Any time of day, no connection issues on the Japan server IFRIT....

[Embry]

I have been living in Japan and have been playing on a Japanese server since July 2019. I can tell you that the NA population of this game is MUCH larger than the Japanese population now. Even during peak times here in Japan, I have seen queues of about 1000 people after the first day of early access, and I play on what is most likely the second most populated server after Tonberry (Kujata). Unfortunately, FF14's recent boom in popularity in the NA region is most likely the cause of the login/server issues now for NA players. It's nothing to do with hardware differences, special treatment, or anything like that.

[Mialee]

I have lived in Japan and have been playing on a Japanese server since July 2019. I can tell you that the NA population of this game is MUCH larger than the Japanese population now. Even during peak times here in Japan, I have seen queues of about 1000 people after the first day of early access, and I play on what is most likely the second most populated server after Tonberry (Kujata). Unfortunately, FF14's recent boom in popularity in the NA region is most likely the cause of the login/server issues now for NA players. It's nothing to do with hardware differences, special treatment, or anything like that.

Same hardware for way less load yeah they have a part of hardware differences, not saying it's special treatment but is NA or EU had the same no of subcount/servers they would not have the same isues.

[Embry]

Same hardware for way less load yeah they have a part of hardware differences, not saying it's special treatment but is NA or EU had the same no of subcount/servers they would not have the same isues.

I agree, but as the development team mentioned recently in an announcement, they wanted to add more servers but couldn't due to global shortages of things they need to do that because of the pandemic. So they have done everything they can, but unfortunately the demand is too high at this time for what they are able to provide. I feel bad for all NA players, but this is something that is only partially fixable by the development team at this time.