I paying to queue!

This is joke! I waiting 2-3 hours to play my game, if I "pay every day".

I just do not work at weekends and I can not play.

AND! - I pay! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

EU - Cerb

The trick is to never log out. Find a way to have a button pressed or something that prevents you from going AFK.

^-- Yeah, that is why people have trouble logging in to begin with thanks to all the afk walking people. If they would log out when they need to afk or go out, people who actually can play actively would be online, those who're are afk --> doing nothing but wasting a space that could actively be used

I see talk of queues and people unable to start a quest...yet tonight I see my server has a queue of 5000 at 20:30(AEST)...I think The bugs/instance issue can wait, til we can all actually log in, you know.

Those folks pissed off coz they have to line up or can't start a quest? Actually in the game.

I'd say all attention should be on the servers, at least for the next few weeks, coz I can only see this getting worse as we get towards launch.

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Originally Posted by LalafellDown

The trick is to never log out. Find a way to have a button pressed or something that prevents you from going AFK.

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That's exactly why we have a queue! If people weren't selfish and logged out when they weren't playing everyone in the queue would be able to access the game that much faster. But as usual typical selfish people ruin everything :( I personally think that if you've been in town for too long and aren't actually doing anything you should be kicked for inactivity. AFK flag or not. If you're actually playing the game you'd at least be doing something whether it be fate grinding, queued for a duty, crafting etc etc

$15 a month doesn't entitle you to skip past the thousands of other players waiting to get their chance to play the new content. After all, they pay $15 a month too.

It's not even officially launched yet. If you honestly weren't expecting this sort of thing.. well.. there's just no hope for you.

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I see talk of queues and people unable to start a quest...yet tonight I see my server has a queue of 5000 at 20:30(AEST)...I think The bugs/instance issue can wait, til we can all actually log in, you know.

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5000 must be some sort of mistake. Balmung hasn't gone over the 4000s that has been reported. That being said 3500 is about 90+ mins.

Also ques are to be expected and suffered. That is normal. Disconnects are also normal. Having a shit npc instance when you can't afford to have enough instances not so much.

Some other people are saying they have 5k ques as well. How is this possible?

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

5000 must be some sort of mistake. Balmung hasn't gone over the 4000s that has been reported. That being said 3500 is about 90+ mins.

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Sadly no :( I tried logging into Tonberry (JP) at 20:30 (AEST) and faced a queue of 5027 (My sister logged in a few minutes before me and had the same thing).

Nearly 2 and half hours later and it's at 1035 to go. AT this rate the queue will probably not even pop before bloody midnight!

available seat = 30
ticket sold = 40

3740, and I last day... - Joke :(

They did call it a theme park MMO. amirite?

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3740, and I last day... - Joke :(

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Your join date is June 2017 and your character is low level. I assume this is your first character. So why not make a new character on the Omega (EU) realm instead and enjoy the gift of 15 days free subscription? You get it by leveling to 30 there. The queues are probably shorter because it's a new realm.

It IS frustrating though.

I checked. 1643rd in queue at 18:04. First in queue at 19:05. In game at 19:14.

It's not peak hour, and it's not release either.

Basically the free time I enjoy playing games when I get home from work, I'll have to use on something other than FFXIV because it'll be wasted queuing...

No wonder people try to stay logged in...

You're not getting on Cerberus at any sensible EU time Foxxika. I can tell you that. The queue has been at minimum 700 and maximum 3200 for me since the game went live after the update 3 days ago.

I managed to get on at past midnight for 20 minutes the other night was all. By which time it was too late for me to stay on.

*edit* No I'm wrong. It's at 3700+ now when I've tried to login. So that 3200 was nowhere near as bad as it actually is.

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Originally Posted by LalafellDown

The trick is to never log out. Find a way to have a button pressed or something that prevents you from going AFK.

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1) This just makes the problem worse. Now you have both an overloaded server and a population paranoid about logging out so take measures that gum up the server even worse and make queue times even longer.

2) With how unstable the servers are, zoning in or out of instances can often cause disconnects. Thanks to a total lack of foresight, there is no grace period for relogging in so such issues will put you straight to the back of the line in the queue.

Can we expect a form of compensation? Like non-paid subscription time. Honestly if SE cannot be bothered to spend extra money on servers why do they expect the player base to queue for a game we pay to PLAY.

I've never been so unhappy to play. I can't even remember HW being this bad. My highest is now 3789 and I know that will be 3hrs at least.

Great job SE -.-

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After all, they pay $15 a month too.

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Originally Posted by frayberk

available seat = 30
ticket sold = 40

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Sell 30 tickets or use excess money (from 10 extra) to upgrade server capacity!

3745 in queue - it is not even funny. After 2-3 hours of waiting i will go to sleep without playing.

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Originally Posted by Frankbrodie

You're not getting on Cerberus at any sensible EU time Foxxika. I can tell you that. The queue has been at minimum 700 and maximum 3200 for me since the game went live after the update 3 days ago.

I managed to get on at past midnight for 20 minutes the other night was all. By which time it was too late for me to stay on.

*edit* No I'm wrong. It's at 3700+ now when I've tried to login. So that 3200 was nowhere near as bad as it actually is.

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I started at "3,200" (starting to just think it's arbitrary numbers at this point) at 16:40.

It's now 19:00 and I'm at "592."

I mean... I understand congestion due to the new stuff but this seems... excessive.

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Originally Posted by Foxxika

This is joke! I waiting 2-3 hours to play my game, if I "pay every day".

I just do not work at weekends and I can not play.

AND! - I pay! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

EU - Cerb

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So are thousands and thousands of others.

Why are you more important than other players?

Only forum join this day - I play the first edition on FF XIV. :)

- No. Lvl 52, only I leveling AST now, and i currently lvl this job lvl 34. And my FC on this server.

Surprisingly there was no queue on Balmung this morning when I logged in.

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Originally Posted by LalafellDown

The trick is to never log out. Find a way to have a button pressed or something that prevents you from going AFK.

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And you know what...
This should be considered harassment.


People doing this are activly detrimental to everyone else trying to play the game.
People need to stop being inconsideate and selfish, and just log off when they are done playing!

It'll be better for everyone.

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

5000 must be some sort of mistake. Balmung hasn't gone over the 4000s that has been reported. That being said 3500 is about 90+ mins.

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try 3 hours

I queued that amount earlier only to finally log in and play not even 10 minutes before i got kicked out of the game cos of some error. Now im in the middle of queuing once again for another 3 hours plus just to play :/

The queue time depends on how many people are leaving the game (or most likely being disconnected). The more people leave the more people can get in.

https://imgur.com/Sr6xY1F

Please, stop. Please top the excuse "just wait". Please, we pay for play.

You don't understand that Tuesday will be even MORE people no? And the problem will be even worse?

No more excuses. This shouldn't happens. This is more tha 3 hours at the pace is going on.

If your excuse is "don't log in now", then give me back my days subs. I cannot play a game that I love a lot just for this.

And no more "change server". I have my friends in this one.

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Originally Posted by frayberk

available seat = 30
ticket sold = 40

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those are monthly tickets, not daily tickets.
For 30 seats the 40 monthly tickets are not very much.

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Originally Posted by AsoraBora

Can we expect a form of compensation? Like non-paid subscription time. Honestly if SE cannot be bothered to spend extra money on servers why do they expect the player base to queue for a game we pay to PLAY.

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Create a character on Omega and level him up to 30. Then you get 15 days extra.
And you will have low queue time.

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Originally Posted by Xlantaa

https://imgur.com/Sr6xY1F

Please, stop. Please top the excuse "just wait". Please, we pay for play.

You don't understand that Tuesday will be even MORE people no? And the problem will be even worse?

No more excuses. This shouldn't happens. This is more tha 3 hours at the pace is going on.

If your excuse is "don't log in now", then give me back my days subs. I cannot play a game that I love a lot just for this.

And no more "change server". I have my friends in this one.

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Over 2,4k people in the queue ahead of me at 10:20pm GMT+2.
Just imagine how pathetic the queue times will be at the official release.

Every person in thaf queue paid to play. Much like any venue with real life seats you get let in the door at the time on your ticket. No time on the ticket then you stand in queue till you get in.

Now the error 90k loop, that can die in fire.

About 4000 for me. All because of an occuring error while jumping in town, waiting for Susano Ex to start. This is really annoying, especially when I joined a group, said "hi" and boom. This isn't what I expect after 2 days of more or less good connection or even to get punished with a queue because some unknown errors made by the game itself (yes, it most likely is the game itself if younever had this certain error to HW, ARR). They should have added all new players and returners into omega maybe or/and lock the registration of a character for full to very full server datacenters.

Well, it is 1600 now, it is just about 1 and a half hour to get back ingame, if no further errors kick me out again. I certainly hope not, it is just horrible if it stays like this.

Im suprised myself how bad the Queue's are. When HW launched there were no queue's to speak of for me. With this I'm being hammered by 90min waits just to log into Moogle. I never considered it a high pop world to begin with but dunno if it'd be worth switching to another server if this keeps up. These login times are really bad atm.

1h waiting still 947 to go :(

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https://imgur.com/Sr6xY1F

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No more excuses. This shouldn't happens. This is more tha 3 hours at the pace is going on.

If your excuse is "don't log in now", then give me back my days subs. I cannot play a game that I love a lot just for this.

And no more "change server". I have my friends in this one.

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Completely agree, besides if you change to a low pop server once the rush dies down then you're stuck either on a fairly dead server or having to pay to get back where you were before. As much as I want to play I'm not going to realm transfer to a low pop server just to get in. I like my current server and how active it usually is. They just need to increase server limits so we aren't stuck in stupid queues. Last night for example it took over 3hrs to get into Tonberry. I got online, did 1 palace of the dead and wiped on the boss then had to go to bed. That didn't feel like a total waste of time at all :/

We hope the creators wake up on weekdays and do something. That's not why we pay! :(

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

5000 must be some sort of mistake.

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Cerberus has been having 3000-5000 queues all day yesterday from 4pm to 11pm server time. I just went to bed after that since you know, wasting 6 hours per day trying to relog after the game crashed on me isn't my cup of tea. Hopefully the maint we are having as I type will fix a part of the problem, but my hopes aren't all that high. They're probably just fixing a general server crash and most likely won't increase server capacity. Sucks.

There are reports of 4000+ queues all over EU servers (only servers excluded are the dead servers Lich and Phoenix, and the new server Omega, though there have been a 13k+ queue on Omega yesterday due to too many people not being able to log into their main and trying to go to Omega for the free 15 days there). Tonberry has been reported to have 6000+ queues at some point. This is just a walking nightmare

Transfer servers?

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There are reports of 4000+ queues all over EU servers (only servers excluded are the dead servers Lich and Phoenix, and the new server Omega, though there have been a 13k+ queue on Omega yesterday due to too many people not being able to log into their main and trying to go to Omega for the free 15 days there)

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I warned people (FC/server hoppers) that Omega wasn't a free ticket to no queues. Might have made it even worse for themselfs.

Transferring off Balmung was the best thing ever. 4000 queue to 200. Went from 2 hours log in time to 5-10 min. Massive community just wasnt worth it to me.

Bo queue at Lich(EU) even sunday 3 pm. Still more than enough people to play with (even before SB)
Conclusion: never play in the Hype Server, especially nowadays wäre cross Server becomes standard

No queue here. I transfered from Balmung at begining of June, and I'm so happy with that decision. SO many people to play with, queues are almost instant, economy is nice, people are kind, nobody is rageing... gotta love the smaller servers. ^^