Unlock Aether NOW

[Sotaris]

You're que times aren't even affected by this lock out though. Heck you're not even part of the affected data center. Everyone knows there will be que times come November. There will also most likely be a few instanced zones. I don't think many could have predicted the game becoming so popular let alone Blizzard shooting themselves in the foot.

To be fair, in EU we're facing bad queues overall but it has nothing to do with this subject. Nor would their approach to aquire said hardware work on...amazon lol

[SannaR]

To be fair, in EU we're facing bad queues overall but it has nothing to do with this subject. Nor would their approach to aquire said hardware work on...amazon lol

Oh I know it does. Why I pointed out that their cry about que times aren't affected by Aether being locked. Their posts so far make me raise a brow as why complain about que times in a troll thread asking for the lock down to be removed.

[IckeDerTyp]

Social distance that DC!

Relax OP am sure you'll get to make erp alts again so soon!

It's a joke, just to make sure you get it.

Cheers ^^

[Breakbeat]

Order servers off Amazon. Holy crap, that's gotta be one of the best responses (on the Bizarro scale) to a server congestion thread I have ever seen, anywhere, on anyone's forums, in the last decade.

Yeah, just Amazon the parts.

Server infrastructure for MMOs includes all of the following, each of which must be purchased and maintained separately:

- Authentication servers
- Database servers
- Map servers
- Instance servers

...and probably more that I'm not privy to. A global MMO like FFXIV will require multiples of each of the above in order to "expand a datacenter," and that's just the initial purchase price. They'd then need to calculate maintenance, operating costs and upkeep for the foreseeable future. Then, all of that needs to be extrapolated into something the finance team can approve (or disapprove, and require a revision).

Delivery would be a bit more than your local UPS driver dropping off a large box at SE headquarters. It'd be several trucks, or a semi, and there will be forklifts involved to offload the new hardware.

Amazon it. LMFAO. SE, make sure you have Prime for quick delivery.

Hahahaha.

[ICountFrom0]

Delivery would be a bit more than your local UPS driver dropping off a large box at SE headquarters. It'd be several trucks, or a semi, and there will be forklifts involved to offload the new hardware.

Hahahaha.

Honestly? They probably have a spec of specific parts that have to be filled exactly, so that every blade is running exactly the same parts, so the spare parts at each center are as interchangeable as possible. So they have an entire cargo container FILLED with ready to run machines that's then trucked over, attached to power, tested, retested, brought up to spec, and then given the images. Then retested, then networked with the existing center.

Even if they got it delivered NOW, figure at least a week and a 8 hour downtime.

[HolyReign]

I like Aether DC, just the way it is. I believe it should stay LOCKED, to allow other DC's Worlds to experience some growth in new faces, sounds pretty grand to me.

[Skiros]

I like Aether DC, just the way it is. I believe it should stay LOCKED, to allow other DC's Worlds to experience some growth in new faces, sounds pretty grand to me.

"growth in new faces"

you mean becoming even more diluted and unable to clear anything in pf

[Itsgigglez]

No, its Aethers turn to stay in jail. Crystal has been locked up for far too long.

[DBriggs304]

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.

It's more than simply buying new servers. Players aren't being punished at all. Pick another data center and go.

[Stepjam]

They've literally said multiple times that they can't buy any servers because nobody is selling them. There's a major shortage of parts needed to make more servers because covid shut down the mining operations for certain minerals needed and they haven't gotten back up to speed yet.