Ixion proves you need to upgrade servers

[Niadissa]

Everyone uses the line that they won't upgrade the servers as this is only the expansion rush, however, if you don't upgrade the servers then you lose a good percentage of the people who joined. Upgrading the servers will help you retain those new players.

The consequences of not upgrading the servers is that you lose this new revenue and gain a reputation for bad servers which will drive off potential new customers

[eschaton]

It does, say what you like, it does OP.

[Zarabeth]

snip* The consequences of not upgrading the servers is that you lose this new revenue and gain a reputation for bad servers which will drive off potential new customers

Speaking as a long time player, the core group of ffxiv players hasn't changed much. Everyone swarms in for the expansion rushes through the msq and raid content then leaves. The rest of us are still here once they go. SE isn't losing a thing, and is saving money by not wasting money buying equipment that won't be needed after a little while. I think it's kind of funny that people keep going on about how we're losing so many players when in reality, FFXIV is going strong.
To those who call anyone suckups for stating reality, try learning to program. It's not as easy as you think it is and you often can't make huge changes once the base is laid down without reworking the whole game.

[Moonlite]

It's only an issue right now because so many people are trying for it. It won't be worth upgrading just for the FATE in a few months' time.

That is a fine point. But it doesn't cover why the problem exists at a more fundamental level. We know the zone is busy. But why 300 as someone stated about inventory. My god if the game has this many issues because they decide to rfresh character data every 5 seconds maybe it is time to evaluate that. Also not sure about other servers but Odin till the end of 2.0 and depending on spawn in 3.0 could be hell. I have timed it and still had info from the Odin fight coming 15 mins after he died.


As much as I hate(loathe) Atma/Crystals. Farming a zone for a pop item that allows you to enter an instance that drops special items seems better to me. You have people farming fates helping in the zone at all times so they can go do an instance later. Make Fate titles in the future not for doing 30 min ones but for completing all the regular ones. I never understand the design big and fail over the design around what you have and succeed model 14 has.

[Ametrine]

Foxy lady gold is enough to get all items. Ixion, if you manage to get all gold medals, requires 6 FATEs. Or extremely lucky and the FATE rewarding you the mount directly. Unless this was changed and simply not multiple instances simply bringing back 3 chances at the FATE.

Lordy! And this is the biggest problem. Got to camp for 6 FATES+ for the reward is asking way too much!

[Kohdo]

SE isn't losing a thing, and is saving money by not wasting money buying equipment that won't be needed after a little while.

Upgrading server infrastructure is vital in the long-term. This goes beyond issues with a particular FATE. Imagine if WoW still ran on the same server infrastructure they were using at launch.