Stormblood = Nightmare for casual players

[Seoulstar]

Honestly, us people from Balmung can't really complain..we knew the server we picked (or transferred to) was full and been told time and time again to go to other servers. While it's great to be on a server that's always alive and never feel dead. This is one of the cons of being on such a server. So we have two options. Transfer, or just deal with it until things cool down.

[Elladie]

It ain't just Balmung anymore. It's hit Odin too. And apparently Omega (the new server) has been hit with 6 hour queues too. I wonder how Louisoix will fare.

My friends and I transferred to Omega on Saturday, we've all been playing the last three days fairly non-stop (breaks for food & sleep). The longest queue any of us has seen was 48. So no, no 6 hour queues on Omega.

[Gyson]

Then don't cry when se forced a server split to a super low pop server. They've done it before.

I'd prefer to instead ask this question: Why is Square Enix allowing servers to be populated beyond the known maximum capacity?

You seem to forget that queues have been a problem on servers like mine for a while now, and yet despite claiming they're "full" and "closed", the gates apparently open at off-hours and allow more players to join in. Why? Full is full, no? Worse, Square Enix continued to allow players to pay to transfer to these servers even though they themselves were aware they were beyond capacity. "Full" unless you're willing to pay them, apparently.

Perhaps instead of running interference for them, you should be asking those questions too. It might end up saving your own server from the same mistakes.

[Aramina]

No issue here on omega tbh. I always got in fairly fast.

This. I don't think I have seen a queue above 20 since I transferred.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Worse, Square Enix continued to allow players to pay to transfer to these servers even though they themselves were aware they were beyond capacity.

Because it could possibly be seen as discrimination? People will rant, rave, and scream about anything up and down the halls until their ears bleed. It's very possible they tried to at first, but people kept harassing and demanding they do it until eventually they just gave up. The people that keep transferring to Balmung are the ones at fault, in all honesty. They kinda lose all right to complain when they willingly demand to jump ship to a sinking island.

[Niwashi]

I'd prefer to instead ask this question: Why is Square Enix allowing servers to be populated beyond the known maximum capacity?

You seem to forget that queues have been a problem on servers like mine for a while now, and yet despite claiming they're "full" and "closed", the gates apparently open at off-hours and allow more players to join in. Why? Full is full, no? Worse, Square Enix continued to allow players to pay to transfer to these servers even though they themselves were aware they were beyond capacity. "Full" unless you're willing to pay them, apparently.

They allowed it for much too long, which is how Balmung (and to a lesser extent, a few of the other really high pop ones) became so overcrowded. But they have finally put a halt to it. There won't be any new characters coming to Balmung until its population stabilizes to a more sustainable level.

[dragonseth07]

>Plays on most populated server
>Complains about server being too populated.

Okay, mate. Y'all made your beds. Sleep in them or move.

[Chiramu]

Person on one of the most highly populated servers complaining about queue times? :thinking:

Utilise the free server transfers OP, why do you stay on the one server with cross realm queueing and party finder? There is no reason to stay on the one server with the cross realm finder.

[dragorian]

Transfer is not a solution! I'm on Shiva from the start of ARR and in my FC for over 3 years. For the moment I just can't play the game due to server congestion and that is going on from Friday and probably will be going on for this whole week. I pay my monthly fee but can't play? that's not ok.... and you wouldn't like it either. So stop telling people to move or read a book. We have the right to be frustrated!

Move complete msq the move back. That's what I did.

[savageink]

Dude this was 5 years ago. Legion had a smooth launch. And let me tell you that 2k people in WoW log in faster than 2k in XIV. It is not the same.

Legion wasn't that smooth. There were still que times and server lags even with the instances up. It wasn't all fairies and rainbows....admittedly nothing like the craptacularity of WoD's launch. Since Friday, the longest queue I've been stuck in is 785 which took less then 5 minutes to run down. And I have had no lag at all. My character got locked out for a half hour for some reason, which they fixed a half hour later and I had to wait a bit to get over Raubann's wall because everybody DDoS'd the instance server. No biggie. I did some roulettes...which didn't boot me out and got all the side quests and alt quests in the peaks done while running some FATEs. But I'm on a "Standard" server. On Primal. So, there's that.