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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT| World Full. Try again later. Please Understand
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DrForester
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FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT| Naoki Yoshida uses a Phoenix Down. It's Not Very Effective
Essentially the servers are close to the caps, unless people logoff they can't increase caps. If they try to increase caps the server may crash.
DrForester
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Reaskign since it got buried by Squares "Deal with it" news.
spandexmonkey
Banned
So playing through Uldah quests, got to level 8, finished the Silver Bazaar quest line, Underneath the Sultan Tree is bugged and now what?
Been running around gathering teleports and doing fate events where possible, got to 9, but still haven't seen a quest. Am I missing something?
Been running around gathering teleports and doing fate events where possible, got to 9, but still haven't seen a quest. Am I missing something?
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT| NA/EU uses server overload. It's super effective! FFXIV fainted. Choose next MMO?
Boss Man
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Ah I was thinking it was a new issue for them and that's where the message came from. I guess it reads more like, "You probably aren't going to be able to play with your friends." now.
Amazing. Yoshi and co. had literally MONTHS to prepare for this contingency. And now that the contingency has arrived, instead of fixing it, he simply says "WELP, STOP FILLING UP THE SERVERS THEN DERP
" -_-
darkblade77
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Considering all these problems are being caused by sheer consumer demand to play the game, I'd say he's doing OK.
It just comes down to how the next few weeks are handled.
Boss Man
Member
There was a message the other day from him saying there aren't enough tanks and to please play tank.Amazing. Yoshi and co. had literally MONTHS to prepare for this contingency. And now that the contingency has arrived, his advice is literally "WELP, STOP FILLING UP THE SERVERS THEN DERP
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Before that when people were first bringing up the issue of a lack of community because of how unnecessary communication is, he asked everyone to be nice to each other and talk to everyone.
Next few weeks? Most current MMO players don't have the patience to wait that long, nor should they be expected to. SE needs to get this fixed before launch day - launch week.
Um.... what? Did you click on the link?
eudaemonic
Member
Ahhh... so they just need to throw up the ol' countdown timer... you have fifteen minutes to tidy up before we boot you and do some more maintenance. :/
Boss Man
Member
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Eh....close enough.
20 sec idle timer. lol
Lee Chaolan
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Amazing. Yoshi and co. had literally MONTHS to prepare for this contingency. And now that the contingency has arrived, instead of fixing it, he simply says "WELP, STOP FILLING UP THE SERVERS THEN DERP
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Sounds like it may be a while before anyone new can get on Ultros =/ Will have to go to a new server probably to play with my Keion group.
Ah, people were trying to say that these errors and shit wouldn't happen during early access or release and believed that square fixed this stuff. Welcome to MMOs. =p
It's hilarious that they aren't offering free transfers to relieve stress. Hopefully they offer them soon.
It's hilarious that they aren't offering free transfers to relieve stress. Hopefully they offer them soon.
So it should be.
I've seen really large groups huddled around quest givers, doing absolutely nothing but crowding up the area.
Are there not breadcrumb quests? I switched from MRD to Lancer and I'm having to look at this map to figure out where to go:
http://igoumedia.com/finalfantasy14/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Black-Shroud-Guide-Map.png
http://igoumedia.com/finalfantasy14/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Black-Shroud-Guide-Map.png
I'm probably going to stop playing and take a break for a few hours. I should be able to get back on then lol.
There are always tens of people on the screen at a time. I like being in a populated server but its kinda ridiculous at the same time.
There are always tens of people on the screen at a time. I like being in a populated server but its kinda ridiculous at the same time.
PumpkinPie
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Ha, it's ridiculous how many people there are! I've never played an MMO during launch period before, I'm amazed.
darkblade77
Member
This is an artificial situation precisely because there are more people concurrently accessing the servers than the game will reasonably have doing so for most of its lifespan. Success or not, a lot of people are going to peace out once the first month expires.
Everyone always overdramatizes week one of MMO launches, they're always ugly and it's always the end of the world except it isn't. But if the situation doesn't improve by the time subscriptions are supposed to get renewed, then we have an actual problem.
pillowtalk
Member
So after lvl15, you pretty much have to craft your own armor/weapon unless you do dungeons? There's no high level merchants?
Disheveled_Zen
Member
Was not keeping up on the current server woes...deleted my char on Ultros to change the appearance....
Time to find something else to play tonight.
I read everything that they say, it can take a while sometimes.
guybrushfreeman
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Any idea when the instance servers might come back up? I don't see the point in just grinding so I can't really progress at all at the moment.
Augemitbutter
Member
that one quest near drybone where you have to kill 7 wolfes was a pain in the ass earlier. the spawn rate of them is pretty low, so you had like 30-40 people running around there trying to deal damage asap.
wasn't too fun as a tank.
there is no ETA.
wasn't too fun as a tank.
there is no ETA.
Alex
Member
All I remember is the early AM's being barren outside of Japanese players who largely wanted nothing to do with us at the time. That was very .... entertaining in a game with such hilariously awful party formation. Thank god our half-static had a RDM and a PLD.
You are very wise. Kudos.
PumpkinPie
Banned
How do you even manage those? I couldn't even see the thing we were supposed to be attacking :/
Boss Man
Member
I would think that if a person is willing to subscribe to your game, you want to have the capacity to let them.
The game fell apart during open beta with something like 120k concurrent users. Is that really the cap they're aiming for? Not to mention it only got that high because it fell apart in the first place - leaving everyone "logged in" at the same time but not really. There's no telling when the servers really started falling apart. Very likely that it was far less than 100k.
Me neither, I couldn't see anything. I just targeted the nearest enemy and just spammed Overpower again and again.
yojimbocherry
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I gave up haha
Saw a merchant selling level 20+ items so I think you just have to progress to higher zones.
saveweyard
Banned
Sorry if already posted:
Along the lines of what people have mentioned, they need to spread out everyone among existing servers before even thinking of making new ones. Making too many servers has a detrimental effect on the longevity of the game and yet so many devs make the same mistake of just throwing more servers at it to make the problem go away.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Yeah, NPCs farther out have better gear.
darkblade77
Member
Yeah, within logistical sanity, which launch periods tend to lack--as you can clearly see now. From a standpoint of spending money it is a pretty raw deal to have several times your projected lifetime capacity ready for launch, and player activity has exceeded even that.
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