Instanced Raids Unveiled!

[Biggs]

To be clear, I would bet all the gil I have that there will be no waiting in line. FFXI managed to pull off assaults without making groups wait, and this looks to be the exact same thing. Why anyone would think they would make people reserve a spot or wait in line is beyond me. I think some of you all should take a deep breath and relax. An instance is an area created specificly for one group. They could generate dozens of the same instances at once and manage them all with little to no effort. Thats kinda the whole point..........

[LateReg]

To be clear, I would bet all the gil I have that there will be no waiting in line. FFXI managed to pull off assaults without making groups wait, and this looks to be the exact same thing. Why anyone would think they would make people reserve a spot or wait in line is beyond me. I think some of you all should take a deep breath and relax. An instance is an area created specificly for one group. They could generate dozens of the same instances at once and manage them all with little to no effort. Thats kinda the whole point..........

Well, the fact that Yoshida said there might be problems with having to wait in line in a recent post, coupled with the fact that their current server software renders them unable to implement simple things like additional LS functionality and group searching is the reason why people are worried, and rightfully so.

It was, what, 8 months before they fixed Ward crashes?

[KumaAkuma]

The reason why there are various limitations is due to the problems with instance occupation and content occupation. I have every intention of wanting to avoid making people wait in line for instances that are occupied by parties that do not meet the number of members or rank to be able to clear a dungeon.

No one is frustrated with this part? Really? Waiting in line to enter dungeons shouldn't be happening anymore these days...
Limitations? What there aren't enough servers? No monies for servers? These dungeons don't have to run on the same servers as the "World" servers. They're instances...

[Spellstar]

To be clear, I would bet all the gil I have that there will be no waiting in line. FFXI managed to pull off assaults without making groups wait, and this looks to be the exact same thing. Why anyone would think they would make people reserve a spot or wait in line is beyond me. I think some of you all should take a deep breath and relax. An instance is an area created specificly for one group. They could generate dozens of the same instances at once and manage them all with little to no effort. Thats kinda the whole point..........

Correct in a way, although instances cannot be created ad-infintum.

Server capacity dictates an ultimate number of simultaneous instances, and while it is rare, on many MMO.s you must queue sometimes if they are full (even on wow especially on patch days with a new dungeon you sometimes have to wait for an instance'd dungeon even with a full party because the server has created its maximum number of instances of that dungeon).

For exmaple, instanced content on lord of the rings online is approx 250 instances at once.

[zaviermhigo]

*thinks back to XI when we waited in line for stuff* classic SE

[kwestro]

Some people on this forum are like the media; always looking at things pessimistically or focused on the worst case scenario.

[Kiote]

Last I checked, "I have every intention of wanting to avoid making people wait in line", means they are not planning on making people wait in line...

That being said, You can't expect SE to be able to support 1000 simultaneous instances per dungeon per server..

[Zanfire]

lol you know the first few days there WILL be lines...with so many people @25+ and there being almost nothing else to do...that sh*ts gonna get jam packed.

well...the servers are so empty it might be ok (the one positive to having such a tiny community)

[BloodLotus]

I was beginning to think I was the only person who was panicked by reading this. I am NOT going to stand in line and wait to enter an instanced dungeon. That practically negates the idea of them being instanced.

This is why WoW has separate instance servers, so there can be hundreds of groups running dungeons and raids, all at the same time, all in their own instances.

This is the exact problem they're working on right now. Yoshi even mentions it directly, so they know this would suck and are doing whatever it is they do to make sure it's not a problem.

[Mug]

Who knows, maybe this is the reason they're taking so long to release the patch.