Raubahn Extreme will return? Version 6.0

[Zeich]

I think the problem is, as people are saying, that you're blowing this way out of proportion. Also you're quoting a Yoshida post from 2013. Are you saying literally nothing has improved in seven and a half years? You can say "ask the director" but you probably need to provide something a little more currently relevant.

While I can't speak for the 2.0 launch or HW launch - I joined mid-HW, so I won't speak for times I wasn't present - both SB and ShB have generally been well handled. Congestion has never been an issue short of the first bursts at the very beginning of an expansion, and even then the queues have never been terrible. I can't quote anything more than 5-10 minutes, if that at either launch expansion, and only in the first few days of both early expansion and the full launch. As people have stated, the congestion issue in SB was poor timing on a large number of instances eating up the server space all at once - Raubahn, Pipin shortly after, and RDM and SAM. ShB had none of this - I remember getting in relatively quickly, and having no disconnections despite being there on launch, fantasiaing my Hrothgar which required a logout and relog through the queue, etc. The split paths, the delay of solo instances to leave the servers a bit less taxed, etc was all handled very well, and though there were queue lines, it was still not nearly as bad as your doomsaying seems to predict. Naturally it is personal anecdote so I won't claim it as a blanket fact, but I do feel that your view is a little pessimistic.

To answer your question - I don't expect it to be bad. ShB figured out what went wrong in SB, and then they're going to be moving forward on that. Will there be bursts of congestion in the first week or so? For sure, lots of returnees and people newly enticed to the game. That's going to happen with any new expansion, you're going to have full worlds, you're going to have people jumping in to do the new content. By the end of the first week, people will space out and congestion will die down.

[Daniolaut]

I think the problem is, as people are saying, that you're blowing this way out of proportion.

I clearly am oblivious as to how. Raubahn even wasnt as bad from my perspective as others made it out. I literally just started leveling other jobs, and doing other things, so the fact that there were a million people standing around Raubahn affected me none at all.

The whole reason I even brought it up, is because its mostly well known. If I said "30 minute queue to enter Amdapor Keep with a party of 4" even less people would know what I'm talking about.

All of that is irrelevant, mostly, as they are just examples of congestion. The congestion I focused on was the log-in queue. If thats literally the only congestion for 6.0 , and it doesnt reach 3 hour wait times as I have heard Gilgamesh and Balmung have complained about in the past, then you're absolutely right nothing to worry about.

Also you're quoting a Yoshida post from 2013. Are you saying literally nothing has improved in seven and a half years? You can say "ask the director" but you probably need to provide something a little more currently relevant.

I am literally not saying that nothing has improved in the last x amount of years. The quote from Yoshida was to inform people there is in fact a limit to how many connections the servers can hold. It seems, if I'm understanding correctly that each server can hold 230,000 connections. I'm sure if I got that wrong, someone is going to chime in, as thats what people are best at.

Absolutely things have improved since the launch of version 2.0. I never once implied otherwise. I simply gave examples of congestion outside of the current one, which is the log in queue. The log in queue is not a big deal at all. What I was curious about was the launch of 6.0 coupled with the existing congestion. Someone already said they know about it and have plans to address it before 6.0 which to me is good news. I already said this exact sentence numerous times but I'm repeating it for you since it didnt seem you saw it.

Naturally it is personal anecdote so I won't claim it as a blanket fact, but I do feel that your view is a little pessimistic.

I like to think I'm someone who plans for the worst, instead of getting blindsided. Its better to prepare for the worst, than to go unprepared. Do all the things I come to post on the forums seem negative? If praising numerous things is considered negative then sure.

It is not my fault at all, if the negative things are the things that gain traction.

But I will say most the things I come here to post are concerns and feedback to improve XIV, as thats is literally what I think the forums are for. A place to leave feedback, and I feel XIV has a lot it can improve on. Does that mean its a bad game? No, it means it has a lot of potential.

To answer your question - I don't expect it to be bad. .

I dont expect it to be bad either, but its better in my opinion to prepare for the worst.

ShB figured out what went wrong in SB, and then they're going to be moving forward on that. Will there be bursts of congestion in the first week or so? For sure, lots of returnees and people newly enticed to the game. That's going to happen with any new expansion, you're going to have full worlds, you're going to have people jumping in to do the new content. By the end of the first week, people will space out and congestion will die down.

Yes I am aware, I said these exact things already.


In fact, going back and re-reading my original post, it seems very light hearted, mostly an inquiry, then I literally go on to say how XIV has taken measures since the launch of version 2.0 to improve the situation.

So where everyone is getting this "pessimistic" and saying that I'm implying an "Armageddon" is completely absurd to me.

The only time I even mention Armageddon is when I was referring to when Bahamut literally destroyed FFXIV by blowing it up, to create version 2.0. Also known as the "End of the World" event at the very end of version 1.0.