Best Served with Cold Steel Quest Broken

14 hours of trying to get in and waiting for some sort of remedy other than click and pray. Honestly, instanced duties should never be bottlenecked like this regardless of server capacity. If it were such a big deal, implement a queue for it and explain to the playerbase, don't just throw it on to the players who are paying for actual service. This is very disappointing.

SE do something. Give us a way to skip it. Give us a way to get in and do it. Just do ANYTHING instead of the nothing thats being done. 15+ hours of this is so far beyond unacceptable it just.. it just boggles my mind. So few people out of the thousands on this server have gotten past this is just.. depressing. Im glad none of my friends I tryed to get to play again came, they would have literally quit over this.

Pretty much video of what's happening on Gilgamesh.

https://youtu.be/dA9wJCaMvlo

I was trying to do this quest but got DC'd after the opening CS. Now I can't access the data center. Forget about logging in to my world, or even doing the quest once I get there, I can't even get onto the data center.

Don't worry guys there's another msq instance right after it that's having the same issue but worse. It will 90006 you then make you wait 800+ ques to get back in the game and try again

I'm glad I took a day out of work to spend 15 hours trying to do the story, which was the only reason I bothered to buy the expansion. Make a que SE.

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Originally Posted by Dmanx87

I'm glad I took a day out of work to spend 15 hours trying to do the story, which was the only reason I bothered to buy the expansion. Make a que SE.

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If you think that's bad, I'm currently at the one in the new Tokyo town (Kugashi) and I'm instantly disconnecting into a 2000+ player queue. What a wonderful night.

Let us do the first one only to have ANOTHER quest shortly after with the EXACT SAME SHIT happening. Really SE, really?

One word: UNACCEPTABLE.

working as intended which tells me that they purposely only allowed a few players through that quest

Bad Design. Bad planning. False advertising. Bad communication. Square is one of the few companies I have seen that actually get worse the more experience they get. This is the THIRD xpac. All had terrible issues at launch.... but never THIS bad. Lets just face it. We got scammed.

ugh...I just want to play the expansion....

I am also extremely disappointed with the launch of SB. Half of my friends and FC have been able to get through Best Served With Cold Feet and have been able to advance through SB content....half of us, including myself, have been stuck unable to advance, spending hours trying to get into the quest, limited to Fates and HW/ARR dungeons. This gives some people an unfair disadvantage as we head into day 2 with still no resolution.

Figure out a way to have people queue for these solo scenarios instead of making us stand there like cattle trying to luck spam our way past him. Make them queueable and let us go off and fate level until our queue pops and it's our turn for the solo scenario instance.

Do SOMETHING as an interim fix other than "tee hee, try again later" so that people can play the game we all payed to play.

Give us ALL the option to explore SB content.

This also happened when 2.0 was launched on US servers. People couldn't play the game, because they didn't expected that there would be so many people playing it at the launch. But how could they have not expect it, when they know exactly how many copies were purchased? They just underestimated their non-japanese player base, which is their MAJOR player base BTW.

Yoshi-P was on a night party with the developers when they told him what was going on occidental servers... TWO DAYS after no players being able to play the game. What this show to us is that they just release it and then they don't stay for at least a couple hours after release, to see if anything went wrong. They go to a freaking party and the community managers only notifies them 2 days later.
Bugs and other unexpected problems are, ironically, EXPECTED to pop-up after the launch of any major MMO game. What I don't believe is that they're "working on the problem" for the past 30 hours. I know they'll eventually solve the issue, but what weren't they on alert for it on its release? This show little respect for their costumers and fans.

guys i think they are addressing it currently, see the other threads being resolved

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see http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...221440dd7b8156

the bottleneck was created by SE to prevent server crashing

dont forget the bad community telling us to just be patient this isn't the release yet

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Originally Posted by Anakhaa

guys i think they are addressing it currently, see the other threads being resolved

also
see http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...221440dd7b8156

the bottleneck was created by SE to prevent server crashing

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That was posted hours ago and still no one can get in on my server.

So I've been sitting in front for best served with cold steel for about 8 to 10 hours total and still haven't be able to get though how absolutely disappointing. Won't be trying early access again.

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Originally Posted by Anakhaa

guys i think they are addressing it currently, see the other threads being resolved

also
see http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...221440dd7b8156

the bottleneck was created by SE to prevent server crashing

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WE STILL PAID TO PLAY IT THATS THE POINT. Just like all those other people that got though and now have an unfair advantage over everyone else because "Try again later" LOL SE gets better and better every xpac

Well, it's a choice I guess, let everybody in and crash the whole damn game or let a few in and maintain its integrity.

Is this quest also having problems on the low population preferred worlds too?

I sent them an email! Here is there response!
Hello and thank you for your GM call.

We understand that your time is valuable and appreciate your efforts to report and explain your concerns. Many users have reported being unable to progress in quests involving instanced battles and we are currently investigating this matter further. We ask you to try again at a later time as there has been much server congestion recently with the release of Stormblood Early Access. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Details about this situation may be provided on the Lodestone (http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/) as well, so please check the site periodically for any updates about this concern.

We are constantly striving to improve the game and our services to players, and are open to any feedback you might have. To submit feedback, please visit the forums at http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv and make a post with any suggestions you may have for our teams. Although individual responses are not sent, please rest assured that all comments are submitted to the appropriate parties so that they can be read and considered for future updates.

Thank you for your patience and best wishes to you.
FINAL FANTASY XIV Game Master Team

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Originally Posted by Xeon

Well, it's a choice I guess, let everybody in and crash the whole damn game or let a few in and maintain its integrity.

Is this quest also having problems on the low population preferred worlds too?

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Yes. It's not a server issue it's a data center issue.

Can say I cleared this on Zodiark and I completed the solo duty after that one too

did you have to spam it for hours before you got through? 2 hours trying for me.

I try to get in this instance since yesterday shortly after release. No chance. Obviously SE doesn't care much at all. They only give us weak excuses why we can't and apologize. Sorry to say that but an apologie doesn't help us to enjoy the game. Sure we TOTALLY ENJOY to fate grind ourself to 70 in the first area, why not? That is the endgame right?

I've been trying since yesterday morning, a couple hours after launch, and still haven't gotten through. Fact is at this point they need to just let us skip the stupid instances, so we can finally move on til they fix it.

The funniest part is the white knights saying "its just early access". Like its going to be better when MORE people show up on the 20th. IMO biggest xpac failure of all time.

People in my FC have already managed level 68 despite these issues.

Maybe this was the goal all along. After 33 hours of frustration I decided to take my free tranfer to the new server Omega and was able to finish this quest on my first attempt.

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Originally Posted by AidenGrish

The funniest part is the white knights saying "its just early access". Like its going to be better when MORE people show up on the 20th. IMO biggest xpac failure of all time.

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Have you played many other mmo games. This is par for the course with mmo games. At least people can log in and play. When warlords of draenor ( world of warcraft ) launched you had to wait in an 8 hour line just to log in for the first week. I got in before that and stayed logged in through some...... creative methods. So IMO this is not that bad.

I hate to add to the growing chorus of complaints but this is ridiculous. I am trying to be patient but simply allowing a few people at a time to do this instance content isn't cutting it. It shows when other areas get congested. It is just going to get bigger and bigger until the 20th and then all hell is going to break loose. I don't know why you haven't shut down the servers fix them problem and turn them back on again. You do for disconnections all the time. This isn't any different. Why is Japan and Europe going through while were still stuck at a choke point?

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Square doesn't give a shit they already have your money, they are just gonna post apology after apology for the next few days and count that sweet $$$ while their at it.

Sounds like a class action lawsuit to me.

I am been trying to get in to do the MSQ for almost 36 hours now, lets say I am beyond infuriated.

Guys come on the year is 2017. If your servers can't handle the load just fire some instances from Amazon or NTT's private cloud for some hours and just kill them after the number of players diminishes. I can't understand why is this still a problem.

The bad thing is, according to my FC, that if you're lucky enough to get this instance to load, other instances after this will do the same thing.

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Originally Posted by Xeon

Sounds like a class action lawsuit to me.

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LOL yea right. Read the contract that you agreed to when you sign up to play and install the expansion. It bars you from any such acts because of technical issues like this. This is 100% normal. Anyone that says otherwise is ether ignorant of the facts, Has not played manny mmo games, Or is just so impatient to play the game they they cant see reason. If you actually got a class action lawsuit to pass I would pay you personally $1000 and I would delete my character. The only thing to do is sit back relax. Watch a movie or do something else and try again in a few hrs or a day. You thing square does not care but they do. People are probably franticly working to get this resolved. They don't have time to give you the play by play. First off you would never understand what they are doing unless you had a master/doctorate in electronics and computer science. You think its as simple as patching a little code and putting it all back together or buying more powerful computers. This mind set is because you are a consumer and not the company. If you were the company you would see the millions it would cost to upgrade servers just to handle a influx of traffic for at most a month then the hardware would be over powered for the rest of the two yeas of the xpac. Then if they patch the code the compilation time alone for a file that is a gig can be an hour. the game is 60 gigs. with size of code the compilation time grows exponentially. Sorry if you think Im mean rude an ass or a "white knight" for square but this is the fact and no amount of bitching will change it.

Slowness and congestion is normal but this caused by greed and lack of forsight. Greed for giving out so many preorder codes and forsight for putting a single player instance on the 7 or 15 quest in (depending which path yoi choose). Then they furthered the stupidy by locking all the other zones and content until you complete said instance.

Yesterday - trying to queue this instance took me off-line - EVERYTIME. Frustrating when the log in server was over 800 in line.

Today I've not been kicked off-line trying to queue for this instance.. However, it seems to be broken or locked out. It always begins the scenario (NPC's talking), however.. I've only heard of one person who actually got past this instance and completed the actual fight.

When's it going to be fixed? No one in my FC has been able to complete this.
Since its tied to main story line, and completion is required to open up other areas of the map, its hindering most from leveling up our classes.

Please look forward to it!