Thread: Can Square Enix handle the influx? Raubahn 2.0 in EW early access incoming...

Raubahn EX wasn't simply due to players logging into the game but rather how the MSQ immediately forced everyone into an instance within five quests. This made it so players didn't naturally funnel off into a variety of activities you'd expect with a new expansion but were all bottled necked at the exact same point, all trying to queue into the same instanced at once. The same issue occurred at the beginning of Deltascape because Yoshida gave into the dev team begging him to allow them this "super cool" instance. With predictable results.

Hence why come Shadowbringers, we didn't have any instanced content until well into the MSQ and the branching path for Allise and Alphinaud were made considerably longer. They also launched the expansion with every single new city having extra instances to split players up. In other words, they learned a harsh lesson from SB and aren't likely to repeat it.

Originally Posted by Drakonic

This is clearly out of left field for Square Enix and they've admitted as much. Already we're starting to see problems. They ran out of game codes. There have been server instabilities on Aether lately, albeit mostly with regards to the inability to load character data (which isn't a huge deal). New character creation is basically impossible in the entirety of NA during weekend primetime, which I know will attract fanboys of the game to deflect that "tHeY CaN jUSt MaKE a New ChARaCteR dUriNG ofF-PeAk hOURs", conveniently sidestepping the elephant in the room that this is a very bad first impression for new players. Free trial characters are also struggling to actually log into NA servers because of the congestion.

Yoshi P suggested that any expansion of the server infrastructure will probably not come before Endwalker. They might very well do it at the same time as Oceania DC launch, but that is no respite for the coming storm - Endwalker early access. Will we see Raubahn 2.0? It might not be a solo instance shenanigan this time round, since they've changed that system. But other issues might crop up, who knows. Get ready to get your shovels ready for you'll be mining a lot of salt in November.

As long as they keep things the way they are currently ingame, no they can't handle the influx. I'm already seeing this appear again more and more ever since the game started to pick up traction with popular streamers. which at the rate it's going it's only going to get worse and worse man.



If you ask me they really gotta revert back to how it was like in 1.0. instead of how it's like now with everything cut-up into like 2-6 separate instances including major cities.

Originally Posted by lezard21

You can always just create a new character in Balmung. It's the only world that's not been consistently full since the game sold out 2 days ago. People just know.

I've leveled fisher to 80, I know bait when I see it.

Originally Posted by ForteNightshade

Raubahn EX wasn't simply due to players logging into the game but rather how the MSQ immediately forced everyone into an instance within five quests. This made it so players didn't naturally funnel off into a variety of activities you'd expect with a new expansion but were all bottled necked at the exact same point, all trying to queue into the same instanced at once. The same issue occurred at the beginning of Deltascape because Yoshida gave into the dev team begging him to allow them this "super cool" instance. With predictable results.

Hence why come Shadowbringers, we didn't have any instanced content until well into the MSQ and the branching path for Allise and Alphinaud were made considerably longer. They also launched the expansion with every single new city having extra instances to split players up. In other words, they learned a harsh lesson from SB and aren't likely to repeat it.

To be honest, it wasn't just the split of the story. SE did a major overhaul of their duty servers and their queue system for ShB. Raubahn extreme wasn't just caused by the MSQ bottleneck either. A LOT of players used that cutscene to bypass the 30 minute auto-logout timer which ended up pinging the duty servers and furthered the bottleneck at that quest all because they didn't want a login queue. The login queues got really bad on some servers, Gilgamesh and Balmung on Aether DC were the ones I know of that had bad login queues. This caused MORE people to not want to log out. It took Gilgamesh crashing on day 3 of SB early access to alleviate the stress on the system and unclog it. Once that happened it was smooth sailing for both.

Now if SE had just forced the daily server reset earlier in the expansion to kick the timer bypassers off instead of waiting 2 weeks. That fixed the problem instantly and within a day Balmung went from a 3-hour queue for 2k people (which usually takes 20 minutes on a patch) to 1 minute tops. This was because people stopped bothering to bypass the timer which, in turn, destroyed any long login queues and made it so people didn't want to bother setting up their conversation with their retainer before they went to work knowing they would be logged off when they got home. SE, in essence, starved the problem from its cause - itself.

Originally Posted by znushu

As long as they keep things the way they are currently ingame, no they can't handle the influx. I'm already seeing this appear again more and more ever since the game started to pick up traction with popular streamers. which at the rate it's going it's only going to get worse and worse man.



If you ask me they really gotta revert back to how it was like in 1.0. instead of how it's like now with everything cut-up into like 2-6 separate instances including major cities.

I'm pretty sure reverting to single large cities would just make the problem worse.

Well after a few seconds of thought, it wouldn't really change anything because Stormblood and Shadowbringers' cities HAVE been one big instance instead of being split up. Presumably Sharlayan will be the same.

But yeah, making the old cities like that isn't really gonna do anything about influx of players. If anything, it would make it worse since making the cities 2 instances gives two instances to work with instead of EVERYONE being in the same single instance.