It does work at 10:10pm Central time my queue was only 734 and it took me less than 30minutes to go log in. Probably like 24 minutes?
It does work at 10:10pm Central time my queue was only 734 and it took me less than 30minutes to go log in. Probably like 24 minutes?
I'm not excusing them.
I'm only pointing out that it takes time.
Seemingly it wasn't exploited nearly enough for long enough during Heavensward's release for SE to take notice of it and have the 'higher ups' allocate dev time to fixing the issue.
Now, it's been exploited so bad that the devs have been required to take steps to try and alleviate the issue.
These steps are a 'quick fix' and are helping in the short term.
But they do need to work on a proper long term solution.
Please. You couldnt be further off from reality if you tried. For two weeks I've been dealing with on average 3 to 4 hour queues. Today I was 1,327 in line at 5:15pm Pacific time and it took an hour to get through. My second time a couple of hours later took 20 minutes. Everyone I know has seen a drop of login times, by 2/3's. That's a HUGE improvement. I knew the AFK-exploiters were making our problems several times worse, and people were justifying it. Then I watched people cry about the auto-log out when it was announced this morning in /shout chat and on facebook FFXIV groups. Well the sky didnt fall, they didnt do this during prime time, and it made logging on MUCH better.
They'll basically pay you to leave Balmung.
Bye.
But really, the queues were 3+ hours as recently as two days ago. If they're under an hour, then that's a huge improvement.
Even one hour instead of three hours is not tolerable.
There will always be a queue, the login servers don't allow everyone to connect at once so it doesn't crash the servers so it has to let people trickle in. But happy that the queue speeds have increased. Kicking people out still isn't the solution though and I hope they are working on something more player friendly.