Stormblood = Nightmare for casual players

[Jatoi]

We're on the most populated server at the start of an expansion launch that introduces a sword DPS and changes the game practically. Of course there's going to be a long queue time.

This isn't like the issue that caused the bottleneck but only natural for a high-density server at a time like this. It'll start to ebb within a few days.

[Kazahashi]

Transfers are a solution.

I was on Balmung, and I took the free transfer. When I started up again for 2.0, it was well known that Balmung was one of the most populated servers to start on considering they moved everyone from the old servers, etc.


It's not a shocking revelation when you choose to start on a high pop server, and then you get high pop server queues. Every other MMO has them. Singling out Square for not coming up with some new server technology to benefit you, is a bit asinine.


And if you're going to come back with "but my friends", they can all move too? It's free? I'm sure no one enjoys server queues? Usually people don't move not because of friends in reality, but laziness. They'd rather wait it out and make others leave first. It's like when you go to ANYTHING, and they're over booked, and so they ask for volunteers to come back at the next showing....do you think a lot of people raise their hands? Hell no, cause they're selfish and lazy.

[Gyson]

They did provide you with a solution. Free Transfers. No one is making you stay on balmung but your own choices. SE didn't make you play on the most populated server on the game. SE also didn't make you stay.

However, Square Enix did allow certain servers to exceed a population cap that they were fully aware their hardware couldn't support.

The buck stops there. It's really as simple as that.

[Inuk9]

This is an early acess (AKA mini beta). A "casual" player don't play in this kinda of stuff. They play on launch.

[Vanitas]

#BALMUNGPROBLEMS

[Kaskel2000]

Transferring server is a solution, but its not an acceptable solution for most.Not moving is not down to laziness in most cases its down to logistics.I'd be happy to move off of Odin but I have friends over multiple different FCs.Getting my own FC to move might be possible, but getting all those who are in other FCs who I've played with since FFXIV came out on the PS4 would be pretty impossible.You'd end up having to get them to get all there FCs to move, then they would also have friends in other FCs who they would not want to stop playing with so you can see it wouldn't really be that easy.

What I'm wondering is the actual logistics of increasing the amount of people that can be logged in at once per server.You can never get rid of the queue entirely but I remember a Rift expansion that had the exact same issue.They ended up renting extra server space within a couple of days of launch which cut queues down a long way.Is there a particular reason why Square couldn't have done this?

[Kaskel2000]

This is an early acess (AKA mini beta). A "casual" player don't play in this kinda of stuff. They play on launch.

Why does a casual player not play early access? Especially early access that isn't gated by something other than a pre order? Why does being a casual effect playing early access?

[Ranhansha]

Just ignore these people. Queues are understandable. 3 hour queues are not. They screwed and they are not going to learn from their mistakes, as a normal person would, because of the white knights.
I'd love to see how their children turn out. "Oh, you kicked a cat to death! Never mind, you made a beautiful flower necklace for it. Good job, champ!" #thatslife #dealwithit #notmyproblem #lifewasabetatest

[Greedalox]

"Oh, you kicked a cat to death! Never mind, you made a beautiful flower necklace for it. Good job, champ!" #thatslife #dealwithit #notmyproblem #lifewasabetatest

TIL Murdering animals is comparable to game queues.

[Youkulm]

blah blah blah

I love how everyone on the forums automatically assumes everyone who doesn't agree with them is a White Knight. Maybe you should check peoples post history before assuming things. A majority of the time I'm not ok with the stuff SE does.

This on the other hand? They have given us, on bloated servers ( including myself ) a solution. If you don't like it don't do it. I don't know what else you expect them to do when you have 30k active players on bloated servers ( refering to Balmung ) and most locked out servers only have 9k ( heck Greg only has 20k compared to Balmung ). That was in the middle of the alex cycle too. I can only imagine that number is at least doubled currently. ( for anyone that wants to see the active players as of 1 year ago, imagine these numbers doubled/tripled now because of launch http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/luckybanc...1/015a1b82.png )

YES they should have locked the servers out before even 3.0, but its done now. We can't go back in time.

So either be a part of the problem or the solution. Your choice.

What would everyone on Balmung rather they do? How about we just split your server into 6 different servers, you have enough people to populate that if not more. Say bye to your friends now lol.

Anyway i'm done wasting my breath.

Lets just #deleteBalmung. That'll fix their problems.