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Sorry, guys, I just found out that Brom is working and it's necessary for him to be there for the plot reveal. *sigh* We'll try pushing it back one more week.

The ones that kill me (figuratively) are the cobyns and goblins in thanalan (the early levels). I swear those goblins cast faster than any mortal hero could move, and the cobyn aoe covers a bit too much area. But yeah. I'm noticing the exact same thing.

The cross-server thing might help, but I would assume it would require hardware while will take time to implement. The problem with people leaving is that, as you said, they are impatient. But why are they leaving? Because they can't play. Given a month, that will be handled and all but the most stubborn ones will return. And if the game is still great, those most stubborn ones will be lured back by their friends. The players may be impatient, but SE isn't. ((On a side note, a coworker just came by and saw this website up and asked me about it - I might have another recruit! Mwahahahahaha))

I heard that as well - that quite simply, if the server is full (meaning there's a queue) you can't create a character.

Someone told me years ago that the first sign that an MMO is failing is when they have to condense their servers. True or not, it's that reputation that every MMO wants to avoid at all costs and very few successfully avoid. I think that's what they are trying to do, honestly. TOR was the same way at launch. People screamed and bitched and screamed for them to open new servers and they finally had to do just that. It was, what, a year before they had to turn around and condense their servers again? Less than that, I think. It is for that reason that SE is trying to open the bare minimum of servers in that first month. Because they know that after the first month, the number of subscribers will drop off. And they can't afford the reputation of having to condense servers again only a month after launch.

In theory that would work but it depends on the bugs. A lot of the problem here is the volume of people. You can't test the floodwalls when it's calm as glass outside. And you can't find the bug fixes if people aren't finding the bugs for you. And you can't find bugs or bug fixes if the entire server is turned off. True this is what the betas are intended for but since we are past beta, they really can't fix the problems without the servers being online.

Is anyone still getting 3102? They said they had fixed it.

Pretty much this, yeah. Someone asked me how other MMO launches have been worse. The difference between this and other MMO launches is that a lot of those launches had various bugs in game. Other than connection issues with servers being overloaded, FFXIV is relatively bug free from what I've seen. That's insane. It's crazy how smoothe the game is once you get logged in. It's such a good game that everyone wants to play it and that's what's causing the bugs we are facing. It really is so good that it's causing its own problems. Edit: And before anyone points out the duty bugs we've been plagued with, I would point out that those ARE server connection bugs from too many people assaulting the duty servers.

They are thinking that they don't want to add too many servers or they'll just be condensing them in a month. It's the game every new MMO has to play and few ever win at it. I think they are setting it up so that they can add a few at a time, so that all the servers are close to full. Hopefully when people leave after the first month, that will keep the servers from being empty.

This is still a far cry from a lot of bad MMO launches. And I know several people who have managed to get in and create characters, so this is a huge improvement over how things were a week ago. I think the problem, here, is that the Titanic can't turn on a dime. Not that we are going to crash into an iceberg or anything, but getting the servers running flawlessly for millions of people isn't a problem that can magically be fixed overnight. And sorry if the titanic was a horrible metaphore, I had Amy Grant stuck in my head suddenly.

I'm sorry for the delay! We did not have the event on Sunday, obviously, but with the optimistic outlook on last night's patch, I think we are good to go for this Sunday! I'm not sure why it's not showing up on the calendar, but I'll go about fixing that.

WHOOHOOO! I thought about you as soon as I saw this thread. Congratulations!!

I don't think that's the case. I mean the thing with the duty finder is that it's all about proportions. If all the tanks and healers were in the other duty finder, sure, that would cause problems. But if you have 100 people queued up for a dungeon and 85% of them are dps, it won't be any worse than if you have 1000 people queued up and 85% of them are dps. Actually... someone with math... would it actually be better? Anyway, I don't think it's anything to worry about. On the contrary, I think the fact that we're more likely to run across people from our own server is kind of cool. I guess I should clarify. There are two potential situations. One is that when you queue, the DF is trying to find someone, anyone, who wants to do what you want to do. The second is that the DF actually puts you in a long line of people trying to do the same thing. If option 1 was actually what was happening, then yes, the smaller group would be frustrating. But it's not, as shown by a few pieces of evidence: a) Tanks and healers typically get insta-queues. That wouldn't be happening in option 1. It shows that the queue is actually a line of mostly dps waiting for a tank or healer or both. b) When I did Ifrit, I stayed in that cavern and there were a TON of people standing around waiting. I could watch them and a few would disappear one after another until it was my turn. It wasn't that no one wanted to fight Ifrit - it was simply a matter of waiting my turn. So, yeah. More or less people isn't going to hurt or help queue times at this point. The only thing that will affect it is the proportion of tanks and healers vs. dps.

Wow. I'm not gonna lie, I am very surprised. For some reason I thought Balmung and Gilgamesh were like the most popular servers in existance. Shows how silly I am. But clearly they aren't so that's great news!

Do you mean, like, do I need to know woodworking IRL to RP a carpenter? Hmm... I dunno. I don't think it's a hard requirement. But I do think that a little experience or research can help if you are RPing a full-time craftsman (as opposed to an adventurer who crafts). It just would offer a little more flavor for you to work with, though, I think.

Soooo frustrating. I can't tell you how many times I've done something similar. My suggestion is to walk away and let it rest for a bit. When you come back, see if you can write it differently. If you don't want to write it again, try writing a shorter version, then move on to other stuff. And I'm really sorry. I've totally been there.

That makes sense. I've always wondered if the US data center is on the west coast because they really like to post updates in PDT time. However, it seems to me that this answers the question about 'why then'. You would theoretically want to do it at night, for the US and UK. To me, starting at 5 PDT is early, not late, because it starts right at prime time. However, if they are also having to handle the update from Japan, you wouldn't want it any later. So, this is probably their best attempt at a compromise for both groups of employees.

It's because they're doing it remotely from Japan. That time is 10:00 AM JP - 8:00 PM JP. True, but my question still stands. 10 AM is a late hour to start and 8PM is late to finish. Most companies start as early as possible so they can expect to be done when people come back from work/school or at least after dinner. This... is Square Enix we're talking about though. :3 Why would they be doing it remotely from Japan? Isn't the data center in the US or UK? I mean... are we really dialing into a server in Japan? Talk about the lag that would create!

That I agree with wholeheartedly. It's unfortunate, but hopefully they will be smart and give people the option of free server transfers from high volume servers to lower volume servers. If we can convince some of the other non-RPers to move off of Balmung and Gilgamesh, it might make room for our RPers to move in sooner. But that's just a pipedream, I know. Note: Please don't take that to mean I have anything against non-RPers! It's just that RPers have a specific community need, and I'm hoping maybe other players will see a benefit in shifting to newer servers so that we can keep our community together.

So, I had wondered about this until someone actually explained it on skype last night. The problem with server capacity, apparently, is that the duty servers are actually the ones causing the problem. So they've put a cap on all the servers to keep the people using the duty servers to a manageable level. Once they upgrade the duty servers, they'll be able to use the regular servers to the capacity that they were built for - which is a lot higher than they are current set at. That's why the message indicates that they are upgrading the duty servers but not the regular servers because the regular servers actually aren't the problem. And it means that after the data center has been upgraded (which is primarily intended to upgrade the duty servers), then they'll be able to raise the cap and hopefully unlock the other servers to allow more people to play. I hope this helps I didn't see anyone else explaining this. And I can't promise I did a really good job, but that's my understanding.

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I wonder - does that also go for when Fraps records what is said via teamspeak and stuff?

The worst part, for me, is sitting here at work, knowing I'm stuck here for another 1.5 hours and already trying not to cry because I know I probably won't get to play tonight. But yeah, we're all trying to rein in our inner hulk right now.

I really, really think that the lack of the queue makes things so much worse. I agree, wholeheartedly. I'd love to be able to get in queue, go do work for 30 minutes or an hour or however long, then come back and play.

I wonder if any of this copywrite stuff will come into an issue because SE is a Japanese based company and they probably do not have the same fair use policies...