Ishgardian Restoration world visit.

[Patriclis]

He isnt wrong about low pop servers.

The problem is NA and EU dont have them except the two new ones, and those are already roughly the size of the smallest 5 JP servers.

JP has a handful of 37-40k pop servers, because they have a smaller population and 8 more servers to have them on.

The smallest non-new NA server is DOUBLE the size of the smaller JP servers.

It's the same reason why housing is wonky here. It's the same reason why EVERYTHING designed to work with the size of JP servers ends up feeling terrible elsewhere.

Yeah exactly what I keep telling people. They design for the JP audience almost exclusively, despite the fact that they have more NA/EU players. Wish they would cater to their *actual* market instead of just catering to themselves.
But then again I remember that BLM, the job that Yoshi plays, has been top-DPS for 4 years straight and has never required a major balance change while all other classes are constantly being reworked. When I remember that, I lose all hope that Yoshi and his team will ever develop anything not solely for themselves.

[Celenia]

Lol, firmament in my data center practically congested 1 hour prior FATE. In addition, all those wanderer do nothing. People who want just to craft for turn in locked.

Practically what they (SE) should do, they need to 0 FATE reward for wanderer, thus only native will compete with each other. But in order to make people from other server to help small sever, multiply the turn in reward if wanderer help them to progress. In addition, SE can put the turn in NPC outside firmament.

[Jybril]

I really, really enjoyed watching Mor Dhona evolve and grow. Same with Idyllshire and being able to progress a zone on my own like the Doman Enclave was really nice. Taking screenshots and finding the little changes is the best part of these developments in my opinion.

That's why the thing that bothers me the most about this new content is the fact that I'll never get to see the initial look of the zone for myself now. It's done and gone forever. No screenshots to add to my collection. No little discoveries.

It would be one thing if the first of the changes took a few days to complete, at least giving interested parties a chance to experience things. On the day of the patch though to go to work and excitedly come back, ready to build...only to find out I had missed some of the development already was disheartening.

Between the huge number of people clogging the zone making it impossible to even get in and the short time between growth events what chance does a large number of the player-base even have to experience this content? It's frustrating and extremely disappointing.

Yeah it sucks.
I think they underestimated how much this would have blown up.
The problem is, the things are being done in mere hours. People who were at work or whatever
missed out on the initial look right out the start.

Let's not pretend people are coming to help the smaller causes.
They are just fate hopping server to server.
Some folks can't even load in just by the sheer mass.
The idea and concept is great, but implemented poorly. :/
This isn't even server wide cause anymore, it's literally the entire DC now lol.

[Diceyy]

We understand that being unable to participate in the Ishgardian Restoration on your own World can be very stressful. But please rest assured that we are preparing emergency measures that we can put into action should the situation deteriorate, at which time an announcement will be made

How much worse than being locked out of events on your own world does it need to get? It should not need to deteriorate, the status quo is unacceptable.

[Anselmet]

Yeah exactly what I keep telling people. They design for the JP audience almost exclusively, despite the fact that they have more NA/EU players. Wish they would cater to their *actual* market instead of just catering to themselves.
But then again I remember that BLM, the job that Yoshi plays, has been top-DPS for 4 years straight and has never required a major balance change while all other classes are constantly being reworked. When I remember that, I lose all hope that Yoshi and his team will ever develop anything not solely for themselves.

I'm just gonna say that this is not just a Yoshi-P problem but Square Enix problem as a whole. They have a long history of catering to their Japanese market and not internationally. It has gotten better over the years and Yoshi-P is certainly one of the more progressive- if not the most progressive of the Square Enix board of directors. But I feel your frustrations. It's not like they had all of Stormblood to realize that really desireable instances or fates will create server congestion and therefor lockouts. They did a great job preventing Raubahn Extreme or the Ixion fate debacles with the launch of Shb. But how could they just drop the ball this hard? They know that Ishgard is near and dear to the majority of the player base. So much so that they even pulled the Haurchefant sad moment in one of the first cutscenes in Shb. Which leads me to how could they not predict that we would flood Ishgard Firmament? Why did they not prepare like Shb launch and at least give us instances!!!

[SeriousPan]

How much worse than being locked out of events on your own world does it need to get? It should not need to deteriorate, the status quo is unacceptable.

This! People can't participate in the event and if they are in the zone the required entities they need to interact with may not even spawn! So if you're locked out, you have no chance to do it. If you're IN the zone you may still not even have a chance to do it. How much further south can it go from here?

[Enyo-Chan]

I understand Yoshi's reasoning. But could we at least kick the players that decide to AFK in The Firmament? So at least a few more had a chance to do the fate?

[Kyu-Momo]

Thank you for clarifying, Yoshi P!

[Ashpd]

Tbh, that system need to change ASAP. Because after craft almost 40k scripts, you cant access to Firmament. Just because some wanderers from other server want free Fate scripts. Great idea

[MrKusakabe]

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But then again I remember that BLM, the job that Yoshi plays, has been top-DPS for 4 years straight and has never required a major balance change while all other classes are constantly being reworked.[...]

While I like your healthy scepticism and ability to see trough the cozy fluff of a game developer's sweet talk and explanations (which should be a bare mininum towards his paying customers) you also must remember that Black Mage was always the "We blow up the whole screen and everything dies" profession since decades, and I am glad Square Enix sticks roughly to their design ideas like these. I don't think it has anything to do with the current problems. I am more afraid of the current changes to make everything the same..