Square quit blaming 2002 on the user's internet connection and take responsibilty

[TrashBag]

Starting to feel like I was scammed. You take my money then give me jack shit in return. GG Square, about to just call you Actiblizz 2.0

[Guntank81]

Starting to feel like I was scammed. You take my money then give me jack shit in return. GG Square, about to just call you Actiblizz 2.0

You're kidding right? FFXIV dev team isn't sexually harassing women or stealing breast milk. You're not being scammed, It's just an unfortunate event that's happening due to the worldwide chip shortage affecting multiple businesses.

The client itself disconnects every 15 minutes. So I highly doubt that this is an anti (D)DoS feature. I am a software developer and for me it looks like a quick & dirty solu ... "solution" to make things running.


Cheers

That is exactly what it is a quick fix because their servers would crash due to the influx of people attempting to queue at the same time or waiting in the queue.


It's a tough situation, and I'm pretty sure their IT team is doing everything possible to keep the servers up because it can be extremely costly if the servers crashed and no one would be able to login.

[Larirawiel]

That is exactly what it is a quick fix because their servers would crash due to the influx of people attempting to queue at the same time or waiting in the queue.

This "quick fix" makes no sense when you want to relieve a server from too many connections. It makes the things even worse because when you reestablish a connection then this costs slightly more ressources than keeping a connection alive. I have read an argument that this behavior could fix some home routers which shutdown a connection when there is almost no activity on a network port. This argument makes sense to me even i have never heard of it that routers do such things.

But this behavior of the game client should be configurable. I mean, you should be able to switch it off. And there should be a proper reconnect functionality. If the lobby server is full then the client should wait 10 seconds and then try again. And that multiple times.


Cheers