Servers Locked Again..!!

[Hyrist]

There were posts by Square Enix indicating that they would be implementing locks on high-yeild servers. None of this should come as a surprise to anyone who had put effort in researching. Nothing prevents anyone from playing on a different server, even temporarily until the locks are released - if they absolutely must enjoy the game with a locked out individual immediately.

Is it bothersome? Absolutely. Is it pathetic/horrendous/inconceivable/etc? No. It is not. This is launch, SE made the decision to encourage players to roll on newer servers. They were faced with a challenge between two significant inconveniences and they made a decision you did not agree with. That is all.

[Vaer]

Let's unlock the servers that are already at capacity so the thousand(s) or so people on the server can't play due to lag but everyone else can get in who also won't be able to play. Makes sense to me. If they could do without the lock, they would.

When they allow players to transfer, they should just give everyone a free one so people can go to their friends.

[fruhead]

Just a little reminder to everyone freaking out about launch/EA issues.

[VertexGeneral]

You fanboys fail to realize that the server locks are not due to lag or keeping the servers from crashing. The queues on the servers that are locked are no more than 50 people deep and the queues are there to keep the server from lagging or crashing. The character creation lock is not there to serve that purpose. The lock is for moving people to other servers. A role traditionally served by extremely long QUEUES. SE is doing something that no other recent MMO has done. They are refusing to let people create characters on the server that their friends/family/guild/FC are on because they deem that other servers need the people more. Well guess what fanboys and SE alike. That's not going to happen. People are getting frustrated and angry and they are instead leaving your game with bad words to speak to their friends about your handling of the launch. They are not following the shepherding to other servers because they would rather quit than play on a server apart from everyone they know.

[Vaer]

There's no way to win either way. If we trade the lock for a long queue, this thread would be about queues and people will still complain.

[moriandrio]

You fanboys fail to realize that the server locks are not due to lag or keeping the servers from crashing. The queues on the servers that are locked are no more than 50 people deep and the queues are there to keep the server from lagging or crashing. The character creation lock is not there to serve that purpose. The lock is for moving people to other servers. A role traditionally served by extremely long QUEUES. SE is doing something that no other recent MMO has done. They are refusing to let people create characters on the server that their friends/family/guild/FC are on because they deem that other servers need the people more. Well guess what fanboys and SE alike. That's not going to happen. People are getting frustrated andangry and they are instead leaving your game with bad words to speak to their friends about your handling of the launch. They are not following the shepherding to other servers because they would rather quit than play on a server apart from everyone they know.

If you would leave, that would be a favor for everyone!

[iBerserker]

Just happen to me right now

Connection with the server was lost. 90000

[Bamhead]

Just re-logged & can't even see the NA/EU servers, damn bugs & problems!
There are just to many people right now, like I said before.. Never seen so many people on the "first" day of a launch of an mmo

Let's all hope its fixed by tommorow
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RD

[BreyVoreas93]

This is starting to really get ridiculous. Now they are actually unable to keep PAYING customers playing, this is really unreal.

[Lycanar]

This is starting to really get ridiculous. Now they are actually unable to keep PAYING customers playing, this is really unreal.

I think they underestimated the fact that there are a lot of people out there who recently quit WoW and are looking for a new MMO to play. If Square Enix gets a fraction of the customers that left WoW in the last 6 months, in addition to what they were expecting, that could easily double the # of people playing the game.

The thing I don't get though, they should know exactly how many people pre-ordered the game so far. Therefore, they should be able to calculate demand and provide adequate server capacity. Unless there was a mad rush to buy the game in the last few days and they were unable to upgrade their data centers fast enough.

Perhaps, they underestimated the will of players to play right away, meaning the # of concurrent users opting to participate in early access as soon as it was available and thus pounding SE's servers to death for the past 7 hours.

Maybe they didn't underestimate, but just didn't feel like spending the money on it. They may have felt a little inconvenience to their customers is worth saving millions of $, especially when they expect the concurrent user count will diminish over time and the server load will take care of itself eventually.