So what was the point of the server upgrades when I can't continue the MSQ?

[Voormund]

WoW Legion, GW2 HoT.

That's one thing I will say about WoW, I played Legion for most of 3 days from the minute the servers went up without much of any issues other than some bugged mobs. Gotta give Blizzard credit that launch was as close to flawless as I've seen.

I mean yea this is kind of a silly and big oversight but I was surprised how well things were running up to that point - granted peak hours haven't hit yet.

[Titor]

WoW Legion, GW2 HoT.

Didn't play GW2 but Legion was the first and only wow expansion I know of that was able to go smoothly. Other WoW launches were disasters. I remember in Wrath, I got stuck on a boat over to northrend and had to call a gm to get me unstuck it was that bad.

This is XIV's second expansion, I'm sure they'll figure it out sooner or later, but look how long it took even WoW

[Subucnimorning]

I have been playing MMOs since 1999 - The original EQ. I don't recall ever experiencing an expansion release without major problems - from any company.

I have played many as well: EQ1, WoW, Rift, Wildstar, this one, etc and I agree having major issues is pretty common. It doesn't mean it has to be acceptable though especially one that has affected people all day, we are going on 11 hours of servers being up.

What server did you play on in EQ1?

[Sylentmana]

When are you people going to learn that "Early Access" is corporate marketing speak for "Stress Test"?

[Moonlite]

a video game is having performance issues immediately following a giant patch during early access of that patch that incidentally brought a giant wave activity so much so I've seen people who weren't around for almost a year? say it isn't so!

Is this an excuse for a poor implementation of game play? If it is I hope you are ashamed of yourself. If you design with gates (14 the most gated MMO of all time) you have to take into account the resources you have. They would have been better off with kill 5 butterflies.

[BroodingFicus]

When are you people going to learn that "Early Access" is corporate marketing speak for "Stress Test"?

True enough but doesn't make it a good practice or the issues anymore acceptable. Especially since several of them that seem to be causing the most strife could have been easily avoided by a little critical thinking. HW I recall having a few issues. Things like getting DC'd from that first dungeon a few times mid run, a few server errors here and there but nothing like this. Since 11:30 I've played for 20 mins and spent the rest of the time waiting in huge queues.

[Darker_Midnight]

Join 6 million other players....

Please, you can't even handle 1% of that number.

[Saccharin]

At least for EU login server did crash and long ques for popular servers. No idea about GW2 expansion but the hype for that game really died so is no wonder.

Except for those few mega popular servers the rest went fine.

The way blizzard solved this was to essentially borrow a technique from mega server, thee realms are basically mega servers now.

When you move into a zone and it's too busy a new instance is created therefore reducing the burden on the servers. This worked flawlessly for people on Legion release.

The problem with FF14 is that it uses very poor server organisation.

Edit, turns out they use instances now!

SE really need to get their act together and write proper server code. Sadly the Achilles Heal of this game (2.x+) has always been it's poor, limited server code.

[OmegaFlare]

Didn't play GW2 but Legion was the first and only wow expansion I know of that was able to go smoothly. Other WoW launches were disasters. I remember in Wrath, I got stuck on a boat over to northrend and had to call a gm to get me unstuck it was that bad.

This is XIV's second expansion, I'm sure they'll figure it out sooner or later, but look how long it took even WoW

Thats interesting. I guess SE should have hired some former WoW employees to learn about the hiccups of previous launches so they could prevent something like this from happening. Heavensward was such a smooth launch that SE might have taken SB launch for granted.

[Niwashi]

Devs tweak their servers around the average traffic the game has most of the time, current numbers are something extraordinary that won't last and from a business perspective is a waste of money/resources to build server only needed during the first few weeks.

This is only partly a server resource problem. It's also a design problem. When the first real 'fight' of the storyline is a solo instance a handful of missions in, you're guaranteeing the worst possible bottleneck. If they'd thrown in a dungeon (or preferably two) first, it would have gone over a lot better, even with the same server resources. They knew this, and ignored it.

But it's still an issue about it being the first day. Just as they have to balance their hardware around a more normal level of traffic, they also design their storyline and quest scenarios around having normal traffic. Saying they should have designed the whole progress of the game's main scenario around an issue that'll only be true for a few days is nonsense.

Yes, it sucks the first day. If you can't handle that, then wait a few days to do the MSQ and it won't be an issue.