So has Aether crashed again?

[Beeraga]

Defending? I'm reserving judgment, personally.

That's a reasonable thing to do.

With a year old game.

My FC was established in 2013. Should I continue to reserve judgement?

[ZackZero]

That's a reasonable thing to do.

With a year old game.

No, it's still reasonable to do on a per-situation basis; this is the first time I've been personally affected by such an issue while playing the game. Therefore, I'll still reserve judgment.

I'd thank you not to attack my personal choice to do so.

[Khalithar]

Guess I'm going toned early.

[Khalithar]

Guess I'm going toned early.

Ha I meant "to bed." Damn autocorrect and inability to edit on mobile.

[Evangela]

Not a good idea to move server(s) to other data center. It's gonna be hard for Balmung and Gilga people to get into DF content. Not to mention that we'll not be able to play with friends from other Aether worlds anymore.

Why would people suggest something like this just because the server crashes once or twice a year?

[Mysteltain]

When other MMOs have managed their maintenance schedules to one allotment of six hours a week (or wow's usual fifteen minutes a week) and FFXIV is taking down servers first, for 24 hours, then multiple time sin the days after, player faith in the company free falls. This thread is proof enough of that.

People expect maintenance. They don't expect multiple alotments that equate to well over one full day of maintenance.

Free falls? And using the official forums as a measure of player confidence? I'd wager less than 10% visit the official forums regularly, and of them around 1% even bother posting. That is not even a decent enough sample size to make that claim. The amount of hyperbole in some threads these days is staggering. But such is the internet, I guess...

[Jetstream_Fox]

Not a good idea to move server(s) to other data center. It's gonna be hard for Balmung and Gilga people to get into DF content. Not to mention that we'll not be able to play with friends from other Aether worlds anymore.

Why would people suggest something like this just because the server crashes once or twice a year?

Because these issues didn't happen until this patch which is leading to speculation that cross server pf is the reason. Many people have said splitting the server would be bad, but if the issue is correct in speculation, unless SE does a update to their server capacity and netcode, Bal and Gig will likely constantly put to much stress on all aether. At that point it becomes the few vs the many.

[Tripfriend]

Balmung aids keep on spreading, now the entire Datacenter had to be put on life support. Maybe that server will finally be quarantined

[ZackZero]

Because these issues didn't happen until this patch which is leading to speculation that cross server pf is the reason. Many people have said splitting the server would be bad, but if the issue is correct in speculation, unless SE does a update to their server capacity and netcode, Bal and Gig will likely constantly put to much stress on all aether. At that point it becomes the few vs the many.

Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect this issue to occur in other datacenters that contain high-population servers, then? Perhaps something to check into...

[Evangela]

Not sure why cross-server PF would be the issue there. If it has 500 party recruiting at the same time, and it takes 1mb per party per second, it'll take 500mb resource in total. That's nothing compared to everything else being calculated by the server.