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[Dr. Light]

Hey, how about that! My 3-year-old 1.0 character is still there! Still lvl 6 and everything...

....connection to the server was lost.

....connection to the server was lost.

....connection to the server was lost.

Hoo boy.

And I actually want to play this game now, for real. I don't know if this was mentioned, but to do 1.0 players get a free month? Considering I bought the CE 3 years ago (as well as the ARR CE, but I'll keep that sealed) I damn well should.

 

[B-Dex]

Official forums are down again too.

 

[BLCKATK]

Hey, how about that! My 3-year-old 1.0 character is still there! Still lvl 6 and everything...

....connection to the server was lost.

....connection to the server was lost.

....connection to the server was lost.

Hoo boy.

And I actually want to play this game now, for real. I don't know if this was mentioned, but to do 1.0 players get a free month? Considering I bought the CE 3 years ago (as well as the ARR CE, but I'll keep that sealed) I damn well should.

You get a free 2 weeks.

 

[SoraanTribal]

And I actually want to play this game now, for real. I don't know if this was mentioned, but to do 1.0 players get a free month? Considering I bought the CE 3 years ago (as well as the ARR CE, but I'll keep that sealed) I damn well should.

1.0 players get two weeks free.

 

[Napophis]

open beta should have lasted longer than it did, especially considering 100,000+ ppl had these issues and couldn't even play the game to test their fixes...

 

[Vashetti]

But..but...I wanna play too!

 

[outlawedprod]

Didn't ArenaNet actually stop selling Guild Wars 2 for a while after official release due to how broken it was?

They stopped selling because they were at capacity on servers. Nothing was majorly broken and unlike this game GW2 had queues for the servers.

The queue you see for FF14 doesn't appear to be an actual queue because of what my friends and I have experienced trying to login at the same time. It appears to be a rate limiter to prevent the server from having too many simultaneous logins.

The fact their instance server keeps dying indicates they probably have one bottleneck piece of infrastructure at that point and there is no queuing system for it either.

 

[Ikon]

And things were so smooth while all of US slept. Played for about 6 hours without a single problem and now I can't even log in again. Thanks guys

 

[raven777]

is server down? I can't log in

 

[Community Forum]

a realm unborn lolamirite

 

[SoopaMan2K]

Anyone care to shed some light as to why I have two Service Accounts?

 

[SoraanTribal]

This is just early access, too. I'm sure not everyone preordered and is even able to play now. At launch, there will be even more people. Gonna be a rough week.

Spoiler

First world MMO problems and all that.

 

[Zafir]

Guild Wars 2 launch issues was primarily that you had to mess around a lot to be able to play with friends. Joining their overflow server wouldn't work so you had to keep loading into the area to get into the same one. Also screwed up the dungeons for a bit too. You could still progress and play though.

 

[Glorious Ownage]

Anyone been able to get in? If not I'll try later

 

[Alucrid]

I...I just want to play your game square. Baka!

 

[akaoni]

I'm trying out fishing on Ultros right now at Limsa.

 

[Dog food is delicious]

The fact their instance server keeps dying indicates they probably have one bottleneck piece of infrastructure at that point and there is no queuing system for it either.

It doesn't help that all of the main story quests are instanced, so it's most likely being hammered to hell and back.

 

[Dr. Light]

Also, how do you invert the Y-axis? If I hit Back and "reverse camera" it inverts the Y-axis but fucks up the X-axis! If this isn't fixable, the gamepad is useless.

 

[Relix]

I...I just want to play your game square. Baka!

Please don't do this. Just.,... no. Have mercy please.

 

[Vitanimus]

Was just about to mess around in alchemy, oh well! Hope everyone is enjoying early access as much as I am.

 

[raven777]

was SE having very low expectation after 1.0's failure? or are they just not capable with these server issues?

 

[Moon_frogger]

Any ultros gaffers want to level in the la noscea area I'm sad panda in game. I just started, having missed out on the phase 4 beta. Seeing any awful lot of you on here!

 

[DrForester]

open beta should have lasted longer than it did, especially considering 100,000+ ppl had these issues and couldn't even play the game to test their fixes...

There's not really a bug. Square decided not to prepare for the server load they knew they would be getting. They know how many pre-orders they had. And they just decided not to bother preparing enough servers to handle that load.

Well, except in Japan. They made sure Japan had plenty of servers.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

As soon as numbers started dropping last night, I got into instances with no trouble. The issue really is just congestion, and people are still preordering (and canceling) to get early access codes, so there's no way you can say they knew exactly how many people would be playing.

If anything, given a fairly large amount of negativity being thrown around about both 1.0 and ARR, they were probably given the impression the capacity they'd allotted would suffice. A large number of people have been getting in this week after waiting for impressions.

There's not really a bug. Square decided not to prepare for the server load they knew they would be getting. They know how many pre-orders they had. And they just decided not to bother preparing enough servers to handle that load.

Well, except in Japan. They made sure Japan had plenty of servers.

I think you have a problem with Japan.

 

[Gerbs]

Also, how do you invert the Y-axis? If I hit Back and "reverse camera" it inverts the Y-axis but fucks up the X-axis! If this isn't fixable, the gamepad is useless.

I believe it's in "character options" at least on PS3.

 

[SoraanTribal]

It doesn't help that all of the main story quests are instanced, so it's most likely being hammered to hell and back.

This is what bugs me the most honestly. I hate how they have solo class/main story quests setup via Duty Finder instances. Solo instance quests need a completely separate instance server than dungeons. I assume they are all on the same ones given the errors that pop up, but.. who knows.

 

[Glorious Ownage]

As soon as numbers started dropping last night, I got into instances with no trouble. The issue really is just congestion, and people are still preordering (and canceling) to get early access codes, so there's no way you can say they knew exactly how many people would be playing.

If anything, given a fairly large amount of negativity being thrown around about both 1.0 and ARR, they were probably given the impression the capacity they'd allotted would suffice. A large number of people have been getting in this week after waiting for impressions.

Yeah the amazon thing I saw mentioned on every major gaming forum. I'm sure tons of people did it and are treating it like a demo

 

[Dog food is delicious]

As soon as numbers started dropping last night, I got into instances with no trouble. The issue really is just congestion, and people are still preordering (and canceling) to get early access codes, so there's no way you can say they knew exactly how many people would be playing.

If anything, given a fairly large amount of negativity being thrown around about both 1.0 and ARR, they were probably given the impression the capacity they'd allotted would suffice. A large number of people have been getting in this week after waiting for impressions.

Next time the need to limit the preorders to their own website and charge people for the preorder immediately. Make it known that they will do so and people will think twice.

Even if people can try to get out of the preorder, at least they can control who actually gets the access.

 

[dramatis]

a realm unborn lolamirite

Not nearly as clever as the "An Error Reborn" somebody cooked up yesterday in Mumble.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Next time the need to limit the preorders to their own website and charge people for the preorder immediately. Make it known that they will do so and people will think twice.

Even if people can try to get out of the preorder, at least they can control who actually gets the access.

Yeah, I was actually really surprised there wasn't an amount or date cutoff for preorders.

 

[Admiral Snackbar]

Error 90000 again. Got a good Tam-Tara run and just trying to go to the Lower Docks crashed me.

I wanna cook, Square, let me get my chef hat!

 

[SoopaMan2K]

As soon as numbers started dropping last night, I got into instances with no trouble. The issue really is just congestion, and people are still preordering (and canceling) to get early access codes, so there's no way you can say they knew exactly how many people would be playing.

If anything, given a fairly large amount of negativity being thrown around about both 1.0 and ARR, they were probably given the impression the capacity they'd allotted would suffice. A large number of people have been getting in this week after waiting for impressions.



I think you have a problem with Japan.

Dood, I agree and they should've handled EA a little better. Like, you can't get EA unless you "Buy" the game. I mean, give you the disc and everything so that people who are not going to actually buy the game waste their money on a free trial and can't sell it back.

Also seen a few Ultros GAFers chopping wood yesterday. It was kind of funny.

 

[B-Dex]

Not gaf blaming "pre-order thieves" for SE's lack of preparedness.

 

[Tevren]

Well, this is one way to lower the western player count.

 

[Alucrid]

Looks like servers are down now?

 

[Chucker]

Seems that way, got 9000'd starting a duty quest, and 10102 when I try to log back in.

 

[TheContact]

I'm on Ultros walking around Gridania with no problems, but it almost feels like a ghost town compared to what it was yesterday, there's only people here and there

 

[Dega]

Looks like servers are down now?

I'm still here lonely and fishing away on Excalibur.

 

[Dr. Light]

I believe it's in "character options" at least on PS3.

And where is that? Do you need to log on the server?

 

[Dead Prince]

I guess I'll go eat now

 

[piratepwnsninja]

There's not really a bug. Square decided not to prepare for the server load they knew they would be getting. They know how many pre-orders they had. And they just decided not to bother preparing enough servers to handle that load.

Well, except in Japan. They made sure Japan had plenty of servers.

I really dislike posts like this. We don't know enough about their back end infrastructure to make comments like these. It most certainly could be a bug, depending on how their servers and systems operate. Maybe they're supposed to spin up new virtual instance servers and there is an error in that when a bunch of people hit it simultaneously. There are many, many things it could be and they're trying to actually fix the issue for something that should be working regardless of the number of servers that are available.

Look, I get it, it's extremely frustrating. I got 3102'ed last Saturday, and was stuck all of yesterday doing just leves, hunting log, and FATEs because I couldn't do anything else. But its disingenuous to state that they somehow don't care because they haven't thrown more servers at the problem.

 

[akaoni]

Still up on Ultros.

Maybe having an EU account is part of it.... or maybe everyone who was using DF got dc'ed. Just fishing away my time, don't want to try DF and get the same problem.

 

[Dog food is delicious]

So there are 25 NA/EU servers and the number I saw yesterday was 150,000 concurrent users. That evens out to about 6000 players per server. FFXI routinely had 10k+ during it's hottest time, so it's gotta be the instance/login servers.

 

[Baleoce]

I've been quite fortunate and had an error-free morning, just been doing some fishing.

 

[Hubb]

Looks like servers are down now?

Most likely, can't even get the lodestone to load.


Edit: maybe log in server is down if people are still in the game.

 

[Trojita]

How many people are mumbling compared to the amount of people in the guild? Is there an extra button on a controller for a mic button? I might want to play this outputted to my TV from my computer, but maybe I might have to get a wireless keyboard.

 

[Wortany]

Borderless Fullscreen gives me a 50% increase in frame rate over Fullscreen, which is unusual and the opposite of normal.
I usually get better performance in regular Fullscreen. I think it's because of the SLI compatibility bit in Nvidia Inspector.

I was even able to successfully alt-tab while rendering the game at 3840x2160 in Borderless Fullscreen. I was almost 100% sure the game was going to crash or blue-screen.

How do you downsample in borderless fullscreen? It should take your desktop resolution as the resolution options are greyed out ingame.
Unless you are downsampling your whole desktop too?

Also for people wondering, it's definitaly a login error now, as servers are still online. (I won't risk logging out now!!!)

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Are there quest chains you can miss out on and mess up quest hubs? I got to 17 on MRD in La Noscea, lvl 10 on a GLD in Thanalan, and then when I started a lancer I was having problems in the Black Shroud from 10-15 resorting to guildleves and now there's nothing from 15-20.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

I've been in for about an hour on Ultros, changing zones is fine but I'm not even attempting instances until there's some kind of message.

Also, I believe last night they said that log in limits would be increased following last night's maintenance, and then gradually brought back to normal as they tested and verified the duty server stability.

 

[Tarazet]

Seems that way, got 9000'd starting a duty quest, and 10102 when I try to log back in.

90000 and 10102. Had just finished Sastasha and hit the exit portal. Now it looks like the NA/EU realms are down.