Serious SE? Really?!

[Blackweaver]

So after a few lobby errors, I finally get to the character selection screen. Great! I load up my template au ra from the benchmark, select the class, birthday, guardian and get to the big one, server selection.

Awesome! Balmung is open! I enter my name, click okay... 1006, server data could not be obtained. What? It takes me back to server selection. Balmung still showing open, I say "okay lets try again" data is all there. Click play. Error again. 6 more times... finally I refresh the server list... balmung is closed.

Come on! This is just unacceptable SE. I don't care how many RMT bots are flooding the network to make new characters, why not simply just set the server up so only early access people can actually make characters and not random RMTers?

[Rhaja]

the RMT is Early Access. Only we can play right now. And this is exactly why I'm waiting to play an Au Ra. Seriously, a little foresight?

[bettomendes]

Come on! This is just unacceptable SE.

lol this guy

[Sovereign]

lol this guy

He's not wrong. We all knew this would happen. They had tons of time to prepare.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

lol, you are trying to create a char and whining, i cant even log in on my existing char, and im not mad. paople these days.

[Ruri]

Good thing Im not out of work for 2 hrs, maybe the initial wave of insanity will slow down by then

[Selli]

We present to you; Final Fantasy XIV: Can'tgetinward. Please look forward to it.

[Ilenya]

He's not wrong. We all knew this would happen. They had tons of time to prepare.

Prepare for it how? About the only way I could imagine is constantly setting up a server, hitting it with as many attempts to get on at once as they can work with, then working their way until it lasts the best they can do...

And then the playerbase gets at it and those tests mean nothing.

[Sovereign]

Prepare for it how? About the only way I could imagine is constantly setting up a server, hitting it with as many attempts to get on at once as they can work with, then working their way until it lasts the best they can do...

And then the playerbase gets at it and those tests mean nothing.

Well, while I don't claim to have any insight into how their infrastructure is setup, it would seem that most people aren't even getting into a queue to get into the server. To me, that means what whatever systems handle getting players into the queue isn't performant enough to handle traffic on this scale. Generally, that means you need to either find a way to optimize the system or expand it's hardware and networking spend. Just a guess though.

In any case, this shouldn't be an impossible problem to solve, and yet in the last 10 years no one has solved it. Every major million-player+ MMO launch has been a mess.

[Biohazard901]

Well, while I don't claim to have any insight into how their infrastructure is setup, it would seem that most people aren't even getting into a queue to get into the server. To me, that means what whatever systems handle getting players into the queue isn't performant enough to handle traffic on this scale. Generally, that means you need to either find a way to optimize the system or expand it's hardware and networking spend. Just a guess though.

In any case, this shouldn't be an impossible problem to solve, and yet in the last 10 years no one has solved it. Every major million-player+ MMO launch has been a mess.

Well how bout you help them out then genius?