Quote Originally Posted by LamiaTrucido View Post
The FFXI servers could handle 5k connections at a time. I'd love to provide a source, but I read it somewhere in the last ten years....
This^ I remember around 2004-2005 seeing well over 4k people on Garuda server, The way ARR is set up now it seems to have around 4k concurrent logins per server, seeing as XI could handle this 8-9 years ago they should have prepped for more than that. I'm just saying. It baffles me why every online game company tries to get away with the bare minimum and then has to scramble every single time at launch. It's better to have more resources and have to scale back than not enough to where people can not play and have to spend even more time trying to upgrade.

Here in IT our network and server admins do the same thing, barely give us space on our web or SQL server and then moan when they end up having to come in on a weekend to upgrade it later because they can't bring it down on weekdays. Always prep ahead!!