Aether Data Center Down

[worldofneil]

They could also promote the free transfers by sweetening the deal with virtual swag. Like if your entire Free Company moves, they get a huge discount on buying a plot plus various XP goodies, consumables, etc.

A lot of the servers don't even have empty housing plots available And unless they can actually keep their FC rank they'd have to recreate it and level it back up to 6 just to be able to buy a house again. Not to mention any members of the FC that have their own houses and have invested in the furniture/items that can't be removed once placed. Also the entire FC might not even want to move, they might be part of other linkshells/communities/raid groups that they wouldn't want to leave.

Combined with the gil limitation for moving server, and having to fire/rehire and re-level up all your retainers that you currently own, unfortunately I don't think many people would actually take advantage of a free transfer. Unless you're a fairly new character you just lose so many things by changing worlds.

Heck a lot of people won't even be able to keep the same name if they moved as well as their retainers when rehired would possibly also need to be renamed.

[Rhindas]

The game is so popular that it cannot handle all the people who want to play it. We're beating down the doors, willing to slog through this because we really, really want to play. You should be thrilled about this! Now, let us play. The reasons were always "we were too strained thin to do this or that." Well now you've had a significantly successful year with a previously spectacular failure whose reboot has almost single-handedly turned the fortunes of the entire company around. Let's let us help you continue to do just that by getting doors that are open to us. Get management to give you the resources you need to expand and let more of us enjoy the game. I like to think a lot of the complaining is just masked frustration because, to quote that trope "Why won't you let us love you?!"

I guess I can't understand why, after this happening far too many times over the period of a year, that lobby server errors still crash the client and why that's never mentioned in explanations of these problems. I mean, I suspect it's a poor coding choice problem that can't be fixed now, lord knows FFXI was and is plagued with that, but still folks, you should really try to do something about this. I don't think there's any other game on the market that does this, or ever did this. I don't think XI did, I think it just put you back on the title screen. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised to see 2002/5006 Survivor badges soon. Actually somebody get on that, we need some!

I also cannot fathom how we live in an era where "unsteady launches" should be an acceptable event and people defend it as an inevitability. Time and time again we see it, and it's become a "well you should've expected this" and we brush it off, and then fall for it again and again. Why do we do that? But that's just the ramblings of an old man, I guess.

[Catwho]

You would think they wouldn't leave us like this but seems they will. Personally it just seems rather odd to say "Please be patient" when there are no plans in the works to fix this issue. Patient for what? Yes the servers will quiet down some in a month or so (we hope) but its an ongoing issue for some time now that is only made worse during times like this. The official launch is going to crush the data center into the ground if it can't handle early access.

Also even if it does become more accessible in a month, what about the early access/month of subs that have been paid? Its all very....frustrating.

You don't know that there are "no plans to fix this issue" - they haven't openly discussed what they're doing, but that doesn't mean they aren't doing anything. Trust me, I worked in a data center before. A team of technicians are currently getting overtime trying to figure out how to fix it. As soon as they have something to go on, they'll announce it, but "too many people are logging in for our system to handle" generally means there's going to be re-coding involved in the fix somewhere.

[Oscillate_Wildly]

Except that your "nuisance times" start taking down the whole data center and affecting thousands of players on different worlds. Your "great server" means nothing to me and can shut down for all I care if I have to keep entering in a one-time password every few seconds in the hope one your ilk decide to call it a day and free up a body on the data center. It's too big and it needs to be dealt with.

You're silly.
This is the saltiest post I've seen all week. I'm sure you're great fun, though.
Look we're not exactly pleased either, half of us who get out of work between 5 and 6 can't log into the game just like the rest of you. Not for at least another hour or two for the lobby errors to stop. And it's out of our control. The amount of people who just sit in the server and never leave are likely to be far fewer than you're imagining. For gods sake we're not villains, calm yourself.

[Fortified]

Except that your "nuisance times" start taking down the whole data center and affecting thousands of players on different worlds. Your "great server" means nothing to me and can shut down for all I care if I have to keep entering in a one-time password every few seconds in the hope one your ilk decide to call it a day and free up a body on the data center. It's too big and it needs to be dealt with.

[Rhindas]

Stop watching after 5 seconds but that made me immediately think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyv5Er8R-Y

[Abriael]

Kicked out. 2002 again. And when that clears, I'll probably have a massive queue.

This is simply unacceptable. Early access is a pre-order perk, as such Square Enix has the responsibility to ensure that its players can enjoy it. That's all there's to it. The lack of solution on the third day is shameful.

"we apologize for the inconvenience but ask for your patience" is not an acceptable answer.

[Zelas]

A lot of people here clearly never played Early Access. On any game. Ever.

[Fortified]

FOUND A SOLUTION: Change your data center then change it back.

[Belgamin]

Quoth the server 404 (2002/5006) Day three... -Sits and popcorns-