Quote Originally Posted by MrKupo View Post
But the servers aren't crashing are they? They can very well handle the amount of players they are set to accommodate. The problem is that their servers aren't set up to accommodate the amount of people trying to play.
No, the servers ARE crashing if they allow the full population of players that selected said servers during Beta4. The problem is that they have to artificially limit the number of players allowed on a server at a given time. Had this been a limit when it came to character creation/transfers to these servers, then everyone that picked a given server would be allowed to play.

What we have now are servers that are probably 50-150% oversubscribed and a large player base stuck playing the 1017 minigame trying to get in. Had they load-tested properly, we'd have more servers today, fewer players per server, and likely, no one having issues with 1017 errors.