Stormblood = Nightmare for casual players

[Ranhansha]

I could go into why your "argument" is moot but that's too much effort so I'll quote the person 2 posts above you that makes the perfect point to your silly argument since im done typing my own rebuttals.

If they really enjoy playing with you they will move too. I told my friends I am on Sargatanas and that is that..know what they did? Started on Sarg or transfered. If not, then I guess they really aren't that great of friends so its no loss?

It's so tiring to see people on these high population servers complain. It reminds me of people who complain about cost of living here in Manhattan, NYC. Well..yeah, of course its over populated and expensive af to live here. :P

Everyone knows guilds in games exist so you get to bond with lots of people and then you can all go your separate ways when the company decides to save money on market research and infrastructure. Makes sense.

[Youkulm]

Everyone knows guilds in games exist so you get to bond with lots of people and then you can all go your separate ways when the company decides to save money on market research and infrastructure. Makes sense.

That point doesn't work for me when I have a whole FC willing to move soon. Sorry. Next argument please!

[KitiaraIornsight]

They did upgrade Areic, that's what a DATA CENTER move is. They moved the data to newer servers. They just didn't add more physical servers to accommodate more players other than the one EU server.

Honestly, they can increase server capacity, we're in the age of technology you can do that. Problem is, they need to keep it locked once they do that if not enough people transfer, you can keep increasing but people will just keep coming because it's the most populated and there's always plenty of people around ( It being the primary unofficial RP server doesn't help at all )

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Nightmare...? How is...

....Oh. Right, Balmung. Well, you made a very poor server choice. Still having no queues getting in.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

I just xfered to Balmung awhile ago..from Mateus( really wish i didn't ).
But you have to keep in mind the major downside to lower pop servers such as Mateus, as a dps, had HORRENDOUSLY LONG INSTANCE Q TIMES.
So i can see why, one would not want to Xfer off of such an OP server.

---Or am i being a noob(just came back to FFXIV recently) and the Duty finder searches across all the servers for party members?

DF and PF both search across all world's on their data centers, so when it comes to getting into content, overpopulated worlds have no particular benefit over less populated worlds, but have a lot of negatives attached to them.

[Stanelis]

How is it not a solution when there is no wait to get online on smaller servers? If the wait is that much of an issue for you the Transfer is the perfect solution.

To be honest individual servers infrastructure like in WoW or FFXIV is an antiquated design.

[KitiaraIornsight]

To be honest individual servers infrastructure like in WoW or FFXIV is an antiquated design.

And this "antiquated system" is what allows us to have $12.99-15.99 a month subs which is multiplatform that mac, pc and ps players all access together instead of being locked to pc only, mac only or ps only servers like Ark. Anything fancier would then have people crying about a $25 a month or more sub.

[Niwashi]

they did not as we experience the same problem with 2.0 and 3.0 launch, which mean they did not learn from past error at all.

Well, somebody didn't learn from it. You're still on the most populated server.

If you don't like being on such an overcrowded server, then get off of it and move elsewhere, where you won't have these problems.
Or if you do want to be on such an overcrowded server, then accept the cost of your own choice.

Most of us would be perfectly willing to accept hearing a bit of frustration at the costs you've chosen, but this attitude of anger and belligerence, blaming SE for a choice you yourself make is pretty childish. SE is making it easy for you to avoid the problem if you actually wanted to avoid it. But when you choose not to and still complain about it, what sort of reaction would you expect?

[Stanelis]

And this "antiquated system" is what allows us to have $12.99-15.99 a month subs which is multiplatform that mac, pc and ps players all access together instead of being locked to pc only, mac only or ps only servers like Ark. Anything fancier would then have people crying about a $25 a month or more sub.

ESO is 0 $ a month and yet it features region wide megaservers. With sharding (a technology that wasn't available 14 years ago) it is possible. Also, lack of platform wide servers on this game is due to the consoles builder policies (especially on microsoft's side).

There are no excuses for the current server architecture, especially when so many things are already cross servers in FFXIV (like parties, duty finder, etc). I mean when you end up with like 2h 30 server queues, it is simply unacceptable in a 2017's MMORPG (and I'm not even on one of the most populated server).

[Yahallo]

I am willing to wait the 5000-6000 number queue on Balmung because its my home and will stay my home as long as I play ff 14. What gets me is the disconnects almost every time causing me to get kicked to back of line. If they would let you keep your place in line for a few minutes it would be acceptable.

Yeah, while I have no sympathy for those who complain about long queue times on high population servers (it's the trade off); as anyone who chooses to play on these servers has to learn to live with long queue times during these moments, myself—being a Greg player—included, so kudos to you for being willing to stick it out in the long queues. I do agree with the disconnect thing however; it really shouldn't kick you back if you disconnect in the middle of the line. However, I am not sure if it is possible to hold your place in line, and I don't have too much experience with networking.