What Datacenters/worlds doesn't have insane queues?

Alright, insane queues etc etc, so what Datacenter/World can you currently play at that has decent queues that doesn't kick you out while you wait?

I'd rather play the game in some extent compared to not playing at all, even if it means creating a new toon on a new server/world

Zalera just an hour ago was like 5 mins at most may change later

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Originally Posted by Salle

Alright, insane queues etc etc, so what Datacenter/World can you currently play at that has decent queues that doesn't kick you out while you wait?

I'd rather play the game in some extent compared to not playing at all, even if it means creating a new toon on a new server/world

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Pretty much all the US servers seem to be ok with queue of around 30 mins its the EU servers which are getting slaughtered cos we only have 2 data centres and less servers on each data centre

It seems like everything but Crystal.
Crystal has been 5 - 10 minutes except during a short window of prime time and immediately during release.

Yesterday and today, I've been logging in and out and getting back in just a few minutes quite frequently.

Looking at servers stats japanese servers are pretty fine.

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Originally Posted by Tsumdere

It seems like everything but Crystal.
Crystal has been 5 - 10 minutes except during a short window of prime time and immediately during release.

Yesterday and today, I've been logging in and out and getting back in just a few minutes quite frequently.

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All worlds were full yesterday or their world balance thing was broken. Since most people were erroring out in que. Lucky for other servers you only have to tick 500 or less so chance of error is smaller, when you have to go from 4k chance of error is so much higher.

so Basically overall health of the servers EU<NA<Japan.
started a new toon on the japanese servers, works perfectly. Thanks all for the replies!

Yesterday on coeurl from my experiance
(all hours are est timezone)
Near 7ham about 100 in queu 30 sec wait time
Near 15h00 about 500 in queu 2 min wait time
Near 19h00 1999 in queu 30min wait time

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Originally Posted by Minsue

Zalera just an hour ago was like 5 mins at most may change later

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I think the longest I waited, aside from 1 am on the 3rd where I was getting 2002 etc so after many attempts went back to bed, the longest queue was last night at prime time where I had 600ish people and I waited maybe 10 minutes

Primal is into the 1500s right now. Was easy in and out up until 1 PM EST.

Ragnarok (Chaos DC EU) was about 10k the last time I dcd from changing areas :)

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Originally Posted by Andy_T93

Pretty much all the US servers seem to be ok with queue of around 30 mins its the EU servers which are getting slaughtered cos we only have 2 data centres and less servers on each data centre

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Also right now its middle of prime time on a saturday. Queues haven't been terrible over the day.

EU is still in absolute horrible shape atm... managed to get down to 1000 from 3000 twice and errored out both times... so going on hour 3 now trying to get into game

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Originally Posted by Salle

so Basically overall health of the servers EU<NA<Japan.

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This should also be a strong, STRONG, indicator of how SE just could not have anticipated these troubles. It wasn't that long ago that EU players were complaining about how the new worlds and data center split resulted in longer duty queues and the feeling that servers were just empty.

Somewhere in the last year or two, EU population has exploded, and that is not nearly enough time for them to react accordingly, even in the best of times.

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Originally Posted by Lexie

EU is still in absolute horrible shape atm... managed to get down to 1000 from 3000 twice and errored out both times... so going on hour 3 now trying to get into game

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EU was always in horrible shape and the low amount of EU servers hits really hard now.
The combination of low amount servers, early access and release shortly before a weekend is bad combination... fought myself for 4 hrs throug a que of 7.500... thats not fun.
The only way to really play is to login in the morning, never log out and pray to not get any errors while playing.

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Originally Posted by Shinjo

EU was always in horrible shape and the low amount of EU servers hits really hard now.
The combination of low amount servers, early access, and release shortly before a weekend is a bad combination... fought myself for 4 hrs through a que of 7.500... that's not fun.
The only way to really play is to login in the morning, never log out and pray to not get any errors while playing.

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yup that is what I tried before going to work this morning and returned home to the starting screen... and was in my house when that happened so guess Louie had an issue

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

This should also be a strong, STRONG, indicator of how SE just could not have anticipated these troubles. It wasn't that long ago that EU players were complaining about how the new worlds and data center split resulted in longer duty queues and the feeling that servers were just empty.

Somewhere in the last year or two, EU population has exploded, and that is not nearly enough time for them to react accordingly, even in the best of times.

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After the Shadowbringers launch 41k was playing concurrently on steam. Yesterday it was 93k, and it wasn't even the weekend. The semiconductior shortage really screwed SE over :(

EDIT: Oh 93k was 20 mins ago which was the weekend. Oops xD

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Originally Posted by Rae88

After the Shadowbringers launch 41k was playing concurrently on steam. Yesterday it was 93k, and it wasn't even the weekend. The semiconductior shortage really screwed SE over :(

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Ok 41k at Shadowbringers launch. You wonder what SE growth expectations over two years was? What hardware was ordered to meet those growth expectations? See Let us say we all saw two or 3 worlds added across regions over two years. Players could be like they did something, they just got it wrong. Instead when the worlds start to implode because WoW did, you hear desperate noises from dev team. Also with the worlds being mostly stable. Do you think it is an actual hardware issue? Or maybe SE designed a poor login system and when it was put under stress it showed its true colours.



If 2002 didn't exist we would have one maybe two threads complaining about que length. And most people shooting them down. Even with all the die hards on here they having trouble drowning out all the dissatisfied players bad the other players that agree with them about being mad.

The evolution of SE apologists went from "They didn't expect it" to "They didn't expect it AND semiconductors/covid". At what point will you stop and accept that they have no foresight and/or are trying to cut costs.

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Originally Posted by say0

The evolution of SE apologists went from "They didn't expect it" to "They didn't expect it AND semiconductors/covid". At what point will you stop and accept that they have no foresight and/or are trying to cut costs.

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You can't say they had no foresight when they literally warned the players 3 days before EA starts and months building up to it. I get you're upset but you're gonna pass out from all this salt.

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Originally Posted by say0

The evolution of SE apologists went from "They didn't expect it" to "They didn't expect it AND semiconductors/covid". At what point will you stop and accept that they have no foresight and/or are trying to cut costs.

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There has been no evolution from "they didn't expect it" to "semiconductors" because we knew Square Enix couldn't get the semiconductors they wanted months ago. The combination of an explosion in population combined with not getting the hardware they wanted was always the reason

Faerie: 7am est instant log in 11:00 around 30 min at 15:30 3500 queue so at least 1h30

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Originally Posted by say0

The evolution of SE apologists went from "They didn't expect it" to "They didn't expect it AND semiconductors/covid". At what point will you stop and accept that they have no foresight and/or are trying to cut costs.

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Please explain how they're supposed to buy something that no one can produce.

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Originally Posted by Andy_T93

Pretty much all the US servers seem to be ok with queue of around 30 mins its the EU servers which are getting slaughtered cos we only have 2 data centres and less servers on each data centre

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I keep getting kicked from que on any on Primal

Not Diabolos, I can say that much. lol Been waiting for around...20 minutes now I think? Probably have at least that long left to wait, if not slightly longer. This is about what I expected though, to be honest, and even this is a blessing compared to other servers/data centers. I sympathize with any EU players right now though. That sounds like a god awful situation.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

This should also be a strong, STRONG, indicator of how SE just could not have anticipated these troubles. It wasn't that long ago that EU players were complaining about how the new worlds and data center split resulted in longer duty queues and the feeling that servers were just empty.

Somewhere in the last year or two, EU population has exploded, and that is not nearly enough time for them to react accordingly, even in the best of times.

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Both are not mutually exclusive, we don't only have less data centers we also have less servers per data center. So we reach capacity more easily with high traffic and have less people around during lulls because we have only 6 servers as opposed to 8 for US data centers and 11 for Japan.

Our servers have been packed for a while, it was not a mystery this would happen. We didn't suddenly become a continent overnight.

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Originally Posted by Salle

Alright, insane queues etc etc, so what Datacenter/World can you currently play at that has decent queues that doesn't kick you out while you wait?

I'd rather play the game in some extent compared to not playing at all, even if it means creating a new toon on a new server/world

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Mostly going to depend on what time you're trying to log in and what datacenter. Another contributing factor worth consideration would be whether or not it's been confirmed that there is a popular streamer on said world/datacenter as the ones that do probably have it worse than the rest.

Aether data center - 10pm Eastern time I had a tiny Q of 50 players, got in easily. Ran errands all day, came back at 5pm to get slapped with a 2000 player Q. That raised to 5000 later I found out, likely because the west coast got home.

Today I'm seeing about 3000 in the mid-afternoon. I suspect it will be like this all week until people's PTO runs out.

So glad I'm not somebody who takes time off for game releases....

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Originally Posted by Sigiria

Both are not mutually exclusive, we don't only have less data centers we also have less servers per data center. So we reach capacity more easily with high traffic and have less people around during lulls because we have only 6 servers as opposed to 8 for US data centers and 11 for Japan.

Our servers have been packed for a while, it was not a mystery this would happen. We didn't suddenly become a continent overnight.

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While true, it remains that the active population has grown much faster than could've been predicted. You've got less data centers and servers, but, following previous trends, you shouldn't have hit this capacity so quickly. Chances are pretty good that, if your servers truly have been packed for a year or more, plans are already underway to increase capacity. It's just not something that will happen quickly. Setting aside shortages, they still can't just decide "need more servers, get 'em up by the end of the month."

I can empathize with the plight of burgeoning servers. But, folks can't just dismiss how quickly growth has exceeded expectations. Nothing in the history of the game could've prepared them for a region needing to upgrade capacity again so soon. Reiterate, again, because there's already been more servers added over time for EU than any other region.

Growing pains, yo. Fingers crossed, once they've got OCE up and running, you'll be slated for a few more, and, fingers crossed, the region can sustain that active population enough to justify more.

I'd be for an auto "pick me the fastest line" option. Like "I don't care where, just get me in". Rather than me having to pick a server I think isn't that populated, find out the queue is long and have to back out and go back in all hoping there are no errors or other issues due to that.

Honestly this issue is standard for all major releases and at least the servers are not exploding like other mmorpgs have often done, so we're doing pretty well comparatively at least... but... I'd be all for even more options to be "it just works"™.

If the people should be asleep, the server will probably be fine. :D

One related thought though, could perhaps plants be made unkillable during all this XD..

I don't even know if this kind of information about other worlds is worth, as it won't even let me choose another world... I wonder if that's just me. (Mateus server on Crystal)