Appreciation thread for an amazing launch and xpac

Truly. I was expecting the worst time with this first day into Heavenwards but I'll be damned... Everything went smoothly and for that, I praise YoshiP and all the team behind FF14. Truly a fantastic job!

Alongside this, I would also like to share my appreciation for the story and its many details as well as the effort put in all the locations. I am in awe at the amount of work and love that went into this game/expansion. Once again, I share my utmost appreciation.

I apologize if I cause stress with yet another thread such as this one but you guys deserve it if not more. Keep up the great work!

Even on Masamune, things were really smooth. The initial login difficulty was expected, but after that, I'm quite impressed with how well everything went. Not a single DC, though those who did get disconnected it only happened once or twice.

No server crashes. They were prepared well, this time. :)

Ya on Balmung here. A couple hiccups today, but otherwise very smooth! I was expecting serious server issues honestly as Balmung is extremely populated.

That's what we pay for. You shouldn't be surprised. This should be expected.

Good to know we're dealing with professionals.

Praise the Sun! Blessed be the Pure Blood!

The lobby server connection has encountered an error.

Thats great that there is a handful of people who can play the game but the rest of us who are on populated servers have been plagued by 9000 and 5006 and 2002 all day with no answers or insight to when the problems will be fixed

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Originally Posted by Miya_Carbuncle

Ya on Balmung here. A couple hiccups today, but otherwise very smooth! I was expecting serious server issues honestly as Balmung is extremely populated.

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It died down in about an hour of launch where lots of people on Balmung were able to log in!
The Channels were a splendid idea.~

Now just wait til the game officially launches. >w>

the game would be great if i could get on been having 2002 for about an hour or so now so dunno how you can say it was an amazing launch

I agree. This was handled much better than the ARR launch. Sure, it's not issue free as some are struggling to get on, but far less than ARR launch and not as long lasting.

As for the expansion itself I am pretty impressed. Ishgard has to be one of my top 5 favorite/beautifully designed fantasy cities I have ever seen in 20 years of RPGs.

Compared to ARR early access and launch, this is near perfect. Yeah, we're suffering from the usual 2002 and 5006 errors that come with this sort of congestion (and the odd 90k), but honestly, I'll just try again later tonight when the initial evening rush dies down to try and re-enter the game.

I've been #314 in a queue for about 30 minutes now and the number hasn't changed. Earlier today my entire FC was dumped and spent several hours trickling slowly back in whenever they were lucky enough to get in without a lobby error. So, not exactly going all that well from what I can tell.

Got a couple login errors, but I was usually able to log on on my 2nd or 3rd attempt. Not perfect, but certainly not as bad as it could be. I expect by Tuesday, us early accessers will be more spread out for a smooth official launch.

The only login error I had today was when the whole Chaos data center seemed to have an issue. But as for that... I could get in just fine, even with my crappy laptop and not perfect connection.

:) This is why I like being on a smaller server.

The launch has been amazing. Try to remember that the people complaining here (and you have every right to complain, I'm not blaming you) seem to be a vocal minority. On my server (Tonberry) and friends on other servers, the worst any of is encountered might have been slight lag while in the new coerthas or a dc to which we logged back in shortly. If you are having problems then I hope they get better soon! It won't be rocky forever. Tuesday though.....I'm not sure how I feel about Tuesday. Let's just hope for the best.

(Typed on my phone on break at work so please excuse any errors or if it seems a bit random with what I say)

Compared to most huge expac launches I will add my thank you here as well. Been the most smooth I've read about and experienced in years. Yes there was/still is log in problems, but there isn't really any game breaking glitches. Nice job, Square ^^b Just iron out the kinks with the data centers and you'll be great.

Brilliant launch and expansion the best I've seen and I've played a lot of games.

So thank you SE for all your hard work it has been worth it :)