Queue times are unacceptable thread #11111

[Demise]

Transferring off of Gilgamesh to a quieter server was the best decision I ever made. Gotta love coming home from work during peak times and logging on with a 30 person queue.

Literally Balmung/Gilgamesh problems. If you refuse to leave those servers behind then you're accepting the problems that come with being on those servers. They have free transfers right now so if you just transfer and take your friends with you you wouldn't have anything to complain about.

[Dement]

Transferring off of Gilgamesh to a quieter server was the best decision I ever made. Gotta love coming home from work during peak times and logging on with a 30 person queue.

Literally Balmung/Gilgamesh problems. If you refuse to leave those servers behind then you're accepting the problems that come with being on those servers. They have free transfers right now so if you just transfer and take your friends with you you wouldn't have anything to complain about.

Same. Only been on Coeurl for less than 24 hours now but almost everything about it seems better than Balmung. It's interesting to actually take note of people that are running around and continue to see them occasionally. Kugane feels more authentic with adventurers running around it but not massive clusters of people afk or standing in hordes. I helped a friend with a hunt this morning and the mob fully loaded, I had no idea those things had actual attacks and animations. The only slight problem I've encountered is FATEs at off times are slower but with the whole zone scaling appropriately even that wasn't much of an issue.

Plus after I left it started a movement in my FC of people who had been wanting to move but didn't want to go somewhere that they didn't know anyone. A good 10-15 people have now joined me and we're going to restart our FC from Balmung. We'll see if even more get fed up with the queues in the coming days.

[daedalusAI]

Transferring off of Gilgamesh to a quieter server was the best decision I ever made. Gotta love coming home from work during peak times and logging on with a 30 person queue.

Literally Balmung/Gilgamesh problems. If you refuse to leave those servers behind then you're accepting the problems that come with being on those servers. They have free transfers right now so if you just transfer and take your friends with you you wouldn't have anything to complain about.

So you're telling paying customers that they can't play where they want because SE obviously can't handle the people flooding in - and how do you do that:
"Look there is the door, go to another server - and if you don't go it's your own fault for having long queue times".

Impressive reversal of a burden of proof if I've ever seen one.

[Demise]

Impressive reversal of a burden of proof if I've ever seen one.

Im saying that people know what they're getting into. Balmung and Gilgamesh and like servers have been character locked since the dawn of time but people still paid to transfer into them knowing full well that they were going to be overpopulated. SE tried to get people to move off of those servers by offering free transfers off in order to help their player base avoid the very same problems that people are complaining about. So yes. It is on the players who decide if they want to knowingly be on a server that has lots of congestion warnings on it during an expansion pack launch. It's not like you weren't warned that this was going to happen.

[Lynart]

Im saying that people know what they're getting into. Balmung and Gilgamesh and like servers have been character locked since the dawn of time but people still paid to transfer into them knowing full well that they were going to be overpopulated. SE tried to get people to move off of those servers by offering free transfers off in order to help their player base avoid the very same problems that people are complaining about. So yes. It is on the players who decide if they want to knowingly be on a server that has lots of congestion warnings on it during an expansion pack launch. It's not like you weren't warned that this was going to happen.

SE could also rewrite the backend, use a service that allow dynamic scaling of servers, and solve the problem at its root. There are far too many players being okay with a mediocre service, for a great game, and support SE by blaming the players.

And in case anyone doesn't understand what I'm saying...this is not the developer's fault. Clearly improving server quality is not on upper management's priority list or we would be able to queue commands without them being dropped.

[daedalusAI]

Snip.

I agree that if you paid to transfer to a highly populated and currently congested server some of your long queue time is self-made.

Even so: that doesn't excuse the current pathetic long queue times on a lot of servers.
It's SE's 2nd FF14 expansion and you have to be a special human breed to be unable to foresee the current disaster as a possible outcome of a new expansion - even more so if you hype it up like they did with SB and the release of RDM and SMR.

And all you get from official side is: "Ups, we're so sorry for this completely foreseeable mess and we apologize - here have a 5000 player queue".
From where I stand those apologies are nothing but a rushed attempt at soothing the masses; and they're a good example of what having integrity and valuing your customers doesn't look like.