Question about the scope of the data center expansion.

Mors-Subita

Haven't had a chance to check myself yet, but my GF tells me that their big datacenter expansion added ONE new server to NA/EU and ONE new server to JP, and added some capacity to the duty finder... and that was it.

Can anyone clarify for me? Is this really the case?

grimal

Not sure but I still cannot log in to any servers except for the two that were added.  I thought they were going to address this more significantly?

Tsuru

They added 1 new NA, EU, and Japan server.  They have also increased the Login capacity for each server and are also ready to deploy more servers if nessassary. 

Mors-Subita

Originally posted by grimal
Not sure but I still cannot log in to any servers except for the two that were added.  I thought they were going to address this more significantly?

I'm hoping it is not just that because in Yoshi's letter last week they said they weren't going to bother with AFK kicks or queues (for now) because they were focusing on expanding their data centers this week... If their entire expansion was 2 servers... They have to pull their entire team in order to launch TWO servers???

And I still don't understand why their programming team is being pulled to launch servers... Wouldn't that be infrastructure people and not programmers/devs?

Tsuru

Also while initial login problems seem to have been solved, with most players able to login without issue, character creation has been restricted again on many servers, since they hit their upper limit

Ridelynn

They did say they would initially be extremely restricted, and the restrictions would gradually ease over the next few days as they monitor the new server loads.

We knew it wouldn't all be magically fixed by today.

grimal

Originally posted by Tsuru
Also while initial login problems seem to have been solved, with most players able to login without issue, character creation has been restricted again on many servers, since they hit their upper limit

Totally unacceptable in my book.  I have not been able to create the toon I have been trying to create since Early Access start (eleven days ago) because I cannot login to Behemoth (where my friends have decided to create characters).  Even after the supposed datacenter maintenance, the problem still exists for me.  Very very disappointed by this launch and the subsequent addressing (or lack thereof) of problems.

Gorilla

Performance is poor (backend and maybe netcode) still. You can interact with a world object and it is about half a second or more before the bar comes up. Same with combat. Odin fight was a bit of a nightmare you could be 15 'yalms' clear of the blue corridor of death and still get hit by it. Mushyiest combat ever imho. 

Tsuru

Originally posted by grimal

Originally posted by Tsuru
Also while initial login problems seem to have been solved, with most players able to login without issue, character creation has been restricted again on many servers, since they hit their upper limit

Totally unacceptable in my book.  I have not been able to create the toon I have been trying to create since Early Access start (eleven days ago) because I cannot login to Behemoth (where my friends have decided to create characters).  Even after the supposed datacenter maintenance, the problem still exists for me.  Very very disappointed by this launch and the subsequent addressing (or lack thereof) of problems.

Try creating a character during a time that it is not busy? Especially after the servers came back up everyone is rushing to get back on.

grimal

Originally posted by Tsuru

Originally posted by grimal

Originally posted by Tsuru
Also while initial login problems seem to have been solved, with most players able to login without issue, character creation has been restricted again on many servers, since they hit their upper limit

Totally unacceptable in my book.  I have not been able to create the toon I have been trying to create since Early Access start (eleven days ago) because I cannot login to Behemoth (where my friends have decided to create characters).  Even after the supposed datacenter maintenance, the problem still exists for me.  Very very disappointed by this launch and the subsequent addressing (or lack thereof) of problems.

Try creating a character during a time that it is not busy? Especially after the servers came back up everyone is rushing to get back on.

My time is limited.  These are the only times I have available to me.

Ariolander

Create a character on the first server available and enjoy the game.

Character Transfers are going to be coming soon and your first one will likely be free.

icculus2112

The servers now hold 7500-7800 concurrent logins.

For comparison, Rift servers at launch held 1800 max.

The only bigger AAA servers i can think of are EvE and SWTOR, and SWTOR has separate instances.