Petition to Lift Balmung Server Lock / Impact of Server Lock on FFXIV RP Community

[LadyKairi]

OP should obviously go sit in a corner and eat a Snickers.

Bad joke? I'll see myself out now.

[Krotoan]

Once again OP in smaller words:
You think the server can handle all RP-ers moving in at the same time in addition to the people already there?

You think they've closed the server out of ignorance/misinformation?

[Aronys]

Balmung is closed and for a good reason. I've spent 3 and half years on it and I know that as soon as Balmung crashed, it would often pull the entire data centre with it. It needs to lose weight and get in shape for it to open up again. Right now it's the disgusting fat kid at the lunch table that nobody wants to sit with because the kid often sits at the end of the bench and catapults everyone into the air when it does.

[Spirlia]

I'd love to see Balmung open back up for various reasons, but OP, what evidence do you have that the population is under control? What evidence do you have that the servers could handle the influx of people when it is opened? What evidence do you have that SE is lying, when they have no reason to lie?

Show me your evidence, since you're the one arguing for the unlocking of Balmung.

[Vanitas]

No.


/10char

[Shouko]

10 pages now and you still haven't managed to convince players, how much of a chance do you think you have with SE themselves? If they haven't responded to the many of these threads already, it's safe to assume they aren't going to cave in on this. Until they say, despite what you may think, hear or see the server is full, end of story. I'm amazed they haven't locked this yet and you just continue to belittle everyone by trying to use words that most people really don't use commonly unless attempting to sound intelligent.

[swiss_Momo]

Another of these threads?
Someone call Brayflox please, I need more cheese for all this whine

[NanaWiloh]

The Op is someone who judges books by their cover. That is all that needs to said.

[kikix12]

You don't seem to understand that an "argument" that amounts to little more than a handful of uncritical consumers showing blind deference towards the decisions of a business entity isn't valid. You don't seem to understand that reasonable policies cannot be rooted in "BECAUSE X SAID SO." Indeed, we're grown adults: not mindless children who need to be told what to think by a benevolent authority figure (but, sadly, some seem content to base their views on that type of uncritical submission).

It's not "because X said so". It's because X knows what technical limitations their servers have. Every server, as a physical device, have a set limit to the amount of connections they can maintain at any one time and a limited amount of "calls" they can make over a specified amount of time. If they amount of "calls" exceed that limit...there are generated queues that prevent the consumers computer from connecting to the server until the clogged up connection is sifted through. At the same time, however, the server limitations may end up having an effect on the people already connected, as their queries will, too, be queued, though probably to a lesser degree, as the servers surely give priorities to this or that kind of connection...as it should.

The proof of the concept is whenever DDoS happen, where servers are heavily overburdened and can no longer even sustain the prioritized connections over the low-importance connections. That is a technical limitation that Square Enix have knowledge of, that you do not for very obvious reasons. It's a trade secret.


On a different note, you suck at role-playing. If the community is stifled after few months of lock, how can you say that you role-play?! Role-playing is "imprinting life-like mentality into a non-real medium" in essence. Role-playing needs to take into consideration world-building. And in the world of Final Fantasy XIV, it takes YEARS for Hyur, Miquo'te, Lalafels, Elezen etc. to grow up. You want role-playing, but you forget that the cycle of life and death, growing up etc. are all part of actual role-playing, and without the server lock, there are people randomly being born anew, as ADULTS to boot, all around you...How is that role-playing?!

All in all, you lack any vital argument. You are trying to make a claim that you know better about Square Enix servers than they do, all the while saying that everyone that listens to Square Enix is wrong because you are right. That is the very essence of what you are rambling about. You've got issues, seriously,and they have nothing to do with Balmung being locked.


PS: If you ever see a queue when logging in, at any point of time, then there's your proof that Balmung is overpopulated. If that queue is larger than a few people, then the overpopulation is gross.

[NanaWiloh]

It's not "because X said so". It's because X knows what technical limitations their servers have. Every server, as a physical device, have a set limit to the amount of connections they can maintain at any one time and a limited amount of "calls" they can make over a specified amount of time. If they amount of "calls" exceed that limit...there are generated queues that prevent the consumers computer from connecting to the server until the clogged up connection is sifted through. At the same time, however, the server limitations may end up having an effect on the people already connected, as their queries will, too, be queued, though probably to a lesser degree, as the servers surely give priorities to this or that kind of connection...as it should.

The proof of the concept is whenever DDoS happen, where servers are heavily overburdened and can no longer even sustain the prioritized connections over the low-importance connections. That is a technical limitation that Square Enix have knowledge of, that you do not for very obvious reasons. It's a trade secret.


On a different note, you suck at role-playing. If the community is stifled after few months of lock, how can you say that you role-play?! Role-playing is "imprinting life-like mentality into a non-real medium" in essence. Role-playing needs to take into consideration world-building. And in the world of Final Fantasy XIV, it takes YEARS for Hyur, Miquo'te, Lalafels, Elezen etc. to grow up. You want role-playing, but you forget that the cycle of life and death, growing up etc. are all part of actual role-playing, and without the server lock, there are people randomly being born anew, as ADULTS to boot, all around you...How is that role-playing?!

All in all, you lack any vital argument. You are trying to make a claim that you know better about Square Enix servers than they do, all the while saying that everyone that listens to Square Enix is wrong because you are right. That is the very essence of what you are rambling about. You've got issues, seriously,and they have nothing to do with Balmung being locked.


PS: If you ever see a queue when logging in, at any point of time, then there's your proof that Balmung is overpopulated. If that queue is larger than a few people, then the overpopulation is gross.

Kikix12, going to back you up with this. There are numerous things that happen server side that are not seen or felt client side. So just because a issue is not apparent does not mean that a issue does not exist, too think otherwise is fallacy.