Do you think 1.0 was shut down prematurely?

[TohruHonda]

They had actually tried to keep the servers up...though new data wouldnt have been saved. They had said if interest was maintained, they would have kept them up even longer. But in the end it was nothing more than a ghost town. But, it also works out that they can put even more focus on ARR.

I just cant wait for the re-release already! :3

Yes, I was one of the few who stuck around until the very last day. Even though no progress was saved I still had fun with the JP players. They seemed to be the only ones online.

[Quesse]

Yes, I was one of the few who stuck around until the very last day. Even though no progress was saved I still had fun with the JP players. They seemed to be the only ones online.

Your server must have been odd then because whenever I logged in and did a search there was literally 2 people online. Sometimes including me. Completely empty.

[TohruHonda]

Your server must have been odd then because whenever I logged in and did a search there was literally 2 people online. Sometimes including me. Completely empty.

Balmung was 15-20 people during the Japanese peak hours. So 8 AM ish for me. During NA peak hours it was 2-3.

[Alhanelem]

How much time could copying character data take? I understand it is going to a new engine and all, but still. Final save was 4 months ago, by the time we play our old characters in beta it will have been 4.5 to 5 months ago which is quite a lot of time for them to do the copy. I have never heard of any game doing this, every gamer I have told has been absolutely shocked.

I just wish we had a few more months to play as I was still enjoying the game very much.

No. It couldn't have happened too soon

[Preypacer]

How much time could copying character data take? I understand it is going to a new engine and all, but still. Final save was 4 months ago, by the time we play our old characters in beta it will have been 4.5 to 5 months ago which is quite a lot of time for them to do the copy. I have never heard of any game doing this, every gamer I have told has been absolutely shocked.

I just wish we had a few more months to play as I was still enjoying the game very much.

How many games do you know of that completely rebuilt the game, almost from the ground up, including brand-new server architecture, new database management and such... and had to copy over 100s of thousands of characters - perfectly - from the old DB to the new one, making sure everything copied over to the new engine/technology intact and performs correctly?

I don't think there's been any others... at least not that I know of. So, to say "I have never heard of any game doing this" isn't particularly saying much. What do you compare it against?

I've never heard of a MMORPG being almost completely (90%) rebuilt from the ground up, either. I imagine that would make way for a number of "firsts", or at least very rare situations.

[Preypacer]

Your server must have been odd then because whenever I logged in and did a search there was literally 2 people online. Sometimes including me. Completely empty.

Tohru was on the popular post-final-save server

[Jig]

I'm gonna go with yes and my original post wasn't going off NDA violations but interviews and videos but better safe than sorry.

[Cynthis]

I think it was definitely too soon since ARR was obviously nowhere near ready for anything that might have required the old character data. Looks like that may not be needed until May.

[TohruHonda]

How many games do you know of that completely rebuilt the game, almost from the ground up, including brand-new server architecture, new database management and such... and had to copy over 100s of thousands of characters - perfectly - from the old DB to the new one, making sure everything copied over to the new engine/technology intact and performs correctly?

I don't think there's been any others... at least not that I know of. So, to say "I have never heard of any game doing this" isn't particularly saying much. What do you compare it against?

I've never heard of a MMORPG being almost completely (90%) rebuilt from the ground up, either. I imagine that would make way for a number of "firsts", or at least very rare situations.

I know Darkfall did it. Not sure if they carried old characters into the revamped game, but they scrapped their original Darkfall game and rebuilt it.

Darkfall players only went 1 week without their game, then it went into closed beta which is several months long and unrestricted.

[yoshikwalla]

Noooooooooo. No no no no NO NO NO NO NO.

The world ended and we were all sent into some sort of space-time crystalline void thingamabob for 5 years.

Not really much to do game-update wise... unless you want more wind physics while we float around in limbo, or run around a white void Final Fantasy VIII-style. Or the ability to catch time carp.

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Damn it, now I want to fish for time carp in the Void. ffffff Move along thread, don't mind me.