Three things Square must do before August 27th.

[silverdrakes]

This isn't a rage topic, I'm not crying that I can't log into the game, and I'm not going to ragequit and get a refund for 30 lousy dollars.

Anyways... It appears that most of this shit is coming from the large amounts of players trying to log in on the NA/EU side (obviously) cause JP isn't really having these problems.. probably because there's less people all trying to log in at once.

However there is a few things Square hasn't done but they must do to sort this crap out...

1. First and foremost, what most other people have been saying on here... ADD A QUEUE. Just anything rather than that screen telling us the world is full, I'd much rather be waiting in a queue of 2000 people then having to go back to main screen and repeat. This would solve alot of problems.

2. Add more servers, I'm sure they can. They MUST before 27th, there's obviously a lot of people trying to play this game, and lets face it.. servers can only hold so many people.

3. Free transfers to the new servers that you add. Not free transfers to any server you want, that's how particular servers get overloaded with people. So if they REALLY want to balance the population out this would allow that to happen. Many people do not mind moving to a new server as long as they won't have any issues/all of their friends can transfer as well.

I strongly believe that these 3 things can solve most of these issues, and the in game issues that we were experiencing yesterday (like the instance bug) was most likely coming from server overloads.. So it will go a long way Square.

(Now lets just hope that they read this).
Thumbs up this if you agree! The only way we can be heard is if we are recognized.

First of all i dont think u ever Read their Maintence.. THEY HAVE A QUE but due to login limitation Queueing is out of the question...
2nd more servers ye.. more servers

[Ferrin]

*points knife at chocobo*

C'mon SE you can do it right, we know you got the power!

...Do it quick or the chocobo dies >:'C

[Klandaghi]

Like the OP to try to get more attention to this post. Square listened during the Beta's I don't think they'd mess that up now by trying to ignore us.

I think that picking one post to run with will help a lot. I posted my thoughts on G+ as a community share site. I'll add this link to that post for people to come here and Like as well.

Additions: I think that trying to move large communities to a new server will be beneficial. So maybe target large free companies for the transfers. It sounds like people picked server names they liked and a lot of people picked the same ones. As such, some servers are heavily congested, per YoshiP's apology, it sounds like there are some servers that are still low pop. So properly spreading out the population that they have will make things better as well, I believe.

https://plus.google.com/108988697401...ts/dJDS64xBH2e

[Tsuroku]

Also, a population counter in the Lobby for each server.
Most helpful, those are.

That awkward moment when you realize you just read that in Yoda's voice.

I like your idea and yes, Yoda's voice did pop in my head when I read that.

[TyrsofFayt]

Certainly need to do this (all great suggestions) because NOONE is going to want to pay a subscription to not be able to do anything and even dedicated fans like myself will eventually give up.

[Sahdee]

Also, a population counter in the Lobby for each server.
Most helpful, those are.

That awkward moment when you realize you just read that in Yoda's voice.

Strong with this one, the Force is.

[ErikGreaves]

I agree with these suggestions, they better do SOMETHING or there is going to a real disaster tomorrow

[Kidogo]

The thing is, they were only able to add the new servers so quickly during P4 because they anticipated it. They said it themselves. They basically had these servers all ready to go and only needed to flip a switch to add them to the list.

It's different this time. I don't think they genuinely thought they needed more than 50 worlds so it will take time for them to add new servers, if they choose to do so at all. Again, the issue is that half the servers are overloaded (NA/EU ones), yet the other half is underutilized (JP), so they're sitting on a lot of wasted space that people don't want to use because nobody wants to join a "Japanese" world.

If they don't add new servers, they need to abolish the silly JP/NA/EU labeling system so all servers can be used by all players in the world without the psychological barrier. Most people won't ever even notice the latency difference.

Good post! Thanks everyone for contributing!

[Hype]

During phase 4 I thought excalibur was over populated. I don't have EA but by the way everyone is making it seem like you can't log in at all. Kinda worried about launch now later tonight. Not flamming the game or anything because I still love it but they really should of made phase 4 alot longer to test than just 3 days.

[Acrimonia]

Regardless of adding new servers, I personally am STILL stuck trying to get ONTO the server that my friends are established on. The SOLE REASON I purchased the game was to play with friends, not to sit there OVER and OVER trying to get onto the server they are on. The character creation screen tells you to ensure you are creating on the server your friends are on.

I don't give a crap about issues with early access or down time. JUST LET ME PLAY WITH MY FRIENDS!!!

Establish a queue, auto log afks.. idc. Do something. I haven't been able to do anything since p4 beta with my friends because worlds have CONSTANTLY been locked out.

Aug 27 isn't going to magically clear up all this. You're going to have even more people wanting to play with their friends.. and when they can't?

What was the point of 4 beta tests and early access if not to stress test and figure out how many people are going to want to play? Yes a majority of them will move on but I have no desire to see my 30 day play time vanish because I cannot play with friends.

I only purchased the game after beta because I assumed things would stabilize. I was completely and utterly wrong.