2nd night unable to play because of LONG queue times

Title is self explanatory. I've seen streamers with over 10,000 in queue. When I get home from work at 4pm EST, I immediately log in, and Im stuck at 2000+ queue. I am only able to play a couple hours a night due to work on the weekdays. I haven't been able to log in since early access launched during the weekdays.

We buy the game and we also get charged a monthly rate for the servers and their upkeep. This issue has been happening for MONTHS. Back when the WoW refugees first came over, that was the first red flag. Queue times started back then. Not as bad as today, but there were still queue times. The FF14 team knows how many people preordered Endwalker, there was your 2nd redflag that something like this was going to occur. Still nothing. I understand Yoshi gave us free gametime, but that really doesnt solve anything. The revenue you guys got from all the WoW refugees including myself is insane.
Theres shortages and then theres raising the price of something due to demand. I highly doubt you guys can't find hardware to fix this issue. It's probably just expensive and you guys dont want to pay that much.

I deeply enjoy FF14, but theres nothing worse than not being able to play a game that the developers release but being unable to play due to "increased player base." That's not an excuse when you guys had those red flags that I mentioned for months.

I don't mean any of this to be disrespectful, but I am a paying customer unable to play your game.
Queue times are not the gamers problem, it's your guys problem. This should have been fixed by now.

The ques are rather long have to agree with you there, been stuck on 1500 the last 30 min

You know how long you have to wait for a Steam Deck or PS5?
SE has to wait for their servers the same time or even longer.
Semi-cundoctor shortage has a very hard impact on all industries but especially on IT-Hardware.

Try another world maybe?
Some have shorter queue than others
Not a perfect solution i know, but still it may help
I hope that you get to play soon

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Originally Posted by Sekurity

Title is self explanatory. I've seen streamers with over 10,000 in queue. When I get home from work at 4pm EST, I immediately log in, and Im stuck at 2000+ queue. I am only able to play a couple hours a night due to work on the weekdays. I haven't been able to log in since early access launched during the weekdays.

We buy the game and we also get charged a monthly rate for the servers and their upkeep. This issue has been happening for MONTHS. Back when the WoW refugees first came over, that was the first red flag. Queue times started back then. Not as bad as today, but there were still queue times. The FF14 team knows how many people preordered Endwalker, there was your 2nd redflag that something like this was going to occur. Still nothing. I understand Yoshi gave us free gametime, but that really doesnt solve anything. The revenue you guys got from all the WoW refugees including myself is insane.
Theres shortages and then theres raising the price of something due to demand. I highly doubt you guys can't find hardware to fix this issue. It's probably just expensive and you guys dont want to pay that much.

I deeply enjoy FF14, but theres nothing worse than not being able to play a game that the developers release but being unable to play due to "increased player base." That's not an excuse when you guys had those red flags that I mentioned for months.

I don't mean any of this to be disrespectful, but I am a paying customer unable to play your game.
Queue times are not the gamers problem, it's your guys problem. This should have been fixed by now.

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Consider yourself lucky, because I am transferring to your server from Gilga queue is 6-8k at 4 pm EST, I would kill for 2k queue, you are on one of the least congested servers.

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Originally Posted by Legion88

You know how long you have to wait for a Steam Deck or PS5?
SE has to wait for their servers the same time or even longer.
Semi-cundoctor shortage has a very hard impact on all industries but especially on IT-Hardware.

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The shortage is not an acceptable excuse. Did you receive a PS5 or streamdeck without a semi conductor? Of course not. Those consoles are on back order. They had plenty of warning signs that there would be a crazy amount of players playing the game, yet they still launched the early access.
The reason why its hard for consoles to get made is because if they really wanted to, they could get those semi conductors, but it would bump up the cost of the console a decent amount and then people wouldn't buy it because it would be expensive. FF14 has made a considerable amount of money from the wow migration. Is not like there are physically no semi conductors. If you want them, you can get them, but the price for them is super high due to demand. My opinion, it doesn't matter about the price FF14 has to pay. They got enough money to spend, they should get them in at 5x, 10x, or 20 times the cost since they release endwalker and people are unable to play.
God forbid being a paying customer wanting to use the product I purchased.

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Originally Posted by jadeblade

Consider yourself lucky, because I am transferring to your server from Gilga queue is 6-8k at 4 pm EST, I would kill for 2k queue, you are on one of the least congested servers.

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Um.....ok? So I should be lucky that Im unable to play because of my 2000+ queue, but I should consider myself lucky that Im unable to play because of an 8000+ queue? I stated in the original post that there are people with even crazier queue times. Regardless of how many thousand person difference in the queue, queue times of any length more than 10 minutes is unacceptable.

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Originally Posted by Sekurity

Um.....ok? So I should be lucky that Im unable to play because of my 2000+ queue, but I should consider myself lucky that Im unable to play because of an 8000+ queue? I stated in the original post that there are people with even crazier queue times. Regardless of how many thousand person difference in the queue, queue times of any length more than 10 minutes is unacceptable.

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No doubt this is unacceptable and your point is valid, just saying you get it better than most of us, which isn’t that much honestly

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Originally Posted by jadeblade

No doubt this is unacceptable and your point is valid, just saying you get it better than most of us, which isn’t that much honestly

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Agreed. With streamers just sitting in queue with 10k+ queue line, it only hurts the game because new people to the game watch streamers play, and when all they see is the queue and streamers rightfully complain about it, they won't bother giving it a shot.

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Originally Posted by Sekurity

The shortage is not an acceptable excuse. Did you receive a PS5 or streamdeck without a semi conductor? Of course not. Those consoles are on back order. They had plenty of warning signs that there would be a crazy amount of players playing the game, yet they still launched the early access.
The reason why its hard for consoles to get made is because if they really wanted to, they could get those semi conductors, but it would bump up the cost of the console a decent amount and then people wouldn't buy it because it would be expensive. FF14 has made a considerable amount of money from the wow migration. Is not like there are physically no semi conductors. If you want them, you can get them, but the price for them is super high due to demand. My opinion, it doesn't matter about the price FF14 has to pay. They got enough money to spend, they should get them in at 5x, 10x, or 20 times the cost since they release endwalker and people are unable to play.
God forbid being a paying customer wanting to use the product I purchased.

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No... they simply are not available.... It's obvious you aren't part of the IT industry. I've been waiting on a single server for months now. I'm expecting my server to ship out hopefully in the next 3 weeks. What they're waiting on?: No CPUs available. CPUs are just one part of the semi-conductor shortage effects.