It doesn't work like that. Just in case you're not aware the 32-bit is a reference to the amount of memory that an application can address. A 32-bit app can address 4GB (2GB for the app itself and 2GB split between the OS and the hardware). What that means is that at most the server instances can only access 2GB RAM for the characters and their abilities, enemies and their abilities, the dungeon itself, etc.
Unless they've stated otherwise my understand is that they won't be upgrading the existing servers to 64-bit. Instead there will be new servers with free transfers to them.
Ok, be patient. I'm also excited for the 64 bit servers. However, I am still paying full price to be VIP for a product that SSG has all but admitted is seriously f***ed up, and that many of us are finding increasingly unplayable. I've just shut my game down for the night. Three back to back deaths (and subsequent quest failures) due to lag are more than enough for me to think about downloading Skyrim again, or logging in to D4. They don't scratch the same itch, but at least I'm not paying full price for a product that is increasingly frustrating and sometimes downright infuriating. Imagine paying to go see a movie and the movie just randomly pauses every thirty seconds or so, and then craps out altogether forcing them to restart it. Would you simply shrug and say 'be patient, changes are coming'?Watch Cord@4 with Tolero...
Tolero was positively glowing about the 64-bit servers like it was the holy grail was just located and we're all about to be immortal/healed i.e. Indiana Jones.
Basically, the stress test went WAAAAAAY beyond expectations. (I told them the hardware was the problem a zillion times ... read my past posts! but thats neither here or there now)
And so they are light-speeding the integration of 64-bit technology and the transfer of our characters to these brand new servers in their brand new state-of-the-art datacenters in Las Vegas.
They still need to resolve:
1.) Guild transfers
2.) Bank and Moneter Manual transfers (maybe they'll just wipe the monster manual for everyone and start over)
3.) Character names (I will absolutely quit if I lose my main's name).
The transfer itself will probably be automatic as the 32-bit servers ultimately shuts down. months and months of work (possibly up to a year to complete who knows?
Soooo, it's happening. We're all going to sail to the Undying lands of Lagless and be happy for it!
I'm old enough to remember when every video on the Internet required extensive buffering to be playable. I still watched the videos even when I knew that there would be multiple moments in the video that I had to pause and go grab food while it buffered the next segment. So, I most likely would just shrug and say 'be patient, changes are coming' but I also would say 'cancel your VIP and play premium for a while'.
So the company, who more than happily takes our money every month, has zero responsibility? Your 'solution' is that all of the customers unhappy with the current state of affairs simply cancel their VIP memberships? One downside to that: it screws with our monthly VIP rewards. Another downside to that: it's putting the onus of responsibility on the customer instead of the business.
No, but I also acknowledge that the solution isn't a simple one that they can do on short order. Tolero has stated that in a best case scenario we're weeks away from Cormyr going live which means we're likely months away from the final stages of this update. It's up to you if you want to keep paying during that time period.
It's not that high when you consider video games not increasing over the years with everything else. A $15 sub in 2006 and a $15 sub in 2024 do not have the same cost. We're paying approximately $9.50 in 2006 money. Therefore I would argue that it's gone down in cost. That's all irrelevant though because you can't simply take that $20 CDN and play another DDO-like. Nothing is like DDO which is why both of us continue to play it.
Who are you?
I don't want (nor did I mention) a quick and simple fix. Things of quality often take time, and I'm ok with that. What I want is for SSG to stand up and own this, and find a way to thank their loyal VIP subscribers for supporting them through these 'growing pains'. To be fair, this is growth that should have been handled LONG ago, but they now realize that if these changes aren't made, the game is essentially dead, and none of us wants that.
I am afraid, 64-bit is not a panacea. The problem with logic in code, while servers calculates any of your action. But in most cases it is the work of client. Server does not need to know, if I am on the ledge, or near it. Server-side needs to check my position only when I am in the enemy action trigger. And so on...
And "future" developers will fill this "new" space with more processes creating problems for futuristic developers. This is the Band-Aid. Why is old hardware routinely needing to swap memory on a game/system purposefully built on 32 bit hardware? I know we are taught to "color outside the lines" but sometimes you have to take a step back and realize this isn't always good advice.
I mean it is nice they found the cause. Yet they should have been able to find the cause without a 64 bit client. This is quality control. Something that still will not exist after the switch. A dedicated team should have found this bad line of code and/or subroutines before Ravenloft was ever released which was years ago.
It wont help us now or in the future. I love the optimism but the pragmatic outlook is they keep fighting "symptoms" instead of the actual "problem." The closest that I can think of where they actually solved the "problem" instead of continuing to fight the "symptoms" was the major rework on Handwraps. That took nearly 9 to 12 months of work (from memory). Yet that paid off dividends for current and future developers. They have not shown the same willingness since then.
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