Take a look at this nonsense

[Xayoc]

"The maximum expected population limit is nearing for each World, and unless the current World simultaneous connection amount decreases, we are unable to open release the limitation," Yoshida wrote. "In case we do release the limitation, there is a high chance that the corresponding World will crash or cause issues, and we are thinking that it will be difficult for us to release it for a while. We please ask you to consider playing in a World that has a low limitation."

"We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause and ask to continue with your cooperation," he said.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/26/465...eborns-irksome

This one has played MMOs since EverQuest, not a one has had a solid error-free launch, be patient and the issue will resolve. With 3 million people trying to play a MMO SE billeted a tenth of that for, it is going to cause some major issues. Be patient, be courteous and all will be well in Eorzea.

[Inceptionnaire]

This one has played MMOs since EverQuest, not a one has had a solid error-free launch, be patient and the issue will resolve. With 3 million people trying to play a MMO SE billeted a tenth of that for, it is going to cause some major issues. Be patient, be courteous and all will be well in Eorzea.

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

[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 <----

[Balzaque]

it would be great if there was any way to know witch servers are empty/full... there is no indication in the interface and unless you go trying server by server you may as well just be creating a character in a full server or a soon to be full server >.<

unless ofc you go play on the jp servers, then you will have no problem at all. they just cant get it right on the NA/EU servers apparently.

This one has played MMOs since EverQuest, not a one has had a solid error-free launch, be patient and the issue will resolve. With 3 million people trying to play a MMO SE billeted a tenth of that for, it is going to cause some major issues. Be patient, be courteous and all will be well in Eorzea.

sorry but even the most bumpy launch i have seem so far did not choose to lock a good portion of its player base out of the game and with the only, the easiest, solution to just close the doors and serve the players their poor servers can handle. any smaller company would probably be handling this better at this point. anyone in this genre would know that you need to have back up plans for your server capacity, they had the data about sales, they have made 2 mmos prior to this, they are a BIG company with a ton more resources then most of their competitors and yet they doesnt seem to know how to prepare for a mmo launch.

[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.

[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.

[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!