It's gone too far about the mog station SE

[Hyperia]

The DC upgrades we’re not getting, instead replaced with a cluster split that saves on SE’s costs at the expense of players no longer being able to play with some of their friends? Please.

It’s a cash cow that’s not being reinvested back into the game at nearly an acceptable rate.

The EU DC and the new NA DC were all paid for by Mogstation funds according to Yoshi.

[Adrestia]

The EU DC and the new NA DC were all paid for by Mogstation funds according to Yoshi.

The “new NA DC” is an amalgamation of currently existing servers with a new set of shared resources like login and instance servers. A woefully incorrect solution to load balancing (“split the players up and hope they stay roughly at the distribution we want them to”) with the entirely unacceptable cost of severing social ties in an online game.

If they want to address the situation properly, they need to invest in enterprise load balancing appliances, long term investment in proper rearchitecture, and short term throwing money at the problem with cloud compute (made necessary by the fact that they sat on their hands and aimed to sell us this half-baked solution).

FFXIV is not an exceptional product with problems no service provider has ever encountered before. We solve load (yes, and DoS) problems like this every single day, on orders of magnitude greater scale than the traffic that XIV receives. And yes, regularly with horrendously outdated spaghetti code and database design that belongs in a 1970s manual on how not to use SQL. Again, this game’s problems are not unique. The difference is clients who pay for our “serious business” services would have our heads if we tried to pull what SE is doing, while they have adoring fans to use as a free PR firm.

[Lumivyory]

I have a lot more issues with story boost and level boost items, as the mere existence of these items can influence the design of the game.

I agree.
They should've never made those possible, or make it that we can use them if we already have 1 character of the same level as the boost on the account.
Cuz now we have a bunch of people boosting themselves and then not even knowing how to play their class or role or the game in general.


I'm also still extremely pissed about the fact that Aymeric's hair is unisex while his outfit isn't so people playing female characters are wasting their money on something they can't wear just for the hair. Like what the heck.


Don't really have problems with other items but always wished they we cheaper.

[Lemuel81]

I think it is best not to forget that when it really comes down to it, Square Enix is a business. A business that looks to make money. I am fine with the fluff items on mog station. I am more annoyed by the level/story boosts for money. That actually effects game play..

[Kallistra]

The emotes came from the China or Korea FFXIV team. They were released in September of this year to them. Players over there paid irl money over there for them, so we will as well. Same with all the mounts and outfits they bring from over there. If I remember correctly, they weren't planning on bringing those items over to us but people complained. So now they're here and we'll keep getting them.

(edit)And the prices on the emotes, outfits, and mounts from China/Korea have remained consistent since their release. We may not agree with their prices, but they have haven't changed.

[SannaR]

They also showed them off at fan fest during between two ferns where they showed off /2legit as one of the alternative commands.

[Taebok]

There's nothing silly about it. If people want to spend their money on luxury products, then they can spend their money on luxury products.

I don't recall saying they couldn't.
But paying a sub to play a game is one thing.
Paying hundreds of dollars for mounts, clothing, emotes ... you can call it what you want, but it's still silly.

[Catwho]

The “new NA DC” is an amalgamation of currently existing servers with a new set of shared resources like login and instance servers. A woefully incorrect solution to load balancing (“split the players up and hope they stay roughly at the distribution we want them to”) with the entirely unacceptable cost of severing social ties in an online game.

I believe the previous poster was referencing the new data center in California, replacing the one in Montreal, because the ISP there was unable to meet service level agreements.

[Adrestia]

I believe the previous poster was referencing the new data center in California, replacing the one in Montreal, because the ISP there was unable to meet service level agreements.

Perhaps, and if so that’s a somewhat different story since they did give the Montreal DC a fair shake before saying nope, not acceptable to continue this way. Still not exactly what most would call a success story since the California DC has its own fair share of problems and a lot of people would have preferred a better solution at that time as well. But I’m still going to give SE some credit for the work there because switching colos like that as quickly as they did is no joke and the whole thing was an honest, extensive effort to fix some serious problems.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I don't recall saying they couldn't.
But paying a sub to play a game is one thing.
Paying hundreds of dollars for mounts, clothing, emotes ... you can call it what you want, but it's still silly.

I feel like folks who pay $50-100 a week for cigarettes are silly, too, but it's their choice. Some folks pay $30 a night for delivery food. Some people pay $20 a month on mog station items. And what all of these items have in common is that they're optional and people pay for them because they enjoy them.