Good going Square !

[Stormpeaks]

free world transfer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That does not work that way... Lol.

I used DC travel, and it worked, now I cant go back to my home DC.

[Jojoya]

That does not work that way... Lol.

I used DC travel, and it worked, now I cant go back to my home DC.

Hopefully their experience with the problems when World Visit was first implemented will help them get the current problems fixed faster.

[Kranel_San]

I really am glad this game has internal testers and that every patch is tested thoroughly.

Tried to DC travel from Chaos to Light, got error 505 at the end, which is fine, I restart the game, now I am unable to log on any character and any account on any datacenter, error 505 immediately and the game closes.

Well done.

I'm kind of hyped to test Data center travel, but here's a tip. Do NOT try any server-like features as I was afraid something like this would happen and currently waiting for either some fixes to happen or for a couple of days to pass and the hype gets down before attempting the feature myself.

[Kes13a]

I think 15,000 people a minute is the root cause.. maybe my thoughts on it, but let just blame QA instead lol

[LianaThorne]

I think 15,000 people a minute is the root cause.. maybe my thoughts on it, but let just blame QA instead lol

They know their game population and how many people usually log on for the release of patches. Yes, 15k people trying to use it at the same time is the cause but that doesn't excuse not taking more measures to stress test the servers properly to account for the high population the game has.

[Jojoya]

They know their game population and how many people usually log on for the release of patches. Yes, 15k people trying to use it at the same time is the cause but that doesn't excuse not taking more measures to stress test the servers properly to account for the high population the game has.

How do you suggest they accomplish such a massive stress test with their available staff and equipment?

Even WoW would fail at identifying problems during their stress tests on their PTR with thousands of users participating.

[LianaThorne]

How do you suggest they accomplish such a massive stress test with their available staff and equipment?

Even WoW would fail at identifying problems during their stress tests on their PTR with thousands of users participating.

I'm not a dev or an expert and won't claim to be or answer anything related to it. Just saying, there should be some way to stress test this stuff. If they can't, put a big warning in bold to warn people that it runs the risk of their characters being stuck in other DCs. That way, no one is shocked or angry that they can't go home or potentially lose access to their characters temporarily. It's a risk they're informed about.

If you'd like to answer your own question though, be my guest.

[Shibi]

How do you suggest they accomplish such a massive stress test with their available staff and equipment?

As well as just using math, capacity tests are usually automated to verify the calculations. You use a daemon that properly simulates a user doing it and you push that to the breaking point. Of course, that means that a 100% valid QA environment is available, something that the zero-bug showed doesn't exist.

[Akira_Kojima]

I really am glad this game has internal testers and that every patch is tested thoroughly.

Tried to DC travel from Chaos to Light, got error 505 at the end, which is fine, I restart the game, now I am unable to log on any character and any account on any datacenter, error 505 immediately and the game closes.

Well done.

Day one feature moment

[Jeeqbit]

Obviously it was tested, but SE doesn't have 15,000 testers every minute. It's unreasonable to expect that.