Cloud Data Center Stress Test Feedback Thread (November 2023)

[VitaminMT]

I played from the South Central US. While I personally didn't notice a large difference in latency between this and the live servers, I did have friends who had much better experiences on the cloud test. There were maybe a handful of instances where I thought to myself "I bet if I was back on Primal that would've hit me" after dodging something, but I didn't go too deep into testing.

There was one instance on Saturday where it seemed like the server had no picked up that I had used Triplecast, and I seemed to be hard casting Fire IV despite using the buff prior.

In general, I did enjoy getting to play with people from regions outside of the US on the cloud test server. Everyone was really nice, either through autotranslate or basic English chat, and it was an experience I haven't really had since I stopped playing FFXI. I doubt it's in consideration by the dev team, but it'd be nice if there was a sort of cross-regional server, maybe using a permanent Cloud DC, that encouraged people from around the world to play together.

Tested mainly 6.0 MSQ progression, including solo duties, and running all party duties except for The Dead Ends with other players while playing Black Mage. Ran The Dead Ends with a Duty Support group. Also ran a few Leveling and Trials roulette queues on Black Mage and Sage.

[VioletArrows]

I'm so far from both data centers that it makes almost no difference. I'm in Florida and my ping went from 85 to 61 (over wifi natch). I won't be able to see if I start rubberbanding and disconnecting (happens a lot, again wifi) until at least tomorrow night.

[DentiusChestus]

Well I suppose it makes sense that the login servers haven't also been adjusted to scale for getting more players through at a time yet. My ping seems lower so far due to the montreal IP being physically closer but most of the last two hours has been spent in the same queue.


Edit - ping is 25ish, server itself works well it seems. Cleared to bozja with a party running the prereq. raids. Doubt the servers are experiencing tons of players yet with how late it is but havent seen any DCs or weirdness yet.

[Hitakashi]

Well I suppose it makes sense that the login servers haven't also been adjusted to scale for getting more players through at a time yet. My ping seems lower so far due to the montreal IP being physically closer but most of the last two hours has been spent in the same queue.

Considering it doesn't seem to be creating new instances for starting zones to allow more players in, I'm not surprised the queue wasn't changed. If they didn't give out MSQ+Job books, I don't think the queue would be moving as it is now.

I have a feeling the move to cloud isn't for automatic instance scaling, but rather so they don't end up in the same spot during Endwalker where they couldn't procure more servers and had queues for days.

Anyways beyond that, the lower ping (120ms on Primal to 30-40ms) is absolutely night and day. Activities like Blunderville are a lot less "That didn't even hit me!".
I am a bit surprised they went with the east coast instead of splitting it in the middle and trying Dallas or Iowa.

[Krokov]

Well so far for me changing areas has been quite smooth and quick. So I'm thinking my ping is probably quite low. And there's very little latency so so far actually going pretty good.

[Zarkovitch]

IT LIKE DAY AND NIGHT ONLY COW IT GREAT

[Riguel]

Got to love waiting through over 3k in the queue, to finally make it in and click on the first book only to be logged out without warning and thrown back into the queue of over 3k.

[AdamuKun322]

Login queue is long to be expected, but based on what I'm seeing is they're letting between 50-65 players through their virtual load balancers. These being Cloud Servers running on a Hypervisor, there's lots of virtual elements to these servers so it seemed to be a smooth log in process. Will see how it is later today when I pop my other books.

[VioletArrows]

Got to love waiting through over 3k in the queue, to finally make it in and click on the first book only to be logged out without warning and thrown back into the queue of over 3k.

The warning was in the item's description that you didn't read.