(08-24-2013, 11:28 AM)Lake Desire Wrote: [ -> ]I just got kicked. Â Blaaargh. Â I have a busy weekend (going to a Star Trek convention, my high school reunion, grading my class's final papers, and trying to make a friend's going-away-party) and planned to have 5-6 hours to play this morning before I start my adventures in busyness. Â Thanks SE!
(08-24-2013, 11:28 AM)Noble_Einherjar Wrote: [ -> ]If bringing down the servers is what it takes to fix the issues, I'm all for it. .. besides, after almost six straight hours, maybe a break (and some food .. and some sleep) isn't such a bad idea.
Yeah, I'd want a break too, if I got up to get in at 2 am / 5 am! Â But I decided to sleep in until 7:30. Â Now I regret not getting up with the rest of you all.
Man that sucks you did all that planning only to fall into issues :< welp on the bright side least all the current issues are most likely being fixed.
(08-24-2013, 11:31 AM)Zyrusticae Wrote: [ -> ]Just for that, I'm posting PSO2 music in this thread.
That's just not fair! Dat Dark Falz music... So good. May have to play that during some Boss Fights.
(08-24-2013, 11:32 AM)Firae Wrote: [ -> ]Man that sucks you did all that planning only to fall into issues :< welp on the bright side least all the current issues are most likely being fixed.
Hah! Well, serves me right for being addicted to an MMO. I guess I should have known what I was getting myself into. The worse thing is I'm all "how many of my obligations can I cancel?" I haven't bought tickets to the Star Trek convention yet, and Kate Mulgrew cancelled her appearance, and she was the one I really wanted to see.
And i never even had time to take some screenshots ready for character profiles. Ah well i was kind of expecting something like this to happen. I started with problems on my end with my graphics card acting up. Underclocking it back to default settings seems to be working for now hopefully will hold the weekend while i can get a new one in there since i'm sure it's on it's way out.
Then this on the server end. New games on PC especially MMO's seem to always be like this in the early days. So when it happened i just sort of shrugged and figured better to get every major catastrophe out the way on day one.
(08-24-2013, 11:28 AM)Lake Desire Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, I'd want a break too, if I got up to get in at 2 am / 5 am! Â But I decided to sleep in until 7:30. Â Now I regret not getting up with the rest of you all.
If it makes you feel any better, there are many people who were not able to get on at 5am due to the servers locking people out cause of how many were trying to login. My friend who I was going to level with wasn't able to get on at all and had to leave for the day even though he was with me the moment the servers went live.
I always imagine that discussion, when I hear of any server maintenance:
Square Enix: Lord Vader. This is an unexpected pleasure. We are honored by your presence.
Darth Vader: You may dispense with the pleasantries, developer. I am here to put you back on schedule
Square Enix: I assure you, Lord Vader, my men are working as fast they can.
Vader: Perhaps
I can find new ways to motivate them.
Square Enix: I tell you that servers will be operational as planned.
Vader: The Emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation.
Square Enix: But he asks the impossible! I need more men!
Vader: Then perhaps you can tell him yourself when he tries to log in
Square Enix: The Emperor's logging here?
Vader: That is correct, developer, and he is most displeased with your apparent lack of progress.
Square Enix: We shall double our efforts.
Vader: I hope so, developer, for your sake. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.
But, what worries me - I didn't notice any ingame large announcements of "this server will be shut down in <time>"... I was just kicked out
(08-24-2013, 11:37 AM)Nahv Wrote: [ -> ]If it makes you feel any better, there are many people who were not able to get on at 5am due to the servers locking people out cause of how many were trying to login. My friend who I was going to level with wasn't able to get on at all and had to leave for the day even though he was with me the moment the servers went live.
Yeah i had that issue for a bit as well but i eventually was able to enter....though it makes me wonder if we should consiter a server other the Balmung as our main consitering how crowded it is constantly.
(08-24-2013, 11:44 AM)Algin Wrote: [ -> ]I always imagine that discussion, when I hear of any server maintenance:
Square Enix: Lord Vader. This is an unexpected pleasure. We are honored by your presence.
Darth Vader: You may dispense with the pleasantries, developer. I am here to put you back on schedule
Square Enix: I assure you, Lord Vader, my men are working as fast they can.
Vader: Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them.
Square Enix: I tell you that servers will be operational as planned.
Vader: The Emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation.
Square Enix: But he asks the impossible! I need more men!
Vader: Then perhaps you can tell him yourself when he tries to log in
Square Enix: The Emperor's logging here?
Vader: That is correct, developer, and he is most displeased with your apparent lack of progress.
Square Enix: We shall double our efforts.
Vader: I hope so, developer, for your sake. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.
But, what worries me - I didn't notice any ingame large announcements of "this server will be shut down in <time>"... I was just kicked out
Then you missed it, there was one. Though it was just a few minutes before the maintenance going "We will soon be taking the server down for emergency maintenance. Please log out as soon as possible." rather than anything specific with a long time to react, though thats the way of the emergency maintenance I suppose.
Heh, I decided to crash after finally getting to roll Jehanne after launch. Guess that wasn't a bad call. Oh well. Again, I'm always pretty sanguine about these things. Murphy's Law always applies to MMOs.
Maintenance is landing RIGHT when my kiddo is taking a nap....hence there goes my only chance at a nice 2 hr block of uninterrupted game time /cry
That said does anyone know if there is a OOC linkshell/chat for Balmung? Looks like Gilga has one but that server is locked (made the tough choice of picking between Gilg and Bal easy
 )
The offline character creator should still work, the game will autoimport your character back into the game once it goes back up, it should make things a little faster. Besides at least you can have some of the game while you are waiting.
Offline character creator
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/
(08-24-2013, 11:23 AM)Ashren Snow Wrote: [ -> ]I think it's because NA/EU players QQ more so they like messing with us.
Lol, I was reading that interview that Reinhardt translated yesterday and they seem to really like NA players because they are so direct. "They either dislike the game and will not play or it, or they will play the game." They said after P4 that their NA pre-orders skyrocketed and they broke the record for top preorders on PS3.Â
That being said, there apparently seem to be waaaayyy more NA players than JP players (which I think is really odd) so we can expect to possibly see even more issues.Â
Back on topic....ARGH! I literally got to play for 15 minutes before I got kicked while zoning ><!!!
*fall in* RAGE!! *roll back out*
but no seriously, I think Square Enix is constantly underestimating how many people want to play their game.
Ugh. I woke up as soon as Early Access started to get my character into Balmung and play a bit. There were so many people and my FPS was crap so I decided to go to sleep and wait for things to cool down a bit. I should've stayed up and played a bit more. ><