Thread: 2.0 Unfinished - Server shutdown in Novemeber

Perhaps this conversation with my linkshell mates got out of hand yesterday but there's something I don't quite understand about our shutdown in November.

Perhaps one of you lovely ladies can help me to piece this together!

As we already know, FFXIV's servers will stop saving on the 1st November to transfer character data to 2.0.

The reason for the shutdown is less thrilling than you might think. "Basically the player data will be taken over into the new game. So, to convert all this new data for the new systems, we need a certain amount of time to do this. There's so much data, so many thousands of characters that we must do this for. And so we have to shut down the servers," he said.

Yet according to our last Letter from the Producer the Alpha hasn't even began!

I may only be speaking for myself here but we seem to be getting the same message from XIV's team whenever a question is asked and that is "We don't know yet".

Perhaps this is just paranoia and anxiety but it feels like the game isn't going to be ready for Alpha anytime soon. Please note that the word feel is the operative word and I have nothing to back that up.

I'm not exactly the most competent when it comes to understanding servers.
Would it be possible that our character details are going to be transferred to 2.0's servers before the game has actually been made so it can all be thrown together immediately or is this just a case of 2.0 is taking longer to construct than planned and the server shutdown has been placed too far ahead of schedule ultimately meaning that when the game is ready we will be waiting another month for character transfers.

I feel like this post is coming across extremely selfish as Yoshida’s team are doing everything they can do for their adoptive child suffering a premature birth but I can’t help but feel like this doesn’t quite add up.

Um, they dont need to have all things ready for alpha..the transferred character period is for Beta phase. Sure it may delayed, but I think they will meet their schedule with Alpha phase

So using that logic we should have had an Alpha by December and beta would be popping up by Christmas

Potentially.

Originally Posted by Fadigre

I'm not exactly the most competent when it comes to understanding servers.
Would it be possible that our character details are going to be transferred to 2.0's servers before the game has actually been made so it can all be thrown together immediately or is this just a case of 2.0 is taking longer to construct than planned and the server shutdown has been placed too far ahead of schedule ultimately meaning that when the game is ready we will be waiting another month for character transfers.

Originally Posted by yukikaze_yanagi

chill out man <_< character transfer go parallely to beta. One thing don't exclude another.

That's pretty much all I was looking for although I think you misunderstood the question ~
Danke

Although on another note...
Telling somebody to chill out doesn't tend to actually cause somebody to chill out.
Thank you for assuming I'm a quivering, useless wreck. It's okay, I forgive you.
We can still be friends.

Originally Posted by darkm0d

The worst part of this, and I speak for every single FFXIV player -- is that no matter how damn hard you want ARR in your hands we all know deep down that Yoshi and his team, and Square enix as a whole really cannot afford to release it until it's absolutely finished.

They of course want to meet deadlines and expectations, but they are willing to break deadlines if it means delivering the finished product we all really want. You can rant and rave, you can speculate and grow impatient, but just remember to take it week by week and remind yourself that every day you're not yet playing ARR is a day that the game becomes better to play.

Yeah, I agree with you there. I think after what the game has been through with 1.0 that the majority of the community are concerned and have every right to be.

But with that being said it's not 2.0's release that I'm thinking about. What I was hunting for was reasoning behind why our servers are going down and if the 01/11/12 really was the very last day they can save. I've friends running around all over the place fishing for their achievements before they go and others striving to take down Garuda with their strategies before the engine change through fear of having to start at step 1 all over again.

But it looks like they've given us as long as they can and they have to stop our data come November. It's a shame but looks like we'll just have to prepare for it.


And sorry, Yukikaze, I pretty much abused shocking words there to remain in control of my thread but it looks like you're actually quite nice and I feel horribly guilty as a result!