DEMAND REFUND FOR DAYS NOT BEING ABLE TO PLAY

[Mapleine]

The incredible part is that this hasn't happened before with FFXIV. The HW and SB and even ShB launches were very smooth. I've been playing since 2.2 (and in 1.0) and have never seen anything like this before. It's a set of really unfortunate circumstances. The only good news here is that the game is tremendously popular - unless people who hate it are logging in just to hate it. I don't know at this point!

How can Square-Enix (or any other company, or person) buy more servers when there are just no chips available to make the machines in the quantities needed? It's not a matter of just adding 3 machines here, or 10 there. When you add capacity to a data centre at this level, you lease a whole floor at once, a massive number of racks. If you can't fill those racks with machines, then leasing empty space is a cost few accountants or CFOs would be happy to approve.

This is almost exactly what happened during the ARR launch, funny enough.

Still, you can't treat the problem with more hardware. Especially temporary floods of activity. There's a reason MMOs usually have troubled launches.

It'll fade within a few days, my only real regret is until then I have to hear all the WoW refugees threatening to punch holes in walls or throw an outright tantrum over 60 cents of subscription fees.

[Freki42]

This is almost exactly what happened during the ARR launch, funny enough.

Still, you can't treat the problem with more hardware. Especially temporary floods of activity. There's a reason MMOs usually have troubled launches.

It'll fade within a few days, my only real regret is until then I have to hear all the WoW refugees threatening to punch holes in walls or throw an outright tantrum over 60 cents of subscription fees.

PSST for the 14.99 subscription it's 50 cents for the 24 hours.. not 60 hehehehehe (sorry had to try to make you laugh)

but storm blood was NOT smooth.... there were people overloading the queues trying to talk to Raubaun in the game that they were in queue for instance space for so long the servers kicked them out!!!! there were LOTS of problems with everthing here and people are forgetting that, so lets be real there is always something people complain about... look up raubaun extreme memes

[ApeKing]

...there were LOTS of problems with everthing here and people are forgetting that,

The only people who forgot about that were Squeenix because they obviously didn't learn anything from it lol