Max Capacity 42,000 Players,Coming out on Steam, Servers are gonna be packed!!!!!!!!!

[Dreamcast]

Way too little Servers IMO.


I think SOE is really underestimating the power of STEAM and the concept of a MMOFPS which lots of people havn't experienced yet....A bunch of people are going to want to try it.


The servers are gonna be packed and I think this is perhaps the only time I will considered subbing because I feel like is going to be a hassle trying to log in into this game.


BTW I got the 42,000 figure because their is 3 continents which each holds 2,000 people so thats 6,000 people per server....Their is 7 servers...so do the math.


Im wondering if SOE has some servers ready to go incase it gets crowded.

[Eduard Khil]

Lol, that's how theyll make money.

Weren't they adding a subscription to reserve entry?

[Zanzazzin]

They have 18 Additional Servers Ready to go up tomorrow, and more if needed in the future.

[TheRagingGerbil]

I think Smed tweeted they have 25 servers ready to go if they are needed.

[Dreamcast]

Originally Posted by TheRagingGerbil

I think Smed tweeted they have 25 servers ready to go if they are needed.

Originally Posted by Zanzazzin

They have 18 Additional Servers Ready to go up tomorrow, and more if needed in the future.

WOW thats a lot.....Good news I guess.


I think they should of launched with a couple more servers because is going to be annoying if everybody makes charectors on the same servers and when the new ones come out, their going to be empty and the old ones will be full.....I guess thats how it goes.

[Hamma]

Yep, I wouldn't worry we will see more servers spin up.

It's inevitable we will see issues tomorrow, such is life with an MMO launch.

[BlueSmiley]

Originally Posted by Hamma

It's inevitable we will see issues tomorrow, such is life with an MMO launch.

^ This.

[Rockstone]

With any luck, they'll increase the player limit even further beyond 2000 per continent, and keep the number of servers the same.

[brinkdadrink]

I am pretty sure they made it this time that your charicter name is reserved across all servers. I think I remember reading that somewhere. Which means if you want to change servers you will not be faced with people with the same name. Proboblly throw a fee or maybe a 1 time free transfer like WoW.

Not worried. I am guessing they learned from PS1 and the dozens of other games they have put out (havnt been the best but have really stepped up their game for this one.)

On top of that what everyone else said about having reserve servers.

[basti]

They have servers ready to go up in case they need them. Plenty of servers.

But theres no point bringing them up early before they are needed. Otherwise we may end up with servers being half way empty, and as players are planetsides main content, that would be rather bad.

[AThreatToYou]

They should at least prep for a turnout of 40,000 on the East Coast alone.
Looks like I'll be playing MWO for a day longer if that's how they are doing day 1.

[pilakin]

but how they gonna deal with the extra servers later, when they're not needed any more? characters are server bound. they can't just close them.

[Stadulator]

Originally Posted by pilakin

but how they gonna deal with the extra servers later, when they're not needed any more? characters are server bound. they can't just close them.

MMO companies have this super cool thing they can do.. pretty mystical really. Server Merger.

[basti]

Originally Posted by pilakin

but how they gonna deal with the extra servers later, when they're not needed any more? characters are server bound. they can't just close them.

Its called a merge. Welcome to MMOs.



Would you fools just stop worrying? Every damn MMO launch the same crap. Yes, THEY WILL BE FULL, COMPLETLY PACKED! THATS THE IDEA! ESPECIALLY FOR F2P!

Plenty of people will play the game only for a bit, and then drop out forever. Plenty of people will play less after a few days.
Of course everyone rushes in at launch day. But if you would account that completly, and pull up enough servers to not have them completly packed at launch, then you would end up with rather empty servers very quickly, just a week after launch.


Everything is fine folks, stop worrying, rather prepare your nerves for tommorows quenes.

[ThGlump]

There will be new servers, but that wont help that first few that will be overcrowded due ppl trying to join their outfits, ignoring new servers.