Can we maybe hold off on the Welcome Back Campaign?

[Causality]

So, can those who continously subscribe and pay for your team to keep their jobs also get the silver feathers? Can we even get better measures in terms of data centre load to allow us to play?
Even my cat is looking disappointed at SE right now (well she always looked disappointed/depressed but thats besides the point)

Na, we should get gold feathers for paying them all this time.

[Colt47]

Things seemed like they were better last night then they were saturday. Saturday night there was no way to get on during afternoon to evening CST hours, while Sunday I was able to at least get to the queue and wait for about 30 minutes.

[Kyonika]

Not that I have too many classes that would benefit from ilvl120 but I kind of want some ilvl120 gear... lol. If you're going to cause me more time not being able to login (bringing back players who weren't playing, this will cause more stress xD) then at least give me the goodies that people who weren't paying are now getting. >.> lol.

^ This.

And...

So, can those who continously subscribe and pay for your team to keep their jobs also get the silver feathers? Can we even get better measures in terms of data centre load to allow us to play?
Even my cat is looking disappointed at SE right now (well she always looked disappointed/depressed but thats besides the point)

A million ******* times this ^^^

Like seriously, if you are going to reward inactives with feathers for i120 gear, it should stand to reason that you should reward all your active subs with the same. I feel so cheated. I should've stayed logged off for two months -- if I had only known. Why didn't anyone at SE inform us (your subscribers) to stay away from the game for two months, so we can get i120 gear? I, for one, crazy need it.

TL;DR -- Can we pls get feathers too?

[djruden]

I just want to be able to login. I don't even care about some free gear. Just fix the dang server so I can login to play!

[sciondar]

I just want to be able to login. I don't even care about some free gear. Just fix the dang server so I can login to play!

I feel the same way, I just want to be able to get in and play.

[Laerune]

Damn on Ragnarok I am already facing a long queue + Lobby issues... I think it would be better to do the campaign next month.

[Fendred]

Things seemed like they were better last night then they were saturday. Saturday night there was no way to get on during afternoon to evening CST hours, while Sunday I was able to at least get to the queue and wait for about 30 minutes.

That was complete luck. There were people getting stuck permanently in the queue at some fixed number because of the congestion. My guess was the overflow of packet information was so great that if you stayed in queue too long, communication would inevitably get disrupted by the server being forced to shed packets.

On the upside, ranting about this is helping me to remember the stuff I need to know for my network applications comprehensive exam.

[Gyson]

Greetings,

As others in this thread have pointed out, the Welcome Back to Eorzea campaign is not a chance for previous players to log in for free. It simply offers some bonuses for returning during this period (the Silver Chocobo Feathers). Hopefully that clears it up!

In the past, other MMO developers have temporary stopped the sale of their game until server stability was at an acceptable level for their existing customers. While nobody is suggesting something so drastic here, it does seem both odd and disappointing that (with the extreme issues some data centers are having) Square Enix is encouraging even more players to log in.

Not only will this create even more problems for the customers who are already at their wits end with the current server woes, you also risk giving returning players a horrible impression of the game's stability (which will only reinforce their original decision to abandon the game). I fail to see the wisdom in this campaign as long as these issues remain.

[Lexia]

You want to report people for being in idle mode? I'm sorry, but I think that is stupid to report someone because of that. They could be going to the bathroom, getting something to eat, or whatever. I think we should just leave the people who are in idle mode alone and let the game timer kick them off the server when they've not being active for a certain amount of time.

It won't kick you off server if you doing crafting unless it a DC, I understand people have to go to the bathroom and eat, but people who do this is not just stepped away they are actually gone like gone to bed or work and taking up a spot that person that actually wants to play could have.

[Gemma]

It won't kick you off server if you doing crafting unless it a DC, I understand people have to go to the bathroom and eat, but people who do this is not just stepped away they are actually gone like gone to bed or work and taking up a spot that person that actually wants to play could have.

While I agree, it's still not an "offense" that can be reported cause they technically aren't doing anything wrong.
I still say the main issue is we have certain servers on certain data centers that are filled with tons of people,
I believe SE should do like they did in XI and offer a free one time server transfer so we as the player base can try to spread the population around so we don't continue to bog the servers down during updates/expansions like this.