It has now been 19 hours.

[Maeka]

When they put out a statement earlier saying they were sorry and to please be patient and wait, it's because that's literally the only thing that can be done. Wait for the wave to subside and relieve stress.

Except this won't happen because the vast majority of the playerbase feels entitled to have it right now, instead of doing the reasonable thing and coming back later.

[HaiHai]

Except this won't happen because the vast majority of the playerbase feels entitled to have it right now, instead of doing the reasonable thing and coming back later.

Make no mistake, this is not the players fault. It's Square Enix fault.

That being said. There's nothing us players can do about it, and there's nothing SE can do within reason to fix it outside of suddenly conjuring more server power out of nowhere tonight.

All anyone can do right now is wait.

[Maeka]

Make no mistake, this is not the players fault. It's Square Enix fault.

That being said. There's nothing us players can do about it, and there's nothing SE can do within reason to fix it outside of suddenly conjuring more server power out of nowhere tonight.
All anyone can do right now is wait.

Don't take the blame away from the playerbase, because that's wrong too. We're just as much at fault for reacting so unreasonable (when I say 'we', I mean the playerbase collectively).

Yes, okay, SE's servers could not handle the load. What would you say their fault is? Not having better equipment? lol. That crap costs money. A lot of money. And they already did a Data Center move, and upgrade... what more do you think they could have done instead? They are already trying to lighten the load by letting Pre-Order people go through first, and then the rest later instead of everybody at once...

What more are you saying they should have done ahead of time?

The only thing I'll say is that they could have made the procedures for logging on and disconnect/error handling a bit better. They seem rather archaic.

But again.....

The Playerbase does share some of the blame, for having such unreasonable reactions to the problem. They are actively making it worse as we speak, and have been all day long.

And emergency maintenance to do WHAT, exactly?

It isn't maintenance they need, they need for people to freaking go to bed so that the load goes down. The only thing maintenance will do is FORCE people to do something they SHOULD HAVE ALREADY DONE IN THE FIRST PLACE, and in fact, it will just set a timer for people to clog the servers again. Instead of people trickling off one by one, you'll get everybody logged of, setting their alarms for the maintenance end so that they can all jump back on and crash the servers again and you will have solved NOTHING.

[Crater]

And emergency maintenance to do WHAT, exactly?

Temporarily flag "Let Fill Your Hearts With Pride" (the quest that follows "Best Served with Cold Steel") to be available as soon as you've completed "Signed, Sealed, and to Be Delivered" (the quest that precedes 'Cold Steel'), so that players can bypass the quest with the instance, and go back to complete 'Cold Steel' later.

Do the same thing with the quest that follows "In Crimson It Began" (the Pipin-triggered instance) so that you can begin it as soon as you complete the quest that precedes 'In Crimson', so that players can bypass 'In Crimson' and move on with the story, and come back to complete the instance later on, once things have calmed down.

Continue to do that with any other early-Stormblood quests that involve solo duties, so that none of them will roadblock the entire player base for no good reason. It's a simple enough solution that it could have been implemented already, and could simply be rolled back as early as the official launch on Tuesday, if the congestion issues at that one particular point in the game have been alleviated by then.

Congestion issues are congestion issues, and although you can make the argument that SE should have seen this particular one coming, nobody is expecting them to have perfect foresight. But there's no justification for being this slow to roll out a temporary fix, when the problems the game is experiencing are so laser-focused onto such a small, easily-bypassed portion of the game.

[SendohJin]

What would you say their fault is?

That they put a single instanced fight so early into the storyline when the 2nd branch of the story is so short with no dungeon access.

[LazyC]

Can you please stop with this entitled nonsense you are spewing out? How the hell is people expecting a service we paid extra money for being entitled? really the only one acting childish is you defending SE like they are your dad and you feel like your dad cant ever possibly make mistakes.

sure we can all wait for monday when the servers might be better but then i want my extra 40$ back i paid to play the game early kay?

we paid for a service we are currently not getting because of a ridiculously silly oversight and there is no defending the choice of having an insane bottleneck SO early into an expansion

server issues and bugs are one thing, this is just a plain ole screw up by the dev team.

[Gramul]

How the hell is people expecting a service we paid extra money for being entitled?

No one paid any extra to preorder the game. It still cost the same as regular.
The only thing people paid extra for was the collector's edition that came with a few in game toys.

[LazyC]

No one paid any extra to preorder the game. It still cost the same as regular.
The only thing people paid extra for was the collector's edition that came with a few in game toys.

the collectors edition was extra money for early access. i dont even care about the items at all.

[Maeka]

the collectors edition was extra money for early access. i dont even care about the items at all.

You didn't have to get the collector's edition to get early access. You only had to Pre-Order.

[Gramul]

the collectors edition was extra money for early access. i dont even care about the items at all.

Uh...early access came with all preorders. I should know because I bought the standard edition.
If you don't care about items, then you paid 20 bucks more for no reason.