What changes are ZOS going to make to handle all the new players after B2P?

lowf

I just logged in to try and play tonight and the lag was unbearable, in PvP it took 1-2 seconds after hitting a key for the ability to fire, and every 1-5 min I would teleport back to where I had been 30s prior. Others in zone said they were having the same thing happen. Finally I got dropped and gave up for the night after "hitting the message rate limit".

On the day 1.6 hit the PTS, PvE lagged so bad that we almost couldn't complete vet12 BC (with a group that can comfortably do Dragonstar on a normal day). People would regularly not be able to control their character for 1-5 seconds, running into all kinds of trouble. Again many in zone echoed our frustration.

I think it's fair to say that the extra traffic from people being curious about the PTS is nothing compared to what it will be when B2P and 1.6 launch... Zos, I love this game, what are you planning to do to keep it playable? Are you buying more cores in the datacenters? Increasing bandwidth in and out of the centers? Anything at all?

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Amsel_McKay

They dont care.... its a B2P game now, you get what you pay for...

Roechacca

Weird . Wasn't much lag where I was at on Thornblade NA .

Elsonso

I am sure that all of the NA megaservers will be in the same room. Same goes for the EU megaservers. If they are smart, and if it is possible, they will have one very big server complex that dynamically splits into the three megaservers according to demand. Unless Microsoft or Sony demand it, there is no reason to do more than partition the 3 megaservers at each location, even if dynamic allocation is not used.

They have to bulk up their server hardware before June, and maybe even for March. Staggering the launches like this allows them to use Console megaserver hardware, if it exists, for the PC/Mac launch and then reallocate the hardware for the Console beta and the Console launch.

lowf

Roechacca wrote: »

Weird . Wasn't much lag where I was at on Thornblade NA .

I'm used to lag when I'm near a big fight (hate it, but used to it), I was getting lag and rollbacks when I was in the open field by myself tonight.

Jice

Game releases usually have the most players in any given area at the same time, and I don't think the amount of returning players will equal anything they had at release.

So I think they'll be fine at least the way the mega server breaks everyone up, but they'll have to get the air cans out and dust them off better before the change.

Plus new players don't exactly mean more people in the same Cyrodil you're in since there are Caps.

TehMagnus

Would be nice in EU server if they fixed the last server that comes before their datacenter which becomes saturated during nights and is the reason our ping goes as high as 150 when we're almost next to the datacenter...

knaveofengland

just looking forward to them new players being low level myself don't think eso has to do much game speaks for its self

Messy1

ZOS needs to bring in the "real megaserver," which I think is still being used as a coffee table in Matt Firor's living room.

They also probably need to mighty up the megaserver and make it the "supermegaultrauberserver"

DaggerfallTradeMasters

Yeah we going to lag i got Skyrim already installed :disagree:

Sindala

"All the new players" .....haha, yeah good one.

RazielSR

They will sell boxes in march,no need to explain more.