My Thoughts on Server Issues

[Londis2013]

The question I posed earlier was something that I already knew. Mathematically, socio-economically, and geographically, the data centers/servers equal each other. Yet, the number of players using each server is significantly different. While the total population in Japan and Asia might outnumber that of the total population of North America/South America/Europe (right...) the socio-economics of these areas are drastically different. There is more money per capita of household is being spent in the NA/EU markets then in the Japanese/Asian Markets. What this means is that you have a higher probability that a household will purchase the game and play it for the first 2 months since release from the NA/EU markets then from the Japanese markets.

[Wolfie]

/r/armchairadmins

They've admitted to misconfigurations and reaching maximum facility capacity for the NA datacenter, that's why it's shitting the bed. It means someone or some group fucked up when setting up the datacenter initially, which they fixed with the maintenance. Some other person or group fucked up when calculating how many machines they needed and didn't implement a solution for bringing more worlds online, which is why they said they're expanding the facility some time early next week.

[Peterlogi]

I Hope this littler Diagram Shows you why. Simple Calculations show you exactly why
______ Blue: On 1 Data Center - Red: On 1 Data Center _______
They're still use Server & Server Software from FFXI ONLINE Release

[RamzaBehoulve]

All I have to say is "Equity." Where is it with Square-Enix?

JP is getting hammered now. It just shows a huge difference between how JP and NA/EU buy their games. NA/EU massively pre-purchased creating problems during Early Access, but jP are massively buying at 5am this morning, almost no pre-orders.

[Peterlogi]

JP is getting hammered now. It just shows a huge difference between how JP and NA/EU buy their games. NA/EU massively pre-purchased creating problems during Early Access, but jP are massively buying at 5am this morning, almost no pre-orders.

Honestly they're r not getting slammed by JP players as you think. It's alot of people fed up with NA servers and they r Intently going on JP servers to crash it and JP players r throwing a fit NA players r jumping on their servers.

[Rinsui]

@OP

What I don't understand is why the NA/EU servers (i.e. players) are getting hosed with all of these problems, when it appears that the Japanese players aren't having these issues.

I don't know what you are talking about. At the moment both AEGIS (JP) and Mandragora (JP) are unaccessible due to congestion.

@Peterlogi

It's alot of people fed up with NA servers and they r Intently going on JP servers to crash it and JP players r throwing a fit NA players r jumping on their servers.

That makes no sense, since if all NA players were on the JP servers, the NA servers would be empty. Which obviously they aren't.

[goony]

just a little while ago i looked at the list of worlds that are full and you cant make new characters on and it is all of them, so i am assuming they are going to go to the japanese servers now

[Cienna]

From the Lodestone:

08/28/2013 12:03 AM
Regarding Congestion in Japan Data Center Worlds (Aug. 27)

Currently, an extremely high number of players are enjoying the game. Should the number of players continue to increase at the current pace, there is the possibility that our expectations and server capacity will be greatly surpassed. Therefore, in order to maintain a stable gameplay environment, we are implementing login and character creation restrictions.

In order to be able to welcome a drastically greater number of players, we are starting as early as this week with preparations to increase our facilities, to be ready by early next week. Until that time, we will be continuing to implement these restrictions as required, and we ask for your understanding and patience.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, and once again thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.

Hang tight, help is otw!

[Londis2013]

The point I'd like to make is this. Where as the Japanese players are just now experiencing these issues, the na/eu players have been plagued with these problems beta phase 4. I believe it that it is only right that the na/eu players join servers in which they are able to play, and if that means the jp servers must now face the same issues as the na/eu ones, then so be it. Now they can understand our frustration with the situation.