Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

[Japtor]

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Agreed. Even my little sister could have come up with the idea to just pull the plug and stick it back in, ala "first come, first serve" login, so everyone gets to play once a day. Looking at it long-term, this measure is obviously doomed to fail - the only explanation for coming up with something like this is to buy time for a proper fix, otherwise I'll fail to understand their decision making I'm afraid. You could of course make the argument that people are logging out and in all the time and it'll even out somewhat, but as long as the SB hype is strong this will be just wishful thinking.

SE has to tackle the question, why people are so incredibly keen on to keep playing on heavily congested servers and how to move them to low-pop ones to fill up those instead. They obviously know the reasons by now, hence why they have said that they were planning on implementing plot compensation and to help with moving whole FCs to new servers, but I haven't heard anything new about that lately.

Those 10 Gold Chocobo feathers are not going to cut it for everyone obviously (apart from the fast login on lower pop, but too many people on the congested servers have too much to leave behind), so I really hope that they think of something better with the time they are trying to buy here.

Upgrading the servers comes to mind of course, but let's be honest for a second - from a business standpoint, this would be a risky (in terms of server maintenances and stability issues which always come hand-in-hand with physical upgrades), expensive and time consuming investment while they don't even know for how long the SB hype will continue and inevitably die down. I can guarantee though that they won't spend one single thought on a server upgrade idea until at least a couple months after expansion release. Instead they will try to deal with this issue with what they have available at the moment.

I am however somehow looking forward to how this measure is going to affect our gameplay.