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[henez RS]

Aazen, on 15 August 2013 - 08:17 PM, said:

Steam Legion will be extending a chapter on the Ultros server as Mags said.  There can be no game without uber leet trollz. And we are they.

wait wut a troll guild that i havent heard about dafuq

[Katarzynea]

henez RS, on 23 August 2013 - 06:53 PM, said:

wait wut a troll guild that i havent heard about dafuq

Where have you been, hiding under a rock?  ;D

PUNKs assemble!  I'll be joining Ultros today~  Just waiting for the install to finish <3

[Aazen]

I will be on next week. I seem to have misplaced my early start reg code .

[Katarzynea]

Aww D=  Bad Aazen! >=O

I'm Katzy Fluffytail on Ultros <3

[cyranal]

Quote

Hello, this is FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Producer and Director, Yoshida.

The maximum expected population limit is nearing for each World, and unless the current World simultaneous connection amount decreases, we are unable to open release the limitation.

In case we do release the limitation, there is a high chance that the corresponding World will crash or cause issues, and we are thinking that it will be difficult for us to release it for a while. We please ask you to consider playing in a World that has a low limitation.

We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause and ask to continue with your cooperation.

They can't even get a pre-launch right second time around. Seriously. So if my server is full and locked down, then is there isn't really a reason for me to play this game is there? Just...wow.

[Thuley]

cyranal, on 24 August 2013 - 10:17 PM, said:

They can't even get a pre-launch right second time around. Seriously. So if my server is full and locked down, then is there isn't really a reason for me to play this game is there? Just...wow.

Google translate didn't convey the message correctly.
What they are saying is that they locked the character creation on the majority of the servers.  For the most part people were able to log in with the characters they have already created during Beta 4 or during the early hours of Early Access.  If you are just making a character now, or during Official Release, you will not be able to join the locked servers at this time.

They did announce that there will allow server transfers in the near future.

[Drake Erif]

I wound up joining Midgardsormr. I wanted to get into Leviathan, but it was locked. Oh well maybe I'll make an alt there when/if the restriction is taken off.

[cyranal]

Thuley, on 25 August 2013 - 02:20 AM, said:

Google translate didn't convey the message correctly.

Funny enough, it wasn't a Google translate but a direct quote from the EN website. I really hope they aren't using Google translate for the English side of their website! But the problem is still there. I've played games with queues before and I have no problem with it but during beta 4, you couldn't even get into a queue. And when the game did tell you that you were in a queue, it only told you how many people were ahead of you but never logged you in unless you kept spamming the login.

The game looks great. I do want to play it and am willing to pay a subscription fee. However, I was expecting them to have some semblance of a contingency plan if participation was higher than expected. They should have had an idea from Beta 4 when I couldn't even play on Sunday because my server was locked. I tried for 8 hours off and on and couldn't even get into the game. When I first played WoW, there was a 2-3 hour queue and if you were in a queue it would log you in automatically when your turn was up. I don't understand why the games I play don't do that more often, especially at launch.

And that's really my fear for this coming week when the game officially launches. I'm going to want to play and I won't be able to log into the game because the server has been locked/full for 4 days. I have two 1.0 characters (two accounts) that have at least one job at level 50 so I'm not that interested in playing a new character right now. In Beta 4, some people who got disconnected couldn't reconnect at all because the lobby server wouldn't release their previous session which I suspect also counts towards the population count on the server. We have old linkshell members joining us for the first time for V2 and even they can't log in or create characters. That's not a great first impression for new players either.

Sorry for the rant so early in the (US) morning. I haven't even finished my coffee yet.

[Thuley]

cyranal, on 25 August 2013 - 09:37 AM, said:

Funny enough, it wasn't a Google translate but a direct quote from the EN website. I really hope they aren't using Google translate for the English side of their website!

Either they use Google translate or it's some Intern who barely knows English.  It's disappointing to receive the whole "lost in translation" messages from SE time and again.

FFXIV seems to be a good game, but these server side issues are certainly botching the launch.

I have a character on Leviathan and cannot even log into it myself.  Thinking of moving to a different server after all.

[Katarzynea]

I've been playing on a JP server, Carbuncle.  Might just stay here, since I'm having a buttload of fun on my Archer I made there...

[sil]

I am just waiting. My archer and other characters are too high on Ultros to stop now.

[Katarzynea]

My character had just been made, so no skin off my nose xD

[Thuley]

The pings to the JP servers are too high being in the 260+ ms.  That doesn't matter much during leveling, but once you get into raiding that lag becomes quite unacceptable.

[Magiinty]

I haven't had many problems getting onto my server (Goblin), longest I had to wait was 10 minutes.
I was busy today and didn't try until 7-8 mountain time though, so I don't know how bad it was today.

[Thuley]

Alright, re-established on Ultros -> http://www.ultros.net
Public mumble to follow in the next day or so.

[sil]

Alright Thuley! I knew you thought I was too cute to stay away from.

[SeñorHueso]

I played the first one 7 years went to a few pre release events that they did.  Loved it and I will still call all the chars by the org. names because to me that is what they happen to be, hume, tarutaru, mithra, galka, and Elvan and so forth.     Now  as for server I think I  will end up joining you guys on the same server.  I just need to find a way to ensure it works well with my Windows 8 machine.

[Thuley]

SeñorHueso, on 26 August 2013 - 12:50 PM, said:

I just need to find a way to ensure it works well with my Windows 8 machine.

I run it on Windows 8 64-bit and everything works fine except borderless windowed mode, it just goes into full-screen, so I played windowed but maximized.

[Magiinty]

Yep, no problems on Windows 8 here.

[Bonny]

Thuley, on 26 August 2013 - 12:55 PM, said:

I run it on Windows 8 64-bit and everything works fine except borderless windowed mode, it just goes into full-screen, so I played windowed but maximized.

I was playing around with this and could not quite figure out what I was doing wrong.  I'm glad it wasn't just me being pixel persnickety.

“The native hue of resolution is sicklied..."  William Shakespeare