FFXIV Early Access Issues/Duty Finder Errors

[Malacite]

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And the shit has started once again...


Also, they upped the max level on some of the dungeons - once you hit 23 (by doing Halatali I guess) you can move on to TTR.

[Firewind]

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Well everything was fine until the Americans started logging on, now everything, even the servers have come crashing down.

[Melody]

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Well everything was fine until the Americans started logging on, now everything, even the servers have come crashing down.

The Japanese playerbase is also tiny compared to the NA/EU playerbase that gets entirely lumped together. Ideally they should have split NA and EU further which they didn't.

Basically there are fewer problems with the Japanese servers because the strain on them is a fraction to that the NA/EU servers are.

Statements like that just makes you sound like a fucking moron.

You're doing the same thing Dak did, don't be a hypocrite. :c

[Firewind]

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How? The server populations go up when the EU and NA players are on at the same time. I'm not sure how that is anything like what Dak said which is tinfoil hat conspiracy bullshit, and/or acting cynical to try and sound smart.

Also the forums and tech support are down and I'm now stuck in limbo with Error 10212 and 90000 with no way of getting unstuck because the forums and support and overloaded.

I think I might just go back to Rift for a couple of months.

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Hmm NA/EU back up and Japanese Servers down.

[Melody]

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You were blaming "Americans/NA" players alone when it's not just their fault. Is this your first time being apart of a game launch? You don't seem to be taking it very well, once again Diablo 3 was down for 3 days. At least we are able to login and not be stuck doing something else. Whether you stay or not is your own choice, don't make others feel like they owe you an apology when it's clearly not their fault. The NA/EU Data centers are being hit hard Firewind and it doesn't help when the launch broke the record of over 150,000 players and with the game this close to launch it's only going to get worse. You think this is bad now? Wait until they go on sale on the 27th. This whole thing is a very good way to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. You're either the former or the latter, take your pick. I made the decision to move over to a JP server this morning and I plan to stay there for at least a good week or so after launch before I even go back to playing my main. As far as I am concerned the JP servers are more a safe haven to actually play until the NA/EU mess is recovered, but saying its NA's fault just makes you sound Xenophobic.

[Firewind]

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I think you're jumping to conclusions and not paying attention to what I'm saying.

Mostly Just EU players on because NA players are in bed = Server has a tolerable load
Mostly Just NA players on because EU players are in bed = Server has a tolerable load
NA and EU players on at the same time = Crash

How does joking about that make me xenophobic or a hypocrite? Everyone on the fucking server was joking about what will happen when all the NA and EU players are on at once.

And I've been in far worse launches don't worry. Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Aion, FFXIV 1.0, Age of Conan, Guild Wars 2 and The Secret World are games I played at launch, and beta tested for most of them all had far worse launches. Rift and SWTOR are the only games in recent memory that even had good, stable launches,

[Melody]

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I think you're jumping to conclusions and not paying attention to what I'm saying.

Mostly Just EU players on because NA players are in bed = Server has a tolerable load
Mostly Just NA players on because EU players are in bed = Server has a tolerable load
NA and EU players on at the same time = Crash

How does joking about that make me xenophobic or a hypocrite? Everyone on the fucking server was joking about what will happen when all the NA and EU players are on at once.

And I've been in far worse launches don't worry. Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Aion, FFXIV 1.0, Age of Conan, Guild Wars 2 and The Secret World are games I played at launch, and beta tested for most of them all had far worse launches. Rift and SWTOR are the only games in recent memory that even had good, stable launches,

Ok I apologize, I just saw it more as a complaint than a joke, with all the generated animosity it really puts people on edge. I guess I blame myself for letting it get to me. But in other news I'm on the JP server (Valefor) and it's beeeeaaautiful, not too many players. My goodness it's great. I think I'm going to invite my friend to this server. There are NA/EU here, but they're really nice and a lot of the JP don't really mind me being there.

[Hayde]

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It's definitely annoying. I mean people keep throwing the whole "it's just an MMO launch!" Sure, I mean...maybe if we went back 10 years. I've been through Rift's, Guild War 2's, and SWTOR's launch in the recent years and I didn't experience situations where the server was in constant maintenance with no resolution. I mean yes--I know, each game has different coding, and each servers have different hardware; but we learn from our past mistakes, we see what we and our competition did wrong and we strive to improve on that experience. Hell, even the Neverwitner MMO which I played for like 3 days tops had a far better launch.

Now, don't get me wrong here--I know other MMO launches experienced server lag, character creation lockouts, and the list goes on--but I can't tell you any MMO I've played in the last 5 years that's had several maintenance totaling to roughly 12~ hours of downtime with zero resolutions. I mean yeah, if you log on right after maintenance you'll probably get on--you can probably even get into a duty finder or two, but I guarantee you once the bulk of players get on it's the same thing happening over and over again. At this point, I could blame a lack of optimization in coding but I'm really thinking this is a lack of hardware as well. I don't care how popular this is in Japan, but when you dump of the rest of the world onto one cluster in Montreal--this shit happens.

/endrant

[Melody]

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It's definitely annoying. I mean people keep throwing the whole "it's just an MMO launch!" Sure, I mean...maybe if we went back 10 years. I've been through Rift's, Guild War 2's, and SWTOR's launch in the recent years and I didn't experience situations where the server was in constant maintenance with no resolution. I mean yes--I know, each game has different coding, and each servers have different hardware; but we learn from our past mistakes, we see what we and our competition did wrong and we strive to improve on that experience. Hell, even the Neverwitner MMO which I played for like 3 days tops had a far better launch.

Now, don't get me wrong here--I know other MMO launches experienced server lag, character creation lockouts, and the list goes on--but I can't tell you any MMO I've played in the last 5 years that's had several maintenance totaling to roughly 12~ hours of downtime with zero resolutions. I mean yeah, if you log on right after maintenance you'll probably get on--you can probably even get into a duty finder or two, but I guarantee you once the bulk of players get on it's the same thing happening over and over again. At this point, I could blame a lack of optimization in coding but I'm really thinking this is a lack of hardware as well. I don't care how popular this is in Japan, but when you dump of the rest of the world onto one cluster in Montreal--this shit happens.

/endrant

They should just break the servers down into NA and EU and then region lock them for now until they can get this shit fixed. Right now I'm on the JP server with no issues. Almost in tears at how smoothly it's running over here. I fear for NA/EU's launch day which is sadly in 2 more days. If SE can't pull this off they're going to be sitting in hot water for a long while. But that's what I want to happen, I want people to leave the game due to the issues, it just makes it less of a cluster fuck for the rest of us loyal SE fans.

[Dux]

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Its actually my fault, I spilt my choco-nyan-nyan-moko-moko-skinny-latte on the server cluster.

My bad!

[Firewind]

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Honestly it makes me worry for what will happen on Tuesday. I think the complaints will really start rolling in.

Ok I apologize, I just saw it more as a complaint than a joke, with all the generated animosity it really puts people on edge. I guess I blame myself for letting it get to me. But in other news I'm on the JP server (Valefor) and it's beeeeaaautiful, not too many players. My goodness it's great. I think I'm going to invite my friend to this server. There are NA/EU here, but they're really nice and a lot of the JP don't really mind me being there.

There's really no need to. It's hard to get jokes across in text form. Most of this afternoon's Skype chat with Jarre was joking about what else was going to go wrong, if how quickly the servers will blow up once everyone is on at the same time.

[Melody]

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I couldn't resist.

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[DakAttack]

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Current solution: player slot caps for each server. What the fuck. I didn't realize I was buying into a timeshare.

[Firewind]

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The Japanese server thing is something that the "They're sabotaging the NA/EU servers so the JPs get ahead!" conspiracy bullshit spewers refuse to accept. Again this is why I'm an advocate of Hanlon's Razor in everyday life: Never assume malice when stupidity is a more than adequate answer.

[Melody]

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@ Dak What server are you even on?