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?
Servers can handle so many people and SE got a high demand of people... They can let more people onto the servers but they don't want to overload them... They are actually watching the servers when people are on them and see how much strain they are taking so that they don't overload them which would cause a crash and no one would get on... They are in the process of opening more servers but this takes time because they have to upload the code and coincide it with the other servers its not as simple as buying a battery and putting it in a device...