CONGRATULATIONS SQUARE!!! <3<3<3

I implore everyone to add a line to this thread to help me congratulate everyone involved with the launch of Shadowbringers. I am sure we have all been part of MANY launches, pathces, updates, and other events that have, for the most part, been absolutely horrid. I see the posts everywhere ALL the time. But I, for one, experienced NOTHING with this launch. There was a slight queue time of about 400 and my wife had just over 1000 people to get in. But once in, it was like another day. My other Free company mates got on shortly after launch (around an hour later) and said they didn't even have a queue!!! Are you kidding?! An hour after a majorly hyped launch, no major setbacks, no major errors, no major delays, AND no queue? Come on fellow Warriors of Darkness! WE NEED TO SHOW THEM LOVE!!!

Thank you so much Square for making this THE BEST launch I have EVER had the pleasure of taking part! <3<3<3

Sincerly,
Deimos Lightbourne (Extremely Satisfied Player!)

Give it time, it's still early.

Im just happy I actually got on for an HR before I had to go to work thought for sure the Q line would be too long. Got my Hrothgar Gunbreaker started, looking forward to getting back to it after work.

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Im just happy I actually got on for an HR before I had to go to work thought for sure the Q line would be too long. Got my Hrothgar Gunbreaker started, looking forward to getting back to it after work.

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Got in for a couple of hours before work and even though it was very early in the morning still had a few dozen in the queue. Which was of course very fast. No issues with performance. I'm guessing it will be thousands several hours from now when I get home, though...

Congratulations Square and thank you :) The expansion already looks amazing and I'm loving the new housing preview :D

Thank you Square and Yoshi P for my bunny girl and DNC class!

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Im just happy I actually got on for an HR before I had to go to work thought for sure the Q line would be too long. Got my Hrothgar Gunbreaker started, looking forward to getting back to it after work.

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Same....I had just enough time to unlock GNB and DNC seems interesting but it s early yet.

Now fix healers please. :(

Congratulations, Team FFXIV! All the previews and patch notes look awesome. Looking forward to playing ShB real soon.

Congratulations, dev team!

It’s been an awesomely smooth launch day so far, I was literally just thinking how amazing it was before seeing this thread. Good on you,SE!

GG devs, really satisfied for everything <3

Good job so far! Was a queue spike at launch, but quickly handled. Now no queues to speak of, and I've checked various servers on several data centers. No crashes, no glitches, nice Viera icelandic voice, only annoyance so far is the bad irish vo on pixie.

Congratulations SE :)


Logged in with 13 queue, happy and terrified that number is going to explode soon lol.

Congrats devs! Hopefully those queue times aren't too long by the time I get home from work! XD

Thanks! It was a nice day playing!

A bit premature... here come the disconnects. Got booted on Siren and can't connect to data center.

Why are we congratulating corporations again?

This thread jinxed it.

Congrats on another failed launch of a new expansion. Been trying all day to login and still get 5006 errors.

I'll admit, it been smooth since going live this morning but now we're starting to see the disconnects and long ques happening. It was nice while it lasted though.

Been off and on since it launched, no problems until now. But I'm off to work so I'm sure it'll be good when I get back home

Pretty sure it was inevitable that the servers couldn't handle the rush from the rest of people not taking the day off/working/at school.

Can't believe people were joining in on congratulating them lol, it's probably only a short time till there's a day long maint even to break up early access.

Sorry to hear you guys are having issues. Still, I don't care what you all say. It was still the SMOOTHEST launch I have ever had. I played for a solid 6 hours with no interruptions. Have gotten back in and out a few times (even with the Auto AFK disconnect) and am currently sitting in a queue waiting to get in with no problems. Of course there were bound to be problems when MORE people get on. But that isn't what I was congratulating them on. I was stating that the LAUNCH was smooth. There were no disconnects, no errors, no extended wait times, the quests were fine, the servers were handling everything fine. How many times has that happened in ANY MMO at launch in the last 15 years? I can't think of any.

Also the comment about "Why congratulate corporations?" Well because they worked hard for this, they heard their players complain time and time again about how horrible other launches were both in this game and others, they took the initiative and actually had a solid launch. If we encourage that by offering our appreciation, maybe, just maybe, they will continue to appreciate us and maintain a beautiful game instead of seeing us all as incessant whiners complaining about everything and decide to turn this game into a true WoW 2.0.

So I for one say to keep congratulating. Every road has bumps but I can almost guarantee they are working harder than any to pave it straight and deliver a grand experience for us all.

This was by far the smoothest patch launch. It has been amazing. Seems like people were so quick to forget that even before prime time, the queue to get into Stormblood was around 4-5 hours long. Today, I got into BALMUNG in about 10 seconds in my queue of 20 people.

Sure, the servers went down due to DDoS, but that's outside of SE's control and they fixed it quite promptly. They were down and up again within the time it took me to go grab some lunch and groceries.

Good on SE for learning from the horrible mistakes of Stormblood's launch.

Honestly i wasnt expecting it to go this smoothly

The current d/cing issues are officially due to DDOS attacks (in case no one has posted about it yet) https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...156.1539703355

So yeah the launch itself was great, and Squeenix did a great job with it. Buuuut there will always be people trying to ruin it for everyone else.

I had been playing since the servers came on outwith issues . A Que of over 1200 on Blamung and 650 ish on Hyperion , that moved without shedding me, and no problems on any data center i tried .
Well done SE !
Over 9 hours .....

Im cool cause I have been able to polish my sexy stilettos all afternoon.

Finally se...FINALLY real heels!! :D

Life is good ♥

I like how some of you people are just complaining about everything when they've worked harder then you know to bring you this stuff in the first plae.
Also, we have a DDoS attack, that's why some of you are getting an error, also Of course you'l get a que, why wouldn't you when there are several people logging in at once
trying to play the update? You know how stressful that is on servers? You try programming, keeping a server up, giving people what they want while under attack. It's freaking hard and time consuming.
Give them a break.

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Because inside that big monster there are humans who did a great job?

I may have some issues with this expac(namely Scholar) but you have got to give them credit where it's due. They listened to the issues Stormblood had and completely fixed them! No solo instance bottlenecks right at the beginning of the expansion, an entirely new solo instance queueing system, seemingly updated and better secured servers. I am insanely impressed as I play on the biggest server on Aether.

Amazing work guys, keep it up.

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Because why not?

This is my first time being around for an expansion launch for this game, and with the way people were talking I was fully expecting to not even be able to get into the game for days or for it to take hours to get in. So far it’s been great though. All aether worlds are supposedly congested, but the only time I’ve hit a queue today was a bit ago when lots of people got booted, and then I’d say I was back on in under 10 minutes. I’d say one instance like that so far isn’t bad at all.

Not sure how many people pre-ordered for early access. I'm hoping it's as smooth on actual release date (July 2nd). That said, I would congratulate them anyway as they are kicking butt no matter what. Server hiccups on release dates are normal. (as are DDoSes now it seems).

The launch is running a lot smoother than I expected :). Didn’t think I would be able to do half of the content I did today, so thank you SE!

I just want to bump this to give my thanks to the Dev team as well! There's just far too much negativity out there at the moment but I just know that the dev team is constantly working in the shadows bringing change (good or bad) to this game that we need! Folks Hrothgar and Vieras are finally appearing on the Lodestone and they are already addressing Mogstatiion issues by taking it down for maintenance tomorrow. No matter how you may feel thus far, you have to give SE credit where it's due, they are definitely working behind the scenes and just not saying anything about it. Even though this is early access and the true test will be once the expansion drops I have had no issues queuing for anything thus far and logging in has been just like usual. Keep up the good work Yoshi and team!

Thank you SE and Yoshi P for shadowbringers and viera and the amazing dancer. Also thank you for making dancer so amazing that in all the time I have been playing ffxiv which has been since the launch of arr. I can finally say I have a main job and that is dancer.

Early Access is not launch. Some of us still aren't playing ShB yet. ...because we never got our email with the necessary code. SQEnix is the only MMO dev I've ever encountered where the player has to do the work of properly registering their preorder of the expansion. Everyone else, that's handled automatically by the system, regardless of where you bought and play the game through.