They knew this was coming and did nothing about it.

[Jadedsins]

I felt I had to say something about this.

There are literally no servers to buy anywhere. Not only are Amazon's and Facebook's data centers eating so many pieces of server hardware that it's hard to get any anyways, but there is a worldwide semiconductor shortage on top of that, plus an inflow of so many players before this launch that the population DOUBLED in just over a year.

And for most of these messages complaining here, they come from my fellow WoW refugees, which seemingly still haven't let go of their toxicity. Please stay away from FF14 if all you can do is continue whining. Or, better, make a character on a server not on your continent and you might notice that there is suddenly free spots because people in Asia are friggin asleep or at work themselves when you log in in the evening.

Use your brains during one of the BIGGEST LAUNCHES IN HISTORY FOR ONE OF THE BIGGEST PLAYERBASES. First world problems, seriously.

This is deflection.


What does the server shortage have to do with the systems not working that was suppose to help lighten the burden?
What does the old wow community have to do with people being upset rightfully so that the launcher does not work, and when they get booted in queue they got 1 min to get back in or lose spot. That is hours of time wasted, and would not have to go through that if the system they added worked in the first place.



You all can deflect it to the wow community all you want, but if the wow community is the ones smart enough to be upset about this. I will side with them, than being a zombie for a company. This is unacceptable no matter what excuse people come with.

[Lanadra]

Some of you people have corporate stockholm's syndrome.

This is a business and we pay to play the game. If they cannot deliver that, then they don't deserve money. Full stop.

Making excuses for why a multibillion dollar corporation cannot afford to buy trivially cheap hardware is vulgar. Way too many rightwing fruits on these forums.

So then, put your money where your mouth is. You have that option, if that is your belief, stick by it. Also, why on earth are you bringing something like 'rightwing' into this..?

I'm just going to say this.

SE is not my friend. They are a company and business. A business will not spend money unless it has too. They can and will also lie.


Do I trust this company? No, but I'm not going to say they have done everything they could to prevent this, because really I don't know. The only thing I know is that the answers they come up with don't work, and this system is poorly design. From a consumer stand point. No amount of understanding can make this feel any better. A chip shortage, and all that is understandable. The losing your spot in the queue. Now that is unacceptable and it should be 5 mins instead of the 1.

This I agree with, they do definitely need to improve this system, it's there but clearly not working properly at all times.

[aevic]

Lol don’t try to reason with these people Covid blah, you are telling me a multi billion dollar company called SE can’t find server. My hunch is they don’t want to invest as much, for the right price anyone will sell you anything

My hunch tell me they didn’t want to invest as much capital to accommodate the peak surge, which I believe is so short sided. All eyes were on this expansion this hasn’t been smooth at all.

Server congestion issue aside this 2002 that reset your queue position if they were aware of it and still lunched , there are questions that needs to be asked. They should have at least fixed that

It's short sighted not sided and no it really isn't. If you knew anything about the situation in the world currently you would know that there is a shortage of chips needed to run the servers and production is slowed down.

[Alex_Vardr]

This is deflection.


What does the server shortage have to do with the systems not working that was suppose to help lighten the burden?
What does the old wow community have to do with people being upset rightfully so that the launcher does not work, and when they get booted in queue they got 1 min to get back in or lose spot. That is hours of time wasted, and would not have to go through that if the system they added worked in the first place.



You all can deflect it to the wow community all you want, but if the wow community is the ones smart enough to be upset about this. I will side with them, than being a zombie for a company. This is unacceptable no matter what excuse people come with.

They explained that there would probably be problems going into Endwalker and they keep furiously apologizing left and right. Meanwhile, remind me what Blizzard did? Ah, right, insulting and ignoring players for years and literally sexually assaulting their employees. I'd rather simp for SE on this, thanks.

[Jadedsins]

They explained that there would probably be problems going into Endwalker and they keep furiously apologizing left and right. Meanwhile, remind me what Blizzard did? Ah, right, insulting and ignoring players for years and literally sexually assaulting their employees. I'd rather simp for SE on this, thanks.

Does that make it any better? The answers they came up with don't work, but some of them..like the how long it takes to get back into queue. That is lacking common sense. Simping for them over something that could have been preventable in this case is not good.

[aevic]

Does that make it any better? The answers they came up with don't work, but some of them..like the how long it takes to get back into queue. That is lacking common sense. Simping for them over something that could have been preventable in this case is not good.

It's not simping. There is no solution to this problem that people keep ignoring. At least they had the heart to share with you the issues they would face. A lot of companies will just hope for the best and deal with it later.

[ditaln1]

I work in IT sales for a rather large reseller which won't be named. I have enterprise clients that order high end Dell servers. Yes, there were delays in getting the hardware shipped, it took 4 months to finally ship out the 4, $50K servers. 4 MONTHS.. You mean to tell me a billion dollar company like SE couldn't procure new servers? Sure there is a supply issue, that is very true, but stuff is still shipping, it's just delayed. SE didn't want to spend the money on new servers, plain and simple, they could of gotten them installed prior to EW if they would of thought and planned ahead. Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Now back to checking my place in queue and probably logging in another 19391319 times to finally play for 2 hours today.

[Jadedsins]

It's not simping. There is no solution to this problem that people keep ignoring. At least they had the heart to share with you the issues they would face. A lot of companies will just hope for the best and deal with it later.

For me it is. When you say, hey they knew what was going to happen. And understood that people got booted out of queue before. So lets up the 1 min timer to 5 mins to get back into your queue spot. They had this data, and knew before hand from our feedback that getting kicked out of queue and losing your spot is the biggest issue, yet they did nothing on that front.


When people bring that up, and people say "chip issue" what else could I say but simping?

[Hanayumi]

It fascinates me that people think this was preventable, the mass growth over the past months totally blindsided them, its not something they can fix over night, especially with covid issue. And yes covid is still plenty affecting, while things have improved it does not mean the months of halted or slowed production were magically filled to order once thing settled, HELL NAH! And even worst logistics are all sorts of fucked, Ports alone are jammed pack with containers 4-5 stories high.

[xxmajexx]

War never changes....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-T959c5dzU