SE even a word would relieve a lot of stressed players.

[HyoMinPark]

lakes take a look at your example. PotD area, new jobs,people having hard time finding tanks, long waits for party, what are the alternatives? Don't want fate grind? PotD, limited instances, and everyone goes to that one area. Why isn';t happening as often on older areas? In some of the newer areas? Why do you think SE implemented some servers to have force logouts ? PS4 user are fun and everyone gets upset so to 3rd party aka Sony. Sony blames SE , yada yada yada. Look here is a tip and maybe people can experiment. Do a party with a FC tank and see how often you DC in dungeons that aren't PotD. Chances are would be 75% less or one in a blue moon. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE. I've tested this and noticed. PotD about 1-4 times in 3 hours. Normal dungeons 0-1 in 5 hours. Friends tested in Gigamesh and Hyperion about same average.

You didn't read my post at all, apparently.

My own issues with disconnects (since you wanted to address my issues) never occur in PotD or even Quarrymill, but regular leveling dungeons. Hell, I red-dot in Lavender Beds sometimes. If we want to talk about the Early Access instanced duties problem: the only area I was stable in was PotD. Regular dungeons? Nope. Solo MSQ or job instances? Nope. So your hypothesis falls flat there. And my original concern still stands: what hardware is being used that is unable to support the kind of traffic an MMO the size of FFXIV brings? You cannot say SE doesn't have data on the amount of players that play FFXIV, or the amount of players that purchased Stormblood Early Access.

My server is not a congested server. My server comes nowhere close to Balmung or Gilgamesh in terms of population. Oh, I also play on a PC, and a fairly decent one at that. So my issues don't lie with Sony or PS4 hardware, neither of which have anything to do with EU players being unable to play the game, because not all of them are even on a PS4. SE blindly blocking EU IPs to prevent DDoS is obviously not the best solution if it is in fact the reason why so many EU players are unable to play. And the issue, while majority present in the EU playerbase, is also present to a smaller extent with some of the NA playerbase. I'm stable today, but the last two days, I was not. And only in instances.

The only issue that lies with Sony is the forced-shut off 23 GB reinstall of FFXIV that occurs when the PS4 is affected by a power outage.

[iorveth1271]

lakes take a look at your example. PotD area, new jobs,people having hard time finding tanks, long waits for party, what are the alternatives? Don't want fate grind? PotD, limited instances, and everyone goes to that one area. Why isn';t happening as often on older areas? In some of the newer areas? Why do you think SE implemented some servers to have force logouts ? PS4 user are fun and everyone gets upset so to 3rd party aka Sony. Sony blames SE , yada yada yada. Look here is a tip and maybe people can experiment. Do a party with a FC tank and see how often you DC in dungeons that aren't PotD. Chances are would be 75% less or one in a blue moon. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE. I've tested this and noticed. PotD about 1-4 times in 3 hours. Normal dungeons 0-1 in 5 hours. Friends tested in Gigamesh and Hyperion about same average.

Wow, you really are not getting it, are you?

We are NOT complaining about the fact that congestion led to a lot of in-dungeon dc's, blocked instance access or huge server queues. All of that shit is thankfully mostly behind us.

What is currently going on is quite different from that, however. Players, on various worlds as it would seem primarily on Aether, BOTH DURING AND OFF peak hours, are having trouble logging in, and get a 90k error disconnect every single time they execute a combat action, enter an instance, use the teleport, mount up, sometimes even just try and sprint or enter something in chat. Worst seems to be for players who logged off in Quarrymill, even on very low population servers, who cannot even go a single step without getting an instant 90k error.

Again, the fact that this happens regardless of time of day, only really since Patch 4.01 was implemented, and that primarily EU players on NA servers are affected, suggests that this has nothing to do with server congestion as we saw during Early Access. Either this is due to DDoS, or due to overzealous DDoS countermeasures implemented by Squenix, or an as of yet unknown server issue. The fact that so many different players from so many different countries all over the EU are affected also quite clearly shows that no single ISP is at fault here, which means the issue is likely NOT on the user-side of things.

All of the little alternatives you mentioned above are super duper nice and all, but completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, as players are quite literally unable to access ANY content whatsoever at the moment, as attempting to even just *MOVE* their character gets them a 90k error.

Read up on an issue first before making smug, ignorant, spiteful comments about hundreds of players having a genuine problem accessing the game across various platforms with nary a word of acknowledgement from Square Enix that the issue even exists. The game works for you? Cool.

Go back to playing it then instead of involving yourself in a topic you know literally nothing about.

[ArtemisNewton]

Yeah it is actually quite a problem Manuel. I've D/C'd repeatedly as a tank in things like Fractal and just now in ARF. Teleporting to Foundation D/C'd me. Several times out in Coerthas Central Highlands. Not really heavily congested places.

[MerriMane]

Go back to playing it then instead of involving yourself in a topic you know literally nothing about.

My senses are tingling and the spirits are telling me, they're telling me that Manuel won't go back to playing FFXIV, he'll post a similarly uneducated response, which will be somewhat, if not completely pointless and unhelpful.

[Jozu]

lakes take a look at your example. PotD area, new jobs,people having hard time finding tanks, long waits for party, what are the alternatives? Don't want fate grind? PotD, limited instances, and everyone goes to that one area. Why isn';t happening as often on older areas? In some of the newer areas? Why do you think SE implemented some servers to have force logouts ? PS4 user are fun and everyone gets upset so to 3rd party aka Sony. Sony blames SE , yada yada yada. Look here is a tip and maybe people can experiment. Do a party with a FC tank and see how often you DC in dungeons that aren't PotD. Chances are would be 75% less or one in a blue moon. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE. I've tested this and noticed. PotD about 1-4 times in 3 hours. Normal dungeons 0-1 in 5 hours. Friends tested in Gigamesh and Hyperion about same average.

My god Manuel...Yes I'm stuck in Quarrymill because I tried to use PotD to level up but that doesn't make the problem less relevant,it is still something that needs to be addressed.Also the problem is not only on populated areas,a friend of mine can't complete the level 70 RDM job quest because he gets disconnected as soon as he enters the instance.

[Chewy2nd]

The game is literally unplayable for some of us, we literally can't get in and Square hasn't said a word about this yet, it's depressing.

[Dancingweapon]

They know. I called them and they know. I told them they need to issue a response because forum uses are frustrated. Their response was "we've already addressed the DDOS attack". So it wlis related to that and obviously they have gone block happy on IP address. I told the advisor the DDOS attack post was not clear enough and did not address the 90k errors. He didn't seem to give a shit to be honest so...

[Mottyn7]

They know. I called them and they know. I told them they need to issue a response because forum uses are frustrated. Their response was "we've already addressed the DDOS attack". So it wlis related to that and obviously they have gone block happy on IP address. I told the advisor the DDOS attack post was not clear enough and did not address the 90k errors. He didn't seem to give a shit to be honest so...

Well thats depressing, my month ends on friday and i am not paying it

[Chewy2nd]

More people need to ring them up, make them realise that there is a big issue with the playability of the game right now.

[Pireco]

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You are saying people should learn about servers, about technology and etc.
Not everyone has the time/necessity to do so , the thing is we all pay for a service, i understand modern ddos attack are hard to counter, but at least we want SE to say something, because they said its all okay now, after the omega 90ks ( http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...f768046593a9d9 )
I think you just came here to say you have a good pc and work with IT, because you are not reading , or understanding anything, im not having this issue and my bf is, same internet conection , ps4 same models....yeah definetly its a problem with psn or his(our) internet , while my bf is playing overwatch, using netflix, etc.
White knighting has limits , ma dude.