(06-21-2015, 11:45 PM)BroodingFicus Wrote:(06-21-2015, 10:42 PM)Graeham Wrote: For what it's worth the expansion so far is incredible - the quality of the storytelling and voice acting has improved immensely. In other words: it's worth the wait. Hopefully the issues will be resolved sooner rather than later - and the launch itself will be smooth.
It's definitely frustrating though...
Going by the notice they posted here,Â
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...ost3052265
there really isn't a 'plan' to fix anything. So I doubt we will see a resolution so much as its all about to get worse on the 23rd and stay bad until traffic dies on its own. Which hopefully will be within the month but I still don't feel I should pay them for an inaccessible game. I work from home and I can say I tried for four straight hours with zero results. Both times I even managed to get in a queue, the lobby error eventually booted me anyway. If we can't get on now, launch is gonna make it impossible.
I also like how they say that Gilgamesh and Balmung /happen/ to be on the same data center. You freakin' put them there! They didn't stumble in there on their own. What I managed to play yesterday was great but I'm left kinda bitter when its all a matter of luck if I can play at all and for how long. Probably won't go over with new players either. You are gonna have a free week when your game isn't playable to huge chunks of people? *thumbs up* Great plan.
I thought the point was more that Gilgamesh and Balmung are the two most populated servers, it just happens that a huge chunk of the population ended up on two servers on the same data center.
I'm starting to wonder if the RP community should take over a less populated server somewhere. Â It wouldn't be optimal, but having our RP community essentially sitting on the two biggest servers makes this more painful for us. Â There are deep roots though; there might not be a good way to go about this.
I imagine it wouldn't be easy to move an entire server onto another data center, though. Â It's at least not something they're likely to be able to do by launch day.
