Time to face the music

So, my friends, fellow Eorzeans, warriors of light all, I have some dire news. We....well...we're pretty much screwed here. EVERYONE is in a bad situation and I will not mince words. It's going to get worse. You think TODAY is bad? Just wait till the 20th when everyone else jumps on bored. Thousands, possibly millions of others who have let their subscription lapse until Stormblood's full release, and have NO IDEA THIS IS HAPPENING, not that we could keep them away even if they did. I'll be greatly surprised if the servers don't collapse completely.

But I do have to respect those who like to hold out hope that, someway, somehow, Yoshi-P pulls another miracle out of the closet where he keeps his comic book themed shirts, and everything will be just fine next week. So, until that kind of thing happens, I'm curious. What's everyone doing to pass the time? Anime? Work outside the house? Torturing themselves by looking at the SB material on youtube that they can't access yet until their last vestiges of sanity leaves them?

The MSQ thing wouldn't be so bad if the servers were stable. Because then I could at least level some other jobs in the mean time. But, every dungeon I enter is just another case of rubber banding and dcing. Spent 50 minutes in HWs 2nd dungeon only because everyone kept dcing and dying to random things. The game at the moment is literally unplayable.

Not fun. Not fun.

Honestly, I think the 20th won't be so bad as I feel that the majority of players who were looking forward to Stormblood are in the early access. Of course, that isn't to say there won't be an additional bottleneck due to another instance, but as far as Coldsteel is concerned, I feel like this is the worse it will get based on that logic.

things will definitely get way worse on tuesday.. the servers will likely crash or people will just give up on playing FFXIV until SE fixes these issues. one thing is certain that there will be an emergency maintenance on the 20th so i would look for other games to play or some series to binge watch all tuesday and possibly wednesday. this congestion is making alot of people upset that they can't access and enjoy SB or the game itself.

The forum doesn't need this thread.

For me, the game is unplayable until they fix the MSQ bottleneck.

Simple as that...

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Originally Posted by AlexanderThorolund

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And I don't need my "event" constantly "moved"...guess we're both unsatisfied.

Hopefully this gets more traction in the larger gaming media. People need to know how incompetent this launch is.

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Originally Posted by AlexanderThorolund

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Tread lightly. You can tell by the bandanna, he's serious.

I am having fun. I dont really feel bothered by the MSQ problem. I just got my samurai to 60, so was busy having fun.

;; I've done every new SB story quest on my main and my alt... I'm reeeeally getting impatient.

Love the look of the new areas, love the battle changes... but I really want to continue the story. I never had this trouble for HW, so this is disheartening.

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Originally Posted by Hyperia

For me, the game is unplayable until they fix the MSQ bottleneck.

Simple as that...

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It wouldn't be so bad if there weren't random DCs thrown into the mix as well. It really hampers trying to level or do other things while waiting out the congested quest point.

I mean, I've still got crafters and gatherers I could be working on, so if it comes down to it, I just take a break from all that stuff til the chaos quiets down.

I think you're overreacting. Yeah, it's bad right now, but it's literally the first day of early access for a new expansion. In many ways, we're unofficially performing a sort of "stress test" for how they need to tweak their servers. This is also the first time we've seen maps in this game divided into separate "channels" to combat congestion.

The MSQ bottleneck is also implemented partially on purpose. It was anticipated to be a measure to prevent a much more disruptive server-wide crash. Granted, maintaining a stable connection at all is pretty dicey right now, but they're working on it. There's no telling when the issue will reach lasting stability and get things back to normal, but in the mean time there is literally no point in acting like the sky is falling and the game will always be like this. Calm down.

1. There is 328 threads on this one topic alone. Trust me..we're all experiencing it
2. This is an MMO. Sh*t happens when things get first released.
3. Everybody who on the 20th is pretty much playing now (and the ones who are not buying the game until the 20th, I am pretty sure the issues will be worked out. It has been worked out after every expansion early release)
4. Yoshi already apologized and his apologies are sincere. They are working on it

The end of the world has not happened.

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Originally Posted by Pondera

What's everyone doing to pass the time?

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Wishing I hadn't introduced my girlfriend to this game so I could have quit by now and avoided Stormblood entirely. I almost feel like my WHM was sullied by 4.0; a part of me wishes I'd canceled prior to the "update" so she could be preserved in some sort of electronic stasis.

This might sound like hyperbole, but it really isn't. I'm sick and tired of SE's technical incompetence. Their storylines are great, their world is beautiful, but none of it matters if you can't enter an instance or stay connected. Coupled with their heightened focus on making this game accessible to even a trained monkey, and I'm just counting the days until my girlfriend loses interest so that I can cut the game out of our nightly routine and cancel.

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Originally Posted by Annah

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Well, yes, that was my exact point with all this. I mean, is it a crappy situation? Absolutely. Will getting mad and throwing a fit help anything? Not even slightly. We just need to appreciate the reality of the situation, pull a TV tropes "this is gonna suck", and wait it out. I was mostly just curious as to what everyone else was doing in regards to that last point. Like me, personally? I'm playing Homeworld 2 again and watching Star Blazers 2199. My Hiigarin Space Banana might not be the Yamato, but it packs a mean wave motion gun under the hood.