It has now been 19 hours.

To be fair that was for a very specific internet service provider and not everyone, likely these people couldn't even play.

Not that they can play more than we can, but y'know.

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Originally Posted by dark494

What's ridiculous is that they've updated the lodestone saying "We are happy to announce that the issues have been resolved" yet the constant 90k from queuing anything via solo instances or DF are still happening to everyone for everything, followed by the endless loop of 1000+ lobby queue and 90k again on the loading screen.

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That's because that's not what that announcement is about.

That announcement is about ONE issue - communication with the upper-tier isp. Details list DCing and difficulty accessing the servers, which is a completely separate issue from the instancing backlog.

I dc out of ANY solo instance now

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Originally Posted by HaiHai

Wait for the wave to subside and relieve stress.

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It's only going to get worse, you know that, right? It's the weekend, and launch is tuesday, when even more people will come to the bottleneck. This is terrible design, something WoW did much better with Legion, letting you go to different zones. Funneling all players to one point like this is just bad design now, especially with a limited instance situation.

A better plan would have put a dungeon before this, so at least there would be that to do, but you can't even go to other zones, because they are all locked behind the MSQ.

I don't know, man. Stormbloods going to be around for a very long time, and this is the very first day of *early access*. If you expected perfection, you set yourself up to be depressed today.

GOING ON 22 HOURS NOW, COOL FIXES SQUARE

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Originally Posted by EmeraldSerenade

I don't know, man. Stormbloods going to be around for a very long time, and this is the very first day of *early access*. If you expected perfection, you set yourself up to be depressed today.

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I hope no one expected perfection. I for one figured long queues, some dc's, possible intermittent server downtime. That said I feel like I did expect them not to make the obvious blunder of putting hard gated bottlenecks 20 minutes into the expansion.

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Originally Posted by EmeraldSerenade

I don't know, man. Stormbloods going to be around for a very long time, and this is the very first day of *early access*. If you expected perfection, you set yourself up to be depressed today.

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I expected to be able to play a nice chunk of the content because I don't get much free time after this weekend. That was the point of Early Access.

You can't deny that locking 95% of the content of your expansion behind this one instance that can't support more than 20 players at the same time and having the instance happen 1 hr into the expansion is good design. It's quite the contrary.

People are being entitled.
And they have every right to be.
We are entitled to content that we were promised. We are entitled to play a game that we are paying for. To asspat SE and say that they've done nothing wrong and somehow the paying customers are the ones that are 'bad people' is the most disgusting thing I've seen prevail on these forums.

Yes, it's Early Access, but as far as I can tell they haven't shown any sign of actually working on a fix. AFAIK their "fix" is to wait until people slowly trickle through their manufactured bottleneck. That is not a fix and it will still be borked on official release, when there really will be no excuse. (there isn't one NOW if you ask me)

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Originally Posted by Celef

Are you new in the MMO world ? (no offence)
Every single extension gets issues, it's kind of a tradition like chrismas trees and bunny easter, at least they appologie and work on it, just chill out, if it does not work go read a book or walk in the park or something else.
Again it's just a "normal" expansion release ^^

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Just too lazy to type it again.

The real issue is that my avatar new look is not showing yet on the forum ! :p