Where is all the content?

[xenahawk]

Well different people have different tastes when it comes to a good story. I wont deny that yes the story does contain what i refer to as plot devices of convenience like time travel, the azem stone and some other but all of the components together fit with the story. I read some people state that basically the story was bad because we are now to believe it was the wol going back in time that started the events and thats impossible. Personally i dont know because im not an expert in time travel but to me it feels like the perfect example of ghe chicken or the egg, what came first. Now personally the whole ordeal in ultima thule i can say made me mad. Why? Because i am not an emotional person so to have some stray tears going down my face, sniffling and even staring blank at the screen a few times made me mad, but in a good way because never have i had such emotional investment in a video game. To say though that the saving of the scions was a given well i wouldnt say it was a given... i was extremely hoping for it but honestly it could have easily not been the case. Just wanted to put some of my thoughts out there

[NanaWiloh]

It does need to be taken into account that one world is not one server - it's probably at least 6 servers containing quite specific components and might be several servers more than that in truth. Then you have the data connections, backup facilities, etc. etc. - this is not off the shelf stuff you get from a hosting company.

Takes 10 servers to drive one world according to info given by Yoshi.

[Sathona]

Where was the cute animal crossing/farming land they demonstrated a few months ago?

They said on live letter its 6.x content not 6.0, therefore it wouldnt be discussed until after 6.0

[xenahawk]

Now i might be mistaken and the flashback to the "sundering" might be decieving but i was under the impression that there were ancients that sided with vanet's "solution". Maybe im wrong but i could i sworn i remeber thst in the story from shadowbringers. So vanet didnt work alone and before you went back she explained about having to tread carefully in who she can trust.

[ReynTime]

You can now add to the list of cut-backs the increasing amount of hats that even for the existing, and by far and large most played, race in the game that used to have no problems with hats, flat out "hide" their ears in this expansion. (And the aforementioned sets that hide tails completely)

Fully expect the usual shilling to dismiss this as a non-issue in the snowball of "non-issue" that is present in Endwalker.

[Xavier_Firbold]

Yet another troll thread with 12 pages of replies. This post was bait and should have been obvious when the first 2 points made in it were categorically untrue.

The trolls have one thing right, some of you will do absolutely anything to defend this game, even falling for troll bait threads constantly.

If all you got from 12 pages was that this was a troll thread then I'm genuinely worried about you.

[sharknado]

Cloud services are not really designed to handle this type of stuff as GW2 players found out when that game attempted to move to cloud services rendering the game unplayable for over a year.

It all comes down to what cloud you have. Blizzard went a big way from physical blade-servers running given realm to completely distributed gameplay. This has some disadvantages like vertical scaling (you can't really have open world mass battles, PvP mostly) which for FF14 isn't even a game feature. FF14 can't be distributed because it's still legacy code. We can't have WoW style transmog system because of legacy limitations and on and on. We still have loading screens between zones. If SE really want to invest into the game, into that won't make a return on investment on it own they have to invest in new backend and then new client. The new backend should then be able to be run as a distributed set of services that are way easier to scale horizontally.

Blizzard was quick to publish native Apple M1 client, then they even published Windows on ARM version. This is like very tiny fraction of their playerbase yet they did it. Their Windows client is on the latest DX12 features including some basic raytracing. They do fail at quality control right now and still have legacy elements like dumb lighting which makes DXR usage super niche, yet they invest into such thing. By Legion they pretty much learned how to make a MMO expansion launch that at time was many times bigger launch than any of FF14 expansion launches.

But SE can just add new "instances" in their server infrastructure - more players more hardware and just make new patches with content and it will sell as it's selling now - depends who pulls the strings in SE in terms of this game funding and business plan. Like they can just make say 5 EW style expansion on existing software and get the profits. If they re-implement the game anew it will eat profits from like 1-2 expansions and then allow making "better" expansions that on start will allow to offer bit more and grow bit more over what old system could handle - with having more tangible benefits later on plus an ability to scale way better if an expansion explodes or sproutbringer 2.0 happens. It all comes down to who will decide this.

[Komarimono]

If all you got from 12 pages was that this was a troll thread then I'm genuinely worried about you.

Seems like a troll thread due to the mass amount of information in the original post. Said person doesn't even know how the servers work, and listed rather poor substitutes as an option, showing they didn't know anything about the current infrastructure, which very much debunked their "advice". I even earlier linked a picture of just one row for one server from their data centers when they re-did them. None of the services the OP linked could even match a 100th of the power and connections needed.

Let us go on with how this is just the opening of the expansion, the content being on par with each one so far... Music for example in Edens Gate, remixes of other music.

Just a lot of misinformation due to ignorance in the original post, so seems quite clearly a troll thread.

[Xavier_Firbold]

Seems like a troll thread due to the mass amount of information in the original post. Said person doesn't even know how the servers work, and listed rather poor substitutes as an option, showing they didn't know anything about the current infrastructure, which very much debunked their "advice". I even earlier linked a picture of just one row for one server from their data centers when they re-did them. None of the services the OP linked could even match a 100th of the power and connections needed.

Let us go on with how this is just the opening of the expansion, the content being on par with each one so far... Music for example in Edens Gate, remixes of other music.

Just a lot of misinformation due to ignorance in the original post, so seems quite clearly a troll thread.

You are welcome to your opinion

[Vahlnir]

Seems like a troll thread due to the mass amount of information in the original post. Said person doesn't even know how the servers work, and listed rather poor substitutes as an option, showing they didn't know anything about the current infrastructure, which very much debunked their "advice". I even earlier linked a picture of just one row for one server from their data centers when they re-did them. None of the services the OP linked could even match a 100th of the power and connections needed.

Let us go on with how this is just the opening of the expansion, the content being on par with each one so far... Music for example in Edens Gate, remixes of other music.

Just a lot of misinformation due to ignorance in the original post, so seems quite clearly a troll thread.

I mean, it is equally possible that they are just that ignorant. That's where I'd put my money.