Login Limitation After Emergency Maintenance

I'm tempted to just stick to the JP server, Anima, that has a character I created over the Phase 4 Beta since it has had no issues as of late.

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Yeah, it seems ridiculous for SE to seemingly underestimate the demand from the NA/EU side, especially when a lot of NA and EU players would rather play with someone closer to where they are. As a result, would result in better performance and connections having a regionally connected server. Unfortunately, the experience so far on the NA and EU side has turned out to be anything but disappointing for a lot of us. We're having anywhere from connection issues to locked-out servers to broken or over-capacity instance and world servers.

The Japanese players have had no issues that I can see. Barring in-game bugs, their servers have been running along just fine. It's either SE didn't care about the NA and EU players or underestimated their demand, or if going by the FFXI NA/EU player-mentality-- were generally more in favor of Japanese players than anyone outside of Japan.

Yes, connection issues, server issues, and game issues are to be expected with the launch of any MMO. But, when only one region of servers have been running fine far longer than servers in another region, you begin to question whether the company is intentionally favoring one side of the planet over the other. This kind of thinking has happened in FFXI especially when it came to maintaining a PS2 version that many believe has held the game back, but unfortunately majority of JP players play on the PS2.

These servers should be identical in both hardware and software in parity with the JP servers. These issues should not exist. However, if the NA and EU servers lack capacity in comparison to the JP servers, then it should have been befitting of SE to consider increasing capacity especially in response after the Phase 4 beta and before Early Access started for a lot of us.

These server capacity and connection issues does not bode well when the launch comes on August 27th. They need to resolve this soon before then.

I tend to agree with all this but I can sorta see SE's reasoning in handling the servers as they did. After all the JP outnumber the rest greatly I would imagine and the game/brand is way more popular there than it is here. It isn't like the Final Fantasy brand has Call of Duty status/popularity here in the states. Its a fairly niche crowd over here I believe.

is there a japanese version of FFXIVPRO?

no

http://jp.ffxivpro.com/forum/topic/40361/login-limitation-after-emergency-maintenance/

That's about it.

SE needs to disconnect the lobby server i think alot of people are afk in the lobby server or just add a timer on kick

Japanese tend to favor them self more than others!

I have a feeling this is going to be disastrous, fair or not, you have to be near flawless to pull off a do over. Sadly the game is good. The experience so far has been horrible, and SE customer care community is worse than ever.

Yeah, I love the game itself, its everything else that keeps ruining my experience.

Actually I know of two periods that the Japanese servers were offline. And I haven't tried to log in from yesterday afternoon's maintenance through 10:AM PDT today.

They have problems too. Just not the overload one we have.

With this happening to the NA/EU servers and not the jps I highly doubt that the jps over number us the. Whole reason this is happening is that there are too many people on the NA/EU side trying to log in and do instances on a server not made for that much activity we are overloading the poor thing.

At least they give you a free thirty day subscription. Otherwise there would be no conceivable way I'd subscribe for the first month with all the bugs the game has and the multiple maintenances everyday that don't even resolve anything lol.

The JP have no problems now because as someone said earlier Japan has as many servers alone as the other two regions combined. So they were well equipped to handle the population. They still outnumber either of the other 2 regions (NA or EU).

oh fun

If they didn't offer you free early access at all, would that be better?

I am sorry, 60.00 to the PSN, paying the game in full is free now?

When you pre-order a game you pre-pay for that game. This means that the company is generating an early revenue stream and they can refer to the pre-order numbers to their creditors for justification on loans or adjustments.

Does this mean people paid more? No. Does this mean SE benefited from the pre-orders? Yes.

Thats not even the point.

Guess what, if you didn't pre order and got it on release day, it would still be same price.

Also, pre-order doesnt mean its a 100% sale. You can still cancel before the game comes out.

Money wasn't withdrawn from your account? Because it was from mine. You can do a return, but that happens on most items you buy, you have the option of returning them.

I pre-ordered on Amazon for digital download. Do not get charged till the game releases.

Saturday was release day for pre-order people. Therefore we have every right to be upset as people who go into the store on the 27th buy it and get the same issues.