Unlock Aether NOW

[Venandi]

I suggest you read this to get some actual understanding of the situation.
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...34483dabdcc490

Getting new servers is not all that easy right now - and obviously they can't buy just any old hardware, it has to be something with the right specifications whatever they are. And I think you seriously underestimate what they cost.
Oh, and just adding new servers to a data centre can't be done beyond a certain point, because all the worlds in a given datacentre share instance servers which handle all the instanced group content. They can only handle so many players at a time.

1. This is an emergency we don't have the luxury to make everything fit in the data center. They can just code the server to be another specification for now or leave them on the floor if they don't fit.

2. If there aren't enough instance servers then just buy more on Amazon.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

1. This is an emergency we don't have the luxury to make everything fit in the data center. They can just code the server to be another specification for now or leave them on the floor if they don't fit.

2. If there aren't enough instance servers then just buy more on Amazon.

Yes, because renewed old server hardware is definitely what will be used.


You should go back to talking about seasons. You have more knowledge about that.

[Venandi]

Yes this is a troll thread. Just lock it.

Wows servers cost are estimated years ago to be 120,000+ a day so adjusting for times probably closer to 180k+ I'd imagine ff14 has a similar expense. This guy wants them to just amazon servers and throw them in..

Doesn't work that way.

Yes that's the electricity and coding cost, not the actual server cost. Go and find any server on Amazon that is 120k USD.

[EverQuest]

Wow server blades in 2007 where estimated to be around 15k a piece. Also they don't need to buy anything and return it. That would be a huge pain. I'd imagine the IT team has discussed what they want for this project. I'm happy you where able to amazon up some examples, but the reality is that's not the route there taking whether or not the route could function in theory is irrelevant. As someone with a friend that's the Director of IT at microage that routinely sells to blizzard I can assure you this amazon method isn't the route there taking. If you'd like I'll see if he can ballpark some of blizzards expenses, the last time I asked it was in the multi millions though.

So unfortunately even if somehow they we're able to amazon plug in play this in a day as suggested it doesn't matter because that's not the route they're taking.

When you run SE you can change it up. Right now you can vote with your wallet and unsubscribe.

[Jeeqbit]

As someone with a friend that's the Director of IT at microage that routinely sells to blizzard I can assure you this amazon method isn't the route there taking.

Maybe your friend could help Square Enix.

[MistakeNot]

Yes that's the electricity and coding cost, not the actual server cost. Go and find any server on Amazon that is 120k USD.

Amazon don't sell that kind of servers - and that is the point. Amazon don't sell any servers that could do the job.

[Venandi]

What makes you think those servers are in any way suitable? Besides, when buying servers from something like this you buy from a reliable vendor. Not from Amazon.

They have free returns and refunds on Amazon. If it doesn't work then just refund it. How hard is that?

[Venandi]

Sometimes it makes you wonder about the person sitting behind the screen and what their thought process must be like overall to post nonsense like this.

Just the thought that a huge multi-billion dollar company is going to immediately unlock the servers on their game because Venandi on the forums demanded "NOW" in caps. Or the assumption that an entire company has been struggling to locate servers for months but not one of their entire professional workforce had forum user Venandi's intelligence to type "server" into Amazon, so now the problem has been instantly solved.

I mean ...just ...what?

It's because the forums lack so much common sense that people don't see the obvious solution so Square Enix is constantly getting the wrong feedback. It's not their fault, it's literally because the forums keep making posts that are incoherent and wrong. People keep talking about a silicon shortage on the forums and so Square Enix believed them.

[Lanadra]

Instead of buying new servers why is the game punishing players by locking up the servers? All of Aether is now congested, which means no one can make new characters on or even transfer to Aether.

The players have given you so much money. Why don't you just buy new servers? Silicon shortage is an excuse when you can easily find a lot of servers on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RJT19GS...3CMZKH965SVHWQ

All you need to do is to buy the servers and ship it to the data center then connect them to a power supply. Seriously how hard is that? Instead we're punished as players. We only need 4 or 5 more servers to alleviate the congestion. That's like $3000 including shipping. The game makes like millions of dollars. This is a drop in the ocean. We need to demand them to buy new servers on Amazon and unlock Aether NOW.

*insert some joke about winter here*

[RitsukoSonoda]

OP seems to like putting their foot in their mouth on the forum by making posts like this where all they do is demonstrate their lack of knowledge or intelligence.