Personal Housing Server Limitations and the Future of FFXIV Development

[Lithera]

If you read Yoshis post from yesterday you'll find that they're doubling the housing capacity of each Ward and making infrastructure changes to allow for as much expansion as needed at 2.4 timing (ie. adding hardware as Yoshi said he would as that last resort).

[Souljacker]

If you read Yoshis post from yesterday you'll find that they're doubling the housing capacity of each Ward and making infrastructure changes to allow for as much expansion as needed at 2.4 timing (ie. adding hardware as Yoshi said he would as that last resort).

Which is still the wrong answer. Any junior server admin could tell you that. The housing wards are a drain on resources for content that doesn't need to be persistent. Personal housing can be instanced on demand for the player, not the entire server. It still baffles me how XI managed to give everyone a functioning, usable mog house from the start but this game, over FIVE YEARS in development, somehow cannot.

[greekgeek]

If you read Yoshis post from yesterday you'll find that they're doubling the housing capacity of each Ward and making infrastructure changes to allow for as much expansion as needed at 2.4 timing (ie. adding hardware as Yoshi said he would as that last resort).

Doubling the wards will still do nothing, legacy servers with 30k+ active players still will need to be on the second servers come on. Another 720 plots will do nothing.
There is no last resort, they have to add more equipment.
Thats what you do when you making a high profit, you expand and reinvest some of the money you get from customers. You dont get cheap cause they notice and then customers decline.

[Yukiko]

If you read Yoshis post from yesterday you'll find that they're doubling the housing capacity of each Ward and making infrastructure changes to allow for as much expansion as needed at 2.4 timing (ie. adding hardware as Yoshi said he would as that last resort).

I'm so disapointed about this... This comic is exactly how I feel T^T
Housing was what I waited the most, in other MMOs it's abordable but FFXIV... o.o That's too bad because I really love FFXIV universe and that's why I don't want to leave T^T





PS : appologies if there is spelling errors, I'm french and not fluent in english >.< I just wanted to cry with everyone T_T

Bigger resolution here : http://liokora.deviantart.com/art/In...=1&ga_recent=1
http://liokora.deviantart.com/art/In...253A1410958009

It would be great to show yoshi-p the comic on next meet and greet...

[Genz]

https://i.imgur.com/g1Zcr2L.png

"more than 2 millions" is the number of people owning an account (very roughly : people who have bought the game)
We have no official information about the numbers of subscribers (they are intentionally ambiguous announcing "2.5 millions players"), but it's probably below the million.

[Yukiko]

"more than 2 millions" is the number of people owning an account (very roughly : people who have bought the game)
We have no official information about the numbers of subscribers (they are intentionally ambiguous announcing "2.5 millions players"), but it's probably below the million.

Its in the first 2 lines of the picture...
source of data is on the botom of the picture...

[Gravehill]

Its in the first 2 lines of the picture...
source of data is on the botom of the picture...

Registered accounts isn't the same thing as active subscribers.

[Yukiko]

Registered accounts isn't the same thing as active subscribers.

You can do playersearch ingame yourself, choose level 50, and count them!
Filter with jobs, or language, or location, whatever fits to not get over the 200 limit...
Add all your results and you get the number of ACTIVE players on your server at that time, its not so hard.