Endwalker madness question for vet players

[coffeeserver]

I know we are all in the same boat and to mix metaphors that horse is well and truly dead. What I want to know from the vets is "When should we expect it to get back to normal?" For the other expansions how long did the madness continue? 3 weeks... after the first raid drop?

[Iaito]

Honestly? It's never been this bad. This is record-breaking for FFXIV primarily due to the Great WoW Migration of 2021.

[CheshaSolttiri]

I've played since 2013 and never even saw a queue before Shadowbringers and even then it was like 200 at most. I just got 4000 so.... It's really really bad. Granted I was on one of the least populated servers Zalera but since the preferred server thing almost all servers are equal now.

[Bixillarla]

It has never been this bad so no way to tell when it will get back to normal. There is just too many players for the servers to handle all at once.

[coffeeserver]

Well as one of the guilty parties (ex-wow players) I would apologize but I really like the game too much.

[Nezerius]

Honestly? It's never been this bad. This is record-breaking for FFXIV primarily due to the Great WoW Migration of 2021.

Stormblood was worse, because the server caps were lower, while also having a large amount of players circumventing the 30 min logout timer. Disconnects also weren't uncommon, not to mention Raubahn EX preventing a lot of players from progressing the story early on. I could easily spend around 3-4 hours in queue to get into Balmung, while I've currently only had queues of 1-1.5 hours at most.

[Brennus]

WoW migrant speaking here, I don't recall WoW expacs launches ever being as bad as this.

The game is too good compared to WoW at this juncture, so its players are paying a price, in the form of this awful congestion. I've only been able to log in and play for a couple hours since launch time Friday morning, and I'm back looking at 5K+ queues, 2002 errors, repeated login attempts, frustration...

It's almost bad enough I'd been entertaining resubbing to WoW just for one month, so I'd have something to play while waiting for Endwalker to "stabilize". Almost, but not quite yet...

[Hikari_Kirameku]

I hadn't played since before HW launched, and just returned out of boredom this past month. Gotta say, this launch is making me glad I haven't renewed my sub or bought EW just yet. I know all expac launches tend to be rocky, but this is just really bad. The fact that I wasn't even caught up through the MSQ just yet makes it even worse (I'm still only in the first half of Stormblood). I'm going to be even more behind since I can't log in x.x

I suppose I can always go back to playing some single player game til the hype dies down a little, but I really was starting to have fun playing an MMO again *sigh*

[coffeeserver]

that is what prompted the question. When will it die down? I know it is bad and the levels are higher but what I really want to know is When did the other expansions see normal log in behaviors after pre-order week?

[Tabmow]

I don't see this getting any better for quite a while tbh.