I do understand the frustration for them too.. but for some of them to do something like 'Raiding' JP servers, demanding unreasonable stuffs.. to do something unethically.. is beyond comprehension..

first of all.. 1.0 is all JP server...
in ARR they established servers outside Japan, which is not available in 1.0.. its the first time for them to do that in FFXIV.. and ofcourse there will be hiccup..
I think the tech is there are working on to fix the issue on NA/EU side.. the maintenance and downtime is given.. if not how to fix it? wait for the server to crash and data might go corrupt and end up with rollback?

Theres nothing wrong with stating out the problem and stuffs.. but with the right channel..

I'm sure you should be aware that getting stuff done in any corporate company requires you to go through the right channels too. Can suddenly sign off additional server racks 1 ah? Right. And how do you know they're hosted on low-bandwidth hardware if you even know how the server architecture is done at all?


I'm sorry but whatever problems people are having (and I've experienced all of them before) does not justify their atrocious behavior all over the internet right now. I have the right to be upset sure, but I do not have the right to make life miserable for others, players and staff alike. Shit, its not as if I haven't been permabanned by ArenaNet for TWO weeks following the 21karma fiasco when they were supposed to unban me within 48 hours.

This post has been edited by ZeratoS: Aug 26 2013, 04:08 PM

Ya .. i do agree that what they did was very wrong. Westerners and Asians are both educate on a different direction. Westerners demanded answers immediately if a problem arise. Asian always have time to negotiate when problem arise and always ask others to put their feelings in other people's shoe.

Though this same story goes for everyone, one day u pay over 99USD for the game.U were back from work/study, u log in and get a bunch of rojak errors. These numbers of course makes no sense to you and neither do you want to troubleshoot these over google. Feeling frustrated over 2hrs u cant login. U decide to wait then. When u finally get to login, u were greeted by noticeable lag throughout your gameplay. It's already 9pm and it's bedtime for you soon. Well no choice u have to logout at 10pm soon. U replied calmly, SE will do something about this.
Unforunately 3rd day onwards, same shyt happen. SE finds that too many complaints on their doorstep. No more Online chat support.
Of course they'll tell u that problem will be solve "soon". How do you feel?
I believe if this goes dangling for a month, people would have transform themselves into a Hulk already.

Its the first three days. Launch week will always be problematic. It has been this way since forever and FFXIV is no exception.

Perfect MMO launch!

..said no MMO dev ever.

This post has been edited by ZeratoS: Aug 26 2013, 04:31 PM

the last thing we need in this thread is someone venting their frustration here

and make sim city launch look flawless .

anyone have lvl guild for lv 1 to lv 15?

nope, sim city and FFXIV different game and different traffic load into the server

Sim City was a city simulation game that did not need an online connection

FFXIV is a MMORPG and have a huge traffic load

what SE did now is not expanding their server to withstand the load

@kimp
sad, can't load ytube at my workplace

already mentioned it - this was painfully obvious to SE during their beta phases

and I mentioned in V9 that SE tends to overlook problems like this and this tarnishes their image

This post has been edited by N30rang3r: Aug 26 2013, 04:54 PM

Adding more server racks has its own set of problems including but not limited to player demographic spread. They have probably accounted for expected player concurrency a few months down the road before adding servers just like that.

lol... Damn creative and somehow I felt the frustration they experienced... Hope this can be resolved soon.

actually they already have player count statistic hence they should just add enough server racks to account for extra 10 - 20k players

okay in the end of the day people scolding n fxxking over the game they still will play. sadly when once it is smooth people wont praise bcoz that is what the company must do...

i'm hoping with the money we gave them they provide more content for us

This will not be the case a few months down the road. Adding servers is easy. Removing..less so. There are..complications associated with that, contractual and elsewhere. Most MMOs will see a steady decline in player concurrency following launch week till it normalizes so adding more servers CAN be a bad thing because you're spreading the playerbase. There's also PR bullshit associated with merges that will eventually happen for low pop servers.

That was what I meant. Can add now, but have to account for what to do in the future.

This post has been edited by ZeratoS: Aug 26 2013, 05:15 PM

Hi FFXIV.

Hey all, anyone receive their code(s) from GMG yet?

Hmmmm today's already the 26th......aren't we suppose to get another email with the game code and etc anytime soon before tomorrow's launch?

probably when the EA is closed then everyone who join in the official launch will receive their codes n update the launcher