We all should have been Japanese

[Icaras]

If we had been, we'd be on a fixed server and going to the next quest. SE please notice that Japan is not the only country that plays this game.

We need fixes here too.

Nope, you'd be facing the queue boss with us. I'd rather have a bugged quest but be able to log in

[Claviusnex]

That you chose to stay? Yeah. You even have the opportunity to move for free now. If you don't move, that's your choice to stay on a server that you know is the most overcrowded one.

It's not much of a choice if you are in an FC, have friends/family or housing on your current server. For many the main part of the game's quality of life are the relationships they have with other players so just saying "Move" isn't the answer for a major technical screw up on SE's part. Likewise moving won't fix somethings like the MSQ bottlenecks and throttling as instances are datacenter wide.

[Jib]

I can only talk of my experience so far. I'm in ragnarok EU. The only thing I have experienced has been long queues, the longest taking 40m to get in, I believe on Friday evening prime time. Everything has worked for me so far, even being in raelghr reach and kugane with lotsssssss of players and still having 60fps which I have it locked. I feel for other players but my experience as a veteran mmo player with first days in wow, swtor and eso, I have to say has been positive. Nothing I wasn't expecting actually better

[AnnieHoney]

Specifically the data center with Balmung and Gilgamesh. I think the other data center is fine.

Diabolos is at another data center, same problem

[syunikiss]

Primal? Nope. Barely anyone getting past the MSQ instances on Primal either.

It took me 2 days to get by both. Got lucky though...many others still stuck spamming the NPCs.

I got in Raubahn ex around 6 am so did most people at the time.
But people are still stuck on it?!

[ErikMynhier]

I'm really convinced that with "outrage" so high the devs may just say......

"Well you wont move but want this issue fixed. Physics is physics though. Working game or happy people? Well they aren't happy now..... move them."


And before you jump all over me saying it would never happen. They locked Bal and Greg against peoples wishes because again, physics is physics. Whats worse? A pissed off game or two pissed servers?


Edit: Clarity, I'm talking forced server population redistribution.

[Kaedan]

I'm really convinced that with "outrage" so high the devs may just say......

"Well you wont move but want this issue fixed. Physics is physics though. Working game or happy people? Well they aren't happy now..... move them."


And before you jump all over me saying it would never happen. They locked Bal and Greg against peoples wishes because again, physics is physics. Whats worse? A pissed off game or two pissed servers?


Edit: Clarity, I'm talking forced server population redistribution.

It will be a reality eventually, I imagine. SE was far too nice to allow server transfers to Balmung when it was already full.

[Amulrei]

Amen. Anyone thinking Japanese servers are the Holy Grail, free free to stop by Tonberry and sample our fine 4-5k queue times right now.

I'm really convinced that with "outrage" so high the devs may just say......

"Well you wont move but want this issue fixed. Physics is physics though. Working game or happy people? Well they aren't happy now..... move them."


And before you jump all over me saying it would never happen. They locked Bal and Greg against peoples wishes because again, physics is physics. Whats worse? A pissed off game or two pissed servers?


Edit: Clarity, I'm talking forced server population redistribution.

It wouldn't work with somewhere like Tonberry. SE refused to give Aus/NZ our own server so we ended up picking Tonberry as the unofficial oceanic server as it had the least terrible ping times compared to US ones.

Redistributing the population here would split all the English speakers up over otherwise primary Japanese speaking servers and thus utterly defeat the point of our community in the first place. The more hardcore would likely just re-transfer back somewhere but I would guess the majory (myself included) would simply quit the game being unable to community with the majority of our fellow players.

In essence, this is SEs problem to fix, not ours. They knew the pre-order numbers, they knew the situation on popular servers and chose to do pretty much nothing whatsoever. Running around like a Chinese fire drill in clueless disarray after the fact is bad enough but days later we still have no word or any sign they are going to reinforce the server infrastructure, something they should have been doing long before SB's launch.

[D1rtySpartan]

I am glad I am still low level. By the time I get to the new content, things will be calmed down a lot