Im so glad I got to play last night because I knew this BS was gonna happen today (and most likely the next two days).
Also why do devs *always* mess this up? Every single launch I have been in (and it's been quite a lot), there has been the same old "OMG we didnt plan for this many people, we only set up the game to allow x number of folk!" And then you end up with ques a mile long (which is preferable to this nonsense).
Yoshida even admitted in his latest post that they only set up the servers to support 5000 connections. And that he was surprised that so many people wanted to play... so instead of underestimating the amount of potential players (or just ignoring the sales figures for FF games in the west maybe?), why not set up the servers to allow more than what you think might be wanting to play? And then if you have to scale back the servers so they arent hooking up as many connections. That would make more sense to me than to make the connection amounts so tiny... and yes, 5k is tiny considering there are over 6 billion people on the planet.
I'm not a server tech person (I minor in IT and do fixit type stuff), so I am not going to pretend to know what I'm talking about, nor do I think I could have done this better... but them Im not a game dev either so it doesnt matter. lol
Also why do devs *always* mess this up? Every single launch I have been in (and it's been quite a lot), there has been the same old "OMG we didnt plan for this many people, we only set up the game to allow x number of folk!" And then you end up with ques a mile long (which is preferable to this nonsense).
Yoshida even admitted in his latest post that they only set up the servers to support 5000 connections. And that he was surprised that so many people wanted to play... so instead of underestimating the amount of potential players (or just ignoring the sales figures for FF games in the west maybe?), why not set up the servers to allow more than what you think might be wanting to play? And then if you have to scale back the servers so they arent hooking up as many connections. That would make more sense to me than to make the connection amounts so tiny... and yes, 5k is tiny considering there are over 6 billion people on the planet.
I'm not a server tech person (I minor in IT and do fixit type stuff), so I am not going to pretend to know what I'm talking about, nor do I think I could have done this better... but them Im not a game dev either so it doesnt matter. lol
