Response to Congestion (as of Dec. 15)

[Reyn]

2002 rearing its ugly head all the way from 1.0 LOL I cannot believe. Endwalker truly brought us full circle

[Puremallace]

2002 rearing its ugly head all the way from 1.0 LOL I cannot believe. Endwalker truly brought us full circle

I mean they did say Endwalker would close out a storyline going all the way back to the start of FF14. I doubt they understood just how accurate this statement would be.

[Sclair0]

We are aware that the long waiting times to log into the game are preventing players from playing, and for this, we sincerely apologize. In response to this, we recently granted 7 days of game time, but now we will also be granting an additional 14 days.

Not really clear if thats 7+7 = 14 Total. Or 7 + 14 = 21 Total. I think I might just be dumb though.

I'm pretty impressed and happy they're continuing to add playtime. I've always leaned more towards the casual side of play and am currently broke as fuuuck so a couple extra days before paying for my next lot of playtime is deeply appreciated.

Suspending sales is quite a shocker. I wonder if it's a solidarity move "Look we'll try to get it stable, we wont sell any more copies till we get it working" or a genuine "There are still too many people jumping on board" type of thing. Maybe both. Suspending advertisements too is even more crazy to me.

[Arazehl]

Not really clear if thats 7+7 = 14 Total. Or 7 + 14 = 21 Total. I think I might just be dumb though.

I'm pretty impressed and happy they're continuing to add playtime. I've always leaned more towards the casual side of play and am currently broke as fuuuck so a couple extra days before paying for my next lot of playtime is deeply appreciated.

Suspending sales is quite a shocker. I wonder if it's a solidarity move "Look we'll try to get it stable, we wont sell any more copies till we get it working" or a genuine "There are still too many people jumping on board" type of thing. Maybe both. Suspending advertisements too is even more crazy to me.

That is 14 additional days added onto the 7 day first promised.

[basilbc]

Not really clear if thats 7+7 = 14 Total. Or 7 + 14 = 21 Total. I think I might just be dumb though.

I'm pretty impressed and happy they're continuing to add playtime. I've always leaned more towards the casual side of play and am currently broke as fuuuck so a couple extra days before paying for my next lot of playtime is deeply appreciated.

Suspending sales is quite a shocker. I wonder if it's a solidarity move "Look we'll try to get it stable, we wont sell any more copies till we get it working" or a genuine "There are still too many people jumping on board" type of thing. Maybe both. Suspending advertisements too is even more crazy to me.

It's 21 I think, the wording is very specifically "in addition to".

And your situation is exactly why I won't complain or be negative about the extra gametime. I'm glad you get the extra two weeks to play

[Akiudo]

Not really clear if thats 7+7 = 14 Total. Or 7 + 14 = 21 Total. I think I might just be dumb though.

"we recently granted 7 days of game time, but now we will also be granting an additional 14 days." =we allready gave you 7, we'll give you 14 more=7+14=21.
that's what they say, and if they mean anything else than it's not only worded unclear but objectively wrong.

[TristanX]

One more big issue is coming. Log4j. I wonder if FF14 servers are affected.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...ity/index.html

[GreatMonkey]

"We are considering adding servers to each region, especially plans for a large-scale addition in North America and Europe, and will be looking at the number of servers, infrastructure construction time, power issues, and server rack situation to see if we should do this sequentially or in one big push. Either way, the plan is to introduce a large number of additions, which we intend to carry out quickly and safely with as minimal inconvenience to our players as possible, and we will follow up regarding this matter as we progress."

This makes me think they are going to move the NA DC again?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

"We are considering adding servers to each region, especially plans for a large-scale addition in North America and Europe, and will be looking at the number of servers, infrastructure construction time, power issues, and server rack situation to see if we should do this sequentially or in one big push. Either way, the plan is to introduce a large number of additions, which we intend to carry out quickly and safely with as minimal inconvenience to our players as possible, and we will follow up regarding this matter as we progress."

This makes me think they are going to move the NA DC again?

No, they'd just be adding more racks to the space they rent in the current physical data center. The one I work in took a year to prep space for new equipment, and that itself was several million dollars, and thats before the server purchases. But it depends on what the setup is. We gutted spaces and had to redo electrical circuits.

[TalithaSolarien]

One more big issue is coming. Log4j. I wonder if FF14 servers are affected.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...ity/index.html

My guess is that very, very few games are using Java, esp. not at the backend. While possible doing this with this code is usually written other languages not affected by that thingy ....