Best served with cold steel.

[Tyrn]

Is it still early access if you can't access anything :thinking:

[OmegaFlare]

I've been playing FF14 since Beta and I have to say one of the things I like most about FF14 is how smoothly the servers run all the time. Of all my time playing, i think i've had fewer than 5 times where i experienced lag or dc. Maintenance were always on time and i cant remember the last i experienced noticeable lag.

I'm going to give SE the benefit of the doubt and will just consider this an anomaly, a miscalculation on their part. This game makes enough money that SE should be able to keep the game running smoothly for most of the time. It's nothing to be overly upset about since this is SE's first big mishap for as long as i can remember. I'm just going to chill grinding FATEs and dungeons and let others do this instance first to help alleviate congestion.

[lulunami]

This incompetence and gross negligence knows no bounds.

[Catwho]

COME ON SE!!!!! You had to know this would happen. Why not rent extra servers for the first month, maybe more, then allow free full server transfers at the end of the month!

Right. They don't even need to be physical servers. Amazon Web Services and other hosting solution services like them will be happy to loan out cloned instance servers that can spin up and spin down based on demand, and they'll only charge you for the time you use the server. A few thousand bucks and some foresight could have allowed the instanced servers to run on these temporary clones, and then when the congestion has cleared up in 2-3 weeks, you release most of the servers and only leave 1-2 up in case demand spikes at the next patch.

[Fatch38]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMmXCKxwa0k

raubahn new theme song

[stevemesot]

Japanese community was prepared for issues like this before the launch of stormblood, people go stand in a line from the bridge to raubahn and wait patiently untill it's their turn.
People really need to work together for this quest during early access phase, I have a video example of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV41...ature=youtu.be
thumbs up for this community

[hynaku]

Every time go to do it right before fighting starts kicks me out and says error. Guess SE can't spend money to beta test there expansions before releasing them. Out of 16 years playing mmo's this has to be worst for bugs. Think they better higher better programmer's

[Theodric]

They really should have just taken the game down for emergency maintenance. It's been almost twelve hours since early access started and this problem has existed ever since the initial rush began. I went off to do other things in-game, I came back and it was still an issue. So I went to nap for a few hours - then I woke up and it ended up still being a problem.

I also tried the 'queue in single file' thing - that didn't work either.

[Catwho]

Japanese community was prepared for issues like this before the launch of stormblood, people go stand in a line from the bridge to raubahn and wait patiently untill it's their turn.
People really need to work together for this quest during early access phase, I have a video example of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV41...ature=youtu.be
thumbs up for this community

We tried lining up in NA data centers. People waited in line for hours. 2 people on Lamia server confirmed they got in while I waited for about 3 hours this afternoon. TWO PEOPLE.

[Moonlite]

Japanese community was prepared for issues like this before the launch of stormblood, people go stand in a line from the bridge to raubahn and wait patiently untill it's their turn.
People really need to work together for this quest during early access phase, I have a video example of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV41...ature=youtu.be
thumbs up for this community

These are the dumbest things I have seen and heard. The instance server is shared. The line is just an illusion. In fact it is not only shared with this quest but other MSQ, other job quest, and other instances. How can people be so blind on how these work?

They really should have just taken the game down for emergency maintenance. It's been almost twelve hours since early access started and this problem has existed ever since the initial rush began.

And fixed it how? The only choice I see is flag quest done somehow or move all the instance servers to that quest and turn off every other thing that uses instance servers. This is SE thinking the have X amount of resources and only having a tenth of that and it has happened multiple times.