The continued Aether lockdown is hurting my FC.

[AngelCheese77]

I feel ya. It's not fun when you can't play with friends or family.

Of course, doesn't mean you can't see about making people on other datacenters if that's an option.

[Wavaryen]

I mean I'm not sure if this company should really care about your FC to be honest. They are trying to fix the issue, and they are not happy with the answer they come up with. Money can't be thrown at it to fix the problem as well.

So im not sure how your fc having impatient people in it is a problem. I also have friends who had to roll on other worlds because of issues in the past, but we have tools outside the game to talk with each other and next expansion we can play.


So this is a non issue.

[Penthea]

It's really frustrating. I'm overall happy that all the WoW people have come to XIV, but I'd be lying if I said I don't get upset that that one popular streamer chose my data center and my server to set up camp because it's caused such a traffic jam with no end in sight.

Asmongold isn't solely responsible for this. His friend Rich who gets several thousand viewers every stream is also on Aether and he is far ahead of Asmon in the msq due to starting many weeks earlier. Never mind the fact that all the servers in the game were getting more and more players over time since the start of the year. Before Asmon or Rich even got their accounts.

Asmon did bring a huge amount of people to Aether but to place all the blame on him is unfair. He is a major factor but not the only one, and not the biggest factor in my opinion. The biggest contributing factor to this situation is actually the pandemic. Because of that SE have experienced a lot of difficulties getting new server hardware to keep up with the increasing demand of the quickly growing playerbase. I'm honestly expecting EW launch to not be smooth because of it.

[LaylaTsarra]

Cross data center travel is coming probably next month. Granted it will be regional to start but people on Primal and Crystal can play with their friends pretty soon. Sure it's frustrating but I'm sure it's something they will try and deal with as soon as they can.

The new player invasion was not anticipated and it will take time to fix.

[Illmaeran]

Granted it will be regional to start

Do you have a citation for this? I've been pretty worried that completely open, all worlds to all worlds access, would be a thing and wreak havoc on communities and economies.

[KitKatnip]

I feel your pain. But it is what it is. You know the server shortage is legit when SE can't just throw money at it to make it go away.

Servers are holding up for the most part but you can tell they are put under extra stress with all the people playing - random disconnects, lag in dungeons. It would only get worse, possibly to the point of being unplayable if SE opened them up again. They know the limitations of their technology better than the rest of us.

[Unholychinchilla]

Do you have a citation for this? I've been pretty worried that completely open, all worlds to all worlds access, would be a thing and wreak havoc on communities and economies.

They said so in the last live letter, you can find the info in this thread at the end if the "additional updates" section: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...threads/440222

As for Data Center Travel, we’d first like to get a feel for the feature for its initial release, so at first, you won’t be able to travel to data centers in other regions. For the initial release, players will be able to travel between data centers of the same region.

[Kes13a]

I feel your pain. But it is what it is. You know the server shortage is legit when SE can't just throw money at it to make it go away.

Servers are holding up for the most part but you can tell they are put under extra stress with all the people playing - random disconnects, lag in dungeons. It would only get worse, possibly to the point of being unplayable if SE opened them up again. They know the limitations of their technology better than the rest of us.

yeah I doubt any part of their server meetings were devoted to "do you think WoW will implode and we'll get a TON of people wanting to play all at once"

people seem to forget that long range planning usually tries no account for gradual player growth, not explosive surges like what happened this summer. there is no way you can plan for that, especially when hardware is in short supply

[Skivvy]

Welcome to Balmung circa 2016

Yes, that's what Balmung went through, but it's not great that we're still dealing with server woes 5 years later. It very much sucks for people who are trying to play with friends. I can only hope they get things figured out before Endwalker. Going to have a lot more angry people if things are still locked.

[Kes13a]

I am sure if they started actually going after RMT bots, map bots and the other bots in the game, would free up a TON of space....