You gross 200 Million in subscriptions a month why are your servers junk?

[Catwho]

Thankfully, that's code, and it can be rewritten.

Agreed, and this is where SE's $$$$ would actually make a difference - rewriting the database to fix whatever performance problems it has is a project better outsourced to a third party. SE has a bad tendency to pick the lowest bidder and get burned by doing this (see 1.0 and also their first stab at the FFVII Remake) - so they are probably wary of going this route. But getting a team of database experts to throw a few months at it outside of the core project for a few million dollars would let the main dev team focus on their game patches without wasting a year trying to learn how to improve the database in-house.

My office actually is in the process of doing this ourselves - we figured it was cheaper to buy a month of an expert's time to help us transition to Java 11 (we were still on 7... ugh) and also PostGres rather than waste six months of our own time to attempt it on our own and end up doing it badly.

[Edax]

What issues? No crashes beyond a single ddos attack on Friday. No login queues for us here, no real bugs that I've run into. All in all it's the smoothest launch yet, and probably the smoothest one I've ever seen.

I've had to deal with 2000+ login queues this weekend, I actually fell asleep waiting for one of the queue. To avoid the queues, I've been trying to play consecutively for as long as possible and this has also been exhausting me. This is not entirely an ideal way to experience new content.

[Ayer2015]

Seriously, I'm having to wait a literal hour before I can log into the game.

For a company with 17 million players at 12-14 dollars a month you would think your servers would be i don't know...

somewhere in the realm of good, this happens every single patch and every single launch your servers are always less then what you need...

You need 4 servers per EVERY single world in every single data center and 4 more servers running V-motion so that failing servers can be hot swapped without down time in addition to the 4 that run each world mirrored for a total of 4 mirrored servers and 4 fail over servers.

'Our servers are reaching capacity" is not an excuse for a company that grosses 200 million. If you cant run the traffic, buy more servers. Literally that simple.

You play on a high traffic server. World visit until things die down. .....complaining when there are obvious solutions man

[Edax]

You play on a high traffic server. World visit until things die down. .....complaining when there are obvious solutions man

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need to wait in the queue before you can even access the World Visit option?

[ChewieFlakes]

What issues? No crashes beyond a single ddos attack on Friday. No login queues for us here, no real bugs that I've run into. All in all it's the smoothest launch yet, and probably the smoothest one I've ever seen.

It can barely get to the evening time before there is a 2,000+ queue to log in??? And with plenty of 90k error code disconnects you have to sit through that every time or go play a different game. Not to mention the lag and issues with registration codes and mog station items. Glad you have experienced an issue free bubble though. Perks of being on a dead server I guess.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It can barely get to the evening time before there is a 2,000+ queue to log in??? And with plenty of 90k error code disconnects you have to sit through that every time or go play a different game. Not to mention the lag and issues with registration codes and mog station items. Glad you have experienced an issue free bubble though. Perks of being on a dead server I guess.

Well, its only dead because everyone said it was going to be dead and panic left to aether and primal. Would have been fine otherwise most likely.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

What are you talking about? I'm on Balmung. You know, Balmung? The server that has been over populated since day ONE of ARR that is STILL over crowded. You know what my highest queue was (that wasn't ddos'd enhanced)? 27. That's right. 27 person long queue...on BALMUNG. Do you know why? Because when Crystal was added everyone and their uncles on the other Crystal servers decided to move to Aether and Primal. Perhaps if they'd stayed our queues would be longer and yours shorter but no the word from Aether was "RPer's are BAD PLAYERS! Come to Aether if you want to be able to do raids and dungeons because the new expansion will be dead on arrival on Crystal!"

And they listened, and they transferred. Well...guess what? We're still getting dungeons done. Pretty quickly and easily because RPers actually are just as good as everyone else. We have to be because it's the ONLY way we'll get the gear we want for roleplay. Now we just get the added benefit of low queues because everyone else has a phobia of us.

Want your experience to be better? Transfer. Because as I said before, NO company would add extra servers as long as they have half a dozen servers still mostly empty. They will just encourage you to move on your own. Keep it up and you might find yourself on the wrong end of a server split and shoved into Crystal against your will.

I guess you could say that...

They played themselves

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[BloodRubyXII]

Technical limitations?

I could have 999billion euros, but no amount of money will get me 100GB/s internet in Hull.

[Seoulstar]

On today's episode of entitled first world problems..

[gumas]

the day world server problem is solved is probably the day i finally can download stuff with 5gb/s internet speed