Goblin FATE Test

[Angelov-Mercy]

...so who got in?


So there I was, waiting for like 30 minutes before I was sent to Goblin server for the special FATE.....and by the time I got there, it had been over long ago!!!


No prizes...no monsters...just..."sigh"

What was the prize btw??

[LittleChickenNugget]

You got the horns from Ixion like any other time you do the FATE. It died so fast though most people didn't get squat.

[Angelov-Mercy]

You got the horns from Ixion like any other time you do the FATE. It died so fast though most people didn't get squat.

When I asked in chat, someone said they give away prizes and stuff like mounts for participating. I didnt wish to miss something this big. But I didnt expect a queue, when they wanted us to all pile into the world like that.

But playing a DPS lately, one gets used to the 50+ waiting line....

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

When I asked in chat, someone said they give away prizes and stuff like mounts for participating. I didnt wish to miss something this big. But I didnt expect a queue, when they wanted us to all pile into the world like that.

But playing a DPS lately, one gets used to the 50+ waiting line....

They were trolling. There are no rewards or prizes. It was a test to verify server integrity during a very stressful situation.


Also, this is why we do t have a test server. Even when something is literally advertised as a stress test, people say it failed because they didn't get in. They weren't testing to see if everyone could enter the zones. They were testing to see if the zone could be filled to capacity, the server filled to capacity, and the world visit functions overloaded without crashing the system, server, or datacenter, which seems to have been successful.

[Kurando]

. They were testing to see if the zone could be filled to capacity, the server filled to capacity, and the world visit functions overloaded without crashing the system, server, or datacenter, which seems to have been successful.

I don't know about that, some other data centres actually had some issues. Probably isn't a coincidence that it happened at the game time as the NA server test.

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...aa2a8f72d2c5b4

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...8c87058a4e35ec

[Gralna]

I don't know about that, some other data centres actually had some issues. Probably isn't a coincidence that it happened at the game time as the NA server test.

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...aa2a8f72d2c5b4

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...8c87058a4e35ec

I'd still call the test a success, better for them to find out now that massive server migration and filling a zone to capacity on one server of a DC, can have networking issues for separate servers than the one being taxed.

[Brightamethyst]

I couldn't even enter the zone. Kept getting congestion errors trying to zone in.

Stress test: Failure

[LittleChickenNugget]

I couldn't even enter the zone. Kept getting congestion errors trying to zone in.

Stress test: Failure

How was it a failure though? The server has limits in every game.
The game didn't crash nor did it lag out (unless you don't have a good connection). That's exactly what they were checking on. They wanted to make sure the servers could handle such a sudden influx of characters rushing.

Stress test: Success

[Daralii]

I couldn't even enter the zone. Kept getting congestion errors trying to zone in.

Stress test: Failure

The point is to stress the servers to the point of breaking. It's only a failure if they don't use it to improve.

[Dualblade]

I couldn't even enter the zone. Kept getting congestion errors trying to zone in.

Stress test: Failure

Not really. Amongst other things they couldn't fail the stress test because the whole point is to, well, test things. Given that the servers didn't break/go down to my understanding that actually shows things being better then many might have thought.

Doesn't mean they still couldn't be better, which is again the point.