What the hell SE

[Ayanne]

They are not going to lose a massive amount of players over this tiny issue. I would be surprised if anyone left because of it.

[Kluya15]

All this complaining. How about a big thank you to SE for giving us October for free? I for one am thankful, not only for the free month, but the actual option to vote on a poll for their decision to end it early. I voted no to them extending past Nov. 1st. Just let them do what they gotta do.

[Elexia]

All this complaining. How about a big thank you to SE for giving us October for free? I for one am thankful, not only for the free month, but the actual option to vote on a poll for their decision to end it early. I voted no to them extending past Nov. 1st. Just let them do what they gotta do.

We had over a year free, why thank them? If anything they should be charging the people who want the game back up.

[Kluya15]

We had over a year free, why thank them? If anything they should be charging the people who want the game back up.

Because they didn't have to give us a free month, and I really enjoy the game in it's current state, let alone the upcoming 2.0 goodness. Enough people bitch that they want this game F2P, and yet when Square gives something for free, no one says a peep. They just find something else to whine about. And let's face it, the "first free year" wasn't exactly the game we are playing now

[Delsus]

So basically, I can keep playing if I want, but anything I accomplish will be gone. I think not. You're going to lose a massive amount of players saying either a) you can't play for 2 months, particularly over the holiday when a lot of people have time off, or b) you can play, but we're just going to wipe out anything you accomplish.

It should not be that hard to migrate character data to the new system. People that play want to keep playing. I log in and fish in my spare time, or level some jobs, ie make progress in the game. That is completely pointless if you're just going to wipe it. It's like playing FF1 half way through, then the battery in your cartridge dies and you have to start over.

There has to be another way.

You obviously don't know much about Server structures etc, we have over 200,000 characters on these servers, which all need to be migrated without corruption, all of this character data will be a few terabytes in size, when was the last time you copied lets say 4TB between servers, it will take ages. Now lets add into the equation constantly changing data if they allow saves we would see ARR in about 1 year. You cannot have the data changing if you want ARR out soon.

The most recent datacenter I have seem (I was in there yesterday) had over 150TB of storage for a few thousand users, I don't know how much data our server side accounts are for FFXIV but it will be a lot, if its just 1GB, we would be looking at 200TB of data to transfer, the time frame is acceptable, and anyone that doesn't think this obviously knows nothing about it.

SE isn't doing this like a normal company would because they can't, if a company was migrating this much data to new servers they would do it in parts, so data on xxx drive gets copied one night, xxx drive another, weekends you might be able to migrate more drives, and over time the migration will be complete and you can decommission the old servers. What this means though is during the migration some people will be running on old servers and some on new ones, which SE cannot do and that is why they need the game to not be saving for 1-2 months.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

You got to remember about those other people who never played 1.0 but they have bought, registered and played like few seconds of the game. =.= they too may be potential customers.

[Seif]

Seriously just take it down whenever you feel like it SE.

They have several times told about the cost of maintaining servers and I just hope they don't take too big of a hit to their wallet for keeping the servers up for these trivial reasons.

Focus on ARR with all your might and have a long alpha and beta phase for once.

1.0 was what it was let's give them time and resources to make ARR as good as it can be. With freed up server assets they can probably test even the large scale battles server wide AH systems and all that crazy stuff.

Let 1.0 go, don't be selfish and think about the long haul people. Please.

There are plenty of games you can play in the holiday season in the meantime. FF I-XI are still out there on your shelf luring you in with Uematsu songs.

[Niyariko]

If the server keeps running even any of my data wont be move over to the new 2.0, I'll use this time to take more screen shots of the environments, video capture of all the cutscenes that I've been thru. With keeping the server running it can buy me more time on doing stuff like this, I wont exactly be progressing in the game, but will just enjoy the last bit of 1.0.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

If the server keeps running even any of my data wont be move over to the new 2.0, I'll use this time to take more screen shots of the environments, video capture of all the cutscenes that I've been thru. With keeping the server running it can buy me more time on doing stuff like this, I wont exactly be progressing in the game, but will just enjoy the last bit of 1.0.

you actually do have.... starting from 1st of Novemeber to 11th of November, the game is not going to be save.. lol but then again.. maybe you want more time.. then this is the time i guess... .

[Nero]

you actually do have.... starting from 1st of Novemeber to 11th of November, the game is not going to be save.. lol but then again.. maybe you want more time.. then this is the time i guess... .

I will just go and blow all my gear, trying to max meld them XD. just for shit and giggles. will never have the chance again to blow up everything i have, without actually losing it.