It has now been 19 hours.

[syunikiss]

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.

I keep disconnecting from the server even after waiting in queue just to get online.

[Colino]

"It has now been less than a day"

One day out of 4 of early access is 25% downtime dude. I know you like the forums more than the game but don't try to imply this is totally OK given it's their second expansion now.

[Gramul]

One day out of 4 of early access is 25% downtime dude. Don't try to imply this is totally OK given it's their second expansion now.

Imply nothing, I'm outright stating it's not nearly as big as a deal as people are making it out to be.
This is what's happening:

Once more people start leaving for the night, the'll be more room for others to get in. And once the other users wake up, they'll be able to get in easier because they no longer have to worry about the people that came before them.

Square did not need to expand the servers just for typical first day congestion. Yeah, people are angry now, but very very very few people would actually be willing to unsub for this. We got around 2 years with this expansion. It's not going anywhere.

[Colino]

Square did not need to expand the servers just for typical first day congestion. Yeah, people are angry now, but very very very few people would actually be willing to unsub for this. We got around 2 years with this expansion. It's not going anywhere.

No of course, and I never said anything about unsubbing (that's basically a buzzword now), but downplaying the amount of time it is taking them isn't going to help either. I'm not as upset as most of the comments I've seen (mostly because I thought it was happening anyway and didn't expect to play till next week) but I do see where they're coming from.

[Gramul]

but downplaying the amount of time it is taking them isn't going to help either.

I get that people are upset, and it's not unjustified to be dissapointed or annoyed; but some of these reactions border on the hysterical.
Some people need to step back, take a breath, and look at this from an analytical perspective.

Why is this happening?
-Too many people trying to enter a solo instance at once.
Why didn't square set up to deal with it better?
-Too much resources for too little return.
How can it be fixed?
-Bottlenecking will reduce naturally as users disperse.
What was lost?
-Personal time investment. Everyone who preordered the game got to play a few days early as a bonus. There was no extra financial cost.

[Hatman]

It mostly sucks when you run out of new stuff to do, either through other problems (RDM quest for me is acting worse than Raubahn) or just because they go out and do everything then come back. Prior to that, there's ways to mitigate.

[Escha]

I blame the expanded inventory space

[dark494]

What's ridiculous is that they've updated the lodestone saying "We are happy to announce that the issues have been resolved" yet the constant 90k from queuing anything via solo instances or DF are still happening to everyone for everything, followed by the endless loop of 1000+ lobby queue and 90k again on the loading screen.

[DarkRain]

I feel like Early Access has been more of a Beta test to be honest. I did not do a single Stormblood thing today. I came on the game at 5am CDT. I played 19 hours. In that 19 hours I unlocked SAM and RDM. The Duity Finder was broke a good chunk of the morning . When it did work and you leveled in PotD you might MIGHT get a run in. For a while it was working well than slowly but surely DC after DC after DC to the point I would DC log in wait for que get to loading screen to DC again. Happened all day long . I didn't even get SAM to 60 its half way into 58 I'm too tired and frustrated to finish it to 60. My plan was Wake up spend a good 8 to 10 hours to get SAM to 60 and rest of time enjoy Stormblood.................Never Happened

[Rhysati]

That would be fine, it they actually had anything to fix. Nothing is broken. The servers just can't handle the capacity. Only thing they can do is magically summon more server power.

Bringing down servers for emergency maintenance would solve nothing. When they bring them back up (after fixing nothing) people would simply log back in and flood the instances and cause strain all over again.

Why do you white knight folks keep saying such nonsense? There is a slew of things they could do to fix the problem, some of which incredibly easy and some that would require some effort. But on the super easy side of things: Lower the amount of people that can be online at a time if that is, indeed, the problem(which I'm not sure it is because we have always had a queue that limited access to a set number of players). But if right now it lets in say...5k people? Tune it down to 2.5k at a time. Lower even. Whatever you have to do so that while folks might be waiting in a very very long queue, they can at least rest assured that when they do get online they won't crash right away and can do some of the content.

Explain to me a world where this isn't a solution that would fix the problem and be better than the current nonsense and chaos.