Dear Square-Enix. Please preemptively stabilize servers.

[OmegaFlare]

"Active" subscribers are probably still not over 1 million yet otherwise SE would proudly announce it to the world instead of hiding it. SE has only said that Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X "have been making favorable progress." 4 million is the number of cd keys purchased. If you look at your friends list and linkshell list, you can see the total number and look at how many are actually active, you could kind of tell what the turnover ratio is for this game.

This upcoming expansion looks very promising though. Maybe once the game has enough contents, it'll be able to retain and build up more subscribers.

[Kuurei]

It is never server issues that fully kills an expansion launch.

It is bugs. Loads and loads of untested or totally missable bugs. EQ2 had several expacs where it got so bad the server got put down for a couple days b/c you couldn't even talk to npc's XD

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

No one logs on for early access anymore. It's too crowded.

[Eul]

Soon, it's gonna be like Gold Saucer's congestion. And then, Emergency Maintenance.

[Hypie]

Okay...how exactly can they do that?

Server Localization and splitting.

NA/EU Server are in one Cluster somewhere in canada i think (last info i got). Split em. Relocate the EU Server into the EU. Split the EU Servers into "German Servers" "English Servers" and "French Servers" but let em DF together with the rule of english in DF, cuz English is international standard language.

Have every Language Cluster in the EU his own login centre.

Profit for the Players...

BUT you would need to invest Money in that. and they don't want too if i look up the last upgrades on servers so....

I would pay even 15 Bucks a Month if they would do that but oh well...

[Callinon]

I figured both of these things were common knowledge since the "over 4 million subscribers" ads have been all over the place for months.

You might want to rein in the snark until you know the difference between "accounts" and "subscribers."

An account is created when someone registers a copy of the game and is then never destroyed.
A subscriber is someone who pays a monthly fee to play the game.

Since many people who've made accounts in the past no longer subscribe to the game, the number of "accounts" will always be far greater than the number of "subscribers."

[raelgun]

Blizzard is notorious for crappy quality. Square Enix is generally not.

Eh, blizzard pretty does have the best servers in the business, have you seen the tech they use, its really quite good and theres no competition to it. Blizzard polish is one of the best in the industry and imo far superior to SE and I play both games.

SE has produced more shoddy work and are no where near polished in a ton of games. FF14 for one is the only SE made game that actually works on PC with no issue, that should tell you about SE quality assurance.

[SDaemon]

Eh, blizzard pretty does have the best servers in the business, have you seen the tech they use, its really quite good and theres no competition to it. Blizzard polish is one of the best in the industry and imo far superior to SE and I play both games.

SE has produced more shoddy work and are no where near polished in a ton of games. FF14 for one is the only SE made game that actually works on PC with no issue, that should tell you about SE quality assurance.

And yet I'd still, without a second thought, take ARR's launch over Cata's, MoP's and WoD's launch...

[SakuraMidori]

Least it's not like psu {phantasy star universe} anytime they had a update or the lol expansion ppl crash out and Segas fix was roll backs non stop

[Mikedizzy]

I have heard they are taking precautions and have some systems where they have a couple level 50 areas to relieve the stress and bottlenecking. MY PREDICTION is that Friday from 8pm to 2am EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE on ALL WORLDS. I hope I am wrong but if not I am not playing that day anyway...crossing my fingers that Saturday will be golden. Good luck everyone.