SE needs help for testing their servers before 5.0

[Sentaryuu]

This to me isnt going to go very well especially for those on PS4. It currently takes almost 30secs for me to load into certain areas like the city-states or Rhalgr's Reach.

I would most likely never be able to make it and I would like to get Ixion on an alt. But I will give it a try the first few times I guess.

[EorzeaHero69]

Looks like we'll be the ultimate cause of an 8th Calamity.

[Dualblade]

This to me isnt going to go very well especially for those on PS4. It currently takes almost 30secs for me to load into certain areas like the city-states or Rhalgr's Reach.

I would most likely never be able to make it and I would like to get Ixion on an alt. But I will give it a try the first few times I guess.

All the more reason to try and get to those zones, the point is to try and make the servers more stable for SHB release. If it crashes all the more info it gives them towards that goal.

[ElazulHP]

They would get more takers if they offer a reward for showing up.

[Mightion]

If they didn't do this, people would likely complain during launch week that they DIDN'T do this.

[Toonie]

Honestly, any chance to not have to deal with the problems from stormblood's launch again is all the reward I need.

[Hasrat]

They would get more takers if they offer a reward for showing up.

The reward for showing up is getting into the Ixion FATE. If you've already gotten everything you want out of that, great, no need to participate. But it's surely a juicy enough reward to lure in enough players.

Quite honestly, they probably should've considered ARR/HW FATEs instead/additionally. If they really want to stress, better to not have it limited to an area that they'll only access near the end of the 4.0 MSQ, eh?

[Selova]

So they want the players to do free testing for them?

I'll pass.

Yeah it's called beta testing. Asking players of the game to help test various things for a smooth launch. Unless for some odd reason, you like spending 48 hours trying to get into a instance duty to progress in the game. I'm impressed that they are actually asking players for help so that the game can have a smooth launch, its common practice in most MMO's to have beta test servers where the players test all elements of the game to hopefully nip any big issues in the bud before it launches. This only really comes as a surprise to people who are either new to MMO's or have only ever played FFXIV. There's nothing wrong with them asking for help.

[Jade3173]

I'll be ready to help test if the server hamsters are well fed or not. Provided I can log on for the FATE. I got my Ixion rewards but I actually LIKE the fact SE seems to be concerned with the state of their servers going into an expansion so will help by going and getting myself DC'd cause everyone, their chocobo, and minion will be there

[ShariusTC]

Let's do this everyone for giving them some time for adjusting things for reducing the % of bad surprises at 5.0 launch ^^

Personnally i appreciate the fact they ask us that.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...209.1555440301

so they will launch a FATE in 1 world then announce it on all other world for ppl to come to this world and trying to bring it down, doesn't they?