Best Served with Cold Steel still not working

[Kytelian]

Still happening on Gilgamesh nearly 24 hours after the launch. There are substantially fewer people on now than there were earlier. I slept earlier and have been attempting to level RDM while waiting for things to resolve (see: "please try again later"). Still nothing. There are far too few people being let through the instance and given the gameplay videos I've seen on YouTube, this instance takes anywhere from 5-20 minutes. Furthermore, I keep getting 90k'd while trying to run other content. I could live with 90k's and server crashes, those I expect to happen, if I could get through the intentional bottlenecks. I know others who share this sentiment. This seems likely to get substantially worse throughout early access and as official launch rolls around. Good job.

[08jdabra]

This is completely and totally unacceptable Square Enix. I mean it's been 24 hours and you've had an opportunity to review the issues that would arise. You cannot ask the whole player base to "sit and wait" for your turn. This is ridiculous. You need to bring the servers down or allocate more resources towards the solo player instances. People would rather progress with the main story quest and do FATE's than do Palace of the Dead. It's sad when you have players who have been standing in one spot for over 24 hours with no chance or hope of success. If you can't upgrade the servers and add more resources then re-allocate your resources from other places for a few days until congestion dies down. This is inexcusable and a lack of a proper response is infuriating.

[SirenBrink]

It has been 24 hours and the issue still persists. Please respond, Square.

[CassandraJean]

I hope this gets fixed before Early Access ends and actual release begins, then it will only get worse and more crowded.
Woke up incredibly early hoping there would be less people/people would have cleared out over night and got their quest done, but no. This is so frustrating, I'm so excited to see the new zones and the story! Some people say to "just spam it" until you get in but that risks disconnecting me and getting a very long queue back in.

[MelodiousRainbo]

I really really really really really wish you would at least give us an update. The most frustrating part about spending 24 hours of my life standing in one spot basically is that I have no idea if I will ever get to do anything. Is there anyway we can add like a que i wouldn't mind if it said I was 5000th place in line or something just knowing that there is hope would be enough but at this point I haven't seen anyone getting in to finish this quest and since I can't even explore new areas or get all the aether currents it's really frustrating that all I can do is stand here. Please just let us know an update on the situation please and thank you square.

[Guunie]

24 hours later, still bottlenecked. I'm not even sure why I'm even bothering to play Early Access any longer, this isn't the only quest we're being locked out of either. I can't tell if things are going to get any better or worse during launch, which just makes me second guess myself as to why I'm even bothering to play at all, perhaps I should just unsub and wait a few months.

[jchtom91]

FFXIV Producer and Director Yoshida here.

This is a follow-up regarding difficulty in accessing certain instanced battle content.

The development team has changed the process for dealing with this issue so that as many players as possible can be moved to instanced areas for certain main quests and instanced battles.

As a result, players have become able to transition to instanced areas faster than originally estimated, but at the same time, players are now gathering at certain areas in large numbers, and this is causing the servers go down on some Worlds as a result.

Currently, the development team is making detailed adjustments by adjusting the speed at which players are transferred to instances on each World so that areas no longer continue to go down and to ensure that all players can continue to play as comfortably as possible.

Although these measures were taken to help alleviate the difficulty in transitioning to instances, we apologize about zones going down as a result.

Congestion in the “Rhalgr's Reach” area is especially intense, so to prevent zones from continuously going down, we are carefully controlling the logins to each World and transitions to the Rhalgr's Reach zone. Due to this, it will take some time to log in to any of the Worlds.

Everyone on the team will continue to put in our full effort to ensure everyone can enjoy early access.

[MikeTavish]

FFXIV Producer and Director Yoshida here.

This is a follow-up regarding difficulty in accessing certain instanced battle content.

The development team has changed the process for dealing with this issue so that as many players as possible can be moved to instanced areas for certain main quests and instanced battles.

As a result, players have become able to transition to instanced areas faster than originally estimated, but at the same time, players are now gathering at certain areas in large numbers, and this is causing the servers go down on some Worlds as a result.

Currently, the development team is making detailed adjustments by adjusting the speed at which players are transferred to instances on each World so that areas no longer continue to go down and to ensure that all players can continue to play as comfortably as possible.

Although these measures were taken to help alleviate the difficulty in transitioning to instances, we apologize about zones going down as a result.

Congestion in the “Rhalgr's Reach” area is especially intense, so to prevent zones from continuously going down, we are carefully controlling the logins to each World and transitions to the Rhalgr's Reach zone. Due to this, it will take some time to log in to any of the Worlds.

Everyone on the team will continue to put in our full effort to ensure everyone can enjoy early access.

The problem is I don't think I've seen a single person in my server get into the instance since this was posted.

[Atlas_Shrugged]

FFXIV Producer and Director Yoshida here.

This is a follow-up regarding difficulty in accessing certain instanced battle content.

The development team has changed the process for dealing with this issue so that as many players as possible can be moved to instanced areas for certain main quests and instanced battles.

As a result, players have become able to transition to instanced areas faster than originally estimated, but at the same time, players are now gathering at certain areas in large numbers, and this is causing the servers go down on some Worlds as a result.

Currently, the development team is making detailed adjustments by adjusting the speed at which players are transferred to instances on each World so that areas no longer continue to go down and to ensure that all players can continue to play as comfortably as possible.

Although these measures were taken to help alleviate the difficulty in transitioning to instances, we apologize about zones going down as a result.

Congestion in the “Rhalgr's Reach” area is especially intense, so to prevent zones from continuously going down, we are carefully controlling the logins to each World and transitions to the Rhalgr's Reach zone. Due to this, it will take some time to log in to any of the Worlds.

Everyone on the team will continue to put in our full effort to ensure everyone can enjoy early access.

It's 2am PDT where is this congestion they speak off? I can log off and log back in without issue, so where is this fucking congestion and this fucking team that is making adjustment. Did they just set it and said fuck all and went home.

[MikeTavish]

Yeah my server doesn't even have a queue anymore and I know I'm in one of the more popular servers on the data center I'm on. So.... I don't really understand why the instances are all still broken.