Not enough Server Capacity. You need more!

Its Sunday night June 30th 9:20pm est , Ive been trying to log into Excalibur and the Que has been showing 230 - 300+ waiting for the last 2 hours.

I understand Shadowbringers have brought a lot of players back.. But ques that you cant get in after an Hour + of waiting and clicking endlessly need to be addressed. This is early release...I cant imagine how bad its going to be when game goes live and gates are thrown open on Tuesday.

Ditto can't get into Famfrit

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Originally Posted by CrazyCanukk

I cant imagine how bad its going to be when game goes live and gates are thrown open on Tuesday.

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Napping simulator 5.0

They did increase the capacity, which reduced queues drastically frm when it first came back online. But i to can imagine it only getting worse. So plan ahead as best you can is all I can suggest at this point :)

There's no point in increasing it unless the numbers are going to stay stable.

There's a good chunk of people who are just going to play for a month, maybe three months and then the regular, settled population will be what remains.

It happens all the time. No point in spending the extra $$$

I'm skeptical of these amazingly full ques... new expansion or not.

Was @ 290 for about 2 minutes then down to 7 for over 5 minutes. Rather odd.

They can't find my alt on Gilgamesh. :(

Honestly kinda suspect they may have throttled down the max capacity to reduce strain.

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Originally Posted by CarnivalNights

There's no point in increasing it unless the numbers are going to stay stable.

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It's the second most subbed MMO with numbers going up everyday. How much more money needs to be thrown before you call it "stable"?

WoW expansion launch - no queues
ESO expansion launch - no queues
GW2 expansion launch - no queues

This is the only modern MMO with servers of 1999. It's quite embarrassing.

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Originally Posted by Ferocious

It's the second most subbed MMO with numbers going up everyday. How much more money needs to be thrown before you call it "stable"?

WoW expansion launch - no queues
ESO expansion launch - no queues
GW2 expansion launch - no queues

This is the only modern MMO with servers of 1999. It's quite embarrassing.

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I am sure SE is embarassed when they put your cash in their vault.

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Originally Posted by Ferocious

It's the second most subbed MMO with numbers going up everyday. How much more money needs to be thrown before you call it "stable"?

WoW expansion launch - no queues
ESO expansion launch - no queues
GW2 expansion launch - no queues

This is the only modern MMO with servers of 1999. It's quite embarrassing.

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Shame, shame, shame. Account created during the first patch of ARR. You should by now this development house is underfunded and understaffed.

They see things we don't see and they have solutions created with the budget they're afforded and the knowledge of the staff they have on hand. If you have any better ideas, feel free to throw a resume their way and let them know that you know more than whoever they have hired there. Just include all your MMO experience like you did in your post, that should convince them.

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Originally Posted by CarnivalNights

There's no point in increasing it unless the numbers are going to stay stable.

There's a good chunk of people who are just going to play for a month, maybe three months and then the regular, settled population will be what remains.

It happens all the time. No point in spending the extra $$$

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I think players who can't log into the game who are actively paying for a subscription should be reason enough to increase the servers. Not only that, but we currently have more congested worlds then not.

I think SE needs to give a free 30 days actually in my opinion my cousin's nephew bought game with 30 day free hasn't been able to play because of congestion or create a character in same place so he got locked out.

People paid for expansions to get in early can't even get in the game they have work and stuck in a 1000+ queque also the fact is I went to the store to get into the game for 2 hours came back at 1000 queque and it was at 5.

I waited 2 hours to get into the game that is terrible especially when you are paying day by day and it doesn't equal what you are paying for a monthly subscription so if I miss out on 2-3 days cause of que que I am not getting what I paid for.

Cousins wife she gives up because she works and by the time the queque ends she has to go to bed for work now that is jacked up.

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Originally Posted by Zeonx

I think SE needs to give a free 30 days actually in my opinion my cousin's nephew bought game with 30 day free hasn't been able to play because of congestion or create a character in same place so he got locked out.

People paid for expansions to get in early can't even get in the game they have work and stuck in a 1000+ queque also the fact is I went to the store to get into the game for 2 hours came back at 1000 queque and it was at 5.

I waited 2 hours to get into the game that is terrible especially when you are paying day by day and it doesn't equal what you are paying for a monthly subscription so if I miss out on 2-3 days cause of que que I am not getting what I paid for.

Cousins wife she gives up because she works and by the time the queque ends she has to go to bed for work now that is jacked up.

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The loss of 2 to 3 days (which is suspect since honestly this has been one of the smoothest launches) does not equal 30 days of game time.

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Originally Posted by CarnivalNights

Shame, shame, shame. Account created during the first patch of ARR. You should by now this development house is underfunded and understaffed.

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Shame, shame, shame. Account created before first patch and you don't know their current status of staff & budget?

Shadowbringers is their highest funded expansion. Their development team is now sitting close to 300 members. This is ON PAR with WoW team and HIGHER than other MMO's.

But go on, continue living in a bubble and pretend they can't fix any problems because they are living in a misery. Smh...

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Originally Posted by Reap00

I am sure SE is embarassed when they put your cash in their vault.

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And I am sure you know this because you are their "Cash Chick".

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Originally Posted by Ferocious

It's the second most subbed MMO with numbers going up everyday. How much more money needs to be thrown before you call it "stable"?

WoW expansion launch - no queues
ESO expansion launch - no queues
GW2 expansion launch - no queues

This is the only modern MMO with servers of 1999. It's quite embarrassing.

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How can you even compare FFXIV to GW2. GW2 is a good game, but their playerbase numbers are tiny compared to FFXIV. WoW also built out their infrastructure when they had literally millions of subscribers (12m at peak) vs 1 million for FFXIV. Cut Square Enix some slack. I play on Aether and this is one of the smoothest MMO expansion launches i've been through.

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Originally Posted by Reap00

I am sure SE is embarassed when they put your cash in their vault.

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Lmao! Rekt xD

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Originally Posted by Final-Fantasy

Can't make any new characters at all on any NA world....
https://i.ibb.co/hFt9PBf/Screenshot-...="0"
Still waiting to remake a character on Aether after 5 days of it being totally closed :o

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Don't count on joining aether any time soon. Use Crystal.

haven't had to wait more than 5 minutes since pre-launch. Guess staying on Mal after the move was the right choice.

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Originally Posted by Ferocious

It's the second most subbed MMO with numbers going up everyday. How much more money needs to be thrown before you call it "stable"?

WoW expansion launch - no queues
ESO expansion launch - no queues
GW2 expansion launch - no queues

This is the only modern MMO with servers of 1999. It's quite embarrassing.

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You are so right! In fact I called Squares America CEO, and told him to sign a new contract to lease more servers, he said why? I told him "Ferocious" is basically JPMORGAN of the MMO world and dropping cool 500k lease contract for new servers would be EZ FUCKING PZ money.

He said no crud, why didn't he ever think about that. In fact HR has just freed up 1+ million for new hires to maintain all this new equipment . HR said it would be the best 10 year 1 million dollar investment ever and asked who inspired such great business planning?

I said God king himself, one who knows all, infallible I'm his ways, "Ferocious"

They said they wanna poach you from your 10am-2pm job at Macdonalds to make you CFO and CEO at the SAME time.

Since you give out the best, most thought through advice any man has ever seen.

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Originally Posted by Ferocious

Shame, shame, shame. Account created before first patch and you don't know their current status of staff & budget?

Shadowbringers is their highest funded expansion. Their development team is now sitting close to 300 members. This is ON PAR with WoW team and HIGHER than other MMO's.

But go on, continue living in a bubble and pretend they can't fix any problems because they are living in a misery. Smh...



And I am sure you know this because you are their "Cash Chick".

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FFXIV money is used to fund other projects, like you know, that one indie game, Final Fantasy VII Remake or that other indie game that released a while back, Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts 3.

I think the only thing they can particularly do is add more new servers, and try to convince people to move to them.

I actually moved from siren (aether) to goblin (crystal) because I got my daughter an account and she hasn't been able to make a character to play with me since she got the account. I watched the status for a few days before choosing goblin because it was a preferred realm with the lowest (still able to make a character) population. Now I transfer and goblin is closed off for her too......

No queue here on Balmung xD.

hit 1200+ yesterday on Ragnarok.
Took me about 20 minutes to get in.
It's not that bad as people make it out, and the queues will die down once the launch hype is over.

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Originally Posted by DBriggs304

The loss of 2 to 3 days (which is suspect since honestly this has been one of the smoothest launches) does not equal 30 days of game time.

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Sure it does, cause it was only a example, you figure I am missing out on hours every 2-3 days I can log on and then 2 weekends when its free sitting there for 2 hours sometimes less to get into the server only to dc with a 2002 and giving up till later the night only to get a few hours on a whole day I missed then weekend work and those 2 hours can't get in congested if I am lucky I can play a few hours more.

please don't try to soften the problem. its not just me people who actually bought the game cannot get into the servers they want and they get 30 days free what you going to tell them sorry your just out of luck.

thanks for the support but too bad? lol you make me laugh.

SE seems very reluctant to add more servers while there is still underused servers in any of the geographical datacenters (NA, EU, JP).
They have added new servers to the EU datacenter twice now, but each time it happened ALL of the EU servers had a fairly high population.
While several of the NA servers are overpopulated right now, there are a couple of them with a fairly low population. I suspect SE is waiting for those to fill up before adding more NA servers.
They very clearly want us players to do our part in spreading out somewhat evenly among the available servers rather than all bunching up on the most popular ones.