Quote Originally Posted by nasomi View Post
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.