Launch Day at SE

[Ticks]

I can only imagine the offices at SE on launch day. The moment they flip the switch, start the projector and watch the stars on the big screen start logging in. Open the flood gates because here they come!

I just want to express my joy, excitement and thanks to everyone at Square Enix for working so hard to bring our game back to us. Thank you for making your dreams our reality.

I would love to be able to experience August 27 inside the SE building. So...someone in the office have your video recorder ready and take as many videos of the official launch day at Square Enix! Really^^.

[Neasa]

And then... Emergency maintenance!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[finiteHP]

And then... Emergency maintenance!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Naw. Maintenance will have to wait until someone wakes up. They'll all be catching up on years of missed sleep.

[Hysterior]

when we see how the final 1.0 event went and how the Beta started I guess we can expect some network problem at start...

[Yrusama]

Part of me is expecting some one to collapse from the pressure, but we won't hear about it.

And yeah, I wouldn't be shocked if there's some sort of server crash, but I don't see it as a huge problem as long as I'm there to witness it all going online.

[Kinseykinz]

Actually, I firmly believe the servers will be stable.

1. They have been really good in phases 2+ at directing people to only start in worlds where there is room for more people in starter areas.
-Rotating the Names of the Worlds so the same World isn't always 'on top'
-Locking out world options if that particular world's starting areas are full/server stability issues

2. Early Access while only from the 24-26th officially is supposed to 'carry through' into launch with no downtime. So it seems like on 8/27/13 at maybe JA midnight, we'll just now have access to the full game, no patcher/update etc. Meaning many of us will already be logged in and playing.

3. Even if there are updates/maintence, unless you are in a populated starting area and/or spamming the login when it goes live, you'll get in fairly easily


4. Beta 4 limiting character progress to level 20 and only being roughly a weekend long. This will force many people to level at least 2-4 classes to 20...but it gives them enough time to get at least one class to 20 and out of the starting areas.


My point, even at launch of 1.0 and it's Early Access, when everyone was level 0 to start, there was a huge amount of lag but typically, you could log in and get into the game....no whether you could play it with the lag, that was a different story. But judging from Beta 2-3 starting weekends, they really seem to have fixed those 1.0 issues. And Beta 2-3 was when we all were forced to start in the same zone(s) at level 1 and begin to level like banchees. Add in the new variables that now a decent-sized portion of the population will be level 20+ on every server, and past the 'beginning CS's/leveling/storyline...and server load is lessened even a bit further.


The trick is if the level 20-30ish DF is ready for the onslaught :P

[Lucke]

I just hope Yoshi and co. get a well deserved paid vacation that doesn't eat up his sick leave.

[Bitty]

I agree it would be interesting to see. It seems like there is soooooo much riding on it.

[Goufunaki]

All those overworked programmers and designers can finally get some rest, I'm hoping. It's been a long time having to remake the game all over.

[shanvhere]

Flips switch, watching log in crowd hits 500,000. The next week highest log in 2,000.