Sincere Recommendation: Accept you will not be able to play, walk away for a while

[RitsukoSonoda]

Havent been able to even get into queue atm. I get the 2002 error just trying to connect to the Primal Data Center

[IDontPetLalas]

Unfortunately true.

Actually, very fortunately , in these circumstance, true. Some would argue that staying logged in for 12 hours or more is rather selfish given that the servers only have so much capacity.

[Andy_T93]

Would you rather they only sold limited copies of endwalker per server? xD
It is a live service and they are doing their best to make it available for as many people as possible. When they can get their hands on some servers things will improve, once more people finish msq and play a bit less things will also improve. People acting like other MMO's major releases all go off without a single issue, esp after such a surge in playerbase.

YES!!!!!! Thats exactly what they should have done, if you know your server capacity is xxxxxx number of people then you make xxxxxx licenses for it, its that simple if you were going to a sports event and the stadium had a capacity of 60k people you don't then sell 70k tickets

[Rae88]

YES!!!!!! Thats exactly what they should have done, if you know your server capacity is xxxxxx number of people then you make xxxxxx licenses for it, its that simple if you were going to a sports event and the stadium had a capacity of 60k people you don't then sell 70k tickets

Unfortunately capitalism's unlimited growth philosophy and business don't work that way.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

This has been an on-going issue for at least the last two expansions. With the influx of new players and the continuous rise in the game's popularity, we knew it was going to be bad. They ran out of game keys for God's sake. There's usually a small que no matter what time you log now, unless its the wee hours. Problem is, they are not going to do anything, server-wise until they know just how much extra is needed, otherwise whatever they do will be inadequate and it wont even be a bandaid.

Servers are thousands of dollars, not to mention the constant need of monitoring and upkeep. They are not going to buy 20 units and assume it'll be enough. They are going to see exactly what they need before they invest--both the equipment and installation (and whatever disruption of service that brings). I assume that's why they are waiting until AFTER launch. This is basically a stress test.

The name of the game is Peak Hours. This morning I logged in normally, disconnected due to having something downloading that i wasn't aware of, but was able to log back in and finish the duty. This was all before 12 pm. Anything after that and you're going to be waiting on a long que until early evening where you likely wont get in at all. I know not everyone has the same availability but if you want to play, plan your time accordingly or log in and go do housework for a bit. If you're lucky.

[RitsukoSonoda]

YES!!!!!! Thats exactly what they should have done, if you know your server capacity is xxxxxx number of people then you make xxxxxx licenses for it, its that simple if you were going to a sports event and the stadium had a capacity of 60k people you don't then sell 70k tickets

Except this isn't a 1 time sports venue or something to that regards. A better comparison would be a toll access freeway that you find in alot of areas. People pay for access to an asset that is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Depending on day/time/events there will be periods where it will get backed up with people trying to access it all at once.

[XplicitX]

Quote Originally Posted by XplicitX View Post
Well from what I've been reading more people than ever in the history of the game are trying to log in, but they didn't add any new servers & now they can't buy anymore. It's a cop-out though because they should've bought some right as covid hit since they knew more money was on the horizon just from people having nothing to do not to mention their expansion being only a year or so away... it's not like they already had BILLIONS of dollars sitting around or anything... nope SE just runs on bare-bones... lul.

Congratulations! If you know Japanese, you might qualify as a marketing/sales forecaster for a major Japanese gaming company! Your elite skills are on display right here ...

Or not.

The game has been running fine since Shadowbringers launched back in, what, 2019. The rapid implosion of World of Warcraft in 2021, and the drift of players looking for something new was not predicted back in March of 2020. Why would a major company, just at the start of a major world-wide pandemic, suddenly decide to increase the number of servers in the existing data centers when projected growth was well within bounds of the current hardware, and the continued existence of a large player base was put into doubt by events beyond the corporations control?

lul. < does this make the post better? more palatable? show that I'm just speaking ironically? give me an out if someone takes the prognostication badly? >

So you're saying that even without covid or the WoW issue that they couldn't at least add/rent some more space just for the regular surge that comes with this game? Dude I'm coming back after 6 years or so & even I know a large portion of the player base just checks out once they run out of stuff to do which means a BUNCH of people always rush back like clockwork, unlike other non-sub games where there's no need to walk away as there always more to do. Although now thanks to their minimal lack of even a tiny bit of foresight we're all screwed while they still get to keep everyone's money. I'm sorry, but you can't tell me they couldn't have said you know what let's prepare for the worst, but hope for the best & make sure the people who pay for EVERYTHING are taken care of... it's not like they couldn't just sell the servers to someone else if it turned out they didn't really need them & for way more than what they paid to begin with.

[XplicitX]

This has been an on-going issue for at least the last two expansions. With the influx of new players and the continuous rise in the game's popularity, we knew it was going to be bad. They ran out of game keys for God's sake. There's usually a small que no matter what time you log now, unless its the wee hours. Problem is, they are not going to do anything, server-wise until they know just how much extra is needed, otherwise whatever they do will be inadequate and it wont even be a bandaid.

Servers are thousands of dollars, not to mention the constant need of monitoring and upkeep. They are not going to buy 20 units and assume it'll be enough. They are going to see exactly what they need before they invest--both the equipment and installation (and whatever disruption of service that brings). I assume that's why they are waiting until AFTER launch. This is basically a stress test.

The name of the game is Peak Hours. This morning I logged in normally, disconnected due to having something downloading that i wasn't aware of, but was able to log back in and finish the duty. This was all before 12 pm. Anything after that and you're going to be waiting on a long que until early evening where you likely wont get in at all. I know not everyone has the same availability but if you want to play, plan your time accordingly or log in and go do housework for a bit. If you're lucky.

Umm you forgot there's a worldwide silicon sortage. Also what is 1000's of dollars when you're making billions? See piror post for more details about what they could've done to prevent this.

[XplicitX]

Yes.. because the chip shortage wasn't happening (it was) and they could have easily predicted that the biggest MMO in existence was about to flub their new expansion and patches so badly (and go through a huge scandal with it's culture and management) it would drive a large chunk of their user base to other games, flooding the login as never before.


Yup.. I'm sure you've got a grasp on it.

Yeah sweetheart you left out a lot there, but got you covered just look up twice.

[JohncarterIx]

herd blizzard has 4 servers 0 people on them people left over what happend to the girl who killed her self