9/1 Login Difficulties NA/EU Not Fixed

*sigh* Took off all labor day and used up my paid vacation time so I could party and play FFXIV. ASU ruined my weekend by telling me to spend my money on books and that my scholarship would be distributed this week to reinburse me. Never happened so now I'm flat out broke. Five bucks to my name but I was ok with it, just meant lots of grinding on FFXIV.

Guess that too, has fallen through. What a great waste of a long weekend. Should've just worked. I was able to login last night at 2AM. Should've went afk instead of logging out when I headed to bed.

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Originally Posted by Affliction

The fact that 5k ppl are loging in at the same time would of course have no effect on the login issues.

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If they would just kick afk player, that alone would reduce the load on the login server by 50-70%. No more hammering loggin trying to get a spot, instead you're in after 1-2 attempts.

Yes gone afk lol. But you would've been kicked anyway when the servers went down.

Let them continue to lie and provide poor service. No one will renew after their 30 day free trial period and they will have another broken wasteland of a game much like 1.0.

I hope they compensate us with another free 30 days because I paid $45 and I barely ever get on when I WANT TOO! between the 1017 and the non queue's and than random server shutdowns that i dont even know about so im spamming (X) like an idiot before i realize something is wrong. This was Blizzards problem too; Great you guys have done well- sold millions of copies... please for our inconvenience add us FREE play time. Otherwise when im actually IN the game; playing... its been fun... but ive been aggravated more lately...

"Final Error 1017 a realm of error's reborn"

amusing I am having fun coming up with names for this game more then actually playing it :/

I have been able to play at 7 am est... anytime after is "world full"... I been trying every hour of the day... they cant even tell us how long this will take??? nothing about this issue on the news!

Sept 1, 2013 @ 4:18pm, still unable to load NA/EU world list. Not fixed, solution not found. Fix the servers, then fire all the decision makers for this launch.

Same here, can't get in, been trying for over an hour. 7 Days extension right now is not enough. I missed most of the Early Access, I've barely been able to play this weekend, and gee, I work during the week, so barely any time to play then. This game is really good, I want to f'n play it. No wonder everyone just AFK's instead of logging out.

I was able to see my character for a couple minutes then either unable to retrieve NA/EU worlds and/or lobby connection error. I've been trying to keep patient but it's becoming thinner :(

World: Excalibur

A queue system would help (no brainer) and kick AFK players (Another no brainer)...

Going on 6 hours of login attempts here, still no luck. I did manage to get in queue one time (206) but after a few minutes of waiting, the 1017 kicked in. I'm not one to usually come here ranting on forums, but this is getting ridiculous. Last night it took me over 5 hours to get in. And I think what is aggravating me the most is that BS update I have to see every time I attempt to log in, telling us that they have resolved the problem. Geesh.

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Originally Posted by Takusai

I am having the same login difficulty as well in general. I am not able to retrieve the NA/EU world lists.

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My start button is greyed out .... heh. Guess SE doesn't want me to play today?

EDIT = Wow, I'm level 25 now and it still sees me at level 10. Da fuq.

Still no luck.:(

I doubt it even matters at this point because it's either looking at the message "Unable to load NA/EU World List" or the 1017 error message.

Welp I quit screw playing today I don't feel like doing this all day time for AH.

Lol... Unable to Update > 1017 > Unable to Update NA/EU Character list

Seriously, this is getting ****ing pathetic.

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Originally Posted by Affliction

The fact that 5k ppl are loging in at the same time would of course have no effect on the login issues.

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Lol, well yeah :)
Of course, other MMO's handle it just fine. Not like this is SE's first MMO.

this is just stupid. i can't believe i paid for this crap.

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Originally Posted by Bloodwillow

My start button is greyed out .... heh. Guess SE doesn't want me to play today?

EDIT = Wow, I'm level 25 now and it still sees me at level 10. Da fuq.

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Did you change classes/jobs before logging out?

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Originally Posted by math101

If they would just kick afk player, that alone would reduce the load on the login server by 50-70%. No more hammering loggin trying to get a spot, instead you're in after 1-2 attempts.

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As stated before, as soon as they start kicking AFK people, those that want to afk will jsut set-up simple click/move macros to defeat this.

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Originally Posted by Pkx

As stated before, as soon as they start kicking AFK people, those that want to afk will jsut set-up simple click/move macros to defeat this.

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Not everyone will do this and Its pretty standard for mmo's to kick people when they are inactive for 15 mins.

On the kicking AFK people... Just think of the people in Inn's on PS3 that will stay in the in, use a rubber band around the right or left analog stick and let their character run in circles for hours where no one will even know they are there.

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Originally Posted by Pkx

As stated before, as soon as they start kicking AFK people, those that want to afk will jsut set-up simple click/move macros to defeat this.

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That's not entirely true. Most MMO's now have AFK countermeasures in place that are a bit more advanced that that. Instead of just moving you actually have to play the game to not get kicked. Meaning other things have to happen like menu's opening and closing, mutli-direction movement, chatting, doing quests, etc... Simply making a macro to move you or turning auto-run on won't work with that kind of system.

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Originally Posted by Grov

Yup So far the process for me goes something along the line of the follow (waiting a min between each try):

1017
1017
1017
1017
No NA/EU Server List
No NA/EU Server List
No NA/EU Server List
Lobby error

wait 5 minutes then restart the client to start the above process over again.

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same problem exactly

Siren is down to

I too am not seeing US/EU server list ....

For all the people saying this game is new and it will have its issues. this game has more issues at its release than most games have during their initial alpha testing maybe SE hired testers suck or maybe SE just doesn't care, but they have a great game and they need to fix there shit soon because trash game management will lose people

All they have to do is delete their entire server infrastructure and copy and paste Guild Wars 2's. Problem solved.

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Originally Posted by nelar

Not everyone will do this and Its pretty standard for mmo's to kick people when they are inactive for 15 mins.

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Seeing as even my $25 mouse has a simple macro button on it, more people with do this then you think. Even more so with 1017 being so prevalent.
15 min is far to short a timer - and would just cause more traffic on the log server anyway.

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Originally Posted by Searum

For all the people saying this game is new and it will have its issues. this game has more issues at its release than most games have during their initial alpha testing maybe SE hired testers suck or maybe SE just doesn't care, but they have a great game and they need to fix there shit soon because trash game management will lose people

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lol

/10char

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Originally Posted by Yoshihito

That's not entirely true. Most MMO's now have AFK countermeasures in place that are a bit more advanced that that. Instead of just moving you actually have to play the game to not get kicked. Meaning other things have to happen like menu's opening and closing, mutli-direction movement, chatting, doing quests, etc... Simply making a macro to move you or turning auto-run on won't work with that kind of system.

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Everything you just said can be handled using a simple macro. In-game macro to send a /fc, /shout, /tell message, place that macro button on the action bar, simple macro to press that action bar macro. You can open close logs by dragging the icon to the action bar as well. Lots of ways to do it - and I don't mean/want to argue, just saying the AFK timer is a bad idea.

Either way, SE just needs to fix the issue.

Come on now, I love this game but these login issues are putting a terrible taste in my mouth. This company isnt under a small umbrella either...... where is the support.....and awnsers for your loyals who have suffered through this and are still here?

Been trying to log in for over 3 hours now. This is a joke and the worst part of it is that according to the FFXIV status page everything is fine.

1017
1017
1017
1017
No NA/EU Server List
No NA/EU Server List
No NA/EU Server List
Lobby error

According to the launcher it says this issue is fixed. It is clearly not fixed still getting error cannot update NA/EU server list. Instead of saying in the news on the launcher that the issue is fixed how about you actually fix it. That would be awesome. World I'm from doesn't matter since all worlds won't update. FF 14 is an awesome game how about you let us play it a little bit.

lol, i see in profile
L'estaca Llach(Sargatanas) logged in.
ok, HOW?

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Originally Posted by math101

If they would just kick afk player, that alone would reduce the load on the login server by 50-70%. No more hammering loggin trying to get a spot, instead you're in after 1-2 attempts.

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Can you blame people for afking? They all go threw what we have to to get into the game. Why would you want to go through that each time you log in? SE has created this problem and other players have to deal with it. I for one am never logging out again. The people who stay logged in are having a great time and not bitching on the forums all day long.

I just keep trying. Usually within 10-15 minutes i'm in.

I have a solution:
If all of you who are threatening to quit or give on the game would, that would ease up the servers.

It seems when you get 1017 then lose NA/EU server list, log out completely for 5 min, then reconnect and you get 1017 again. Kinda like SE implemented a timer for logging into the game, LOL.

This would be so sad if it's true...

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Originally Posted by WaRBeaST

SE has created this problem and other players have to deal with it.

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Agree, they must resolv this, lol, it was very difficult to count players before start....