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Originally Posted by MiunaOshino

I think the worst part in all this is SE is just being silent. We have no idea what they are working on anymore, and this isn't reassuring.
I'm sure they read these forums atm, so I'm not really sure why they aren't saying anything. Seems to be the same with every video game company ever, to be honest, aha.

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Also realize it's about 4am in Japan. Most of the people who will make these decisions are probably asleep. They did a quick fix early, saw that the servers were stable, and called it a day.

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Originally Posted by MiunaOshino

I think the worst part in all this is SE is just being silent. We have no idea what they are working on anymore, and this isn't reassuring.
I'm sure they read these forums atm, so I'm not really sure why they aren't saying anything. Seems to be the same with every video game company ever, to be honest, aha.

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They aren't being silent. They've already addressed the issue. There's a limited number of instances for the battle and to prevent crashing, they're letting in a small amount of people at a time. Imagine a door and there's 1,000,000 people waiting to go through but only 1000 can pass at a time. It's working as intended, there's just so much congestion that it's going to take a while for it to clear up. The reason you get kicked back after the cutscene is because there's no available slots. As the day progresses, people are getting home from school/work and the congestion worsens. Until these people start going to bed, it's going to be nigh impossible to get in.

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* Currently, players progressing through the main story quest of FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood are unable to enter instances battles due to it reaching its limit of players allowed. Due to this, players are asked to wait until a player leaves an instanced area before they are able to enter.
While we have plenty of instances available, to prevent a heavy load on the servers, we are currently limiting the number of players that can enter at a time. If you are unable to enter an instance, we recommend waiting and trying again at a later time.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

NA servers start to go die around 10 PM. By around 2 AM, not many are on. I honestly think it's your best shot at getting in. Most people have school or work and can't stay up all night.

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Except it's Friday night going into the weekend so it wouldn't surprise me to see a lot of folks stay up late.

And to make things worse, the instance server is shared. So even small servers like Goblin are having to share slots with Balmung...

I think a nap may be in order for me. Hopefully by the time I wake up this will be fixed. It probably won't be though :(

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Originally Posted by Claviusnex

Except it's Friday night going into the weekend so it wouldn't surprise me to see a lot of folks stay up late.

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Nah. A lot of them are kids that have trouble staying up late. It's not going to die down completely but it should take out a significant chunk. And hopefully that will be enough to get through.

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Originally Posted by ErikMynhier

No I just don't see the point in getting worked up for what anyone who has ever been in any expansion knows happens the first day. Early access in this game has always been a nice way of saying "7 day test server". It always happens. You wanna get snippy with me because I had realistic expectations and your toys are broken, go for it man.

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You also don't seem to find the point in calling out bad design and money grabbing design either. HW's was smooth once you got past the login server had no problem with any quest at all. But hey they just some good ol boys tying to make a buck.

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

You also don't seem to find the point in calling out bad design and money grabbing design either. HW's was smooth once you got past the login server had no problem with any quest at all.

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they also didn't have an instance almost immediately. SB did branch the msq, but the other branch was really short...

1 and a half hours of spamming the duty and it finally let me in. Going to wait a few days to attempt that on my alts lol

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

There's a limited number of instances for the battle and to prevent crashing, they're letting in a small amount of people at a time. Imagine a door and there's 1,000,000 people waiting to go through but only 1000 can pass at a time. It's working as intended, there's just so much congestion that it's going to take a while for it to clear up. The reason you get kicked back after the cutscene is because there's no available slots...

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I don't think anyone is arguing your point. The problem most are having is that this solo instance they designed and placed so early on in the MSQ was their own doing and they have the power to fix it. Also, it's creating a vacuum on the backend causing players who were lucky enough to get through some substantial wait times for DF content. I personally have been trying to get through for the past 7 hours. The problem isn't the server load, it's in their content design.

Forcing players to simply "wait it out" or "comeback at another time" is a bad decision given that this problem has the potential of continuing well into next week.

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Originally Posted by Rokke

1 and a half hours of spamming the duty and it finally let me in. Going to wait a few days to attempt that on my alts lol

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I've been doing that for 9 hours to no avail. Consider yourself lucky.

EDIT: well more like 7 hours, been in queue for almost 2 hours now after my game crashed

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Originally Posted by Finnfinite

they also didn't have an instance almost immediately. SB did branch the msq, but the other branch was really short...

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That is the point. They don't get a pass on bad design. If it was a bug that shit happens. This is a design their infrastructure can't handle. Like most of my gripes the idea isn't bad. But when supposedly smart people design like they have an unlimited amount of resources and the players are the ones that suffer because they don't. That doesn't get an ahh just the players fault move on.

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Originally Posted by MiunaOshino

I've been doing that for 9 hours to no avail. Consider yourself lucky.

EDIT: well more like 7 hours, been in queue for almost 2 hours now after my game crashed

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If we're counting server queues you can add 4 hours to my time. Balmung was +4k when servers went live, 2k after I got booted, and 1.8k when I logged in again after a nap lol.

But yes, its a hot mess and since my FC mates have given up for the time being, Im stuck flying solo for a bit :c I really wish it were a regular queue-able trial a la Cape Westwind. At least then people could group up ahead of time. Between the bottlenecking and area chat screeching at each other, its been one of those mornings.

I expect an apology from SE about this mess.
Currently the vast majority of people are stuck on an MSQ quest and cant progress any further cause of that idea to limit people that are able to enter the instances.
Hopefully by 2morrow it will be fixed.
Hopefully...........

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Originally Posted by Rokke

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8 hours for me...

While I acknowledge that they have said that things are working as intended on their end, I really feel like THEY need to acknowledge that regardless of intent this is not working. People can't queue for later dungeons and trials because there are literally not enough people who have unlocked it yet.

Copying the instance over to a 1p Trial would most likely be possible, considering they showed they have a dev option to change a party Trial to a solo Trial. It's probably the best fix they could do right now. Upping it to a full 8p or even 4ptrial would mean rebalancing, and queueing from solo instances is to my knowledge not possible with their current system...

I hate SE so much for this solo instance bullshit system

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

They aren't being silent. They've already addressed the issue. There's a limited number of instances for the battle and to prevent crashing, they're letting in a small amount of people at a time. Imagine a door and there's 1,000,000 people waiting to go through but only 1000 can pass at a time. It's working as intended, there's just so much congestion that it's going to take a while for it to clear up. The reason you get kicked back after the cutscene is because there's no available slots. As the day progresses, people are getting home from school/work and the congestion worsens. Until these people start going to bed, it's going to be nigh impossible to get in.

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It was terrible when the servers first started up but it's going to get WORSE when everyone gets off work and tries to log on.

I'm baffled that people are actually taking up for this game design.

I mean... if it isn't working at 3~4am on a workday. Do people really think that prime time and going into a weekend is going to be any better?

Well, I finally got in and got past it... but holy hell they need to fix that quest.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

I mean... if it isn't working at 3~4am on a workday. Do people really think that prime time and going into a weekend is going to be any better?

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Prime time on a weekend is probably going to start a fire in the SE building from server heat. No, I think we might just be screwed here.

A major issue is that a large majority of the expansion is gated behind that particular mission. Can't explore fully, can't gather all of the aether currents, can't do dungeons without progressing past it etc. The only options are to FATE grind, do something else (but gathering / crafting wastes your exp bonus), complete the other quests (I've already done these) or give up until later and log out.

I don't have much confidence in it being fixed by tomorrow, but we'll have to wait and see. Honestly don't understand how this issue wasn't anticipated. Also, queueing to enter doesn't solve anything unless every person on every shared data centre also queues. And they won't (we shouldn't have to). So ...

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Originally Posted by Applesnap

A major issue is that a large majority of the expansion is gated behind that particular mission.

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Well duh. That's just the normal MSQ gating we've had from level 1 onward. It might well happen "again" on a different mission later down the road.

At least this time you can level the new jobs elsewhere in the meantime >_>

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

I mean... if it isn't working at 3~4am on a workday. Do people really think that prime time and going into a weekend is going to be any better?

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thats the main reason I kept spamming it. If you don't get through now its only going to get worse as more people get home from work.

I am slowly getting annoyed by the fact that there is 0, really just 0 communication from Dev Team/Moderators here. They could say atleast something, that they're maybe planning to do emerg. maint or simply be fucking honest and say they got no intention of doing so and let people wait. Enough of this nonsense. Pre-order & early access in my @!$.

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Originally Posted by xbahax92

I am slowly getting annoyed by the fact that there is 0, really just 0 communication from Dev Team/Moderators here. They could say atleast something, that they're maybe planning to do emerg. maint or simply be fucking honest and say they got no intention of doing so and let people wait. Enough of this nonsense. Pre-order & early access in my @!$.

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Im hoping they say something soon. I know its super early morning JP time. Crossing my fingers to hear something within the next hour or two.. please ;-;

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Originally Posted by xbahax92

I am slowly getting annoyed by the fact that there is 0, really just 0 communication from Dev Team/Moderators here.

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"Calm down lol. Just try again later lol"

So after 8 hours I got in guys. I got in ME I got into the instance I sure did I got in. AND THEN? I LAGGGGGGED OUTT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE "explodes"

now balmung is having regular mass-disconnects on an ongoing basis, with 2000 person queues that make it take forever to get back on. So even if you were to get it, high chance you'd disconnect out.

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Originally Posted by Zojha

Well duh. That's just the normal MSQ gating we've had from level 1 onward. It might well happen "again" on a different mission later down the road.

At least this time you can level the new jobs elsewhere in the meantime >_>

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The further down the line the instance is, the less bottlenecked it will be, because people will filter into it more slowly than if it's right at the start of the expansion.

http://i.imgur.com/fxIUS73.jpg
My server started make queue. I go there

http://i.imgur.com/xnPRNJr.png

Best offer this now.

Guys I found a way in. Ignore lines, just spam.

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Originally Posted by Arrius

http://i.imgur.com/xnPRNJr.png

Best offer this now.

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I have to wonder how many people would willingly buy this if it was actually an option.......

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Originally Posted by Arrius

http://i.imgur.com/xnPRNJr.png

Best offer this now.

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Id buy it at this point

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Originally Posted by Clethoria

Guys I found a way in. Ignore lines, just spam.

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You forgot the "get incredibly lucky" part

Raubahn, with only one hand, fends off every server from passing his quest.

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Originally Posted by Clethoria

Guys I found a way in. Ignore lines, just spam.

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That's not a way in. Neither are lines.

The only way in is to be lucky enough to be the first person to request an instance after another person leaves the instance.

OVER THE WHOLE DATACENTER.

So, if a person on Goblin leaves the instance, a spot opens up - for ANYONE. It's available for a flash of a second as everyone on Balmung, Gilgamesh, Leviathan, etc ALL fight for the single spot.

And with the mass disconnects happening now, more people are getting IN to the instance, but less people are actually COMPLETING it because it's at least 10 minutes long and you can't disconnect in the middle.

finally...
http://i64.tinypic.com/2m0dpf.png

SE was like you want a longer MSQ well then we will give you a longer MSQ