Thread: Raubahn Extreme will return? Version 6.0

Originally Posted by SnowVix

lol, imagine thinking there have been zero infrastructure changes in nearly a decade

Yep, not to mention since 4.0 launch, the NA data centers were moved out of their previous vendor in Montreal and to NTT's Sacramento data center, allowing more expandability and upgrades, plus lower costs to SE since NTT already host the JP servers.

Plus many still don't know instances with a clock don't take place on your 'home' server, they go through the instance servers.

Originally Posted by Daniolaut

What are your thoughts?

My thought is that there is no reason for it not to be as smooth as 5.0. They might just create new worlds if they notice that there are too many players because of the trial.

I don't see why we should even be worried about the launch to be honest...
Even if it is a broken mess in the first couple days, they call it 'early access' for a reason.
When I go in anything labeld as 'early access', I expect to see some hiccups. Luckily, 5.0 didn't have that many, so I am not worried for 6.0.

Why would Raubahn return?

You bring up stuff from 2.0 and stormblood, but fail to mention the fact that 5.0's launch was effectively perfect besides some very small hiccups. They now have a queueing system for solo instances if far too many people try all at once, so there'll never be a 'spam click and hope you get in'. Now it's just 'click, go make some food and wait your turn.'

When they feel the servers are congested, they have a system where they can soft-reset the servers to remove every single afk player and any players trying to circumvent afk kick measures.

They intentionally moved the first solo instance of 5.0 past the first dungeon to further split and breakup the playerbase during the initial rush hours of 5.0.

They'll lock pretty much any server that is even remotely near capacity from character creation before 6.0 drops to prevent sudden surges of new players trying to get onto bigger servers from causing even greater congestion.

To claim there's been no infrastructure or design changes is completely ridiculous. I have no doubts 6.0's launch will be a similar repeat of 5.0's - 95% painless outside of the usual server hiccups force dc/ing everyone that happens every expansion.

Originally Posted by MariaArvana

Why would Raubahn return?

You bring up stuff from 2.0 and stormblood, but fail to mention the fact that 5.0's launch was effectively perfect besides some very small hiccups. They now have a queueing system for solo instances if far too many people try all at once, so there'll never be a 'spam click and hope you get in'. Now it's just 'click, go make some food and wait your turn.'

When they feel the servers are congested, they have a system where they can soft-reset the servers to remove every single afk player and any players trying to circumvent afk kick measures.

They intentionally moved the first solo instance of 5.0 past the first dungeon to further split and breakup the playerbase during the initial rush hours of 5.0.

They'll lock pretty much any server that is even remotely near capacity from character creation before 6.0 drops to prevent sudden surges of new players trying to get onto bigger servers from causing even greater congestion.

To claim there's been no infrastructure or design changes is completely ridiculous. I have no doubts 6.0's launch will be a similar repeat of 5.0's - 95% painless outside of the usual server hiccups force dc/ing everyone that happens every expansion.

This is the only reply this thread needed. It is right on the money. Next!

I had almost no issues logging in during ShB. For a launch that's amazing. I 'assume' we'll be okay for 6.0 too, at least mostly.

Also just to add to the chime that's already going but the login queue and Raubahn's left arm's last laugh are different issues, one just controls the flow in, doing it's job and is expected for extra stability for big servers, and the other was just entirely overloaded and falling apart at the seams lol. For the first it's if you were squeezing a tube of toothpaste you can let it all out but if you wanted to let it all out instantly you'd just explode the thing, got to pinch from the bottom and go up and it'll come out at a reasonable rate but not instantly (or just squeeze the whole thing if you're a savage lol :P).

5.0 was a pretty damn smooth launch in comparison to 4.0, so why are you fearmongering by bringing up Raubahn Extreme?

What's your next topic going to be?
"Do you think SE are going to make 6.0 as bad as 1.0? They did it once they can do it again!"

It should be pointed out that a big part of Raubahn Extreme was also caused by a DDOS attack on the instance servers, which is rather outside of SE's ability to control.

Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

It should be pointed out that a big part of Raubahn Extreme was also caused by a DDOS attack on the instance servers, which is rather outside of SE's ability to control.

While true, the way they changed it up to dungeon before solo instance, and a split quest where you go can here or there, helped as well since there was a larger population of players at the time of launch.