Final Fantasy 14: Yoshida announces measures against congestion of servers

The business definitely go well on the Final Fantasy side 14. Perhaps even too well, since Square ENIX will have to take new action against traffic jams on some data centers.

If Naoki Yoshida is obviously happy to see his mmorpg more popular than ever, even though it is supposed to be in a weak time (the next extension will only come out in November), the producer also worries that the Simultaneous connections continue to reach the high-speed limit very regularly, especially on data centers dedicated to the European and North American public.

A maintenance takes place this morning, on August 24, to implement the updates of the update 5.58 and change the operating system settings that govern the servers of the European data centers so as to increase the limit of Connections. No more, we plan to replace some of our equipment at the end of September, by high-performance machines so that we can increase the stages in the future, says Naoki Yoshida.

The latter explains that the highest congestion levels are held on Saturdays and Sundays on European data centers, causing considerable queues. The producer ensures players that the game queue system is reliable and therefore advises rester patiently in the queue even when it seems to you long.

At the same time, the worlds of the North American Aether data center will be classified as overcrowded in the wake of maintenance 5.58. _In spite of our best efforts to increase the limit of connected players and our monitoring of the situation, the connections constantly continue to reach the limit for each world, deplore Naoki Yoshida. Once a world is classified overcrowded, players can no longer create new characters until further notice.

We continue to work closely with our developing and infrastructure teams to plan large-scale solutions to the congestion problem. These include to enlarge the worlds of each data center as well as the addition of new worlds_ , Adds Naoki Yoshida. However, the global semiconductor shortage also affects Square Enix's ability to find the necessary equipment for this purpose, not to mention the recent resurgence of CIVID-19 in Japan that complicates travel abroad.

Clearly, Square Enix is ​​perfectly aware of the measures to improve the situation, especially a few months from the launch of the Endwalker extension, but the publisher does not have all the cards in hand to respond immediately to Traffic jams of the most overcrowded worlds.