Aether Data Center 100% Congested

[LaylaTsarra]

Early Access actually starts on Saturday for many given the queue's. Oh well we need more people to unsub i guess.

[DarkEiraStar]

People will be auto kicked after 30 minutes of afk, which will help.

[Reap00]

I bet half of the congestion is all the bot farms making characters because there are so many pathetic people who buy gil in this game.

Considering the hype and the massive amount of money SE spent on advertising the expansion I would say your estimate is WAY off.

[Endeleon]

Considering the hype and the massive amount of money SE spent on advertising the expansion I would say your estimate is WAY off.

But how much of that is new characters? You are obviously missing the point.

[LaylaTsarra]

But how much of that is new characters? You are obviously missing the point.

I think there are quite a few bots but I see those on Balmung as well... plenty of gil sellers from Bryn. The subscription rate is supposedly the highest ever so that has to be reflected in the server numbers.

[Nezerius]

It wouldn't surprise me if they've lowered the threshold on a server becoming congested, in preparation for the launch of Shadowbringers.
The most recent LuckyBancho census (13th of June) shows the population of Crystal, Aether, and Primal at 161,839, 154,954, and 150,251 respectively (although the amount of players who have completed the 4.1 MSQ is much lower on Crystal.)
While this census is obviously unofficial, and should be taken with a grain of salt (although the results are taken directly from the lodestone), it's still an indication on possible server load for each of the datacenters at launch.

That, or there's been a massive exodus from Crystal to Aether/Primal between the 13th and the 27th, although I find that a bit less believable.

People will be auto kicked after 30 minutes of afk, which will help.

It probably won't help, since it's ridiculously easy to circumvent the auto-kick.

[Dualblade]

It probably won't help, since it's ridiculously easy to circumvent the auto-kick.

They'll also most likely kick everyone off the servers at certain hours as well to kick those people out as well.

[xxvaynxx]

Thank god I decided to stay on crystal.

[Noitems]

They'll also most likely kick everyone off the servers at certain hours as well to kick those people out as well.

I believe they said they were going to do this. They'll put up a notification on when it's happening, kick everyone, and then everyone can queue back in and pray to rngesus

[Enla]

I believe they said they were going to do this. They'll put up a notification on when it's happening, kick everyone, and then everyone can queue back in and pray to rngesus

They'll give one hour warning. But yeah if a server gets too congested they straight up will kick everyone off of it to smack down the people trying to circumvent the kick.