Best served with cold steel.

If the game is having this much trouble on Early Access, I don't wanna think about when it's officially released.

And well, basically Yoshida said "our servers can't handle this". If they can't handle, it's pointless to say "we're working around the clock", because you're probably not. Structure-wise, you can't do anything unless limiting access (which you've already done).

And by doing that, the struggle to deal with those issues was passed along to the players, whom you know for sure they will keep spamming the @$%& of Raubahn for a chance to get in. You did that because you know some of us are grateful for Stormblood and we wanted to play so bad we'll do anything. :)

Filling up players with hope like that is cruel. We help FFXIV to be a great game, so have more respect for us. Just take down the servers, make it a que or whatever, but figure this out. Letting us bash into a wall like that ... is just shameful.

This is a major content roadblock - most people will not be able to access the new areas without getting past this instance, and we should not have to either sit around hoping we'll get lucky on Raubahn Clicker 2017 or go level SAM/RDM/main classes just because we literally cannot proceed into new MSQ and zones.

SE, if you managed to fix this on JP servers - which I'm 90% sure have at least one or two "big" servers a la Gilga/Balmung - then why can't you fix it on NA yet? This is actually hindering a lot of people's gameplay during Early Access, and it's really not acceptable whatsoever.

Do a /sea in The Fringes right now -- I promise you will not see a single person with an "In Duty" icon no matter what server you're on.

There is no point camping this quest right now. The bottleneck is way too tight for the amount of people to make it through, and even if/when they do, the duty is 10-20mins long. Calculate the possible instance capacity * the amount of players hammering, then factor in all the other duties like dungeons, PVP, trials, job quests, raids, and then the people who actually get in and fail and come back to retry.... these are disgustingly unbeatable odds...

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

Just shut down the servers, change the battles into fates, start up again and let people actually do the content.

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That's... not a bad idea actually. But I don't know how difficult it would be to recode this as a fate

Honestly at this point I agree the solo instances need to be queue based. I'm a patient person when it comes to launch days and the days that follow. I've been through most of the WoW expansion launches and they were by far a million times worse than this.

Over 24 hours of being gated out. My patience has gone out the window. I have done exactly what was recommended.....leave and come back. Still nothing. Remove these blasted instances and let us go on!!!!!

Make the solo duties queue based or something.

They knew how many people signed up for early access yet they couldn't preview this? It's a MAJOR content block. And saying to be patient and keep clicking, clicking, click, skip cutscene, and do again is not an acceptable answer

Diablos was down to this in all 3 instances earlier
http://i.imgur.com/P1qa3J7.jpg
And there was still nobody getting in

yeah i have been trying to do this content since 10 am yesterday and i still cant do it shut the server down and add more Relief servers to handle the load.

This is so fusterating