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    Feb 2012
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    Limsa Lominsa
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    Wade Tonare
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    Lich
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    Warrior Lv 70

    3.0 Launch - Server Planning

    Recently we had Gold Saucer and the servers being overwhelmed.

    Now we have the order website overwhelmed.

    Next is 3.0...and does anyone else feel we'll struggle to log in and the servers will struggle to stay up reserve instances?

    I can somewhat forgive Gold Saucer - they had no idea how many people who re-log back in, especially with free weekends. I can somewhat forgive the website, even bigger companies have been taken down by pre-orders/ticket sales. What will be hard to give is the 3.0 launch struggling. Why? Because not only did they recently announce the accounts (4 million was it?) but they will also have the pre-order sales figures giving them a pretty good indication of how many people will be trying to play starting June 19th.

    With the cost of the digital CE (how much is that mount costing?), the crazier physical CE cost, the full-priced-game expansion cost, the monthly fees and the amount of people using the item store, I hope that money will go in to benefiting the players who, once again, are showing their support - basically buy more servers, even if after 1 month the active users die down. Invest in the players.

    tl;dr: I hope 3.0 will allow us to play considering the number of players and money involved but it's disconcerting to see the store down and the recent Gold Saucer server full problems.

    /rant | /worry
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    Last edited by Wade; 03-16-2015 at 09:36 PM. Reason: Length.