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Expac is supposedly horrible yet the queues are in the several thousands for only early access players. Once again proving that the 30 of you doomsters that want the game to fail with horrible job design ideas are in the minority and nobody cares! Top kek!

Think either a server crashed or another DDOS happened.

You actually cares about them because you made this thread

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Originally Posted by Battler-Ushiromiya

Expac is supposedly horrible yet the queues are in the several thousands for only early access players. Once again proving that the 30 of you doomsters that want the game to fail with horrible job design ideas are in the minority and nobody cares! Top kek!

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Ques don't mean the game is good loool. People are playing because they have something to do. I'm doing msq and I'm not enjoying it. But I still need to do it for all the patch content.

"Top kek" are you 12?

I’m on Phoenix. I’m baffled by the short queues this expansion on early access days. The longer was day one, about 4000 players. But later, the higher number was about 400…

The queues are remarkably short compared to EW and prior expansions.

I attribute this partially to SE making changes after EW and the restrictions they put in place and also to a drop of interest in the game (I have several friends who aren't returning to DT because they simply aren't interested in what they see).

I also think that DT has the worst story of any expansion thus far, it's the first time I truly cannot recommend the game to friends as I think the one main selling point of the game (its story) has taken a nose dive in quality.

I also don't think anyone here wants the game to fail, what's frustrating is being with the game for a long time and seeing SE drop the ball horribly. It's time to set up a story that'll carry the game into the future . . . and by all accounts the story thus far is EXTREMELY boring and uninteresting to a lot of players.

When people complain its because they care about something. What you don't want is people to have apathy, because then the product in question is truly dead.

Don't take feedback as a negative against you personally, people are displeased and they have a right to voice their displeasure for a product they pay for.

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Originally Posted by Battler-Ushiromiya

Expac is supposedly horrible yet the queues are in the several thousands for only early access players.

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Huh? I've been playing EA this entire time and the biggest login queue I got was a whopping 76 people. I'm on Zodiark and I don't think it's a particularly low pop server, either. Everyone in my FC has been marveling at the nonexistent queues.

I haven't been enjoing the story much but I think the battle content is pretty fun, so at least DT has that going for it. I'm mildly optimistic about Savage and hoping it's going to be fun also.

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Originally Posted by Battler-Ushiromiya

...yet the queues are in the several thousands...

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Highest number of people in the NA queue - that I have seen - is 27.

Quietest release in 11 years.

Queue times are a poor indicator, I'm playing on one of the highest pop eu servers, zero queue on day one but as I said it's a poor indicator about the health of a game, as it could just mean that the dev team have implemented some backend work to aid the login server, they said they were trying to make things better so to reiterate having a queue or not having a queue doesn't tell us anything. Ultimately I think alot of the OG fanbase will strongly dislike/utterly hate this expac, the question is whether their newer playbase likes this and is big enough to maintain the game going forward.

(What I mean by OG players vs new playerbase, is the game took a more slapstick turn at about the late stb/shb point. And while Shb was great as a story possibly the best the games every been story wise, they started to add in more anime tropes and old memes into the game, there's alot of people that dislike the borderlands esque wow aren't i so zany uwu hahaha, writing that the mainstreams become more and more obsessed with as of late.)

Logged in at 7PM my time and had a whopping 40 people in queue ahead of me. (Malboro)

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Originally Posted by Shibi

Highest number of people in the NA queue - that I have seen - is 27.

Quietest release in 11 years.

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Genuine query as I have no previous experience of an expansion launch.... does the fact that this is only the 'Early Access' period make any difference? Will queues etc increase when the full release launches in a few days?

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Originally Posted by Carin-Eri

Genuine query as I have no previous experience of an expansion launch.... does the fact that this is only the 'Early Access' period make any difference? Will queues etc increase when the full release launches in a few days?

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Not really. There's no extra cost for preordering, so most people just do that.

Queues really have no bearing on popularity. Steam charts put this release as being just shy of Endwalker's launch, which peaked at 95K concurrent, and Dawntrail peaked at 90K.

Even Shadowbringers didn't have any queues beyond the first few hours of early access.

I think the game is doing just fine, but the lack of queues are mostly owed to Endwalker being an anomaly and them preparing for Dawntrail so that it didn't happen again.

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Originally Posted by Embran

Queues really have no bearing on popularity. Steam charts put this release as being just shy of Endwalker's launch, which peaked at 95K concurrent, and Dawntrail peaked at 90K.

Even Shadowbringers didn't have any queues beyond the first few hours of early access.

I think the game is doing just fine, but the lack of queues are mostly owed to Endwalker being an anomaly and them preparing for Dawntrail so that it didn't happen again.

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That's not quite true, I remember Shb day 1, I remember the duty instancing system got absolutely nuked by too many people playing which created a massive bottle neck in the crystarium zone.

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Originally Posted by Sacae

Not really. There's no extra cost for preordering, so most people just do that.

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Exactly. So everyone and their mothers preorder. (Don’t get me wrong, it’s good that’s accessible for most budgets, I’m not rich myself :p)
I’ve been playing in Phoenix since March 2016, so I was there for Stormblood release and other after it, and didn’t see very much changes in queue number after the early access.

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Originally Posted by Battler-Ushiromiya

Expac is supposedly horrible yet the queues are in the several thousands for only early access players. Once again proving that the 30 of you doomsters that want the game to fail with horrible job design ideas are in the minority and nobody cares! Top kek!

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I am sorry to report that there was basically nonexistent queues on my datacenter since day 1, at most, i had like a queue of 10 player, wich was the same at peak boredom of Endwalker 2 months ago when everybody was bored out of their mind with the game.

If it indicates something, is an activity not as better as endwalker's most low motivation to play after all patches and raids were said and done for a couple months... Wich is, not very good.

They added like 10 instances in each zone so that definitely helps

You guys with shorter queues should look at Aether! 2K-4K queue during prime time every day since early access started here on Cactuar. I know a lot of people that have to visit Dynamis so they don’t have to wait 2 hours to play.

Here on Moogle during 'prime time' it's around 40-60ish, so a literal 1-2min wait

I never seen a queue lol

You have to remember though that SE did learn from EW and upgraded the servers and increased capacity with new servers.

This guy just constantly posts bait to try to get a rise out of people, just don't feed him any attention.

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Originally Posted by AlucaDragonheart

This guy just constantly posts bait to try to get a rise out of people, just don't feed him any attention.

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>I have no argument therefore it's hecking bait!!