So has Aether crashed again?

[xJimmehx]

Idk why anyone even bothers to post complaints anymore. I feel like SE doesnt give two shits about this community. They only want our money. (by SE im talking the people who give FFXIV funding not the actual XIV team) We COULD have more inventory if they allowed for it or even more content per patch so that people who leave as soon as they do the handful of duties we get every 3 months and pause their subs would stay and continue to pay and support the growth of this game. They COULD pay more people to work on FFXIV so yoshida doesnt look like hes going to drop dead on live stream from being overworked. I just dont understand why they act like this game might die. Its better than any other game theyve released in the last ten years. Even XV felt like desperate money leeching garbage. I miss the old SE from back when i was a kid. Not because of turn based, but because of quality. This '1.0 failed be safe and hold back funding just in case' nonsense really grinds my gears.

[Dualblade]

I wonder how much of the problem could be solved if the data center was more evenly spread compared to what we have now.

[Naria]

We are suppose to get a major server/hardware upgrade shortly after Stormblood launches so unless this really does become a daily thing (please don't become a daily thing) then SE is probably going to try to make the current servers run until then. Considering that SE had no problem locking down XI servers when they became overpopulated I'm kinda surprised they haven't locked Balmung and Gilgamesh yet. I have wondered if the game is actually running on old XI servers sometimes, though.

Its not even the weekend yet, I'm kinda dreading whats going to happen Friday night or Saturday.

[Kurenai_Night]

Cant log into sargatanas.. probably has something to do with the new cross server pf stuff

[xxkirahoshi]

Who was fishing?

This was my thought as well. Fishers are ruining aether server one hook at a time.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I like how people are coming in to say "lol it's just a game, stop being so emotional."

Stuff breaks and happens, yes. However, an expected downtime for the patch (reasonable), followed by an unexpected hiccup forcing an emergency maintence (again, reasonable), followed by the servers dying again (now it's getting annoying) in the span of 72 hours? That just looks plain bad on a company that are being funded from the subscriptions of their customers.

[mageman1842]

WTFH SQ fix your servers.

[SnugglesD]

"Bug testing" in a colloquial sense. Keep in mind, few MMOs have major updates near as frequent or with as much added content. Compare WoW's update cycle (12-15 months) to XIV's (3-4 months). While the scale may be different, the constant updates give chance to more errors, especially if you're at all familiar with how easily disputable code can be.

The REAL reason FFXIV has more bugs is because virtually every other MMO on the market has test servers. That would solve all the issues.

[Beeraga]

The REAL reason FFXIV has more bugs is because virtually every other MMO on the market has test servers. That would solve all the issues.

Even XI adopted test servers FFS, and its the same damn company....

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The REAL reason FFXIV has more bugs is because virtually every other MMO on the market has test servers. That would solve all the issues.

If the cause is overpopulation, a test server would not discover this issue, and they are usually not as populated. and its not just 1 server, but multiple causing the issue, assuming this is the cause.