Quote Originally Posted by papichulo123 View Post
what happened at laugh of arr???
At launch, there was no separation of Data Center Groups, so...(this is from memory, details may differ but should serve to give you a picture of what happened)
  • Everyone in the whole world would connect to the same Login Lobby server.
  • Everyone's game client tries to look up both the JP data center server listing and the NA data center server listing. But often, due to congestion, one of the listing lookup would time-out, and many people were stuck in the situation where they want to play on the NA data center but only successfully looked up the JP server list. You repeat the lookup step until you successfully looked up the listing for your intended data center.
  • Then you create your character and try to enter the world. But due to congestion, you are placed in a login queue. Sadly, the queue has a small size, and if you try to enter the world when the queue is full, you don't even get into the queue. You just get thrown back to the START GAME screen, from where you would need to choose START GAME and then your character, then "YES" to try entering the world again. Loop back to the queue is full phase.
Some people were so tired of the loop they kept the keypad 0 key held down (which would select START GAME and try to log in with the last character you used) and went to do other stuff. I remember holding down my numpad 0 key and slumping in my chair, closing my eyes listening to the sound effect of that loop...

...so people decided to not log out even if they go to work, which made the matter worse, it was so bad that an auto-logout for AFK players was implemented urgently.