So the df is broken now?

[EdwinLi]

Ya instance areas such as dungeons, story instances, and etc instances are placed in their own Server separate from the Data Center worlds our character is in outside of Instances.

Sadly the downside to this design is that each Data Center basically share the same Instance Servers to allow cross-server parties in DF which can bring this type of issue up if a Data Center is heavily populated.

All this happened because the Instance Server in the Data Center is not capable of handling this many players at once as 4.0 is probably the largest number of players playing online than back in 2.0 and 3.0 release.

the 2.X and 3.X had less players because they were just updates and a good amount of players who joined during 2.0 and 3.0 have set priorities or quit so not many players were on during X.X contents to strain Instance Servers as badly as a Expansion release especially when this one released Sword DPS Jobs which would have attracted far more players than any other Job that was in 2.0 and 3.0.

The new updates with the expansion may cotntribute but what peaked people's interests the most was from introducing Sword DPS Jobs.