Free Character Transfers or Same Problems After Patch

[Xayoc]

The issue was never the current world's ability to handle the load placed on them, the issue was the duty finder being unable to handle the heavy load being placed upon it. The server restrictions were put into place to keep the duty finder from crashing and as an extension all of the worlds attached to it (JP or NA). The NA servers were getting a far greater load than the JP servers were, hence all the issues experienced there. This MX is going to split the duty finder up between clusters of worlds so that it will be stable again as well as add more worlds so that additional players can play because all of the current worlds are at capacity.

This one's job is network admin, it does not envy the job of Yoshi and his team.

[BaconMage]

Ah well that makes more sense now. But from a programmers standpoint I can't imagine the duty finder having those kinds of issues unless they were just using really subpar hardware (and I'm not saying the Japanese are prone to do *COUGH!*). If the duty finders failings were a programming issue then it wouldn't have worked at all.

[Unruhe]

Ah well that makes more sense now. But from a programmers standpoint I can't imagine the duty finder having those kinds of issues unless they were just using really subpar hardware (and I'm not saying the Japanese are prone to do *COUGH!*). If the duty finders failings were a programming issue then it wouldn't have worked at all.

The real culprit here is that the duty finder is responsible for way, way, way too much of the game's content.
Matchmaking for a dungeon? Duty Finder.
Guildleves? DF
Manually make a party and walk to a dungeon entrance? DF
Single-player story quests? DF
Single-player class quests? DF

All of this game's major content eggs are in the single duty finder basket. Once too many people are trying to use DF, then pretty much the entire game stops working for everyone. All of the other issues are just rudimentary systems to keep populations numbers at a level where the DF doesn't implode.

[Nikkita]

The issue was never the current world's ability to handle the load placed on them, the issue was the duty finder being unable to handle the heavy load being placed upon it. The server restrictions were put into place to keep the duty finder from crashing and as an extension all of the worlds attached to it (JP or NA). This MX is going to split the duty finder up between clusters of worlds so that it will be stable again

I would like to thank you for being such a "voice of reason" No one seemed to actually read the explanations of what was going on this whole time and everytime I tried to explain what the REAL issue was (duty finder instance servers crashing due to load, which is separate from world server load) it fell on deaf ears. No one really cares what the problem is, they just rather be angry then try to be rational or logical. In the immortal words of Fry "Fix it Fix it Fix it Fix it!!"