Best served with cold steel.

[Disappoint]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...221440dd7b8156

"Just come back later!"

How about fix this shit instead.

[Lambdafish]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...221440dd7b8156

"Just come back later!"

How about fix this shit instead.

I'm just as annoyed as you are, but the line "Everyone on the team will continue to put in our full effort to ensure an enjoyable gaming experience" speaks for itself. Be patient, they aren't just sitting on their asses.

[Averax]

As of 15 minutes ago

FFXIV Producer and Director Yoshida here.

I would like to explain the current congestion issue regarding instanced battle content, including the Stormblood main scenario quest “Best Served with Cold Steel,” due to the Duty Finder crashes at the start of early access.

As announced earlier, there are a huge number of players currently playing Stormblood, and as a result, the servers continue to experience a large amount of stress. For this reason, we are currently limiting the number of players that can enter instanced content so that it does not lead to major server crashes.

However, this has caused massive congestion to enter instanced content and I would like to sincerely apologize for this.

If you are unable to enter instanced battle content, we ask you to please wait and try again at a later time. We understand that this unfairly places the burden on our players, but we require more time until the issue can be resolved. We continue to work on measures to address this issue and will follow up once we have an update.

Again, we sincerely apologize for this level of congestion occurring during early access when many of our players are the most excited to play.

Everyone on the team will continue to put in our full effort to ensure an enjoyable gaming experience, and I would like to thank you for your continued support.

Same response, but an acknowledgement of the problem at hand, and an assurance that they are trying to come up with something to fix it.

[Soraki-Muppe]

My biggest question here is what the hell did SE think here? Did they think at all? This is a MSQ that ppl have to complete in order to proceed and unlock even a single dungeon! Why not make it a priority to allow ppl to get past this point?
If SE refuse to fix this problem they should at least support the efforts that a portion of the player base is doing by standing in line by moving those players unwilling to do this to instances of the map where they can spam all they want.

[Moonlite]

I'm just as annoyed as you are, but the line "Everyone on the team will continue to put in our full effort to ensure an enjoyable gaming experience" speaks for itself. Be patient, they aren't just sitting on their asses.

I am the King of England! You believe that as well? Companies never say they are working on it and not actually working on it. They literally just have to say "It took us a few days to find a fix and test the server before we brought it up live." Keep enabling SE maybe we will get more 1.0 and 13s later.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I am the King of England! You believe that as well? Companies never say they are working on it and not actually working on it. They literally just have to say "It took us a few days to find a fix and test the server before we brought it up live." Keep enabling SE maybe we will get more 1.0 and 13s later.

THE SKY IS FALLING!

Seriously... I think a lot of people on the forums right now would have mental shutdowns at the very onset of a stressful situation the way they react to stuff. If you've ever worked with this kind of software system, you know things break. it happens, they are working on it. Calm the hell down.

[winsock]

I heard the quest after cold steel is called "vaporware"

[Pyro2hell3]

part of be wonders if the real cause of the problem is somebody made a mistake in a spreadsheet somewhere might explain a few things

[stevemesot]

well, all 3 japanese datacenters are doing this, people are just patiently wait in line for it.
i get alot of hate reactions offcourse, but japanese servers seem to succeed with this system.

[Moonlite]

THE SKY IS FALLING!

Seriously... I think a lot of people on the forums right now would have mental shutdowns at the very onset of a stressful situation the way they react to stuff. If you've ever worked with this kind of software system, you know things break. it happens, they are working on it. Calm the hell down.

This is not a break. This is not a bug. Not a bug. Get that. This is a design that doesn't have the resources. I can't fit a 500 pound man through a four foot hole. You can't gate all your player base behind one instance. Stop defending and get the difference.