Stop demanding more servers

[Warfarin]

I got a fever and the only prescription is more servers. *dings cowbell*

[Rydin]

Someone should figure out how to run an MMO off of a Cray XK7... gotta be possible, right?

[NefarioCall]

This game is bleeding subs right now though...

10,000 subs at $10/month is still $120,000 a year...
and i'll bet they lose that many over this.
Was the price of a slightly better setup that much more expensive?

[HydraOne]

This game is bleeding subs right now though...

10,000 subs at $10/month is still $120,000 a year...
and i'll bet they lose that many over this.
Was the price of a slightly better setup that much more expensive?

10,000 subs at 10 a month is NOT $120,000 a year.

[Gemma]

Guys, they've already said they are increasing the server capacity by next week. so cool your jets its not the end of the world. You'll live and be able to play, its launch day and EA was 3 days. If not being able to play for 4 days is making you this mad, maybe you should take a break before you even start.

I got locked out too, but I expected there to be a crap ton of ppl. They all aren't staying, most are just here cause its the flavor of the week. Once these ppl get bored (and they will you've met them) it wont be as bad.

[Achtzen]

Adding more servers won't solve the issue. You either have to continuously optimize how the server handles data queries, upgrade server hardware that can handle an increased volume from what the current hardware can handle, or create a secondary overflow server that works in tandem with the primary log in/instance server.

[Hiruke]

Obviously more servers wouldn't help. It's certainly not helping the JP datacenter players to play. Oh wait. It is. There are even a bunch of NA/EU people on JP worlds screwing around because they have nothing better to do. It's almost as if we need more NA/EU worlds than we need JP worlds. When I brought this up months ago the Beta forums just kind of laughed at me. They also said my friends getting on a legacy server would be no problem because SE clearly thought all this out blah blah blah.

I love the game, and fully support the dev team, but it's hard not to agree that NA/EU datacenter needs some serious relief so folks can actually play the game. More worlds and an "always-on" login queue instead of the "sometimes works" one we have now would be great. An idle timeout kick if those don't do the trick somehow. And maybe some world pass/friend codes so we can build the populations of existing locked worlds only with people who know somebody on that world.

I'm tired of listening to a couple of my friends QQ because they've been trying to get on Excalibur for a week and can't even make a character. Kind of silly. Help? Haha.

[Vyserion]

No. Honestly, they need more servers. When every server during pre-release early access for pre-orders only is completely filled past capacity to the point that scores of potential players aren't even allowed to make characters on any servers, much less play them... new servers are warranted.