Just when i thought it was dead.. it came backFollow

That is much much older and handles a minuscule amount of data less than XIV.

BEFORE you tell me that I have no way of knowing that, capture packets from both games and compare them.

EDIT: Making millions has nothing to do with it. Budgeting has everything to do with it. It wasn't until NOW that the Board of Directors, NOT Yoshi or anyone else, decided to back this game. Not before. Look at it from their perspective. A failed game was taken down, tons sunk into it, and no definable way to know if it would succeed or not. As a business, you would cut a budget to a minimum for a project like that, too.

Yet out of that came greatness, just like with the original Macintosh. sh*t non existent budget, now a HUGE moneymaker.

EDIT 2: Preempting your response of "throw up more servers". They are. Despite popular belief, building servers isn't as easy as going to Best Buy, say, "I want a dozen servers, yo", taking them to Geek Squad and leaving them there overnight to make magic love to them, taking them home and plugging them in. Building them can take a long... LONG time. Parts are almost always on backorder. Performance precision is such an issue in such a data center that you almost HAVE to use identical hardware. Then there's configuring them.... Nightmare. The fact that they did so as quickly as they did surprises me.

Also, before you say, "If they didn't believe in the game they shouldn't have released it", yeah.... Just don't.



Edited, Sep 7th 2013 7:20pm by darexius2010

Edited, Sep 7th 2013 7:30pm by darexius2010

Blue screen of death zoning into Limsa Lominsa.

Reboot windows.

3102 character still logged in.

*sigh*

Guess Squeenix is telling me to go play XI tonight after all.

Edited, Sep 7th 2013 5:58pm by Catwho

speaking of content will all new contet be lvl 50? i mean low lvl content seems pointless in a gamewere even a casual can hit 50 in a month or less

I shouldn't be posing in this thread anymore, but why don't you just go away? You went from bashing the servers to bashing the content (both of which are getting better). If you don't like the game, then don't play it. It's that simple... Nobody is forcing you to play it.

wtf? is your reading comprehension meter broken?

i started ffxi on us ps2 launch in march 2004 thats 5 months after us pc launch and in 5 years of playing the only time i couldnt log on is when servers were actualyy down

that would make sense except jp and na shared servers in ffxi and jp had it two years before us so even on pc in us the game was two years old before we started... and according to those who sat 1017 will never go away.. if thats true then yes even 5 months later ill still have 1017 problems

What is the point your trying to make? Your making my point for me. FFXI had delayed launches for different platforms and regions. Not everyone was trying to play at the exact same time (such as the case with FFXIV). 1017 is not a traditional "error". It will never truly go away, but it won't be as common. There were times in FFXI where the servers were overcrowded. It was just not as common because of the delayed launches. Don't compare FFXIV to FFXI. It is a completely different game launched under different situations and settings. I've had barely any issue with 1017 since the update and it will only get better as they improve the servers and add new ones.

How many MMOs did you play at launch (excluding FFXI's third launch)? Many of them have problems (especially the popular ones). Square may of not been prepared for all of they players at launch, but they are doing everything right to fix it. How does this make you think they are "clearly" doing something wrong? The game just came out two weeks ago.

I'm done responding to you after this. They already admitted they they were under prepared. They have done everything right to fix it. What else do you want? Why are you complaining about problems they already fixed? Why do you keep bringing up sever launch problems? I'm done going in circles with you. If you don't like it, leave....

You're operating under the assumption that the server is broken because it's full. It's supposed to do that when it's full, it's operating normally.

Would it be better if it put people into a queue so that they could play as soon as the server was not full? Yes. But it doesn't do that. Not because it's broken, but because it doesn't really have a queuing system at all, not that kind of queue anyway.