Aether Data Center Down

[SummonerSenah]

I ended up on Balmung because my real life friends were legacy players that ended up there. At this point we're at about 80+ members in our FC; we have a house with a stable and the airship workshop. In short, we're too invested to leave Balmung for a less populated data center. I'm sure that's the case for pretty much everyone or else why wouldn't we move? And SE's answer to that is to have patience and try logging in during less congested hours. But food for thought, those of us on Aether pay the same exact subscription fee as the people on less congested data centers that are able to play while we aren't.

[Volgera]

Not even afk in crafting mode can save u from 90002!! When it unleashes hell upon u..there is no place to run!!! Just 90002 in Keepers of the Lake.

[Relto]

This is getting ridiculous. More than half of my early access experience has been fighting server disconnects and error 2002's on launch and 30 minute queue with number that never goes down then you get error 2002 again. Be damn lucky to even get to 60 in time for Alexander at this rate...

[Relto]

Strongly considering just staying in crafting mode while I sleep so I don't have to spend 5 hours a day trying to log in. Even though that feels like an exploit...it feels better than trying to win the log in lottery.

[Ablongman]

Been trying for over 2 hours now, and after 15-20 minutes in the unmoving queue I get 2002'd. Good times.

[Zumi]

Went afk got kicked now 2002 and 5006 errors over and over, in the Aether data center.

[DarkkenMoneybags]

This is ridiculous and ludicrous.. I'm sick and tired of fighting Aether Data Center over Gilgamesh & Balmung. Those 2 servers need to be split and MOVED to another data center. It also seems Aether data Center and know past issues somewhat been from this data center from the numbers of single server maintenance. If I was Rep. or SE Network Tech I would raise an ORANGE FLAG for Aether center for investigation and making a forced discussion positively in what to do.

[Zumi]

This is ridiculous and ludicrous.. I'm sick and tired of fighting Aether Data Center over Gilgamesh & Balmung. Those 2 servers need to be split and MOVED to another data center. It also seems Aether data Center and know past issues somewhat been from this data center from the numbers of single server maintenance. If I was Rep. or SE Network Tech I would raise an ORANGE FLAG for Aether center for investigation and making a forced discussion positively in what to do.

It's not SEs fault that a bunch of people said we are going to all play on these 2 servers.

[DarkkenMoneybags]

It's not SEs fault that a bunch of people said we are going to all play on these 2 servers.

Nor did You and Me now either! Therefore, now that SE has spoken and told us paying customers where a large bulk of the issues are coming from I can hope SE makes a discussion on fixing this issue.

[Ablongman]

It's not SEs fault that a bunch of people said we are going to all play on these 2 servers.

Right, God forbid that people with similar interests try to play on the same server. How dare they?!

You and all the others slinging mud at other players are part of the problem. This isn't novel behavior that could not have been predicted. People knew that Balmung and Gilgamesh would be packed at least a week prior to 2.0 Early Access, because both the prominent RP communities and various social media communities had expressed their intentions to congregate there as soon as the server list was made known.

SE chose to place them in the same datacenter, and chose not to mitigate the issue for Heavensward. Splitting them up would have been as simple as renaming two servers prior to 2.0 launch. It's true that it isn't SE's fault that those servers are packed now, but it is SE's responsibility to monitor their population levels and take preventive and corrective actions to foster a good game experience for all its clients. You're no more entitled to an issue-free experience than any other subscriber, so wise up and demand it from the people who have both the power and the obligation to provide it, and who've repeatedly failed to do so because they'd rather apologize than actually fix the problems plaguing their playerbase.