

what? of all the problems, RPers annoy you the most?

make RPers run away from you, not the other way around.

[Rubeus_Carcer]

Oh, ok then. True but they could pick the option that is better in the long run, i.e. locking for a longer period.

server lockouts mean nothing. You can, for example, create new characters on Hyperion, even though it's said basically since 2.0's launch that the server is "restricted" and "full." Test for yourself: log into Primal at 3 am and make a new character on Hyperion, when the active population is at a low point. The problem is that all throughout 2.0's lifespan, people have done this, to include Balmung and Gilgamesh. Is that ALSO poor design? Yes. But people would complain they couldn't create a character and play with their friends without some kind of stopgap. They can't win, Lenneth is right.

[CouchOne]

I can't believe I'm about to agree with the devs for once, but...
It amazes me that choosing gilgamesh and balmung is "SE's fault" and players are expecting them to reprogram data centers as a result of this. Last time I checked, you had the option to choose whichever server you wanted at the start of the game....

No, it isn't SE's "fault" but they aren't fixing it, either. When a player "chooses" to roll on a certain server, it's not like there's a SE warning about high population.

[Saccharin]

server lockouts mean nothing. You can, for example, create new characters on Hyperion, even though it's said basically since 2.0's launch that the server is "restricted" and "full." Test for yourself: log into Primal at 3 am and make a new character on Hyperion, when the active population is at a low point. The problem is that all throughout 2.0's lifespan, people have done this, to include Balmung and Gilgamesh. Is that ALSO poor design? Yes. But people would complain they couldn't create a character and play with their friends without some kind of stopgap. They can't win, Lenneth is right.

By a longer period I mean 24 hours and maybe weeks.