Best served with cold steel.

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Originally Posted by NefarioCall

Been a smooth ride level grinding in Palace of the Dead all day :)

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It was the same for me until 30 minutes ago. Whenever you queue, there's a chance you will get kicked with an error and you won't be able to get back in until the instance times out. Which is 60 minutes for POTD.

They should not sell Early Access to a game that has no room for you on their servers to play it.

Totally agree. They definitely do not have enough resources to support this kind of user base, and to sell at the exact same time as expansion Mog Station upgrades that let you congest the servers further by skipping main scenario quests and level???? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING??? Sure, maybe after you give it time for people to get through these already congested instances, but since 5 a.m. yesterday I am still stuck on Raubahn and this was not at all thought through, guys. Horrible, horrible start to this game.

I wonder how heavily jump potions contribute to this mess. Did an unexpected amount of players decide to make use of them, skip 2.0/3.0 and then charge right into 4.0 content further flooding the new zones? If so, they really should have waited a couple of weeks before implementing them.

https://youtu.be/v1tAH6BdX7c

A little light hearted poke at how we're all feeling right now.

I am currently level 67. I'm determined to hit 70 tomorrow and post a picture of me standing next to Pipin still uncleared (not for lack of trying).

This is ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I wonder how heavily jump potions contribute to this mess. Did an unexpected amount of players decide to make use of them, skip 2.0/3.0 and then charge right into 4.0 content further flooding the new zones? If so, they really should have waited a couple of weeks before implementing them.

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Probably not much. I know exactly one person who Jumped main, and a handful of others who Jumped their alts. Meanwhile, on balmung ALONE there were roughly 3000 people stuck in Fringes last night. There's no way in hell that SO many people bought jumps they locked at least 5000 people out of Raubahn on Aether.

I was looking forward to Stormblood content over the weekend but looks like I've stopped dead in the tracks on this broken instance.

I'm so frustrated I want to cry. Please SE fix this.

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Originally Posted by Airget

The jump potions were a mistake.

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I disagree with jump potions being a mistake. I happen to benefit from them and it's helped me gain a deeper appreciation for the story and my job. Also allowed me to unlock several new classes.

Six hours on Friday and over ten hours today of spamming Raubahn with no luck on getting in. SE, fix your stuff.

At least give us a fucking PR update... is that so much to ask for? Its been 22hrs since the last update relating to solo instances.

Here's what Raubahn is saying:

"Best Served with Cold Instances" and "In Server Errors It Began"

This should not be an issue anymore....There's no way the congestion from this quest would still be this high. Are they only letting 1 person in at a time across the entire server or something? This is a damn joke.

Only toolk me 20 minutes of spamming this morning to get it, must of got lucky...

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Originally Posted by Ransu

This should not be an issue anymore....There's no way the congestion from this quest would still be this high. Are they only letting 1 person in at a time across the entire server or something? This is a damn joke.

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word on the wind is that there are less than 100 slots per datacenter

consider that there are RIGHT NOW a thousand people in the fringes on Balmung alone, and there were 3x that yesterday........ I really hope word on the wind is wrong

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Originally Posted by Finnfinite

word on the wind is that there are less than 100 slots per datacenter

consider that there are RIGHT NOW a thousand people in the fringes on Balmung alone, and there were 3x that yesterday........ I really hope word on the wind is wrong

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That's inexcusable.

its bs that this is still even going on

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Originally Posted by Finnfinite

word on the wind is that there are less than 100 slots per datacenter

consider that there are RIGHT NOW a thousand people in the fringes on Balmung alone, and there were 3x that yesterday........ I really hope word on the wind is wrong

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If this is the case, their server architect should be fired. I can't even imagine what their coding must be like if that is true. jfc

Which is absolutely saddening, shelf KH3 and put that funding towards FFXIV, FF7 and Nier dlc, this is crazy bad that I have to wait for content in early access.

P.S. being partially sarcastic on that last part, bin drinking, but seriously I hope this get resolved before the 20th.

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Originally Posted by KuroganeAre

Which is absolutely saddening, shelf KH3 and put that funding towards FFXIV, FF7 and Nier dlc, this is crazy bad that I have to wait for content in early access.

P.S. being partially sarcastic on that last part, bin drinking, but seriously I hope this get resolved before the 20th.

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it will but its a saturday and everyone has the day off til monday

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Only toolk me 20 minutes of spamming this morning to get it, must of got lucky...

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That's how I got both of mine one. Got'em both at around 3 AM.

What the heck do they plan on doing monday when the flood gates open and everyone storms in for REAL??? This is ONLY the begining...

I want to hear they just spent 1+ million on new hardware for their data centers because its honestly the only way they are going to solve this; their servers are junk and need updates...

don't you stay up till 3am if you do they were all screwed again ... i will be there at 3 am so stay away :p

I get the feeling that a big part of this, is that they are trying to limit the amount of spoilers that go on the internet.. If it's "bad" now, how bad would it be when the game officially launches?

They could: Lower pipen and raubahn encounters HP so people get through them faster
Yet another SIMPLE solution to try to help this miserable experience. I've been here all freakin' day Saturday trying to do the MSQ

This Demo is awesome. I cant wait for Beta!!

Today I was hoping that it would go better, but it was just as frustrating as it was on Friday. I hope Sunday will be better, but I don't expect it.

I feel that Squenix needs to address this, if not compensate players for this nightmare. "Three days early access" and then in those three days the MSQ gets gated by this craziness. I hope it's sorted quickly and players will continue on their merry way. I'm sure this will be fun once we get pass all of this.

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Originally Posted by KuroganeAre

Which is absolutely saddening, shelf KH3 and put that funding towards FFXIV, FF7 and Nier dlc, this is crazy bad that I have to wait for content in early access.

P.S. being partially sarcastic on that last part, bin drinking, but seriously I hope this get resolved before the 20th.

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Yeah, upset a different part of SE's fanbase to please this part of SE's fanbase.

I am just going to wait until Monday to Rauhban Savage again. Hopefully, people didn't take off all of Monday too, so I should have a chance of getting in if I try it mid morning.

so question to any who have actually gotten to the instance. I've heard the battle is long, but is it difficult? I hear a lot about the long click wait (which I've been doing since yesterday) but not a lot of people talking about the instance itself.

Almost at the 48h mark.... And this nonsense is still happening.

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so question to any who have actually gotten to the instance. I've heard the battle is long, but is it difficult? I hear a lot about the long click wait (which I've been doing since yesterday) but not a lot of people talking about the instance itself.

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I was victorious my first attempt, but that doesn't mean I wasn't worried about failing the duty (most of that fear was having to try and get into the instance again). If you know your job and give it a solid effort I don't think people will have a problem.

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so question to any who have actually gotten to the instance. I've heard the battle is long, but is it difficult? I hear a lot about the long click wait (which I've been doing since yesterday) but not a lot of people talking about the instance itself.

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AN FC mate failed the instance. They said it was pretty straightforward but A Certain NPC kept standing in aoe puddles.

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Almost at the 48h mark.... And this nonsense is still happening.

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I'm really surprised people are still gated on this mission. I feel very sorry for those people, and also realize how lucky I was to get a chance at it.

Even if there were less stable launches, this will go down as the most frustrating one for me.

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Originally Posted by Finnfinite

AN FC mate failed the instance. They said it was pretty straightforward but A Certain NPC kept standing in aoe puddles.

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Aliase (or whatever her name is). Yes, definitely. She tanks the two most difficult bosses in the instance. I ignored her and them for most of the fight and was still able to pull it off (barely, she has like 5% hp left). The only way to prevent her from standing in AE is to either kill the mobs (I would vote for this) or do as I did and provoke them and try and tank (I would not vote for this).

Best of luck!

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Originally Posted by Maliki_Ozari

I'm really surprised people are still gated on this mission. I feel very sorry for those people, and also realize how lucky I was to get a chance at it.

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I've spent 3 hours on a few different occasions clicking him with no luck.

Neither of Yoshidas responses told us anything. How can having 99% of your player base unable to play your brand new expansion be ok? You tell us to please wait and try again later or go do other things. WHAT other things? The rest of the SB things are locked behind this wall. The 1% that actually got lucky and got past this shit have already all hit 70 and are downing the new ex primal while the rest of us are just stuck here waiting for anything to be done at all. Thank you for dropping the ball. I am almost certain you will be losing a good chunk of subs if you guys don't fix this asap.