BETA TEST ROADMAP IS UP!

[Spectre]

It really depends on how many per server they can hold, the only number we can go off of is from Alpha which is 1-2k a Server. Unless you have a link that shows me how many they can house, then it's just mere speculating. As much as I wanna believe you, We just don't have the Official figures yet ( as far as I know of). I know on release time it can easily hold what you say it can hold, but for Beta?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...IX-(11-30-2012)

The servers for A Realm Reborn have been designed to handle up to 5,000 simultaneous connections per world. Of course, there can be more characters created for each world than that—the figure is simply the maximum number of players that can be logged in at any given time.

[Starlord]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...IX-(11-30-2012)

Retail? or Beta? I know they need to test these things out but on the very first phase?

[Spectre]

Well if they only have the Min of 5 worlds X 5k people that's 25,000 spots. I'm sure there are more than 25k Legacy members. Who knows.

If they do decide to go with the min listed (5 servers) then the only time a problem should be expected would be if 25000 were all logging in at the same time, for significant amounts of time.

If that does become the case, I doubt that they would stick with mearly 5 servers

[Spectre]

He goes more in depth in this post :
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post906886

That was referring specifically to Alpha, and the focus there was the "per zone" maximum of 1000k players more then what the world had as concurent connections. However what would be the point of stress testing in beta if you are not trying to test at the levels expected for release.

The purpose of the Alpha was to be able to hit the log in and simutanious battle numbers before begining the beta. There isn't really a good reason to assume that the beta servers won't be able to handle what they state was their goal to hit during the alpha.

[Abriael]

Well if they only have the Min of 5 worlds X 5k people that's 25,000 spots. I'm sure there are more than 25k Legacy members. Who knows.

*sighs* Some times I wonder if I don't write in correct English.

5000 CONCURRENT (simultaneous connections) players means 5000 people logged in *at the same time*. It has nothing to do with the maximum players the server can house, as it will never happen that all of those players will be logged in at the same time.

That's why a server that can hold 5000 CONCURRENT players can easily house five or more times as many in total.

If a server only had 5000 people in total, it would be *extremely* underpopulated.

[Starlord]

If a server only had 5000 people in total, it would be *extremely* underpopulated.

FFXI days 5,000 people was plenty enough.

[ispano]

FFXI days 5,000 people was plenty enough.

Except he doesn't mean 5,000 on at the same time. He means 5,000 characters on the server, but not necessarily playing at any given time. You could people of differing time zones, on vacation, it could be pretty empty a fair chunk of the time.

[Starlord]

Except he doesn't mean 5,000 on at the same time. He means 5,000 characters on the server, but not necessarily playing at any given time. You could people of differing time zones, on vacation, it could be pretty empty a fair chunk of the time.

I understand =)

[Pseudopsia]

*sighs* Some times I wonder if I don't write in correct English.

5000 CONCURRENT (simultaneous connections) players means 5000 people logged in *at the same time*. It has nothing to do with the maximum players the server can house, as it will never happen that all of those players will be logged in at the same time.

That's why a server that can hold 5000 CONCURRENT players can easily house five or more times as many in total.

If a server only had 5000 people in total, it would be *extremely* underpopulated.

Giving Abriael credit on this. he's right.

ARR 2.0 server allows a total of 5000 players playing at any given time. 1000 max per zone. So total population for 2.0 server can be many times larger since everyone doesn't play at the same time. If you want to see how over populated a ARR zone can be watch the NicoNico's live stream that happened a few days ago.

[Abriael]

FFXI days 5,000 people was plenty enough.

During the golden age of FFXI Ramuh didn't break a sweat in breaking over 4000 people online at the same time. That indicates a total active population of 20,000 players or even more.