Gold Saucer is congested? Seriously?

[Noahlimits]

Welp, I logged out in Gold Saucer at 3am this morning. If I can't log in to raid I'll be pretty upset.

[Whiston]

As much as I understand server issues I have to agree that when something is paid for it should be available. It's like saying congrats you bought a car but you can't drive it.

Not really, it's more like saying "Congratulations, you bought a car, but so did 2 million other people who are all trying to leave the dealership also, they all pay taxes for the roads they drive on, but congestion happens due to a large, but ultimately variable demand."

[NyarukoW]

As much as I understand server issues I have to agree that when something is paid for it should be available. It's like saying congrats you bought a car but you can't drive it.

Bingo! You got that right. Check the I-10 or I-405 in L.A. during rush hour starting from 2:30p.m. to 8:30p.m. or 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and you can't drive anywhere it is a 5 lane parking lot on both sides. Welcome to the reality of congestion.

Heaven forbid you get caught in one of these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKhsPO6yYko

[NinjaTaru72]

Awesome, this means that hunts will be much less zerg-fest like and it might be possible for DPS to be listed as the class in-need in Duty Finder!

No, now it'll take longer cuz all the healers and tanks will be there while dps is hoping to que dungeons xD

[Saccharin]

Not their fault that 5k+ people are all trying to access the area at once lol.

It can only hold so much. Would you rather them limit it and people be able to actually do things? Or not limited and watch it crash every 5 minutes from to much happening. Then even more people would be complaining lol

Well yes it is their fault. The patch content is mostly that so you would expect most people to flock to it. The game uses instanced areas so they should have the 'technology' to spawn a new instance of the zone when needed. Poor planning. it's similar to the queuing at launch.

[Nadrojj]

I find it hard to stomach when people are mad and don't understand the reasoning behind the situation they are mad at. Is this your first mmo? Patch days are usually filled with issues, at least the game is up and playable, when 2.0 first launched you couldn't even get into the dungeons let alone stay in game for more than 20 minutes before it crashed. Give it a little bit of time, you'll get to play the content that you and the other 500,000 subs are trying to play at same time.

[Intaki]

Not their fault that 5k+ people are all trying to access the area at once lol.

This exact issue has been a solved problem in other MMOs for years. Phasing, sharding, whatever you want to call it, the solution exists and SE simply failed to utilize it.

[Duuude007]

Bingo! You got that right. Check the I-10 or I-405 in L.A. during rush hour starting from 2:30p.m. to 8:30p.m. or 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and you can't drive anywhere it is a 5 lane parking lot on both sides. Welcome to the reality of congestion.

But I pay taxes, this should NEVER happen! rabble-rabble, etc

[Catwho]

This exact issue has been a solved problem in other MMOs for years. Phasing, sharding, whatever you want to call it, the solution exists and SE simply failed to utilize it.

SE utilized it in 1.0 and it was horrible because you couldn't see more than 30 or so retainers at once in the market ward. It was creepy as heck for them to fade in and out as you walked down the hallway.

The maximum a zone could handle in FFXI was 700 or so. It's got to be at least that much in XIV.

[Warlyx]

Bingo! You got that right. Check the I-10 or I-405 in L.A. during rush hour starting from 2:30p.m. to 8:30p.m. or 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and you can't drive anywhere it is a 5 lane parking lot on both sides. Welcome to the reality of congestion.

Heaven forbid you get caught in one of these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKhsPO6yYko

gold saucer is more like the subway lol , there are sooo many ppl there is no wonder that things like that happen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFW6Ro_Buw