Do me the miracle, Yoshi!Follow

He's doing good for now, BUT...

You have to realize one small thing here. A lot of people are going to quit over not being able to play. If they would have fixed everything properly or had more servers, or allowed more logins, then they could have had an even BIGGER permanent playerbase.

Perhaps, but the 5000 max isnt going to change per server. It's their connection limit, and as i've come to understand, more than that will cause trouble for other people in the server. So in the long run, people are going to keep being locked out.

Dont get me wrong, i love the game so far. But eventually people are going to get fed up about having to fight over a spot (not to mention the whole not logging out when they do)

Keep in mind that current server capacity isn't really the problem. The bigger issue is with all the servers so concurrently full, the duty finder was overloaded and crashing the game. That is being fixed, which will allow login restrictions to be lifted.

I don't think its irrational to be to be annoyed that after one week people still cannot even log into their preferred servers let alone even create characters after paying for their service. I got early access to the title screen/lobby and that's about it. Getting a lame apology and watching Yoshi cry like a ***** is not enough, neither is receiving a couple of extra "free" days on top of what we were supposed to get to start this up. Nothing has been mentioned on how (or when) transfers are going to work and they won't boot people afk. Whenever the additional servers come online, will the only recourse be to occupy new worlds rather than trying to get into servers where people know their friends are in but cannot enter due to lockouts from day 1? I'm sure the game is great judging from everyone's comments who could get in, but this launch was a joke.

Honestly this launch is right in line with just about every other game with online functionality -- from Final Fantasy XI, to XIV v1.0, to Diablo III -- they always have days worth of disconnections and server outages, and pages worth of fans ranting about the many ways it was the worst launch ever, "a total joke," etc. etc. Certainly, companies need to learn from their mistakes, but players also need to learn that there will always be mistakes. :P

Don't expect there to be a flood of new servers. I'm sure SE has observed the MMO "boom and bust" that happens with every game at release.

FF XIV will be no different; the huge crush of players attempting to log on now will greatly diminish, especially when the 30 day free period is up and a large number of players decide the game isn't for them and/or have already finished the content.

With people already hitting Level 50 and doing end game content, the pace fro new content will have to be blistering to maintain a stable population.

The number of people willing to subscribe month after month for raiding or out of the sheer love of FF will not be enough to sustain a fraction of the current server base.

I expect SE to toss a handful of new servers, take their lumps for the next 4 weeks about people not being able to log in and then re-evaluate where the game stands from a FINANCIAL standpoint.

That's the point most gamers miss - they argue from an emotional perspective when nothing anyone (even Yoshi) wants, dreams or wishes matters a hill of beans if it doesn't make $$ sense to the CE suits.

For comparison look at GW2 - I burned out pretty quickly but it's doing well by constantly churning out new content; they can do that as the cash shop approach is bringing massive amounts of $$, which allows for a healthy development team.

There hasn't been a successful subscription MMO launched in years - it will be interesting to see if FF XIV can break that trend.

What's you're point? It's human nature to be mad and irrational when your told one thing, but then get something else.

I think it stinks and they're ruining the title over it.