Still 1017 during OFF TIME hours....

It is not peak hours here, and after many attempts STILL getting the 1017. If this continues after wednesday, I will never play this or any square enix game again and I hope many others boycott. Everquest Next looks promising however.

I have had no issues logging in or playing all day today.

I guarantee the same thing will happen over there with heavy traffic, as will TESO and maybe Wildstar. FFXIV happened to come out first after a long drought of MMOs, so long wait times are to be expected. I'm betting once all the other MMOs hit, FFXIV will run a little smoother.

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I have had no issues logging in or playing all day today.

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Liar. Good luck getting on NA or EU for the most part.

BACK ON TOPIC.

I hear you... people more so than ever are afking now in game to save a spot. Good luck.

It's getting worse. Before I had no problem getting online at this time. Now it's impossible. I seriously hope they lose players from this if they don't fix their product. Not that they will feel the sting, they've made their money now, so what do they care? Immoral business ethics.

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I have had no issues logging in or playing all day today.

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I don't believe that for a second unless:

1. You are on Japan servers
2. You are an online afk-er

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Originally Posted by Goregasm

business ethics.

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HAHAHAHA good one. Those two words together are an oxymoron

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HAHAHAHA good one. Those two words together are an oxymoron

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lol pretty much

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Originally Posted by Goregasm

I don't believe that for a second unless:

1. You are on Japan servers
2. You are an online afk-er

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well, to be honest, I'm getting difficulty logging in, although it wasn't peak hours last night .
I'm on Tonberry (JP server) by the way.

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Originally Posted by Goregasm

I don't believe that for a second unless:

1. You are on Japan servers
2. You are an online afk-er

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You forgot troll.

"Off time" is irrelevant here.

The main problem is players logging in and refusing to log out, filling what few slots each server has. (few, compared to the amount of players that are registered to each server)


They locked char. creation on almost all the servers to try to get people to make new toons on the "less populated" ones, but honestly I don't want to restart - again. Already did once.

I'd prefer, instead, a character transfer service. first shot freebie of course, then all my friends and I could go to 1 server and never leave it.

GASP! I got on....

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Originally Posted by Kissker

"Off time" is irrelevant here.

The main problem is players logging in and refusing to log out, filling what few slots each server has. (few, compared to the amount of players that are registered to each server)


They locked char. creation on almost all the servers to try to get people to make new toons on the "less populated" ones, but honestly I don't want to restart - again. Already did once.

I'd prefer, instead, a character transfer service. first shot freebie of course, then all my friends and I could go to 1 server and never leave it.

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I can't really blame people for doing that though. It's an issue that SE has created. Players reacting to a problem that SE should have remedied.

The "remedy" is simple.

When done - log out.
Only use 1 toon (until congestion is fixed, besides, it can do EVERYTHING so why do you need more?)

When are they going to fix this crap. Seriously. at 10 PM in Seattle and still 1017...

Not to sound cynical man, but there's really no point in trying to log in anymore until the servers are fixed. You're just wasting your time and frustrating yourself over something you can't control.

The community that is in the game realized the AFK strategy which has now become a standard strategy to everyone now. And while you can blame them for taking up space, you also really can't... (because they also paid money and are taking steps to ensure they don't waste their money.. yada yada, but that's another topic)
So spots are too scarce to be worth the effort. Best advice is to just go play another game until the servers are fixed. It sucks, but it'll take your mind off it. Then if you can't get on then, well... then shitake has really hit the fan.

Also if it's any collation from my experience and many others as of late, even if you get in you're most likely going to get 90k'd out.

Yes we're all disappointed and you can bash me for saying, "Just wait it out"... but it's really your only option that can keep you calm about the situation. You make this thread it doesn't effect SE, and only serves to bring people to come in and clash on each other.

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Not to sound cynical man, but there's really no point in trying to log in anymore until the servers are fixed. You're just wasting your time and frustrating yourself over something you can't control.

The community that is in the game realized the AFK strategy which has now become a standard strategy to everyone now. And while you can blame them for taking up space, you also really can't... (because they also paid money and are taking steps to ensure they don't waste their money.. yada yada, but that's another topic)
So spots are too scarce to be worth the effort. Best advice is to just go play another game until the servers are fixed. It sucks, but it'll take your mind off it. Then if you can't get on then, well... then shitake has really hit the fan.

Also if it's any collation from my experience and many others as of late, even if you get in you're most likely going to get 90k'd out.

Yes we're all disappointed and you can bash me for saying, "Just wait it out"... but it's really your only option that can keep you calm about the situation. You make this thread it doesn't effect SE, and only serves to bring people to come in and clash on each other.

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Yeah it's no biggie really....how about them people dying and being tortured in the world? I wonder if they are upset?

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You make this thread it doesn't effect SE, and only serves to bring people to come in and clash on each other.

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You are wrong .. official forums are where all game review sites pull DATA from user based customers. By publishing actual comments listed in the threads gives them complete freedom to DEGRADE a game score without any repercussions from the company and it's publishers.

You see ... Data collected and shared can make or break SALES in this industry. So nobody ... wants negative FEEDBACK

Even as I posted this... found a -REVIEW already and it only snow balls from here if this dont get fixed.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/446/feature/7724/Final-Fantasy-XIV-A-Realm-Reborn-Review-in-Progress-1.html

The reason why no one can get onto severs today is because it is a holiday(labor day) and everyone has it off. So there are even MORE people trying to get on.

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Yeah it's no biggie really....how about them people dying and being tortured in the world? I wonder if they are upset?

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I cannot believe it's taken this long for that strawman to show up.

Now all I need is for someone to call Squenix or its dissenters Nazis and I'll have full card bingo.

I wonder as well, on Friday at this time I got on right away. I cannot imagine Friday night at 23:00PST would be less heavy traffic then 23:00PST on a Monday, even if said Monday is a holiday.

It seriously is like rush hour. Players log on=merging into the freeway. Players log off=Taking the exit they need. Traffic clears up if players reach their exit. This letting players log in. If they put in an AFK booter it would solve half their issues. Players would be pushed off to their exit allowing active players to merge into the free way per say. If players don't log out and new ones want in then the result ends with the flow of traffic coming to a halt. Thus clogging the lanes and new players waiting to log in and play resulting in the red light wait till it turns green to be let onto the freeway.

Regarding the afk'ers, I hope their computers die from aids.

Haven't been able to play in 3 days on my main.

They AFK is why.

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Yeah it's no biggie really....how about them people dying and being tortured in the world? I wonder if they are upset?

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Well this is a neat comparsion lmao wtf.

12:40am = 1017, 6:30am = 1017, 3:30pm = 1017. Am I doing it right?

Notice how they are rebooting the JP servers to clear up this issue, but leaving the NA servers to wallow in afk stupidity....

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Notice how they are rebooting the JP servers to clear up this issue, but leaving the NA servers to wallow in afk stupidity....

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We have major maintenance in 17 hours... Just hold out...

Normally not one to complain...but woke up at 2:00am on purpose just to play the game. WTF QUEUE?! WORLD FULL?! The amount of AFKs at THIS time of day is CLEARLY outrageous. Wish I could just walk a hoard of monsters into all the AFKs.

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Normally not one to complain...but woke up at 2:00am on purpose just to play the game. WTF QUEUE?! WORLD FULL?! The amount of AFKs at THIS time of day is CLEARLY outrageous. Wish I could just walk a hoard of monsters into all the AFKs.

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Guys you are forgetting the fact that there is really no "non-peak" hours for NA/EU servers, other than people from JP/NA/EU who has close proximity to the servers will chose those in their own region, other players scattered around the world are gonna pick a server and join and with the time differences it will be prime time somewhere in the world regardless.

In saying that it seems like this labour day long weekend in US is making people gaming 24/7 non stop as I will usually be able to login with less than 10 in queue or no queue at all right about now but I am getting hit real hard with 1017.

Two more days and hopefully this go away

I love this thread. It's like people forget that since these are North American AND Europe servers, and that because it's 3:00 am where they are that means it must be down time for everyone else in the world....

Oh wait, that is exactly what this thread it lol.

I've noticed that, at least on midgardsormr, that non-peak is between 8am and 11am. Only because I get home from work around 8am and can login with no issues, no queue or 1017, but if I log out and try to log back in after 11am i either get a queue or 1017.

Simple fix. Bring in an inactive period boot. No need to afk all night. You can't bazaar like in XI. So there's no need. Better still, region lock servers. Been unable to play for 2 days now. Fix will come on Wednesday. They will only break the game more, and follow it up with another emergency maintenance. Oh well.

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Originally Posted by Goregasm

I don't believe that for a second unless:

1. You are on Japan servers
2. You are an online afk-er

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I play on Japan servers (I live in Oki) and trust me when I say the grass isn't any greener. I get the 1017 error any time I try to log on it and when I go to create a new character to go on another server, they're usually all greyed out. And after clikcing refresh a dozen times and finally getting one server I am able to select to pop, I end up getting 1017'd regardless. I actually have better luck logging on my EU server than JP/NA.

I smell a huge amount of people afk. I for one would like to thank all the people who actually log out, and as for it being alot of people actually playing, I highly doubt it with the lobby server and realm list actually working perfectly fine today :/

I tried logging in yesterday from 8am -10pm AEST and got the 1017 error all day. Trying agiqan tonight and so far 1017 again since 7pm AEST - it's now 8:30pm. It's Off peak in NA - GO TO SLEEP AND LOG OFF!

Yeah, this is starting to get silly. Its my day off and been tring to get on since 11am, just getting 1017. I can understand it being busy in the evening, but not a weekday morning. I've not played the game since last week.

yer im having the same issuse the game crashed for me and now i cant get on , i was also its not even peak times WTF

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It is not peak hours here, and after many attempts STILL getting the 1017. If this continues after wednesday, I will never play this or any square enix game again and I hope many others boycott. Everquest Next looks promising however.

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every body playing right now is AFK i think if a person was logged in for 48 hours strate thay should reset there stats when the servers are fixed make them start over at lvl 1

5:45am CST, was place in a que of 16 then 1017. this really pisses me off and to I have to go to work shortly and I can not play even for an hour.

Honestly SE are pretty bad for MMO,
Underestimate the no. Of Orr order and 1.0 return
They never do a stress test on server
They take ages to finally understand the congestion problem
Worst, they take a whole weeks to finally come up with a solution and responds
SE really need to learn on this