(02-17-2015, 03:56 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: Probably so! ...but we keep coming back >_> <_<
Not to beat a dead horse even more, but FFXI got criticized for a lot of weird and bizarre stuff too. And people are still playing that game as well. On PS2s. and it hurts thinking that someone is still using a PS2 to play an online game. Even if it's JP-only now.
Like, I understand you can't stress test as much as you want in a QA environment. You just do not have the numbers to do so (like... At most we would get 90 concurrent players total throughout three companies on a project) which is why most MMOs hold stress test betas, but even those do not come close to the level of stress a successful launch (or re-launch in this case).
But at some point, you have to wonder if it's not raw power but outright bad design decisions that led to this kind of shit happening.
Don't get me wrong, the game's good but I wouldn't be part of this community if I couldn't get on Balmung first time around and it got progressively worse from May onwards, like there's either more people on Balmung than ever before, or something seriously wrong is going on with the servers in general.
I honestly don't think there needs to be instanced zones - primarily because a lot of the game seems to be instanced already, and as I already pointed out, new players technically load into an instance rather than their main city anyway.
