The server is full, try again later (1017)

im getting the same message 1017 no queue.
I think its unacceptable that ive bought a game that I can not play.
Soul Crusher
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Another fun evening spent in/on FFXIV, hope it takes less than 5 hours tonight.............

Am sure this has probably been brought up already, but I am not reading through 100+ pages of posts to find it.

Is there any reason they have not taken the approach that Anet took with GW2 and create Overflow servers to act as temp servers till your server is opened up, and you are able to "port like going into instances" back to your own server ?
I mean if should not be difficult to set up on their end, and would solve the mass overflow of players till things settle down.

As to SE releasing the game...... if they did not see at the end of beta 4 that they needed more time, then the first day of Early Release should have given it away to them tenfold.
Are they not still trying to recover from the flop of 1.0 ? And the allowed ARR to go live as it is currently ?
Sorry, bad business IMHO. They should have delayed the full launch till the game and capacity to play the game was at 100%. Not limited.

up to the top Again we go, this needs to be fixed, i dont mind sitting in a 500+ queue, but to be told i should just try Again later, is pissing me of.

Anyone else get a little excited when it stays on the now loading screen for a few seconds before 1017 message :(

As most people have already mentioned, a queue needs to be implemented. We can't possibly know when a spot is going to open up.

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Originally Posted by Maibs

Anyone else get a little excited when it stays on the now loading screen for a few seconds before 1017 message :(

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I get very excited lol. Or how about it when it says you are in a que of 13 other people... then you wait.....and....then.........1017!!!!!

All they need to do is add either an AFK timer (which can be botted around) or add rolling restarts of servers every 4 to 6 hours. This will knock out all the AFKs and drastically improve log in times.

And not one minute after I post that, I get a message that says: "The World is currently full. Players in queue: 59."

I wonder why it happens sometimes, but not others.

This is unbelievable. They used to have a queue and they have regressed to this nonsense. What, exactly, are we paying for?

Cmon guys to make room there has to be a AFK timer for 15 or 20 mins time i see people just standing in there for hours and not do anything because they are afraid to log out, or should not belong there. Please put in a afk timer this would free up a lot of the servers and make more room for people who really want to play. And when i click and it says 1017 i know 30% of the people in there isn't doing shit lol.

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Originally Posted by Alaestir

And not one minute after I post that, I get a message that says: "The World is currently full. Players in queue: 59."

I wonder why it happens sometimes, but not others.

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Bet you still get 1017 before u get to top of queue. (i hope u dont)

My first log in 20 minutes ago i was 64th in queue then 1017

It's honestly arrogant of SE to think that the people, who make sure that they get paid every month, have nothing better to do then sitting in front of the PC all night "hoping" to play something which they paid for..

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Originally Posted by mephicide

This is unbelievable. They used to have a queue and they have regressed to this nonsense. What, exactly, are we paying for?

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Nothing at the moment. Calm the hell down.

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Originally Posted by RudySmits

It's honestly arrogant of SE to think that the people, who make sure that they get paid every month, have nothing better to do then sitting in front of the PC all night "hoping" to play something which they paid for..

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Oh wow. They haven't enabled people to pay for time yet and you have? How?? >.> Seriously, You bought the $30-$40 game and they are fixing your servers. Calm down. You aren't even "making sure they get paid every month" yet.

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Originally Posted by Revatio

OH MY GOD , I GOT ON! first time all weekend!....but im at work (remoted into my home pc)...

oh the irony...:(

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omg lol, that made me spill my coffee due to a burst of laughter!!

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Originally Posted by OrganizationXIll

Nothing at the moment. Calm the hell down.

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How is that? Did you get a FREE copy? I remember paying for mine.

:/ really adore this game but this is driving me nuts, I dont want to sub and pay however much it is a month if i have to put up with this every night.

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Originally Posted by mephicide

This is unbelievable. They used to have a queue and they have regressed to this nonsense. What, exactly, are we paying for?

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Currently? A good game that no one can even get in to. You'd think with the 1.0 disgrace and ESO looming around the corner that they'd have been well prepared for this. I read one post with a guy who stated that there is no need for any company to have more server space then they need lol... I'm almost certain the saying is "Better to have and not need then need and not have!" I mean let's be honest, so far the only MMO I've played that launched with more servers then needed was EQ1 and they simply let it ride for two weeks, then merged dead/no pop/low pop servers together. It didn't hurt the company in the slightest and was the cleanest MMO launch still.

Why do companies go with the WoW launch model? Rift made this mistake too, and lost a quarter of their potential subs less then a week in (which results in those peoples close friends not wanting to play since MMOs are about the community). I'll never get the thought processes of companies like this. "We have an amazing game series, but we only care about money, not the consumer... they come at a distant 4th somewhere, we're not even sure where... Okay more like 5th, but you get the point..."

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Originally Posted by Hoveurt

How is that? Did you get a FREE copy? I remember paying for mine.

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You paid for a disc/launcher which works. The service you pay for is the game. They are giving you a free month to start with so you haven't paid for the game yet.

Why did SE have to add a login "Mini Game" in order to connect.

Same here. I work 6 days a week and played 10 minutes total after beta phase 4. If it isn't fixed upcoming weekend I'll seriously never play again.. Waited so long for this game but this just isn't normal. My friend pre-ordered XIV too and he still gets a message saying he doesn't have an account when he logs in on the launcher. Support does nothing.. All he got was a reply after 2 days saying sorry for the wait but we got your ticket and we'll reply later. How dumb are the people who work at this company?

I would love to just get in, and play the game.. Stayed up the last 2 nights... waiting for the chance to make a character to play on Hyperion with my FC....Still holding onto hope >.< Hyperion Serverrrrrrrrrr :)

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Originally Posted by OrganizationXIll

You paid for a disc/launcher which works. The service you pay for is the game. They are giving you a free month to start with so you haven't paid for the game yet.

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You are such a tool.

Game is officially released, and here we are unable to log on. :T

This issue should've been addressed during the beta test, Squeenix, this is what happens when your beta test is only 3 days long lol.

[RAGE]

WTF, AFTER 10 MINUTES OF CLICKING AND BEATING THE "WORLD IS FULL" BOSS, I FINALLY GET INTO A QUEUE AS NR 124.... 1 MINUTE LATER I GET KICKED BACK AGAIN INTO THE WORLD IS FULL CRAP #%!%! HAVE ACCESS FOR 4 DAYS NOW AND HAD ALMOST NO PLAY TIME!!!

[/RAGE]

This game is testing my patience, and i am running out of it... i hope you get your shit together soon or you will lose one more customer...

You'd think with the early access they be able to iron out some of the kinks on the servers. Looks like I'll only be able to play during graveyard hours.

Let's see if I got this right. You can't log in because the world is full so when you FINALLY get into the world you never log out. Because you never log out, the world remains full. Rinse and repeat? I'm sad. I logged in fine this morning but had to move my laptop and logged out, now I cannot get back in. Twice I've been in the queue, once at 32nd spot and once at 2nd spot but when they refreshed I was given the 1017 error again. :(

As we lose game time, Square Enix's reputation will be immensely damaged, just for their lack of sense to put in larger queue's instead of this 'fix' called 'error 1017'. Please do as we ask, and give us a larger queue so we don't spam log in over and over. More servers, too.

So, the game is officially launched. It's no longer beta nor early access.

How about opening a few more servers and offering free transfers to them? This is getting a bit ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Tanoose

Why did SE have to add a login "Mini Game" in order to connect.

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Wait whaaaat. I thought that IS the game.

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Originally Posted by OrganizationXIll

You paid for a disc/launcher which works. The service you pay for is the game. They are giving you a free month to start with so you haven't paid for the game yet.

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No, no matter how much backwards, twisted logic you use, we all paid for this game to play it. They didn't GIVE anything to anyone. It's industry standard to INCLUDE a period of play time with the initial purchase.

You know, I swear that there were Stress tests during Alpha and Beta Phases. Did it never occur to them that perhaps buying bigger servers would probably be a better idea? They had this same issue during 1.0, someone didn't learn their lesson~

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Originally Posted by Rundo

[RAGE]

WTF, AFTER 10 MINUTES OF CLICKING AND BEATING THE "WORLD IS FULL" BOSS, I FINALLY GET INTO A QUEUE AS NR 124.... 1 MINUTE LATER I GET KICKED BACK AGAIN INTO THE WORLD IS FULL CRAP #%!%! HAVE ACCESS FOR 4 DAYS NOW AND HAD ALMOST NO PLAY TIME!!!

[/RAGE]

This game is testing my patience, and i am running out of it... i hope you get your shit together soon or you will lose one more customer...

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This made me laugh....'AFTER 10 MINUTES OF CLICKING AND BEATING THE "WORLD IS FULL" BOSS'

Hope this game does not fall flat on its face like swtor did in its first 4 months

I'm officially a subscriber now. I DEMAND to play the game that I paid for. I mean WTF SE, do you have any plans at all to address this bullshit?

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Originally Posted by OrganizationXIll

You paid for a disc/launcher which works. The service you pay for is the game. They are giving you a free month to start with so you haven't paid for the game yet.

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Actually... check your account. I'll think you'll find that's actually 14 days. And Oh, look at that, several people have paid for the service too considering several people were in game this morning with the rewards you get for doing so.

EDIT: OK, that's... bizarre. Just rechecked my account. I'm currently wondering myself how they actually pulled that off as my own account is being odd. That said, the 14 days is apparently what we get for being carried over from v1.0 and registering a PS3 copy gives another 30 days.

This is why daddy drinks kids!

Why the f**k did they get 5 servers for europe?!?!
These servers have been 'full' since early access..
So after trying and failing to create ONE GOD DAMN character since early access, I am stuck with the character i created in beta phase 4..
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TL;DR: No one cares about europe

I have to say that this is ridiculous when you advertise the sale of a game and 1 month of service is included in the price then that is what you should give all your customers. Those that are trying to say it is a free month and it doesn't matter are the ones that have all the time the could ever want to play the damn game. I personally work, go to school, and raise 2 kids as a single father do not have the luxury to try back again over and over again for hours on end. I bought the game and by rights paid for a month of service. Now I did see anywhere on the sales that that one month was restricted by player value. I am an understanding guy. So I understand the servers will have to go down for maintenance, hot fixes, and maybe even crash. But to restrict my log in and character creation to a server when the service says "Pay so much for 8 characters per server" that is kinda what I expect. I would even be okay if restricted to one character per server for the initial month but not to be able to log in is absolutely BU**S**T. If I told SE that I would pay them their subscription fee when my money was available, or for the game for that matter, they wouldn't say okay keep playing until then!!!!!! They would suspend my account until they got their DAMN MONEY. And I totally agree with that but the same goes for my "PAID FOR SERVICE". This had better get fixed real soon.

error 1017 on all EU servers :( so anoying atm