The server is full, try again later (1017)

[paradighm]

Can anyone else hear ESO breathing a huge sigh of relief? XD

[Axiom]

Server (Moogle) is full for me too. I hate how it just kicks you out of the game without even putting you in a queue. It's like, "Haha you were too late! F' off!"
I was able to get in for a few hours earlier today, but now it's peak hours it's impossible until after midnight.

[Zydrate]

Should've known, man... I played FFXI and it was shit, too... I got excited after playing beta, but this is the most useless piece of shit I've ever bought. How do you talk someone into buying a game, and then not let them play it? Can you imagine the loss HALO would've incurred had they sold every customer a disk, and only half of them worked? You useless fucks.

[Chuy]

Excuse me? The server Cerberus (EU) just came back up from maintenance, and the first thing that happens is that it is full?
I dont even get a que. I feel like I'm scratching at the door like a wet pup. Let me in!

Do you mean this?



I want to play too . Stop blue balling me

[Shinalia]

SE could you please at least put me into a queue, rather than just the repeated server is full message? I don't care if I have to wait an hour or whatever, I can go make a sandwich.

This. It's even worse when you consider how the error is worded: "Please wait for an opening..." As if we get any sort of indication of server population. They're basically asking us to pound on the login server until we either get in or it breaks.

[Whey]

This is realy annoying, how could it be planed so bad that people cant even log in because EVERY server is now full. However I think its funny

error 1017 is the worst!

[HellRyu]

Most of you are expecting that SE "fix" the issues by programing and maintenance but let me inform you some things first.

First: It is not a software problem, they just don't have enough hardware (machinery) to run the population on NA servers. What happen is, they have the SAME number of severs/computers in Japan as they have in North America (those are all in Montreal, Canada). So that’s why Japan servers are not suffering login issues.

They BADLY underestimated how much players would play on THE REST OF THE WORLD and they may even had thought that they would have more japanese players than non-japanese. The servers just can't hold the amount of non-japanese players. There's no magic maintenance that can fix that. They HAVE to buy more machinery on Montreal and install it right away.

Second: You think I'm defending and justifying for SE? Not at all, and here's why.

This was a bad, baaaad move on their part. No respectable company start any kind of business without doing a SURVEY to estimate how many people are interested in the game. This kind of survey WORKS and its used on any kind of anything you sell to massive ammounts of people. Square Enix already KNOWS how much the Final Fantasy games were sold ever since more than 20 years ago and they also know that their last sales (FF12 and 13) were also well sold (at least "sold enough").

And "not doing the survey" or "underestimating the player base" maybe COULD be a lame excuse for them screwing up on this. But then, from the last beta, they immediately began to sell the PRE-ORDER and from monday to friday they already knew how much people would be LOGGING IN THE GAME because THEY BOUGHT THE GAME! And even then, from open beta until now, they didn't bought a single hardware to expand servers capacities. They're not showing sign of giving a single... ok I'm gonna say CARE, about non-japanese player base.

Third: Want to rage more? Look at this http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...d7c59b9e695188

Japanese servers ARE NOT getting overwhelmed by japanese logins, but they are PREDICTING that the player base THERE is getting bigger and so they are PREVENTING them from getting ANY login difficulties, by expanding the japanese servers in advance. So they're doing THERE what could and should be done on NA servers ever since open beta closed and ever since they knew EXACTLY how many people bought the game outside japan (and YES they know where every buyer comes from because they use IP recognition to build a graphics to know how the product is being sold on the world).

So yeah, even now, when they also don't have the excuse of "limited starting budget" because you ALREADY PRE-ORDERED THE GAME, they used the money to buy more hardware on Japan. So yeah, defend Square Enix all you want, but that’s what just happened. And I think that some day (and maybe not soon) they will buy hardware for NA datacenter and we'll all breathe calmly after weeks of headache...

But I just want you to remember this: you're not their priority, not by far.

I have 14 days of game time, why would I ever continue to sub after 14 days if I can barely get an hour of gameplay a day?

[Zydrate]

"Please wait until an opening is available" Yeah, cause we have a fucking queue to tell us how many players are in the game... What it should say is, "Randomly start the game and attempt to login because we are fucking incompetent assholes who sold you a pile of fecal matter that has no use."

[Belimawr]

surely a massive Q would be better than this as your still just going to have people keep trying again and again and again until they get in since as said there is no indication that there is ever a space for you.

[Dev]

Not a single post or reply that I can find about how they are addressing this situation.. All I ever see is "Login Restrictions" over and over.. Even Yoshi-P's apology said this is how they fix servers from overloading.. Restricting players from being able to play, great idea on their part..

And what the heck happened to the queue system? Even if they were restricting logins it would be so much better to sit in queue then playing the god damn lottery login..