Aether Data Center Down

[Lydeck]

My question is why did you put both Balmung and Gilgamesh on the same data center?

SO MUCH THIS.

Furthermore, can we PLEASE get a change in the client so that it doesn't kick you out of the game completely if you get an error 2002? I'm nearly to the point of removing my one time password because of how much BS it is having to put it in over and over.

[Veronica]

I dont feel that this is simply a congestion issue - otherwise I wouldnt be able to get around it by switching to Chaos and then back to Aether (without logging in to a character) which is what, 20 seconds at most? Works every time too!
I HAS to be a bug!

This worked for me! Thank you!! +1

[Jeshua]

I've been trying to get into the game for the past 3 hours or so...

Trying to get into the character selection kicks me back to desktop (error 2002), changing dataservers (between Aether and Primal) also kicks me to desktop...
And I have get and type a new token every. single. try.

-1/10 - "crash to desktop" simulator wasn't what I pre-ordered / subbed for.

edit: Jumping to Chaos, then to Primal, did the trick for me. Thank you too, Shori!

[Sparktacus]

Speaking of Chaos why are there only 8 servers on there? Why are they not splitting Balmung and Gilgamesh to such an empty Datacenter.

[Raikki]

Speaking of Chaos why are there only 8 servers on there? Why are they not splitting Balmung and Gilgamesh to such an empty Datacenter.

Because they're all the EU designated servers, which are all going to be moved to Europe together.

[Dekent]

Switching to chaos then back to balmung let me into the queue..of 766 haha...oh well I'm fine with that as I can burn time doing other things now.
Gilgamesh and Balmung really do need to be split onto other data centers.

[AzakaTonnerre]

Pretty sure they allocated the data centers before people decided what was the Reddit world or RP world.

Those were decided before they spilt the servers into different data centers about a month after 2.0 launced. Balmung was the fullest legacy server and Gilgamesh was talked about as the other RP world on the beta forums. So no.

[Freyar]

Managed to get to queue at 762, but the number isn't updating.

[Mihana]

I'm still thinking if you move one of the heavily populated servers like Balmung or Gilgamesh to Primal this may help alleviate the strain. The problem outlined even states that the Aether data center is having problems with connections because of these two worlds. Well that's because you've got two of the most packed NA worlds using the same data center. Offering free transfers off these two won't particularly solve anything especially if they don't want to leave their server. The problem lies in that you've got two huge servers full of players trying to log in simultaneously in addition to the lesser populated servers and all into the same data center. More often than not I have immediate issues trying to connect to the data center than sitting in queue waiting to get into my world. It errors out before I even get to the world select screen.

By the way for the few still fussing about RPers for whatever reason, Balmung (Formerly known as Besaid and Fabul before the merge.) had been chosen at the launch of FFXIV as the unofficial RP server. You don't HAVE to be a RPer of course by any means but saying a majority of the population wasn't RP players would be a lie.

EDIT: 1.0 Server Merge Details

[Aleisterz]

They really need to put Gilgamesh and Balmung in different data centers or offer free server transfers or something to reduce this congestion. This is scary haha. O_< I mean just look at this! Also my signature. Me giving you the look SE!