Queues time to log in are getting worse over the days.

[Artemiz]

It does seem to have got a lot worse recently, Im not online tonight by my friend said earlier his queue was 1200 on my server. Thats crazy for a week night

[KarstenS]

Yes, I am in a queue of 1200+ people right now. Shiva server.

Odin around 9:40pm

[TTiscancer]

It will not "even out". It's up to SE to add server capacity. The same people who were willing to sit in Qs of 10k+ are now coming to FF14, you think they mind? These are rookie numbers.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It will not "even out". It's up to SE to add server capacity. The same people who were willing to sit in Qs of 10k+ are now coming to FF14, you think they mind? These are rookie numbers.

Unlike Gray, they cant just add more zeros.

[TTiscancer]

Unlike Gray, they cant just add more zeros.

In 2021, adding servers isn't hard or expensive at all.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

In 2021, adding servers isn't hard or expensive at all.

Well, I actually deal with servers on a daily basis. And they are quite expensive. The builds we do regularly cost in the 2-3 million dollar range for smallish sets of servers(lumps of 44), and the accompanying infrastructure.

They aren't using cloud systems. They have dedicated hardware.

[Sebazy]

If there's one thing I've learned about SE and MMOs over the years since XI. It's that they are deathly afraid of investing even a penny more than they need to on infrastructure. They've always cheaped out on the game servers in all aspects from CPU power (Thus the slow and loose tick rate and comical levels of client trust in the ARR days) to live storage on hand (Remember when FFXI used to delete your character if your sub expired for not an unreasonable length of time? 9 months if I remember right?).

For all it's popularity, XIV doesn't get as much investment back into it as it deserves sadly =/

[TTiscancer]

Well, I actually deal with servers on a daily basis. And they are quite expensive. The builds we do regularly cost in the 2-3 million dollar range for smallish sets of servers(lumps of 44), and the accompanying infrastructure.

They aren't using cloud systems. They have dedicated hardware.

That's not a lot of money in 2021. You realize SE is raking in like 20 times that per month, right?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

That's not a lot of money in 2021. You realize SE is raking in like 20 times that per month, right?

You realize not all of that is profit correct?

Also, current year means nothing.

[Rae88]

SE have to be careful when expanding. Expand too fast and the servers will be a bit dead if the population drops

Rough time to play FFXIV though, but super amazing to see so many sprouts at the same time