Aether Data Center Down

[Raikki]

right now the main problem is specifically with the players

This is absolutely false. The majority of the playerbase doesn't have the time/patience/whatever to sit for hours re-entering their credentials like some do. Those people, which constitute the bulk of the potential load, have already stopped attempting to log in. Already only a small fraction of the amount of players who are interested in playing right now are even trying to get in.

If you're on Balmung or Gilgamesh and you're getting the error then...

The lobby errors are from Aether's load, not from Balmung and Gilgamesh. Yes, Aether is congested because it's housing the two most popular servers, but players from every server on Aether attempting to log in all contribute equally to the same load that's killing Aether, regardless of which server within Aether they're going to end up logging into.

[Catwho]

The lobby errors are from Aether's load, not from Balmung and Gilgamesh. Yes, Aether is congested because it's housing the two most popular servers, but players from every server on Aether attempting to log in all contribute equally to the same load that's killing Aether, regardless of which server within Aether they're going to end up logging into.

Primal also has some pretty high population servers, but I think our characters are more spread out across time zones (or I guess or just less hardcore) than the Aether data center players.

In the case of the other servers on Aether, once they get past the login server and into the lobby server, they cease to cause any further problems since they're no longer interacting with the server that is crashing. At this point, it IS mostly Balmung and Gilgamesh players who are causing the problems, since everyone else isn't stuck in queue for an hour with further risk of getting booted again.