Square Enix, My Dearest...

[Abriael]

... I would like to introduce you to another dear friend of mine. He's a novel concept, never before attempted in MMORPGs.

His name is "Instancing."

Now, do get acquainted, have a drink, and talk about the future.

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In all seriousness: How in the seven hells did you guys not see this coming?

[Shougun]

SE: We're not going to thoroughly instance housing, you think we'll instance this?

xD

SE, imo, should sincerely look at instancing or consider allowing free transfers out and a better lock to actively full servers. Though I hope that in a few days Golden Saucer will have some room, I want in ;_;. Minor hot fix suggestion, change the aether type in the chocobo racing area to a world map teleportable aether.

[Ophie-Mio]

I especially like the fact that SE keeps acquainting itself with "zone instance" considering that they say that they have a finite amount that they can do. Yet, somehow, we'll still see them.

Would it be so hard to have everything in one giant zone in that location? No, somehow other MMOs get by. Somehow XI could have entire cities in one landscape and yet somehow the ROG guild and Limsa can't be connected together. <_<

[Parodine]

'I bet this person is from Balmung'

*looks at server info*

'Yup.'

[Zumi]

What are you talking about? See what coming?

[azlewood]

What are you talking about? See what coming?

i agree with this^

[HReincarnate]

To be fair, Gold Saucer was even locked out at times in Cerberus - a pretty low pop EU server.
Can't imagine how bad it must be in Balmung..... *shudders*

Isn't there a way to have server capacity be dynamic? So capacity shifts and expands to accommodate the needs of the game. Not many people in X-Zone? Shift capacity to Gold Saucer!!
Might not be possible, idk...

[sayafrost]

To be fair, Gold Saucer was even locked out at times in Cerberus - a pretty low pop EU server.
Can't imagine how bad it must be in Balmung..... *shudders*

Isn't there a way to have server capacity be dynamic? So capacity shifts and expands to accommodate the needs of the game. Not many people in X-Zone? Shift capacity to Gold Saucer!!
Might not be possible, idk...

True! some of my fc mates couldn't go in during the peak and we are on Cerberus, where normally we don't have this kind of problems