I have to get this off my chest as I experienced this just now and I could not believe just how annoyed I was because of it.
So the S rank Hunt appears in Coerthas and naturally that brings up a frenzied amount of people to the area to attack the poor S rank that dies like a maggot real fast right? So is this gonna be a complaint about how S ranks go down like wet sacks of poop?
No. Yes, they could use more health, but that's not my gripe.
My gripe is this: HOW IS THE PROBLEM OF NOT SEEING THE MOB DUE TO TONS OF PEOPLE NOT FIXED YET!?!?
How the hell do you want to put into a game a system where people will hunt the hell out of things (and don't tell me they didn't know how popular this would have gone. Just bloody look at Odin/Behemoth to see that there IS interest in open world beasts) and not upgrade the infrastructure to take on the amount of people on there.
It's mindboggling and very frustrating to realize that not only can I not see the mob (And I normally run a PLD but this time I was running on my BLM. I am SO SO sorry ranged folks that have to do this stuff because mobs never show up because of the slew of people in the area) but I get killed because of said mob I can't see or avoid.
S-E. If you want to put open world mobs out there, I am totally for it. I love the idea of having either dungeons or open world mobs to play with. I don't care if the rewards are better one way or another to do it; I rather just have content to play.
But please please PLEASE upgrade your mainframe and infrastructure to actually take a significant amount of people on a mob. And I mean like 500 people. None of this 50 people or 'priority' load ups. You either need to let us decide what is supposed to render first by giving us a visual tab and choosing NPCS/Mobs/Players like some games do, or you really need to have the ability to actually render mobs in the harshest of climates.
Behemoth and Odin still aren't fixed (Albeit they're better now, but that's mostly because their gear is becoming obsolete.) which means it's still an infrastructure issue.
Use some of that revenue you've made off of this game and give us something a bit more powerful server wise. Please. Some of us actually want to do the Hunts and I have no idea how my 7990 video card cannot support this at all. It makes no sense.
Sincerely,
A frustrated player.