Best served with cold steel.

Don't worry the excuse they'll use as well as apologists on their behalf is that it's "early access and not the official release date". Well that's wrong, the release to the player base was the start of "early access" and the fact that it's still the way it is unacceptable from a business standpoint completely.

So... 24 hours since last update on this, and they still won't say more or fix it, while they have fixed it on the JP datacenter, and EU apparently mostly works too?
Yoshi is as usual afraid to take needed decisions to fix things.
Not enough resources? Well then. Shut down instanced content that is not needed for story progression... Palace of the dead, Aquapolis, Guildhest, Diadem, etc.
"nah, players might be upset about it"...
Well guess what... WE ARE UPSET THAT WE CAN'T PLAY THROUGH THE STORY!

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Originally Posted by Pavise

Don't worry the excuse they'll use as well as apologists on their behalf is that it's "early access and not the official release date". Well that's wrong, the release to the player base was the start of "early access" and the fact that it's still the way it is unacceptable from a business standpoint completely.

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Not to mention, multiple stores have SB on their shelves today. It's released.

"Early access" has become a gaming keyword of "we're going to cut QA costs and have the players fill that role instead! Why bother paying for testing when players pay US for testing? :)))"

Without seeing the backend it's impossible to know for sure, but it really seems like the Susanoo bug should have been discovered in QA. Reports are that nearly half of the people who complete it are locked out of their character indefinitely. There's also the quest where an NPC is talking in Japanese... Square Enix is better than this.

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Originally Posted by Finnfinite

. Square Enix is better than this.

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Apparently they are not.

Don't get me wrong but what the holy .... is wrong with them? It is day 3 here in EU times of the so called "Expansion". Right now I was able to play a minor patch worth of content and I try since 3 days to get through their allegaly implemented bottleneck. I see black for Tuesday and real release. So please SE release that stupid bottleneck.

You already wasted 3 days of our precious time. Give us more in a reply other than "sorry here, sorry here". To be fair I don't give a ... anymore if you're sorry. Your Community Reps only post lodestone posts but no real answer to a possible fix or a solution. Come on please you wasted my whole weekend by building up expectations and then crushed them. I even got 2 friends back into the game to play with them and now all we can do is try try try. Btw. None of my 5 friends I play with was able to get through.

And their dev time is apparently dedicated to fixing a primal bug that 99% of players can't even get to?

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Originally Posted by JarinArenos

And their dev time is apparently dedicated to fixing a primal bug that 99% of players can't even get to?

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That bug can apparently be at least addressed now by GM-related staff, not necessarily the devs; and players need to avoid playing emotes during the transition.

This "Raubahn's Wall (Savage)" is starting to get to people though. In my case, I have tomorrow and Monday left; Tuesday through Friday are spent on a business trip, with no access - so a lot of lost potential time.

Currently browsing the internet about early access. So much bad press for SE and Bloodstorm. They even say that the Heavensward early access was less troublesome than this and I remember what dipshit happened there and I can simply agree to that. At least we were able to play the game in some extend and not being locked out of content on the very first map.

I do wonder if one basic fix could work and that's the following. Staggered entry, Restrict Raubahn, Allow Pippin, when say 500 Pippin go through and complete restrict Pipping back to Raubahn, cause in all honesty having 2 unique instances in the same zone isn't helping the situation, so maybe if they made a floodgate that restricted the two every 30 minutes it could help?

So Raubahn could be accessed from :00-:29 and Pippin from :30-:59 until the population starts to fully move away from said location.

SE is making things worse than necessary by insisting to limit us at Raubahn rather than temporarily shut down everything else that is not needed for story progressions.
Raubahn blocking means more people are flooding the rest harder making it even worse for Raubahn/Pippin instances...

Just too bad that Yoshi doesn't realize this. And since it's only the NA community that seems to be affected now, SE can ignore it altogether.