Best served with cold steel.

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

Be real nobody gets past Raughban. If someone claims to have passed him you know they've already succumbed to hallucination and insanity due to their desire to pass him. I know I'm about to.

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4 people in my FC are already in Yanxia.

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Originally Posted by Nerisu

4 people in my FC are already in Yanxia.

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Darn the hallucination is spreading. lol.

24 hours later, all side quests finished, all present aether currents collected, Samurai started, some fates with plenty of dates with Raubahn in intervals at various times throughout the day (huff-huff, long-winded sentence), SE's addressing the issue with a fix of sorts, aaand I still can't instance in.

Heart... broken. ;-; Raubahn, I thought we had something special. </3

I have been trying for more than 24 hours to get past this instance. You would think the congestion would have died down in the morning but it's just as packed near the npc. I can handle 90ks and extended downtime but this is getting out of hand. I prepared a bunch of my gatherers to make some good gil early on in SB but looks like I will be late. That's what I get for preparing. I know a few people who are in Kugane working on gathering.

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Originally Posted by AureliusDraconium

I have been trying for more than 24 hours to get past this instance. You would think the congestion would have died down in the morning but it's just as packed near the npc. I can handle 90ks and extended downtime but this is getting out of hand. I prepared a bunch of my gatherers to make some good gil early on in SB but looks like I will be late. That's what I get for preparing.

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Only a few hundred people per world have been able to get past it as far as I can tell... If that many...
That tells you quite a bit at how low they've set the cap on that instance.
People have waited more than 24 hours to get into the instance, and SE apparently still can't figure out what to do.

Free up resources for the instance by temporarily disabling other stuff... disable DF (for queuing, not entering with premade)... disable POTD... plenty of things that can be disabled to unclog Raubahn.

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Originally Posted by AureliusDraconium

You would think the congestion would have died down in the morning but it's just as packed near the npc. I can handle 90ks and extended downtime but this is getting out of hand.

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That was my thinking as well. PST should be sleeping (I thought about trying around 5AM EST, but that's only 2AM in PST...), but still no luck. There are a lot less people in the SB area on my server, but it's still not working for those still/now there. xD

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

Free up resources for the instance by temporarily disabling other stuff... disable DF (for queuing, not entering with premade)... disable POTD... plenty of things that can be disabled to unclog Raubahn.

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I don't think they can disable DF all together because newbies still need to queue in and do their own MSQ's. Not sure about the other stuff.

I did what was recommended....left for awhile....got some sleep and came back to FIND.....IT'S NOT FIXED.

I don't know why I even bothered to try again today. What a disappointment.

As an emergency option, they should just disable the fight and let us bypass it. There is no reason to sacrifice access to other content to fix this clogged mess.

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Originally Posted by Fendred

As an emergency option, they should just disable the fight and let us bypass it. There is no reason to sacrifice access to other content to fix this clogged mess.

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I heard there were three or four other instances like this right after Raubahn, so probably wouldn't help much unless they disabled all of them.

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Originally Posted by MOZZYSTAR

I heard there were three or four other instances like this right after Raubahn, so probably wouldn't help much unless they disabled all of them.

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I suppose a different option would be to let people enter as an alliance. That way at least people are getting done in bulk. Plus the fights would be over much quicker.

I don't get all these ppl defending SE...

If I buy a plane ticket and the airline doesn't have room for me because they have overbooked, they need to make it right.

Telling me I can do other things at the airport, or telling me to try again later does not make it right.

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Originally Posted by winsock

I don't get all these ppl defending SE...

If I buy a plane ticket and the airline doesn't have room for me because they have overbooked, they need to make it right.

Telling me I can do other things at the airport, or telling me to try again later does not make it right.

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You're wasting your breath....

Since I'm assuming we are the Beta testers, hopefully this gets fixed before launch. Can you imagine? Not one or two days...but over a week? I can't help but be quite certain they did not see this coming at all. When you work 24/7 with little sleep over a long period of time you absolutely will miss the little things. Those guys are busting it out as they have been for more than a month(crunch time). Sadly, they are still going with Letty much no sleep as their players base and $$ sits idle and angry...I feel for them this week.

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Originally Posted by MOZZYSTAR

I heard there were three or four other instances like this right after Raubahn, so probably wouldn't help much unless they disabled all of them.

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There is one solo instance not long after it that you will encounter the same problem as the first one. However, you gain access to several things before the next one after that, so I think it will become much less of a problem. When I got there, there was only one other person there doing it, despite lots of people running around that particular area and it's in a major hub with no instanced copies.

I just don't understand why all they tell us is to try again later. Let us just skip this (and the pippin quest) so we can be on our merry way. Literally wasted over 24 hours spamming this. People took time off of work. This is just insane...

Plenty of things they can do to actually fix this instead of basically saying "piss off." This pretty much shows how unprepared they are for this expansion and how bad their instance servers are.

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Originally Posted by Madamepancake

I just don't understand why all they tell us is to try again later. Let us just skip this (and the pippin quest) so we can be on our merry way. Literally wasted over 24 hours spamming this. People took time off of work. This is just insane...

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But they worked really hard to make the solo duties as interesting as possible. Surely you wouldn't want to miss out on that. /s

Anybody have an idea on how I can at least work on getting to 70 while this is going on? I'm sick of fate grinding and I'm at 63.

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Originally Posted by Nerisu

But they worked really hard to make the solo duties as interesting as possible. Surely you wouldn't want to miss out on that. /s

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I'm going to be completely honest... at this point, at how frustrated I am, I don't have any interest in this part of story. :(

The rate of people getting through seems to be around 1 per half hour per instance on Midgardsormr...

Apparently the problem is gone on JP and EU datacenters so why are NA still fucked?

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Apparently the problem is probably gone on JP and EU datacenters so why are NA still fucked?

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Good question...
Maybe they're still trying to wake up whoever is responsible for the NA operations.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Apparently the problem is gone on JP and EU datacenters so why are NA still fucked?

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If I wasn't so invested in my server, would transfer in a heartbeat :( man, this stinks.

I've been trying to get into this instance since yesterday morning. Took a break midday for work and resumed later last night while streaming. Had to end stream early because we literally couldn't get past this point. Got Q'd in last night (at long last!) and the instance crashed, booting me from the server, locking me out of my account, and then making it impossible to re-enter for about 20 minutes. Worst part- my FC members in game said that I was showing as actually being in the duty even when I couldn't get back into the game! Cruel fate.

The saga continued this morning. Woke up early, saw the announcement that they'd increased the cap of these instances...and still couldn't get in.

I absolutely understand that there are bugs to work out, but this has been a serious problem. While funny for awhile, and memorable, something needs to be done to provide an alternative to allow people through consistently. A release generates the momentum and hype that will draw people into purchasing if they haven't so far. Negative press of this scope, immediately after opening the doors, leads to hesitant buyers and loss of subscriptions.

Hope it gets fixed soon! Until then, may the god Raubahn look kindly on our souls.

Everyone on the Dev team apparently went on vacation already to celebrate their great work this expansion. :(

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Originally Posted by Madamepancake

If I wasn't so invested in my server, would transfer in a heartbeat :( man, this stinks.

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Likewise.

That the situation has - apparently been resolved on the JP and EU datacentres is great. Now, hopefully it can be resolved over on the NA datacentres very soon as well.

I suspect that a large part of the problem is the sheer player bloat on Gilgamesh and Balmung where Aether is concerned.

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Originally Posted by Nerisu

But they worked really hard to make the solo duties as interesting as possible. Surely you wouldn't want to miss out on that. /s

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Originally Posted by Madamepancake

I'm going to be completely honest... at this point, at how frustrated I am, I don't have any interest in this part of story. :(

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I actually really like instance duties ( I prefer 'em to dungeons most of the time, because I get a tad anxious playing in groups for some reason ^^; ), but I just want to advance in the story as well and explore all the places!

Sadly, I don't know how servers (and FFXIV's particular servers) work so I can't suggest anything "better." orz I'm not too terribly keen on skipping these instances but I'm not keen on being stuck either. I also kind of doubt any of these suggestions would be taken into consideration, but I'll try not to be the debby downer. D:

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Likewise.

That the situation has - apparently been resolved on the JP and EU datacentres is great. Now, hopefully it can be resolved over on the NA datacentres very soon as well.

I suspect that a large part of the problem is the sheer player bloat on Gilgamesh and Balmung where Aether is concerned.

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Primal is just as awful. Get it together SE!

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Originally Posted by lakukisu

The second update from Yoshida. It can also be found here.

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Still unplayable, just let us skip the instanced content. We should not be gated like this. I got up during odd off hours today, queue 6 to enter balmung, and Best served with cold steel is still jamed

Where is the server upgrade effects?

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Likewise.

That the situation has - apparently been resolved on the JP and EU datacentres is great. Now, hopefully it can be resolved over on the NA datacentres very soon as well.

I suspect that a large part of the problem is the sheer player bloat on Gilgamesh and Balmung where Aether is concerned.

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How about they shut down either primal or aether for a while, let them advance for a few hours then do the other? Having both running simultaneously isn't solving anything.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

How about they shut down either primal or aether for a while, let them advance for a few hours then do the other? Having both running simultaneously isn't solving anything.

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Or shut down instances that don't need to be running. Again: PvP, guildhests, novice hall, Palace of the Dead. Shutting down a datacenter is just going to make things worse (even more people angry). Primal and aether do not even use the same instancing.

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Or shut down instances that don't need to be running. Again: PvP, guildhests, novice hall, Palace of the Dead. Shutting down a datacenter is just going to make things worse (even more people angry).

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I think solo instances are handled differently than duty finder. DF stuff is running fine. It's the solo ones having problems.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

I think solo instances are handled differently than duty finder. DF stuff is running fine. It's the solo ones having problems.

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It does not make sense that individual instancing would be shared across region rather than datacenter. Pretty sure they use the same server space, at least to some degree. DF and POTD were having tons of disconnects before the temporary uncapping.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Apparently the problem is gone on JP and EU datacenters so why are NA still fucked?

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I'm curious about this. Any EU or JP player can confirm?

IMO, For when things get this congested, they should just implement a Duty Finder-like queue so you can just queue up, then wait your turn, like the DF, even if it breaks the immersion a bit, this would just be a measure that would only be implemented during periods of super-high congestion, like this.

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Originally Posted by gothikka

IMO, For when things get this congested, they should just implement a Duty Finder-like queue so you can just queue up, then wait your turn, like the DF, even if it breaks the immersion a bit, this would just be a measure that would only be implemented during periods of super-high congestion, like this.

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This, it's what WoW basically does for solo scenarios. This design here is 1.0 bad. Whoever is in charge of it should be ashamed, even if that's Yoshi.

At this point, who cares about the immersion...
This completely ruined the MSQ for me... :(

Now Raubahn doesn't even trigger the dialog anymore. Way to go SE, fantastic early access!! Get your early access with level cap to 62, some MSQ and 2 new area maps! Please look forward to it.
You've learned clearly with two past launches. What's left to do? Oh yeah, level sam and rdm... no wait... eternal queues on DF with the sporadic 90k... So solo PotD? Yeah... time to play something else.
I've been here sine v1 early access, I've not played sometimes maybe for two weeks, I love this game. But everything has a limit. Not worth it anymore.

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Originally Posted by lakukisu

The second update from Yoshida. It can also be found here.

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These post do nothing but tell us they don't care enough to properly design quest and apply system resources to prevent this from happening.