It has now been 19 hours.

[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.

[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.

[delukard7]

Yeah, why don't you?

There are other games, other things you could be doing with your life than sitting here, cursing SE and/or the game, while staring at queues and disconnect screens.

Do what I did. Shut the game down and try again tomorrow morning.

The playerbase is half of the problem here, they keep throwing themselves at the brick wall yelling and screaming "I WANNA DO MSQ!!!!!!!!!!!!"

SE wants us to just, you know, shrug it off and do something else either in FFXIV or elsewhere until some of the players trickle through it and things go back to normal in a couple days. Seriously, some of you people act like spoiled whining children with their faces all red, covered in tears.

It's not the end of the world. Stormblood will be here tomorrow, it'll be here a week from now, it'll be here a year from now (unless the end of the world or something happens then you got bigger things to worry about).

Are you a square employee? my god you are as anoying as the people you are responding to.
At least they as consumers have a point, but you on the other hand.......

[Exiled_Tonberry]

"Y'all need to calm down"
XD XD XD Xd lololyoshi so funny!

I hate everything.

[Colino]

I'm glad they told us world transfers would be back up at 4AM BST and it still isn't nearly 2 hours later. No notice on this further delay whatsoever, because why should they let us know what's going on?

[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.

[Thyranne]

Tried to get into an instanced quest, now I can't even go back to the game, after the queue I get 90k'd instantly.