Aether is officially locked

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

So Stormblood launch. I mean seriously, people act like we've never experienced this before. Look up the "Aether, Shadow of Login" memes. Been here, done that, got the T-shirt. We'll survive like we did then.

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Given the circumstances I didn't find the login queue to be that big of an issue with SB. It was trying to click on the main quest givers to pickup quests that was the problem for me. That was definitely a time I wished I was on a JP server after seeing how they would form a queue.

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Originally Posted by Claviusnex

Given the circumstances I didn't find the login queue to be that big of an issue with SB. It was trying to click on the main quest givers to pickup quests that was the problem for me. That was definitely a time I wished I was on a JP server after seeing how they would form a queue.

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We did queues back for ARR's release when we had similar issues. I didn't try to MSQ early for SB to run into the issues for...Reasons, so I'm not sure why it apparently didn't happen this time.

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

So Stormblood launch. I mean seriously, people act like we've never experienced this before. Look up the "Aether, Shadow of Login" memes. Been here, done that, got the T-shirt. We'll survive like we did then.

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This reminds me.... I still want to make a "I beat Raubahn Extreme" tee shirt because of that whole launch.

So... did that streamer that came from WoW I don't care about or ever heard of play on one of the worlds on the Aether DC? If so maybe that's why it's overloaded.

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

So... did that streamer that came from WoW I don't care about or ever heard of play on one of the worlds on the Aether DC? If so maybe that's why it's overloaded.

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Lots of streamers from WoW ended up on Aether.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Nothing had been stopping you from leaving before now. Nothing is stopping you from leaving now, either.

Not that I think you genuinely have plans to leave Crystal. You've been saying the same thing for months.

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Been waiting for interest to inevitably die down so i can find a quieter server on a datacenter that's not been designated for RP by the community. Those are in short supply these days. Had i left earlier i'd just be stuck with ridiculously long queue times on an Aether datacenter. I would like to go back to Aether some day, because that's the datacenter i picked when i started before i got pruned off to make crystal.

Regardless of my current opinion of Coeurl right now, the queue times are at least manageable.

Time to hold the community reps hostage since the next Duty Commenced is on Aether. I'm kidding. On the other hand we should just go have a huge party on Gilgamesh. This is a bit surprising as I would have expected something like Blamung being locked down again before an entire Data Center would. I can't believe part of me misses the days my server spent more time on the preferred server list than off it. Not that the under 100 que is bothersome since the only time it gets that high or over it is when the server crashes.

To be fair, Balmung is, despite being preferred, no currently accepting new characters.

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Originally Posted by Claviusnex

Given the circumstances I didn't find the login queue to be that big of an issue with SB. It was trying to click on the main quest givers to pickup quests that was the problem for me. That was definitely a time I wished I was on a JP server after seeing how they would form a queue.

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It got pretty bad during early access. The crashing was the worst part, though, nevermind actually getting into a queue, haha. Then the instance server was overloaded so were all stuck in the first zone unless we were lucky enough to get through.

I figure if we can survive that and keep playing, we can survive this.

And we did queues on Jenova. I've got some screenshots from how massive they got. I got my gatherers to 65 instead and waited for SE to fix things.

Welp, I made a Zalera character a couple days ago to play with friends, bought the story skip and a paladin boost so I could get the armoury bonus for my arcanist job. Then today Crystal servers become preferred so I just barely missed out on the Road to 70 buff. If I make a new character I won't have the story skip or boost. Getting serious FOMO here lol.

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

It got pretty bad during early access. The crashing was the worst part, though, nevermind actually getting into a queue, haha. Then the instance server was overloaded so were all stuck in the first zone unless we were lucky enough to get through.

I figure if we can survive that and keep playing, we can survive this.

And we did queues on Jenova. I've got some screenshots from how massive they got. I got my gatherers to 65 instead and waited for SE to fix things.

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I was lucky enough to skip the whole Raubahn and Pippen EX thing. I recall FC mates complaining about it tho and being confused then going back to those NPC's and seeing the horde of ppl around them. There was only like... 2-3 ppl around them when I did them bulldozing the new MSQ as a tank for the instaqueue.

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Originally Posted by Lilyth

And Crystal is open! Actually, more than open.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...da437f0ac87fac

Still can't believe Balmung is now a preferred world. What are these times we living

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Balmung needed more new faces to be honest.

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Originally Posted by Reap00

If you want to complete any content in the game you can do so on any data center. Stop spreading this data center drivel.

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It isn't drivel though. While yes, you can clear content everywhere, Aether has the largest raiding demographic. Hence why people keep congregating there.

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

I was lucky enough to skip the whole Raubahn and Pippen EX thing. I recall FC mates complaining about it tho and being confused then going back to those NPC's and seeing the horde of ppl around them. There was only like... 2-3 ppl around them when I did them bulldozing the new MSQ as a tank for the instaqueue.

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One of the worst bits for us was when someone would lie in shout chat that they got through and people kinda forgot the queues for a second before they got, no pun intended, back in line.

The funny part isn’t that aether is locked, is that crystal (and especially Balmung) are preferred.

I’m kinda new to this whole lock server thing. Does anyone have any idea how long they will keep it locked down?

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Originally Posted by Celestial_Scion

I’m kinda new to this whole lock server thing. Does anyone have any idea how long they will keep it locked down?

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They only get locked when it’s necessary, so they’ll remain locked until it’s no longer necessary.

Thank you for listening to my ted talk.

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Originally Posted by Celestial_Scion

I’m kinda new to this whole lock server thing. Does anyone have any idea how long they will keep it locked down?

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In all seriousness, has anyone experienced a datacenter lockdown before for this game? If it's ever happened before, how long did they take to reopen?

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Originally Posted by SeverianLyonesse

In all seriousness, has anyone experienced a datacenter lockdown before for this game? If it's ever happened before, how long did they take to reopen?

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In my experience they've never locked a whole datacenter. Only individual servers. Balmung famously was shutdown for months....

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Originally Posted by SeverianLyonesse

In all seriousness, has anyone experienced a datacenter lockdown before for this game? If it's ever happened before, how long did they take to reopen?

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An entire Data Center? No, that's new. Servers, yes. As for how long it will stay locked it depends, it could be weeks but its probably more likely to be months.

Datacenter wide lock I think is new. At least to the point where they made an announcement like that. High traffic worlds regularly would go on lock just to get ppl to play on ones with less active players on them. Not sure if there were coincidental situations where an entire datacenter's world list happened to be on it at the same time.

Frick... and just this morning I decided to finally make an ALT and my friends sister picked up the game.
Any hint as to when things might be open again?
(I skimmed these pages so sorry if this was covered already).

https://i.imgur.com/vmZxvFh.png

https://datastudio.google.com/report...5fe/page/4GjVC


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Originally Posted by SeverianLyonesse

In all seriousness, has anyone experienced a datacenter lockdown before for this game? If it's ever happened before, how long did they take to reopen?

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They actually did lock down entire Aether before shadowbringers release and it was unlocked some time after. I found some old info on lodestone:

Think on this one they changed the rest of Aether into congested.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d53b655f138b82

And later 4 Aether realms became preferred
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...7e7ed3be903ce1

Active characters are lowest on Crystal, Light and JP data centers, about 60% of what they are everywhere else.