2014-08-16, 08:23 PM
About MapleStory's server issues... It may have something to do with Dragon Nest.
There is a theory that exists within the Dragon Nest community thanks to several things the developers have said on our side, one that most Dragon Nest players take as fact when monitoring server status between both games (the GMS status tool here at SouthPerry has been ironically helpful for giving DN players an idea of how our servers have been doing as well, or so most of us would believe).
The theory is that at some point last year, Dragon Nest's database was merged with Maple's, and now both games share the same server resources. When one game has high server traffic to the point where there are massive latency issues, it happens to be affecting the other game as well. Dragon Nest's population has been EXPLODING over the summer as a result of two very big back to back updates.
Did Maple's recent server issues begin around 5 PM PST yesterday? This month, Nexon patched in an event for DN where people are required to login during very specific 2 hour windows on specific days of the week. TONS of people flooded in because the event introduced new items that the very balance of the game depended on in the versions ahead of us, causing the game to constantly crash. We only held two of them (5-7 PM PST last night, 12-2 PM PST earlier today) before our developers decided to conduct an emergency patch to disable the event permanently for DN North America.
I just think, if the rumors about the servers are true, the Maple community should be aware as well. Both communities need to pressure Nexon to upgrade server capacity for both DN and Maple, and split them away from each other if they are indeed sharing the same server resources.
There is a theory that exists within the Dragon Nest community thanks to several things the developers have said on our side, one that most Dragon Nest players take as fact when monitoring server status between both games (the GMS status tool here at SouthPerry has been ironically helpful for giving DN players an idea of how our servers have been doing as well, or so most of us would believe).
The theory is that at some point last year, Dragon Nest's database was merged with Maple's, and now both games share the same server resources. When one game has high server traffic to the point where there are massive latency issues, it happens to be affecting the other game as well. Dragon Nest's population has been EXPLODING over the summer as a result of two very big back to back updates.
Did Maple's recent server issues begin around 5 PM PST yesterday? This month, Nexon patched in an event for DN where people are required to login during very specific 2 hour windows on specific days of the week. TONS of people flooded in because the event introduced new items that the very balance of the game depended on in the versions ahead of us, causing the game to constantly crash. We only held two of them (5-7 PM PST last night, 12-2 PM PST earlier today) before our developers decided to conduct an emergency patch to disable the event permanently for DN North America.
I just think, if the rumors about the servers are true, the Maple community should be aware as well. Both communities need to pressure Nexon to upgrade server capacity for both DN and Maple, and split them away from each other if they are indeed sharing the same server resources.