Quote Originally Posted by Alavastre View Post
I was talking to a friend, who is also an Electrical Engineer, and we were wondering why more servers were not open, and how we exactly got to the place are with FFXIV. Both of us were 1.0 quiters as well, even we have our breaking point.

With that said, there is always a software issue, but this appears to be a hardware issue. Basically, too many people trying to use too few servers. I understand that you don't want to do what WAR did, 12 to 42 servers in two weeks, and then start collapsing your servers until there are just 2. People leave when you merge servers, I get that.

But, is the real problem that they do not have the hardware for more servers or the space?

I was surprised that the open beta was only a weekend. I wonder if SE just got caught with their pants around their ankles. Basically, they got hit hard in P4 and honestly didn't have enough time to change course. There is a lot that goes into data centers, it's a science all on it's own. Wouldn't SE rather have a few too many servers than to lock out a huge part of thier gaming population?

Each person not playing is a risk. The risk SE takes is not getting these peoples sub money. And possibly their friends, and their friends ect. In MMO's it's a cascading problem. I have 13 people wanting to play this game, but if you divide us, not let us on, then it will only take a few fed up people to take that group of 13 to 3.

Anyone that knows more about the data server side care to chime in? I do mainly infrastructure and building stuff. Just because I'm an EE doesn't mean I know everything or anything about data centers. Just my little disclaimer.

TLDR;
It appears to be a server hardware problem.
SE possibly doesn't have the space to put in new hardware to open up new servers.
Yes, no, maybe?
nah the servers are fine but as alot of people know SE did not expect so many people... so they need to buy more servers.. which can take a few days..