Response to Congestion (as of Dec. 15)

[Jybril]

A bug related to something from 1.0? We can never escape it, can we?

This game still runs on some of 1.0's stuff.
So no, we really can't.

[Larirawiel]

This game still runs on some of 1.0's stuff.
So no, we really can't.

In Software old means not necessarily bad. Often using old and tested code is better than rewriting a functionality from scratch. Here is a very good blog post which covers this:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/...ver-do-part-i/


Cheers

[Hasrat]

Yup, had a feeling it was spaghetti-code related. And would agree with previous sentiment that very possibly could've been left ignored or unknown due to the extreme circumstances it took to rear up.

It's been a rough launch, but hey, maybe with any luck it end result will be even greater stability.

Really hope they're planning for more EU servers than NA. I'm sure we both need them, but even as an NA player I can recognize EU is having a bad time. Especially since I'd wager OCE would manage to siphon more players out of NA than EU.

[Larirawiel]

It is propably this bug:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ver-side-issue

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

It is not a bug, it is a feature.


Cheers

[TristanX]

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 ....

It is propably this bug:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ver-side-issue
It is not a bug, it is a feature.
Cheers

I hope they are ready if they used log4j.

[Vahlnir]

It's probably terrible of me, but I'm kind of hoping we get almost a full month free out of this. But I will live is that doesn't happen. I'd rather have the current state of the game improve above just about everything else. I'm glad to see that they are supposedly addressing the issue with more servers and such. They...kinda had to, honestly. It was basically rinsing money down the drain if they stuck to their current course. I had a bit of a hunch that their search for the right equipment was being put into overdrive. It's nice seeing that confirmed.

[MilkieTea]

Yup, had a feeling it was spaghetti-code related. And would agree with previous sentiment that very possibly could've been left ignored or unknown due to the extreme circumstances it took to rear up.

It's been a rough launch, but hey, maybe with any luck it end result will be even greater stability.

Really hope they're planning for more EU servers than NA. I'm sure we both need them, but even as an NA player I can recognize EU is having a bad time. Especially since I'd wager OCE would manage to siphon more players out of NA than EU.

Surpsingly I’ve noticed more players in EU than NA will be going to OCE. Seems ping from OCE-> EU is better than OCE->NA. Though that’s entirely anecdotal, make of that what you will.

[MilkieTea]

It's probably terrible of me, but I'm kind of hoping we get almost a full month free out of this. But I will live is that doesn't happen. I'd rather have the current state of the game improve above just about everything else. I'm glad to see that they are supposedly addressing the issue with more servers and such. They...kinda had to, honestly. It was basically rinsing money down the drain if they stuck to their current course. I had a bit of a hunch that their search for the right equipment was being put into overdrive. It's nice seeing that confirmed.

Shhh, don’t jinx it I’m hoping we get another week of Bad Times TM so we get another free week tacked on too.

[Vahlnir]

Shhh, don’t jinx it I’m hoping we get another week of Bad Times TM so we get another free week tacked on too.

Somehow I don't think that will be an issue, but I will knock on some wood for good measure.

[MilkieTea]

Somehow I don't think that will be an issue, but I will knock on some wood for good measure.

Phew. If there’s one good thing to come out of the forum dumpster-firing itself, it’s that they were loud enough to give everyone free playtime.

Side note, your Midlander is looking especially stubbly! I kind of prefer it to your Highlander