SE needs more servers look at this Follow

Bahaha... I wasn't aware of the issues or hardness of this... I've never dealt with servers at all so I wouldn't know ;(

I could be wrong but I see this as more of a heads up, a Hey, there is a possibility that there'll be a queue at some point.

Given that we'll have less than the amount of people that were in open beta (because not everyone who played beta will buy the game or even ever intended to) and queues last weekend weren't all that bad at all I don't think there'll be too many issues *fingers crossed*

Except they didnt say there might be, they said there would be.

"If a large volume of players attempt to login to the game simultaneously, certain players may receive the following message: “This World is currently full. Players in queue: ##.” If you receive this message, we ask that you please wait until your login is processed.

In addition, in order to avoid server congestion related issues from multiple characters concentrating in the starting areas, we may implement restrictions on logins and/or the creation of new characters for a period of time after the servers open to the public."

Bolded the relevant bits that indicate SE think this is a possibility, not neccessarily an inevitability.



Edited, Aug 21st 2013 4:50pm by Tamandra

I think your being overly optimistic, hell they couldnt handle getting everyone in for phase 4. They have to earn my trust on this issue, and they havent yet

How many people pre ordered? How many people do they expect for launch? Do we have any idea of what their expectations are?

I was looking at what the populations were for other games and I was surprised things were as low as they were. Do we know what ff14 was like at launch?

I feel like... they are going to crush the 150k mark that they had at open beta, but I have no evidence to back that up. It just feels like it has a ton of good buzz. I guess I know a couple people who weren't in beta but are planning to play at launch.

To answer my own question about pre orders. VG charts has the pre-order status at 116k for the ps3 version. (http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders/41497/USA/) I suspect this will be a big MMO launch. It's been 3 years since a numbered final fantasy launched. I suspect there are lots of people chomping at the bit for this. It's not like a numbered game at all. But that's a big reason I'm so excited for it.

^ This. It was the same thing for me during phase 4. I was usually up in the 80's to low 100's. By the time i would go grab another drink and come back majority of the time i was already logged in or damn near in. I don't find these to be a huge headache, more like intermission.