The Server situation is unaccettable

[Moonlite]

It's entirely abnormal for more than 500 people to want to access a single zone simultaneously, especially on realms that are not particularly populated. If you can't zone in, wait until it dies down a bit. People still eagerly rush to do Odin and that's half a billion years old, so I sincerely doubt the less-than-a-month-old drops-a-unique-and-highly-recognizable-mount fate is going to suffer from lack of participation anytime soon.

Again, its not a server problem. Everyone loves to blame the servers, because it can't possibly be anything else, right?!

So what do these two posts lead me to believe? One the hardware is ok (possible). Also maybe someone designed content that isn't compatible with the hardware, I am shocked, SHOCKED I say.

Then they have to find a better solution. Create a clone backup instance as soon as the first one hits maximum load, or remove the time required to camp and get reward stripping an MMO feature out of the game because of a server problem.

It is very clear from this forum that SE should not have to design around their limitations. Players should learn to suffer and keep paying.

[LunarEmerald]

I feel like they need to stop doing open world mega fates like this if the server can't handle more than 400 players simultaneously in one zone. There's nothing fun about your attacks not registering due to lag or dying to unavoidable damage because of lag. When you do these, you do what you can and pray you don't get disconnected or killed.

[ToasterMan]

And only so many cars can run on the road. #1 reason of people saying "sorry im lagging"? They watch netflix on slow connections while gaming. Not the servers fault

It's always because people are watching Netflix apperently.....

[Coatl]

I don't know why lodestone has so many apologists. The servers have been shaky since the release of ARR and perhaps never stood upright since then. It's Square Enix guys. Is this game so unlucrative that they have to budget their resources at the expense of their own player base?

[Daralii]

It's always because people are watching Netflix apperently.....

It's the long-forgotten 8th deadly sin.

I don't know why lodestone has so many apologists. The servers have been shaky since the release of ARR and perhaps never stood upright since then. It's Square Enix guys. Is this game so unlucrative that they have to budget their resources at the expense of their own player base?

Since the beta of 1.0, actually. Anyway, do they need to budget their resources like they are? No. That doesn't mean they won't do so whenever humanly possible to keep it for themselves and the shareholders. I also don't know how much autonomy the XIV team has from senior management.

[Alleo]

You can't expect a company to buy extremely powerful servers that could handle a heavy load of players on the same place, all of that just for a few minutes a day in a single place, which will likely involves less and less players as time passes. It'd be a huge waste of ressources 99% of the time.

Odin still laggs even today and I still see lots of people there. Also unlike other big fate bosses Ixion has a mount behind it. So no I cant see how this gets better soon. Also this is bad for a complete zone! You not only punish the people that are wanting to kill Ixion but also those that want to do story or gather. Also Ixion is not the only zone killer, PotD seems to make its zone unstable and laggy too.

And maybe if the servers cant handle it..maybe they should just simply stop doing such fates?

[Feidam]

I've also had no issues with S ranks or heavily congested zones. I also never once DC'd during Odin spawns at 2.0 launch on Balmung. But I guess that doesn't count either.

Sorry this very hard to believe. Odin was killing the zone every time he spawned. Even on a lower pop server he can still lag out the zone.

[Emeriss]

So there are a lot of things that can cause all of this, one is hardware limitations, which will happen if the server is being given more data than it's capable of processing. Essentially getting to many requests to fast and can't respond to them quickly enough. This problem can sometimes be fixed by spending thousands upon thousands of dollars to upgrade one portion of a single server.

The other problem is network limitations. This would happen if the amount of data required to get the requests to the server, and amount of data required to respond to all requests exceeds the amount of bandwidth allocated to the server. This 99 times out of 100 is completely out of the server administrators hands. The onus to fix this problem rests on ISP's, and until the US does major upgrades to it's ISP infrastructure, that's not going to happen, at least for the N/A servers.

You can literally shut down an entire WoW server by overloading one zone.

[Dortharl]

It really doesn't matter if t's the server or the networking, the bottom line by placing these bosses in non instanced zones SE has created the situation. Being overly pedantic on the exact cause does not alleviate concerns or prompt SE to resolve issues. To be perfectly honest we don't have the data to determine whether it a load-balancing issue or a networking bottleneck but that's irrelevant, those who are leveling in those zones should not have to suffer just because a boss they don't care about happens to spawn. This game comes with requirements needed to play the game as long as these players are above the requirements they should be able to play it.

I don't know the solution to the issue, removing the boss would probably anger a lot of people but leaving it is unfair, I suspect SE will just ignore it and wait until less people are interested in killing the boss and the situation resolves itself.

[Rinuko]

People DC'ing is less likely a server problem, and more likely their own PC's. I had friends who used to have that issue every time they went to Idyllshire, or during the S ranks/Odin. They recently got new machines, and no longer have that problem.

Also, it becomes not a server problem, but a networking one, when the amount of people reaches a certain point. You can only transmit and receive so much data, and if you have to transmit that data to every player that is currently in said instance, it gets multiple time higher.

I have a brand new pc. I DC'd all the time for Ixion and zoning into S. Shroud.




It's the servers.