Best served with cold steel.

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Originally Posted by Domeric

you more or less admitted to it, not that i personally care beyond thinking less of you for it.

what good would it do you? you'd either get d/ced after 30 minutes of inactivity once you got in, or you'd get killed by npcs. all it's doing is selfishly causing more congestion.

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What? No, I'm not using AHK. That's too much of a bother for me to setup. I just go to sleep or try to play Wolfenstein since that had a weekend sale. You go Sherlock Holmes someone else, lol.

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

2) People that try to do "other things" cannot even do instances (Palace of the Dead, primals, raids, PvP, roulettes) because we immediately get DC'd.

So, you can't do the new content, but you cannot do the old, either.

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This so much. My husband and I were trying to look at the silver lining and enjoy the new PVP system, maybe level some jobs off it! Well... that's a little hard when you 90k 50% of the time when you get into duty.

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Originally Posted by Domeric

you more or less admitted to it, not that i personally care beyond thinking less of you for it.

what good would it do you? you'd either get d/ced after 30 minutes of inactivity once you got in, or you'd get killed by npcs. all it's doing is selfishly causing more congestion.

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It's not exactly hard for anyone with a gaming keyboard or mouse to do. 000040 escape 0.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

It's not exactly hard for anyone with a gaming keyboard or mouse to do. 000040 escape 0.

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stop doing that. do 00040.0 instead. "numpad DEL/." is "cancel"

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Originally Posted by xJimmehx

stop doing that. do 00040.0 instead. "numpad DEL/." is "cancel"

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Oh, thanks, that'll be a bit easier on my hand.

What a horrible experience my "early access" to Stormblood has been. Raubahn is also deeply affected. Never before has an NPC been clicked on with such fury and rage.

SE should be ashamed of this.

The unfortunate thing is that Raubahn and Pipin are effectively becoming the Heavensward Moogles of Stormblood. Folks are just constantly spouting angry nonsense about how they hate both characters and even when they finally get past the two duties I've just heard folks are madly skipping cutscenes in a dash to try and stay ahead.

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Originally Posted by Garin

The unfortunate thing is that Raubahn and Pipin are effectively becoming the Heavensward Moogles of Stormblood. Folks are just constantly spouting angry nonsense about how they hate both characters and even when they finally get past the two duties I've just heard folks are madly skipping cutscenes in a dash to try and stay ahead.

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I hope Raubahn losses his other arm and we get to punt Pippin off a cliff

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Originally Posted by Garin

The unfortunate thing is that Raubahn and Pipin are effectively becoming the Heavensward Moogles of Stormblood. Folks are just constantly spouting angry nonsense about how they hate both characters and even when they finally get past the two duties I've just heard folks are madly skipping cutscenes in a dash to try and stay ahead.

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At least the Moogles in Stormblood were optional :')

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Originally Posted by Garin

The unfortunate thing is that Raubahn and Pipin are effectively becoming the Heavensward Moogles of Stormblood. Folks are just constantly spouting angry nonsense about how they hate both characters and even when they finally get past the two duties I've just heard folks are madly skipping cutscenes in a dash to try and stay ahead.

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The new autoplay feature makes cutscenes much more enjoyable. Just wish I could watch them instead of hanging out with Raubahn.

PS4 users are screwed with people using macros to have an advantage at click spamming. If you think Cold Steel is bad, the Crimson quest shortly after has not one but two solo instance fights.

If you don't have much to lose and don't mind being stuck here for 90 days, I highly recommend transferring to Omega. There's no congestion here. I was able to do the quests first time no problem.

No freakin' update. Nothing. It's about 6 a.m., people have bought CE physical copies for $200, no updates for them. Nothing. We give you money ahead of time, which means the game should be playable even in early access. Even people who didn't buy expansions can't play the game because of queues and instances locking up, dcing. I am so freakin' angry. People think this is just gonna magically fix on release day. I don't care if devs read this or not. They could give a crap about us, the people who actually pay them. I've been around since 1.0 and I've played many different mmos, and this is by far the worst freaking glitch I have seen and the worst response I've ever seen to the problem. Every hour I only see like one person say they got in. Then they go onto Pipin. THIS GAME SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN RELEASED YET. I seriously want my money back. People took off work for this. This isn't SE's prob, but people did because they love this game and WE DONT EVEN GET AN UPDATE. Screw you.

I'm not even bothering to go and spam click Raubahn ( I gave up very quickly ), instead I'm just leveling my main through roulettes, FATEs and PoTD instead.

I really do hope this gets fixed before the 20th, this is horrible. I was here during the HW launch and it wasn't like this.

I was able to get through both of them yesterday but it was not fun for me. All the time I feared that I would get a DC which is even harder if it happens with Pipin since there are more cutscenes and fights involved. Thus I could not even enjoy these cutscenes (okay I would not have enjoyed the second story part either because it does not make much sense to me..). I logged out in Kugane even though I still had enough time to play the game simply because I just felt too tired and at the same time not soo hyped for the rest of the story. (I was lucky enough to have a scholar as my second job so I could do the first dungeon fast enough..I feel for all those that are only DD mains and have to wait forever in the dungeon Que..)

Really SE...this is not professional..do you want to get more people to play the game (but can the servers even handle more players regularly playing the game?) or do you want to loose players? You cant survive on Japanese players only!

I have little hope it will get better anytime sooner than a week. There is nothing to be fixed on SE's part. I'm still stuck after 48 hours and the devs response is to come back later. Essentially it means go do other old activities or not play FFXIV at the moment. The fix is for people to get so tired and lose interest that they will remove the limitations on solo instances. So I anticipate a week at the soonest for people's hype to just die off. It is a shame really. More people are angry with SE not for the issue but their response . They have not responded because they have given their answer.

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I have little hope it will get better anytime sooner than a week. There is nothing to be fixed on SE's part. I'm still stuck after 48 hours and the devs response is to come back later. Essentially it means go do other old activities or not play FFXIV at the moment. The fix is for people to get so tired and lose interest that they will remove the limitations on solo instances. So I anticipate a week at the soonest for people's hype to just die off. It is a shame really. More people are angry with SE not for the issue but their response . They have not responded because they have given their answer.

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A week? Hype is already dead.
They had an opportunity to lure back players, and instead choose to screw them over. Again.

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A week? Hype is already dead.
They had an opportunity to lure back players, and instead choose to screw them over. Again.

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They lured back so many people with an expansion, new content, so many good changes... I don't know how many people are returning after months and maybe years, but I know if i came back to this I wouldn't be too enticed to stay terribly long. Those people already left for their own reasons. SB is what lured them back and they can't play SB

They basically tossed all that goodwill and hype out the window.

I'm not usually one to moan on the forums, but this is unacceptable. How SE could not have seen this coming is beyond me. You've locked access to ALL duties in Stormblood behind a series of solo instanced fights that I hear take about 15 minutes to clear. And you're surprised they're congested?

For future, they really do need to implement a queue system for solo instances via MSQ. Remove it after 1 patch since there'll be no need for it at that point. Spamming one NPC for several hours at a time with no avail is just insulting your playerbase.

God help us when Tuesday comes along.

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A week? Hype is already dead.
They had an opportunity to lure back players, and instead choose to screw them over. Again.

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I really can't believe SE will not just create a auto complete patch where people can actually venture out into the rest of the world. Even if further instances in the MSQ are bottlenecked at the very least players could explore and do other content. I don't really know anymore tbh. Even Blizzard did a work around with WoD but feels like SE is just hoping the issue resolves itself which it will when people permanently quit. I am not going to quit but people will but not because it's expansion craziness but because it's what SE has conveyed as the solution. People forgive dcs and lag but always remember the actions taken by devs.

What makes the problem even worse is that everytime someone says they managed to get in, people think the problem might have been fixed and start spamming even more eagerly. There's nothing in the expansion accessible if we don't do these instances. Can't discover the whole map without the help of people who can already fly, can't get the sidequests to open aether currents because they're tied to the MSQ, and on top of that, I tried to do dungeons all night only to be kicked as soon as I commenced. After having absolutely nothing to do, I went to Raubahn and started trying. From 3:30am up to 7:30 am GMT-3. Absolutely no success. My FC mate who was trying with me got in, I didn't. there were fewer people spamming at the this time, but still didn't make any difference. I was really optimistic that SQEX would fix this quickly when the problem started yesterday. Now, not anymore. I told my FC friends that I'll take some days off the game and come back when they prove they have fixed this.

Balmung is letting 100s if not thousands through right now server is melting under the strain since so bottlenecked

Another wave opened now. Bunch of people got through on Cactuar.

It's really such a shame, too. The instance and the expansion thus far have been great. It's just plagued with this issue that's ruining the experience.

Everyone seems to be getting through on Balmung, now. A friend told me and I went in almost immediately.

Huge amount of people got in and thru Raubanh just now.

Got through finally, but now cannot enter Rhalgr's Reach. LoL

I finally made it, but so did half of Balmung, so Rhalgr's Reach is causing the server to explode.

I'm avoiding Rhalgr's Reach at the moment because I disconnected twice from being there. I saw a bunch of dc icons everywhere too.

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I'm avoiding Rhalgr's Reach at the moment because I disconnected twice from being there. I saw a bunch of dc icons everywhere too.

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Good. I just need one more herb and then I think the MSQ will tell me to leave, so tell everyone else to get out of my city.

Rhalgr's Reach on Balmung is going down. Maybe it'll take the server with it? Hehe.

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Rhalgr's Reach on Balmung is going down.

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Good :P these problems should be limited to the super bloated servers and not the whole datacenter.

/my1allottedjerkcommentinayear

I made it past Raubahn after roughly 30 straight hours of trying. Got out of Rhalgr's with 1 90k, but then 90k'd in the Fringe strangely enough. Going to rush through as quickly as possible in case the floodgates restart.

It's fixed.....at least on Diabolos.

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I made it past Raubahn after roughly 30 straight hours of trying. Got out of Rhalgr's with 1 90k, but then 90k'd in the Fringe strangely enough. Going to rush through as quickly as possible in case the floodgates restart.

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Same, actually. I dc'd and reconnected in Rhalgr's and made it out, but then dc'd in the Fringe.

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It's fixed.....at least on Diabolos.

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No, it's not. I just tried and can't get in


Over 48h and no fix. Don't tell me to try again later

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Good. I just need one more herb and then I think the MSQ will tell me to leave, so tell everyone else to get out of my city.

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You can tell everyone else that. I'm sure they'd all comply. :p

Contant 90k error now

Tried to get in earlier, cant login now because of 90k :\

And I'm still blocked at Raubahn on Hyperion... Except I'm now getting 90002 and 90006 errors so I guess we're now regressing? Instead of being able to do other things I get DCed as soon as I sign in. /slowclap

Way to fucking go SE. Do I spend another ten hours trying or is Yoshi-P's advice still wait until later?

I did that quest but after I do let fill your hearts with pride and the quest after never pops and I'm completely lost and confused, my main scenario tracker doesn't even pop up

Got finally in then followed by 90006 error 5 seconds later and now put on que with 385 when only on for less than 2 minutes is bs. Think SE need to be fined for this huge mess they caused. Ones need to start class action lawsuit against them for discriminating against NA and EU players since they fixed it so fast for JP players and not the rest.