Give US/EU more servers! JP Do not need 25!

[Aero877]

MMO devs should know by now that the masses will migrate to a new MMO during launch week. When will they finally prepare their servers for the shock??

IF they just would have beefed up the servers before EA,....then all these maintenances wouldnt be needed. Its not really saving them any money by limiting server load, only to have to increase the load capacity during EA. It just delays the cost, and interrupts gaming. XD

[Fyreus]

Oh man... Imagine launch day when all 25 servers go down and all 25 partially occupied jp servers start getting new people.

[EzraA]

[MutznNutz]

I have 2 chars.

One on Moogle (EU), one on Atomos (JP)

To date (Throughout Beta 4 and so far in EA)

Moogle - Always a queue to log in (lowest I seen was 15 in line, highest was 156)
Atomos - Never had to queue, always direct log in.

Moogle - Very laggy, huge numbers of people competing for mobs (yes I know you can "share" but with 6 people hitting on 1 mob, it does not last long enough to get credit)
Atomos - Take your pick of mobs, most I have had to compete with was 1 other JP who was very polite and we shared cures/pulling for 30 mins.

Moogle - Had 3102 error (22hrs), 90000 error (current for 2hrs), "Instance crash", repeated "Lost connection to server" messages.
Atomos - yet to drop connection or be unable to log in.

I do not agree that the JP servers need to be either shut down and/or given to EU/NA players.
But SE truly does need to add at least another 5 servers to the current number of NA/EU list to spread the playerbase around somewhat.

[Lexxuk]

I think using Moogle as an example is a bit unfair as I understand it's the "unofficial" UK server so it's always going to be overloaded. I'm on Durandal (Legacy/JP) and it's overflowing - with queues, you can't move for people. If you picked a popular server you can't really complain that there are too many people on it, go for a less popular server although if SE add new servers you'll have the starting zones overwhelmed with people who switched....... it's a no-win situation (though more legacy would be nice with legacy to legacy x-fers).

[SinsVorkag]

There's far too many players on many servers. It's always like this because the choices are always short to begin with, friends want to play with friends, and communities of friends want to play with other communities of friends. There should always be a good decent transfer of spill overs to newly created servers to allow these groups to move together. Before it ends up being completely full with random moves. A good organized strategy of transferring is better than any strategy to transfer which is then better than absolutely no strategy.

[Sziadan]

I'm on Cerberus, I haven't experienced any noticeable lag and I were not a victim of the 3102 error during phase 4..
However, now (during Early Access) I've encountered the 90000 (d/c) error and I've constantly been waiting in queue when trying to login (highest queue have been around 250 for me).

I've also been forced to compete over monsters, we've been like 20 people trying to kill the same monsters, which gets rough when there's like 3 of them spawning once per minute or so. And, obviously, had problem with the duty finder like everyone else.

So comparing it to moogle is fine, since it's probably the same story on all the servers right now.

[Selyndria]

Guys, this is clearly an issue of Square under estimating the load that the NA/EU users would be putting on their systems. Square is in this business to make money, not to see how long people will endure crappy service before quitting. I guarantee you they will add additional server capacity to their data center to handle whatever load is placed on them. This is typical of an MMO launch. I think we can all agree that everyone is excited to play this great game. Give them some time. The bugs will be worked out and before you know it the queues and errors will be something everyone talks about and all in the past. It's not gonna happen in 8 hours but it will within the first week or so of service. They will also be opening world transfers. It will all balance out. Anyone that has played wow has probably seen the free world transfer offers etc. Gotta balance the load. It'll happen. Looking forward to this being the next awesome MMO and playing for years to come.

[Krimzin]

If you had noticed.. JP server came down prior to US servers. So they implemented the fix there first.

[indira]

populations
USA(not counting mexico, canada, south america) - 300 million
EU (not counting russia)- 500 million
800 million people worth of possible players

JP - 130 million

and we have the same amount of servers.