You gross 200 Million in subscriptions a month why are your servers junk?

[RareItems]

Balmung here, the always congested server xD No issued!

Also Just because the game says "Queue is at 1200" doesnt mean u just sit there and wait for it to load you in. Wait 1 minute and try again xD.

[shaiel]

Not at all, suggest a solution that isn't move to a almost as crowded server, or you know.. literally anything at this point and we might have something to go on.

Right now, I see literally 0 proposed solutions and all the more reason for people like you to just accept your paying your subscription fee for no reason.

So you only want to hear people agreeing with you when you don't work for Square Enix and we aren't sure you do have correct information about how their servers work. Lol. People are trying to give you solutions and talk with you but you're just telling everyone to be upset like you are. My friends and I are happy paying for subscription fees on this game, and it's not for no reason. If you're this unhappy, then stop subscribing so the bean counters at square enix can feel the difference. Will it be a big difference? Probably not. Not until a lot of people leave for the same issue. Which I doubt, because this game's expansion launch day has been relatively smooth and fine despite what you say. I'm really glad I moved one of my toons out of Gilgamesh. I haven't had any queues in Famfrit or Louisoux other than when they got DDOS'ed, which was fixed immediately.

[Selova]

I was there for Warlord's of Draenor launch. This completely pales in comparison. The queue times are a absolute joke, but armchair IT experts will continue to whine no matter what the queue time is.

[gumas]

Balmung here, the always congested server xD No issued!

Also Just because the game says "Queue is at 1200" doesnt mean u just sit there and wait for it to load you in. Wait 1 minute and try again xD.

also sometimes queue can be deceiving too, once i login and had 1850 queue and you know what? a minute later it went down to merely 20 and another minute, i got in.

so yeah, no biggy. and its not like iam going to stare at my queue number too, i can always alt tab and browse internet or something else.

[Akira]

heavensward early access was far worse, if you got kicked or had to log out you were stuck retrying over and over because the queue was either broken or didnt exist yet, this is by far the smoothest launch ive seen them do and im on Balmung

[PretzJG]

Here is something I want to point out, that I haven't seen anyone point out yet, your math is wrong..... If you are taking your info from ffxivcensus.com and are taking the currently listed All World All Characters total of 15,632,019 characters and multiplying it by 15.00 a month then yes you get 234,480,285 dollars a month IF everyone only had 1 character total and each and EVERY character was currently active. Of course it's not true as I myself have about 9 characters across all the worlds, I only play 2 but others are from trying out servers as I didn't want to play and then pay to transfer if the server was feeling empty. However even ffxivcensus.com CLEARLY has a listing for ACTIVE Characters and that is only a total of 668,550 so again IF everyone only played 1 character that was active that would be a net of only 10,028,250 a month. Yet AGAIN many players have multiple characters that are active, and if they consider the subbed status of an account as active then that means they count even my other 7 characters I don't log into as part of that 668k, so it's not even the correct figure even then. See the big difference if you actually do the math? You are claiming they have 200 million coming in each month when it's closer to just 10 million, and maybe not even that. However given that the live letter did mention a 1 million active subs then clearly they are making 15 million a month, still a VERY FAR OFF figure from your insane claim that they make 200 million off of FFXIV. They would have to have over 13 million subscribers to make 200 million in 1 month.

Also here is something, you're saying you had a 2 hour long queue wait time? What time of day was this?? Were you constantly closing the game and trying to log in again, cause that would reset your queue position to the back of the line. Also I have my main characters on Faerie, which is right above your server in the list on Aether, I have for the past few months now logged in seeing a queue of around 20 people, but I get in in less than 5 minutes. You are on one of the most highest Active Character count realms, at 16,150 characters according to ffxivcensus.com and my Faerie is at 11,989. So yes your answer is either to put up with queue times or move to a lower population server. If your FC doesn't want to move, then stay and wait it out, and here's another tip, FFXIV doesn't kick you out for being AFK, keep yourself logged in and you'll not ever have to worry about the queue times until maintenance kicks you out.

[Endeleon]

The irony of someone on gilgamesh making this thread, lmao. Of course you think servers are crap! You refuse to not be selfish and ridiculous and just move to a different one!

You want a different solution? I'm sorry but that's just not going to happen, dude. If there's so many people in a room that you can't move, the only solution is that people need to leave the room.

[Talinthis]

Seriously, I'm having to wait a literal hour before I can log into the game.

For a company with 17 million players at 12-14 dollars a month you would think your servers would be i don't know...

somewhere in the realm of good, this happens every single patch and every single launch your servers are always less then what you need...

You need 4 servers per EVERY single world in every single data center and 4 more servers running V-motion so that failing servers can be hot swapped without down time in addition to the 4 that run each world mirrored for a total of 4 mirrored servers and 4 fail over servers.

'Our servers are reaching capacity" is not an excuse for a company that grosses 200 million. If you cant run the traffic, buy more servers. Literally that simple.

thats pretty shitty bro. glad i only have to wait 30 seconds. biggest queue i have seen was 120.

[SaberMaxwell]

Literally the smoothest expansion launch in XIV's history, and one of the smoothest expansion launches in MMO history.

"Why are your servers bad SE?"

[Endeleon]

Literally the smoothest expansion launch in XIV's history, and one of the smoothest expansion launches in MMO history.

"Why are your servers bad SE?"

I know right! The queue is like 1000-2000 tops for Gilgamesh, and nonexistant everywhere else. SB had queues of 20K!