Dear Square-Enix. Please preemptively stabilize servers.

[Noshpan]

I fully expect there to be issues on Heavensward's launch (early access & official launch). I expect server downtime as well as queues for the lobby and world servers. These things happen regardless of how much a company may try to prepare. All we can do is hope that any issues get resolved expediently.

[Marveth]

I took two days off work for this launch.
Saturday and Sunday. No way do I expect a playable Friday lol.

In all honesty though I love the people who think SE should buy like 1000% extra server capacity to accommodate one period of a few hours or days.
I'm sure they would love to spend literally all of their money on that and give up any future hope of the game what so ever.

[Hieral]

I took two days off work for this launch.
Saturday and Sunday. No way do I expect a playable Friday lol.

In all honesty though I love the people who think SE should buy like 1000% extra server capacity to accommodate one period of a few hours or days.
I'm sure they would love to spend literally all of their money on that and give up any future hope of the game what so ever.

For a game that's bringing in 4 million times $12+ a month in revenue, hardware improvements is chump change. Please! Unless you're telling me improved hardware costs $50 million. Even then, that's ONE month of revenue.

[Callinon]

For a game that's bringing in 4 million times $12+ a month in revenue, hardware improvements is chump change. Please! Unless you're telling me improved hardware costs $50 million. Even then, that's ONE month of revenue.

Do you have a source for that subscriber number? Also you have no idea what their overhead is.

[SDaemon]

Do you have a source for that subscriber number? Also you have no idea what their overhead is.

Its 4 million accounts (not including free trials), not active subscribers. Though the number may have gone up or down since then.

Source: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...01c6348ab5d5e5

[Shadowsun]

Gilgamesh crashed twice in two weeks. ]:

This does not bode well.

[Zfz]

Players can help reduce the problems by....going to work/school/sleep/your usual stuff, and playing at your usual schedule, instead of taking days off, and staying/getting up at 4am, to spam log-in.

I am at GMT+8, meaning Early Access starts for me at 17:00 on a Friday. The world is round, you know. :3

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And that $12 per month isn't all profits. It goes into funding existing infrastructure, employees (devs/GMs/publicity/sales personnel/management), tax, operating costs (rent/office equipment/bandwith), interest on loans, and after all that you get profit, which needs to be used to fund company growth, stock earnings, etc....

[Hieral]

Do you have a source for that subscriber number?

I figured both of these things were common knowledge since the "over 4 million subscribers" ads have been all over the place for months. This was almost 4 months ago, mind you, meaning the number has probably gone up and will continue to.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...01c6348ab5d5e5

As for account fees, figured it was also common knowledge; apparently not:

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/service.php

I'm sure about 1/4 or less of these are legacy accounts with the discount, but there's people who pay for extra retainers and the higher number if characters, too, so it evens out.

There's also a wonderful thing called a calculator. Plug in: 4,000,000 X 12.99 and you'll get the staggering number of: 51,960,000. A month. That's 623,520,000 a year. That's a lot of money.

I seriously doubt good hardware costs more than a few hundred thousand.

[kyuven]

snip.

4 million accounts just means 4 million people bought the game, downloaded it, and subscribed at one time.
It's not indicative of how much they're actually making. Also, a metric ton of those are RMT accounts purchased with stolen information that had to be refunded.

[Causality]

It starts at 2am not that many people will be on.

I'll be on.

I have a feeling it's going to be like Walmart on Black Friday.

The most wonderful time of the year!

Players can help reduce the problems by....going to work/school/sleep/your usual stuff, and playing at your usual schedule, instead of taking days off, and staying/getting up at 4am, to spam log-in.

I had to take my Vacation around this time or loose it. So the timing of the x-pac couldn't have been more perfect.





I might have issues :P