Billion dollar company, still bad servers

[LittleSparrow]

Right now we all have trouble logging in. We can't, servers are congested and we can't possibly play right now.

What bothers me is that they know these things are going to happen before it happens. They know when a new patch hits, especially with the new housing area that there's going to be LOADS of logins. Every single time there's new content this happens.

You'd expect a billion dollar company to invest more money into proper servers. This is just sad.

[SnowyPoupa]

Yes its really sad
I was at 442 queue and then Errors started
This is no by any means fair chance for everyone to buy a house
Some people in my FC ended with 3-4 houses!
Well done SE.Well Done!

[Gleipni]

They have other things more important to use that money for,coke and hookers

[tymora]

Don't think any game servers on this planet can handle so many simultaneous accesses...this is effectively a legit DDoS.

[Elspath]

Costs them more money to pout up extra servers then it dose facing a small bit of bad pr during major lunch patches, witch after its over people shrug it off and saying "oh well"

[Icehunter]

Costs them more money to pout up extra servers then it dose facing a small bit of bad pr during major lunch patches, witch after its over people shrug it off and saying "oh well"

Sorry; but it doesn't cost that much to host housing servers. I've written services capable of serving 500+ million people; on very little hardware.

[Berethos]

Sorry; but it doesn't cost that much to host housing servers. I've written services capable of serving 500+ million people; on very little hardware.

If your services aren't related to online games, something tells me your experience doesn't translate as well as you think it does.

[Icehunter]

If your services aren't related to online games, something tells me your experience doesn't translate as well as you think it does.

1million concurrent requests per second target is large enough to say I could understand what they might be thinking.

[-Teria-]

Costs them more money to pout up extra servers then it dose facing a small bit of bad pr during major lunch patches, witch after its over people shrug it off and saying "oh well"

There are games out there with less budget that have more housing options available.
The problem is that SE is just so freakin' greedy with this crap.

They keep cutting corner after corner with every system in the game.
Every patch gives us less and less content to enjoy. It's disgusting.

And the "PS3 limitations" and "We need better servers!" excuses don't fly anymore, since they nipped both in the butt with Stormblood.

[Berethos]

There are games out there with less budget that have more housing options available.

With what additional restrictions? Instanced housing per plot? Significantly less freedom in customization in open zones?

Games that offer more housing plots tend to have other things they had to compromise on.