We paid for early access but it turned out to be NO ACCESS. PAY OUR MONEY BACK

[SicariusSeven]

We're not at Stormblood levels of bad launch yet. So stay patient. I'm annoyed too but not much we can do.

[M0rrigan]

It seems that there is problems on the European Data Center, europe only have 2 data center when Jp and Na has three

Not only we have only 2 data centers, but also less worlds per data center. EU servers are being overloaded with players while other data centers have a better spread ratio. In EU you would get queues (although not long ones) even a couple months before expansion, when there was content drought and people with not much to do, and even after midnight.

[Andy_T93]

We're not at Stormblood levels of bad launch yet. So stay patient. I'm annoyed too but not much we can do.

With the greatest respect if you aren't on an EU server you really don't get an opinion on this, worst US is seeing is a few hundred in the queue, EU are averaging 8000

[Timbob]

With the greatest respect if you aren't on an EU server you really don't get an opinion on this, worst US is seeing is a few hundred in the queue, EU are averaging 8000

You obviously dont play on US servers if you think that US servers are only seeing a few hundred at worst. Last night I was at 4800 on guess what? A US server. today it was 2700. You have a majority of streamers on EU and as such you have a TON of people who followed those streamers as well. Relax and take a chill pill, if ya get the server disconnect error you can quickly log back in and get your spot back. This is day one and by day 7 most of this will be a distant memory

[Minsue]

Man the entitlement I just had 1900 bucks stolen from me so can't play anytime soon and your throwing a gassy fit over some ques growup.

[math101]

Why are there only two Sharlyan instances, and only enough peopel to create a single Garlemald instance?
Even Tavnair only has enough people to create two instances online.

Clearly the servers "being congested" isn't the problem, SE intentionally lowered the concurrent player cap significantly when compared with Shadowbringers - likely because there's a single Loginserver per data center, which may have been ok for a 2004 MMORPG, definitely not for a 2021 MMORPG.

[Raeodor]

They admitted the issue months ago about overcrowding. Just wish they would have prioritized that before releasing an expansion that would obviously have made it worse.

[CazzT]

if ya get the server disconnect error you can quickly log back in and get your spot back.

No you don't. I was down to 8 players in queue, got the 4004 lobby error, and logged back in in less than 15 seconds. I was 2201 in queue after logging back in.

Tons of people are reporting this happening, across these forums and Steam forums.

[Snorky]

No you don't. I was down to 8 players in queue, got the 4004 lobby error, and logged back in in less than 15 seconds. I was 2201 in queue after logging back in.

Tons of people are reporting this happening, across these forums and Steam forums.

This is true, it is not remembering your place I made it to 255 before being disconnected when I signed back in it was at 3600 or so. So now waiting again. But I'm not angry just trying to go with the flow.

[Dmorte]

Yep, i was down to 1, 2002 error, back in 10 secs and 6504 in queue. This is certainly frustrating to anyone it happens to. The thing is, they knew exactly how many copies were pre-ordered so there should not be any surprise as to the demand that would be coming today.