Cloud Data Center Stress Test Feedback Thread (November 2023)

[Kaitlen]

3234 in queue, so pretty annoying so far.

Because everyone has to use books which triggers logout and back to the queue again.
Probably temporary.

[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.

[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.

[Helnix]

It's so nice to play the game fluidly, it feels like another game to me. I was playing with 190ms on Primal data center, now in cloud data center is 130ms. I even discovered that I can hit mobs while the tank pulls without me being interrupted in the middle of the attack lmao

I had no packet loss, no players teleporting, no mechanic issues in 3 hours since the test was released. At the moment it's been a great experience

[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.

[Emeria_Clemente]

I play from Puerto Rico and it feels like a whole new game. Ping is around 70-80ms, down from my usual 120-130 to Aether. I mostly play CC and having abilities go off instantly is a game changer. So far I havent had any issues so far. Also load times between zones seem to be really fast now.