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

Duo...

I don't know how many times it's been stated.

1017 is not an error, It is not a problem. It is a manual lockdown on server queues when the servers are taxed to capacity.

It is literally a "No Vacancy" Sign SE puts up to keep the servers from breaking. And right now, it happens on the most populated servers still.

How did I know this was a post about 1017...

A new store opens in town. The entire city is so excited by this, that many citizens start going down to the store. Soon, the store reaches its maximum capacity allowed by the fire marshals, so they set up a line outside. But the line kept growing and growing. At first it circled the building. Then it spilled into the parking lot. Soon, though it started to move onto the street. At this time, the police arrive, parked a patrol car at the entrance of the parking lot, and turned away anyone else who wanted to line up.

That would be the 1017. Do you get it now? Do you comprehend or... wait, forgot who I was replying to. Carry on the idiocy.

Yes, even queues have limits too.

obviously its sense and not tense, seeing as i used "sense in other parts of the post it should be clear the first one was a typo. Anyway I did read what Hyrist said. However to me "Manual Lockdown on server queues" to me sound like "We dont feel like putting people in queue anymore so where just gonna deny them access" as opposed to "the waiting area is full so we CANT put anyone in queue anymore" Now had he/she said "manual lockdown on queue SERVER" then THAT would suggests that he queuing area is a separate server/entity than the world/game server and that (queue) server was full too. Then i woulda understood and it wouldve made sense to begin with

NEVER going away? that would be a bad thing for SE you sure you wanna say that? i mean name ONE other mmo out now that has the same issue? it went away for them so why would it never go away for ffxiv?

All this talk of 1017's reminded me of my outing to the gym Labor Day morning. I get to the gym a little before 8 am and was feeling pretty happy, thanks to very little commuter traffic and the hopes of being in a relatively empty facility that morning. I get to the door and find that it's locked. There was a sign that said "Holidays - 9 am to <sometime I don't care to remember>" so, with an hour to kill I took a stroll around the base this gym is on, trying not to look suspicious to the bored police patrolling the area. I get back to the gym a little before 9 and a small crowd had gathered, after waiting a few minutes after 9 someone pointed out that the sign is wrong and it opens at 10. During this wait, I look up and notice the building number... 1017! Dammit, SE! First, I get denied playing my spiffy-looking Mithra Miqo'te and now I get denied the opportunity to pick things up and put them back down.

Name one MMO you'd be willing to wait an hour to just get to play? The whole argument is moot because you know that even if you go and play another MMO right now, its just killing time until you can play this one.

You like the game. We like the game. Get over being frustrated and deal with it. No one gets what they want all the time.

You apparently want to play on a very populated server. Well, this is the cost of playing where most of the other cool kids are... you have to wait.

Edited, Sep 7th 2013 2:55pm by Jjnnyrr

Edited, Sep 7th 2013 2:56pm by Jjnnyrr

Looks like WoW still has a queue. Want to try again? I'd like to ask if you can utilize any kind of proper syntax and spelling in your reply, please?

WHOA WHOA WHOA buddy you are way out of line... You want Duo to both form a proper, realistic argument AND take the time to write it out in a proper structure? Ain't no troll got time for that!!

Yea... it is... after being in operation for, what, 9 years? One would expect a game making in excess of $115 million dollars a month could afford a few extra servers.

But, yea, you're totally reasonable to expect a game, at launch, already operating in the red, to have the same infrastructure as the world's largest MMO.

/endthread

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