Anyone read this about the US/EU servers?

[WingsofWar]

It is Yoshida newborn FFXIV producer and director. Everyone of your participation, early access to the A Realm Reborn: FINAL FANTASY XIV in Europe and North America DC I apologize for the inconvenience in maintenance and repeated failure. About the situation to date, explanation from those of Yoshida, and I apologize. 90000 error in β4 it turns out that after 6 hours early access, by 3000 die number error for the rest of the character inconsistencies, and has confirmed the resolution in initial maintenance. Then, due to the high load of NA / EUDC in the performance of Duty finder no longer keep up and lobby server, server team implements the program of performance improvement in real time, I was allowed to apply in maintenance here. Result of measurement after maintenance, this performance improvement is an effect of as expected, access to content, and the finder feature is a state that is stable with NA / EUDC within. However, it is only to a specific lobby server to this maintenance, there is a misconfiguration of parameters, login fails and the player you want to use this lobby server, in maintenance short earlier, I was allowed to eliminate even here. In addition, since the ultra-high load due to access concentration occurs after maintenance, we have let me put a limit on the number of people that can log in at a time. As a result, so as to guide you in the game the player everyone of sequentially, such as server down does not occur, we are allowed to control the login carefully. You will end up with results that take a long time to log in, but thank you for your cooperation and understanding as well here. Currently, for the possible obstacles in logical and failure, all have occurred so far, I will report that it has be resolved. Access more than expected, the players focused, the implementation of maintenance repeated, in effect on the early access by it, that everyone on your desktop, and was the inconvenience enormously the NA / EUDC, I apologize you again. Development / management team, as well as the server team for a pleasant play of all of you, I promise that I have to face a full support system. Continue, FINAL FANTASY XIV: Participation in the Early Access A Realm Reborn, thank you.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...A9%AB%E3%81%B3

How I read this, is the Servers are not actually full, rather limit the amount of incoming login requests per server. Anyone who does try to log in will likely be met with a 1017 "Server Full" while a lucky few will be qued into the server through a small access tunnel. Had they not placed the restrictions the access load would have crashed the server based on their description.

This is my interpretation, as tonight at 12am was suppose to be a Regular Scheduled Maintenance by the developing team. But instead evolved into a Emergency Maintenance probably referring to the server team implementing fixes to help with login access loads. Hopefully after this, the restrictions will be lifted and 1017 errors will be gone by tomorrow morning and any actually full servers will have a que for all players. and not the ones that were lucky enough to get into the que.

Server Capacity for NA/EU will likely be increased next week based on what iv seen skimming through the JP and DEV blogs.

[mycosynth]

I knew about next week fix but if they lift it tonight that would be good. ..ever did you get your 12:00 info?

[Design]

Reason why they have it implemented as of now is because when early access started, they were expecting around 800,000 people to log in during early access. Instead they got closer to 5 million subscriptions in under 24 hours and everything got jammed due to the lack of being ready. So someone, whoever it was, that came up with 800,000 has probably never played MMO's and is probably getting his ass chewed out.

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This also fried the servers and probably they were afraid of blowing up each data center and really destroying things. So I mean, they are fixing it now and they are adding more, just be patient. Day 1 and people are already like OMG IT NEEDS TO BE WORKING NAOOOOO.... Dudes and dudettes, chill the f out. In a month from now you'll be all "OMG THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVEERRRRRRRRR".

I blame this generation that demands instant gratification.

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