Square: You need to open servers before this community is slowly choked

[Okamimaru]

wow everyone missed the whole point the OP was trying to make... this wasnt about server stability this was about the fact that Balmungs Community is slowly dying from being locked apparently... instead you misread, jumped to conclusions, derailed a topic... good luck to your cause OP...

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

wow everyone missed the whole point the OP was trying to make... this wasnt about server stability this was about the fact that Balmungs Community is slowly dying from being locked apparently... instead you misread, jumped to conclusions, derailed a topic... good luck to your cause OP...

This topic has been repeated at least 4 times, it's not new, and SE has not made any signs of changing the lockout, and likely won't until the population is where they want it.

[Tsumdere]

Get better servers to service the entirety of the western population, honestly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall seeing somewhere that the devs stated that the servers were meant for 9-10k people. Looking at Lucky Bancho, you can see that ALL NA and EU servers are breaching that number and those that are not locked are rapidly growing. Just two days ago, one of the preferred servers (Malboro) was locked to character creation. If there are preferred servers (aka the least populated servers) being locked down, even temporarily, due to overpopulation, maybe it's time to look into it.


Also, Balmung's community isn't dying. There are more people in Ul'dah than ever. The marketboard is though.

[silverlunarfox]

Most people play with standard pentiums or AMD a5 APU's, lol. The minority has gaming rigs like that, and I am included int he minority. I have a 4770k and a GTX980ti, hence me never having issues when lots of people are on screen or during Odin and Ixion.

D/C's generally come from server/isp/routing(including router hardware) issues

While poor PC hardware can contribute (not the main cause) to lag/d/c issues, given the equipment nowadays for PC's and the low bar FFXIV has for hardware, I wouldn't think that would be an issue.

Back on topic.

Don't expect it to be unlocked....EVER. Hence the transfer incentives.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

D/C's generally come from server/isp/routing(including router hardware) issues

While poor PC hardware can contribute (not the main cause) to lag/d/c issues, given the equipment nowadays for PC's and the low bar FFXIV has for hardware, I wouldn't think that would be an issue.

Back on topic.

Don't expect it to be unlocked....EVER. Hence the transfer incentives.

That's just it though, many people play on below minimum spec laptops or non gaming desktops that run between 15-20 fps in non populated zones.

[Sekkei]

Technically they both go hand in hand. Balmung has reached the limit, be it player amount size or server stability and limitation. It can't be unlocked until the numbers go down. It's pretty much a boat; there can only be so many passengers the boat can hold. You don't keep piling more people into it or it's going to sink. In this case the server's hardware would more than likely break.

[silverlunarfox]

That's just it though, many people play on below minimum spec laptops or non gaming desktops that run between 15-20 fps in non populated zones.

My husband plays on a below spec PC and we do not have the issues you describe. Also a PS3 which I'm pretty sure is even worse than the worst laptop/desktop combo. That was a miserable time. But we didn't D/C. Sure we may have ate AOE pizza for days....

[CaTi]

And the more people leave the closer it gets to opening. That's how it works. But true story the more these posts come up the more SE see that opening the gates will just cause a massive influx again. When people stop talking about it, they might think the intense desire to rush the server is gone

[Rufalus]

Even with upgrades there will still be a maximum capacity and Balmung will bloat back to the limit and be closed. I think ultimately the only way around it would be to not have worlds at all, merging every world on a datacenter into one, but then every area would have a large amount of instances like old gridania 1, 2, 3.... 9, 10. And housing areas like Mist would have like 100+ wards from all the old worlds combined. I don't know

[NinjaTaru72]

Balmung should have been locked much longer ago before it even got to where it was now.