Server Limitations and the Future of the Game

[Merryl]

I'd like to know what congestion they're talking about? Coeurl population has literally dropped by half since march...the place is empty.

[Alurwen]

Or they do something about having to physically enter 2nd coil from the aether gate. I dunno, just saying, sounds like a non-issue to me.

[neiris]

Wow I totally didn't see that they were seriously thinking about doing this. Noooo please nooooo. I absolutely do not want separate instances of areas. Not unless it's like, EVERY server is sharing all these instances, and you can freely go to any of them, like in Guild Wars. But most likely they'd never do something like that.... So please... Not ANOTHER nail in the coffin for this game... I really want this game to do good. Stop it.

[LilPhist]

Think phasing in WoW. And the tech may come to FFXIV which would allow phasing zones from different servers together in low pop areas (on the same data center obviously.) Possibly only applicable to town areas which could, for example, put all the folks that have unlocked 2nd Coil into a different phase of Fallgourd Float than those that have not. This would illeviate the stress on the area surrounding the aetheryte without hampering the remainder of the zone.

[Sessurea]

ps3

/10char

[Riardon]

If any forum moderator sees this please tell to Yoshi that doing this will ruin the immersion feeling and the MMO feeling. Also what about fates? You said that you are thinking about some areas. Which areas and why. Maybe you didn't explain it well and we are missing the whole picture but I don't like this idea. Reconsider to invest on better hardware too. Europeans playing on Canadian servers is not the best thing for such a big and successful mmorpg.

[Quesse]

I love how server limitations are the reason I can't be enjoying Personal Housing right now.

Plan much?

[Souljacker]

Think phasing in WoW. And the tech may come to FFXIV which would allow phasing zones from different servers together in low pop areas (on the same data center obviously.) Possibly only applicable to town areas which could, for example, put all the folks that have unlocked 2nd Coil into a different phase of Fallgourd Float than those that have not. This would illeviate the stress on the area surrounding the aetheryte without hampering the remainder of the zone.

Phasing in WoW is nothing like instanced areas of zones. Phasing in WoW allows you to "progress" through a storyline with the environment changing as you complete tasks, until it's in its final form. That's not even close to being the same thing.

[LilPhist]

Phasing in WoW is nothing like instanced areas of zones. Phasing in WoW allows you to "progress" through a storyline with the environment changing as you complete tasks, until it's in its final form. That's not even close to being the same thing.

Aye, and I used the task of unlocking 2nd coil as an example to being placed in a diff phase of FF than those that have not. You can also use phasing for housing and gardens much like WoW did with the farm in MoP. This may not be what they are talking about doing (straight up instanced copies of NS, who wants that?) but it is a possible solution that would reduce load due to too many models in an area and/ore on a single server. Heck, they could even quasi merge servers this way by having you phase over to another servers instance of the area. I never said that this was 100% their intended goal or even had anything to do with what is in their design plan. I was throwing it out there as a discussion point.

[Amiantos]

If they do this I'm out. GW 2 I was always thrown into a dif overflow from my friends.