Unlock Aether NOW

[Seraphor]

Oh shit here we go again

I would be lying if I said I didnt expect the seasons and math troll to make a thread on this.

Pretty hilarious they think SE buy their server hardware on amazon. I'm sure they have their own vendors to go to.

I'm pretty sure SE can just go down to Best Buy and buy a couple more servers to plug in. It's not that difficult. /s

[Nothv13]

I'm pretty sure SE can just go down to Best Buy and buy a couple more servers to plug in. It's not that difficult. /s

Funny story, Dark Age of Camelot launch back in the day, the devs literally did just that, except I believe it was circuit city they ended up going to.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Itsgigglez]

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

[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

[Gameovers]

It also arguably requires a decent understanding of human behaviour and psychology. Knowing what buttons to press and so on. Granted, large segments of the FFXIV community do not appear to be particularly difficult to rile up but the point stands, I think.

I'd also note that more than a few supposed 'trolls' are, in fact, likely just regular players who recognised that even if they make legitimate threads then the same posters eager to cry foul about 'trolling' will show up to dismantle any and all suggestions made towards the game.

It's quite fascinating, really - I wonder if anybody else has noticed a pattern where some of the same individuals constantly keeping threads such as this one active just so happen to be amongst those who rush to shoot down constructive threads as well?

If people are serious about wanting to clean up this forum then I think they need to stop responding to what they claim are 'troll threads' and avoid stifling constructive threads.

This issue you're going to have is everyone's idea of reasonable construction threads is different so it'll never be solved.

[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.