Free Character Transfers or Same Problems After Patch

[BaconMage]

Alright I'm a little confused so someone please enlighten me. As far as I understand after the update, we get more servers, there will be more worlds opening up, but they won't be increasing any current servers ability to take more players. Nowhere did I read that they would be offering free character transfers and so I have to wonder, since most people are not going to want to start over again in a new world they will keep trying to get into the same world they've been in (see where this is going?) and since the new servers don't actually fix anything with the current worlds they only give newcomers a place to go to, are we going to keep having the same issues?

[Happysour]

We aren't getting transfers just yet, and we aren't sure if they will be free or not.(we're assuming there will be a free 1-2 time transfer.

Also I'm sure they are limiting the number of transfers to certain servers as to not have it be too congested. What I'm assuming is they are going to give the newer servers 1-2 weeks to roll out then offer transfer off servers that are the most congested and onto servers with the least players.

[BaconMage]

So in the meantime we continue to have the same issues getting on or they fix the queue.

[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.

[Ardbob]

If a few people are on one server and all they're friends can't get on (if they have free one-time transfers) then its highly likely the people who are on the server will be willing to transfer to a low population server so that they're friends can join them. There will still be a little bit of login issues, since the MMO has still just launched, but it won't be nearly as bad. When the game calms down those issues should be gone altogether.

[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.

[Greywizaqrd]

The thing to keep in mind here is that the worlds can only handle 5k concurrent users. So while the current upgrades may help some servers don't expect things to be completely uncongested for at least another month. What we're most likely going to see are queues, the working kind, on the most heavily populated servers. Once the rush dies down and people aren't playing for ungodly amounts of time and they have confidence that if they log off they will be able to log back in the queues will disappear.

[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!!"

[lyrz]

It'd be in their best interest to offer a limited free transfer for friends and family who got split up on different servers. I know myself I planned to play this game with four other people, but had to split due to server issues. Too bad the only thing we know is transfers will be available mid-september.