Take a look at this nonsense

[Vexray]

We rant because we care. If the community throws out enough good ideas. Square may find an answer they didn't think of.

wich is exactly what im doing lol. Ive got a nice petition going on thats got a pretty nice following so far, If we get enough signatures maybe just maybe it will drive square into pressing matters a little bit more for the player. After all, in a sense as paying customers, we are what keeps them going and without us they dont have anything ----> http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l-Queue-System <----

[Edge22]

So let me get this right.....people would rather have the entire server crash because so many people trying to get it then limiting connection so at least some people can play?......and that makes sense to people?

It's called a "QUEUE" and yes we want a working one. All MMO's with a large player base have a "working" queue, so that the servers don't crash and the players that want to get in can wait in a queue. Currently you have to shit around spamming the multi-step login just to get in game.

[Tristaris]

So let me get this right.....people would rather have the entire server crash because so many people trying to get it then limiting connection so at least some people can play?......and that makes sense to people?

You need to look up the definition of queue. Not being hostile, but I think you're missing the point of the OP's post.

[Kouper]

I don't understand why this is nonsense. Seems reasonable to me. SE is asking us, politely mind you, to consider making characters on less populated servers. I don't see what's so wrong with that. They're not forcibly transferring anyone, they're not mandating it, they're simply asking us to consider it. You can argue that the shut down of character creation is a way to forcing us, but even so, I don't understand how you were led to believe this is nonsense. Unless, of course, you don't believe they are having server problems or believe there's an ulterior motive at play here.

Personally, I think they made some miscalculation on the volume of players in the US and EU...compounded with early access being on a weekend...I can completely understand, and even predicted that they would have launch issues. I just wish they would re-implement the queue. I hate having to keep double-clicking my character until I finally am able to logon.

First question, how do we know which are less populated? Oh wait we don't.

Second question, how in the name of the mother fluffing flying spaghetti monster do you launch an MMO that isn't able to handle even a small portion of it's launch sales?

[kpau]

The problem I see most of the "just make more servers and dump players over there" is ... people play with friends/family/guildmates. Guess what the flashback is going to be when they get split up forcibly.

Also -- unless the world servers were designed by idiots, they should be able to make the server *cluster* more robust by scaling in more servers to support *that* world. At worst, then you end up with multiple instances of a zone and you may have to jump around a little to sync up with your groups.

I don't get the impression some of the defenders and apologists actually understand the physicality and structure of network clusters.

[Colly]

... some hardware company somewhere is gonna make a bundle on delivering a rush order of a huge number of server blades, I betcha.



UPDATE September 20, 2013 - Yay! I have had NO login problems this past week (except during times when servers were down for maintenance, which is to be expected.)
Yippee!

[Inceptionnaire]

The problem I see most of the "just make more servers and dump players over there" is ... people play with friends/family/guildmates. Guess what the flashback is going to be when they get split up forcibly.

Also -- unless the world servers were designed by idiots, they should be able to make the server *cluster* more robust by scaling in more servers to support *that* world. At worst, then you end up with multiple instances of a zone and you may have to jump around a little to sync up with your groups.

I don't get the impression some of the defenders and apologists actually understand the physicality and structure of network clusters.

What we mean is to create a few overflow servers. just temporary worlds to at least play in, while you wait in a queue for the world you and your friends/family/guildmates want. I used Planetside 2 as an example. You can play, while in a queue for a specific continent on a specific server.