Login Restrictions are NOT Working

[Agatha_Heart]

first off I find it utterly Pathetic that I am limited to 3 posts per day, and second I find it utterly pathetic that they cant RESTART the servers and kick the gold farmers and idlers, UNLESS the gold farmers actually work for SE which going on past performance with asian games wouldnt surprise me. NCSOFT is famous for having its own gold farming company

[Raze]

first off I find it utterly Pathetic that I am limited to 3 posts per day, and second I find it utterly pathetic that they cant RESTART the servers and kick the gold farmers and idlers, UNLESS the gold farmers actually work for SE which going on past performance with asian games wouldnt surprise me. NCSOFT is famous for having its own gold farming company

No clue as to why they'd limit your posts. They sound like genius.

[Ptolemy]

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.

Bandaids, what they need to do is upgrade their servers to handle the traffic without crashing

[Archon_Diabolos]

Honestly, I dont want the server to restart if I am playing. I would like to see an emergency world transfer service to load balance congested servers. If this idea is floating around somewhere, someone bump it.

[Viirin]

Honestly, I dont want the server to restart if I am playing. I would like to see an emergency world transfer service to load balance congested servers. If this idea is floating around somewhere, someone bump it.

While free world transfers are a good idea, there's presently not really anywhere to go to other than a JP world. More NA servers are necessary. Every single NA server is busting at the seams. Get a couple more worlds in there and offer free transfers to them, I'm sure more than a few people will happily transfer off the congested worlds.

[Eiralys]

I created 8 different characters on eight different worlds during OB because of the congestion, hoping by launch at least one of the worlds would be available to play on ... but I was wrong.

I personally was never against P2P, but this makes it difficult to want to pay to sit around and wait to play ...

[Mychael]

Server load might calm down once sub period starts--some people won't pay for a game no matter how incredible it is. What we need is something more than error 1017 and an apology to get us through 'til then.

[Delita]

............BAM!

[Khevn]

Welp guess I'll go to bed and pray some people that are afk get disconnected so I can set an alarm for 2am and login and go to bed and replace them....

[Uldi]

The issue isn't just with too many players logging in, just having a queue* would do absolutely nothing to alleviate the problem. This is why they are manually limiting populations. To put it simply, there are too many players trying to do the same instanced quests at the same time. The first two days of Early Access illustrated this problem quite clearly. All those players trying to complete main-line quests and class quests and dungeons and pretty much most cut-scenes were causing the instance server to over-load and become unstable. That in turn led to quests that couldn't be completed and players stuck in "limbo" trying to access an instance.

Shutting down the instance server is not an acceptable answer since it prevents advancement of both class and main-story quests.

I do think they need to implement an auto-boot for AFKing players, and if that's not practical then a brief shut down every four hours or so to boot them. Though the latter would run right into the 'too many players trying to login' problem.

SE failed to fully understand what the final phase of beta was telling them, and failed to appreciate what the pre-order numbers truly meant. The best options I can see for the short-term is more Worlds and for the long term an EU datacenter to split the load currently on the only datacenter the West has for itself.



*There is a queue. I've been in one several times. I know it goes up to at least triple digits (mine was 103). Now, if they implemented a queue system for the instance server, that would probably help tremendously.