Login Restrictions are NOT Working

[Mychael]

I understand that the login restrictions on worlds were a band-aid fix, but they're actually making the problem worse. Now people (myself included, tbh) are refusing to log out once they're on the server, which just compounds the problem so that I'm sure there are people who haven't actually played yet.

Please think about adding some additional fixes, i.e. auto-disconnect and longer queues; leaving the situation as it is will just result in a second failed launch on the NA/EU markets. We are a lot less patient than some other markets, and a bad launch (to most) is a bad game. If you can't do anything to fix the problem today, please at least let us know that a fix is coming, and when.

[Raze]

This is by far the most original idea I've seen on this forum.

[Mychael]

This is by far the most original idea I've seen on this forum.

What would General Discussion be if it didn't have a few [thousand] of the same idea?

[Tofumaro]

Cause every big MMO launch ever went super smooth. A bad launch makes a bad game eh? I remember my WoW server being down for days at a time when the game first came out... That game failed horribly apparently...

[Mychael]

Cause every big MMO launch ever went super smooth. A bad launch makes a bad game eh? I remember my WoW server being down for days at a time when the game first came out... That game failed horribly apparently...

That was the launch for WoW. This is the second launch for FFXIV. Remember how the first one went?

[teh_nam3less]

Cause every big MMO launch ever went super smooth. A bad launch makes a bad game eh? I remember my WoW server being down for days at a time when the game first came out... That game failed horribly apparently...

WoW was what? almost 10 years ago? So learning from past mistakes should be thrown out the window correct?

[Ivy_Blackrose]

I dont understand what is so hard to comprehend here, Reboot the servers get rid of all the bots and people idling and let other people in. is it really THAT hard to understand?

[Mychael]

I dont understand what is so hard to comprehend here, Reboot the servers get rid of all the bots and people idling and let other people in. is it really THAT hard to understand?

From what I've seen, everyone trying to log back in would probably crash the lobby server.

[AmaiHanakaze]

I dont understand what is so hard to comprehend here, Reboot the servers get rid of all the bots and people idling and let other people in. is it really THAT hard to understand?

Because rebooting is totally fair to the people that are actually logged in, and playing, that end up getting 1017'd when the servers come back up and everyone ultimately tries to force their way into the servers.

[HappyX]

The way it works on any competent (i.e., every one but S-E) MMO is this:

Log on, servers are over capacity, go into a queue. Window pops up "We're sorry blah blah blah you are #4321 in the queue, estimated time til you can log on: 5 hours, 20 minutes" None of this "World is Full, Come Back When Your Psychic Powers let you know there is room."

And of course an idle/afk log out feature.

This is the BASICS, the stuff every one knows who has ever played any MMO at launch.

Next, communication. Yes Square Enix, you're sorry. I'm sorry, we're all sorry. I don't want to hear it. Instead what I would like to hear is "We will be deploying new servers in X days, and in Y days we will be providing free server transfers to less crowded servers. If that does not fix the problem then in Z days we will deploy more servers."