2nd night unable to play because of LONG queue times

[Legion88]

You know how long you have to wait for a Steam Deck or PS5?
SE has to wait for their servers the same time or even longer.
Semi-cundoctor shortage has a very hard impact on all industries but especially on IT-Hardware.

[Sekurity]

You know how long you have to wait for a Steam Deck or PS5?
SE has to wait for their servers the same time or even longer.
Semi-cundoctor shortage has a very hard impact on all industries but especially on IT-Hardware.

The shortage is not an acceptable excuse. Did you receive a PS5 or streamdeck without a semi conductor? Of course not. Those consoles are on back order. They had plenty of warning signs that there would be a crazy amount of players playing the game, yet they still launched the early access.
The reason why its hard for consoles to get made is because if they really wanted to, they could get those semi conductors, but it would bump up the cost of the console a decent amount and then people wouldn't buy it because it would be expensive. FF14 has made a considerable amount of money from the wow migration. Is not like there are physically no semi conductors. If you want them, you can get them, but the price for them is super high due to demand. My opinion, it doesn't matter about the price FF14 has to pay. They got enough money to spend, they should get them in at 5x, 10x, or 20 times the cost since they release endwalker and people are unable to play.
God forbid being a paying customer wanting to use the product I purchased.

[Banggugyangu]

The shortage is not an acceptable excuse. Did you receive a PS5 or streamdeck without a semi conductor? Of course not. Those consoles are on back order. They had plenty of warning signs that there would be a crazy amount of players playing the game, yet they still launched the early access.
The reason why its hard for consoles to get made is because if they really wanted to, they could get those semi conductors, but it would bump up the cost of the console a decent amount and then people wouldn't buy it because it would be expensive. FF14 has made a considerable amount of money from the wow migration. Is not like there are physically no semi conductors. If you want them, you can get them, but the price for them is super high due to demand. My opinion, it doesn't matter about the price FF14 has to pay. They got enough money to spend, they should get them in at 5x, 10x, or 20 times the cost since they release endwalker and people are unable to play.
God forbid being a paying customer wanting to use the product I purchased.

No... they simply are not available.... It's obvious you aren't part of the IT industry. I've been waiting on a single server for months now. I'm expecting my server to ship out hopefully in the next 3 weeks. What they're waiting on?: No CPUs available. CPUs are just one part of the semi-conductor shortage effects.

[Sekurity]

No... they simply are not available.... It's obvious you aren't part of the IT industry.

No, I am not part of the IT industry. But I am one of the people in charge of procurement. There are ways to purchase items rather than going on amazon.com. Still not a valid excuse.
My message you quoted is still viable.

[Banggugyangu]

No, I am not part of the IT industry. But I am one of the people in charge of procurement. There are ways to purchase items rather than going on amazon.com. Still not a valid excuse.
My message you quoted is still viable.

If you think the IT industry is buying servers off amazon, you're horribly mistaken... Please stop talking about a topic of which you are woefully ignorant.

[Sekurity]

If you think the IT industry is buying servers off amazon, you're horribly mistaken... Please stop talking about a topic of which you are woefully ignorant.

The joke has winged over your head. I am part of procurement, I understand the topic of procuring items that are on shortages far more than an IT person. So I will continue talking about topics I understand while disregarding people thinking they are in the know.

[martimus]

If you think the IT industry is buying servers off amazon, you're horribly mistaken... Please stop talking about a topic of which you are woefully ignorant.

Sekurity knows more about it by far, than you do. Take your own advice.

[Banggugyangu]

Sekurity knows more about it by far, than you do. Take your own advice.

He's not even a part of the IT industry. I won't go touting my job, as anyone can say anything, and my position will sound like I'm BSing; but I'll say this.... I'm part of both the IT industry and procurement of IT equipment. I can assure you that if he is not part of the IT industry, as he has already said in this thread, then he does not know more about it. IT procurement is not like the rest of the buying world. If you aren't part of it, you likely don't know it.

[Quickspade]

For the most part I've been very patient with the game. We were told there would be server issues and long queue times. The one thing I always hated was the constant booting during queue times. This causes a person who wants to play to sit there for an hour or two just to try to get in. If we are persistent, we eventually should get in. Today was the one that actually hurt.

I did all prior steps and waited in queue for 2 1/2 hours. When I "eventually" got in, I took 3 steps forward and got an error code and was booted out. I got back into the game as fast as possible to see a 4k queue again.

Regardless of everything like knowing the servers might have problems and the like, the fact is I sat there trying to get in for 2 1/2 hours and I can't wait another 2 1/2 hours because I have work in the morning like I'm sure most people do.

It's sad that this is happening. It gives the game a really bad feel and look. Especially for new players. I hope they do something quick. I was upset enough, that I had to vent here about it and I do feel better after posting this. The initial anger is gone, but I'm definitely leaning more to "this is unacceptable" at this point.

[Sekurity]

For the most part I've been very patient with the game. We were told there would be server issues and long queue times. The one thing I always hated was the constant booting during queue times. This causes a person who wants to play to sit there for an hour or two just to try to get in. If we are persistent, we eventually should get in. Today was the one that actually hurt.

I did all prior steps and waited in queue for 2 1/2 hours. When I "eventually" got in, I took 3 steps forward and got an error code and was booted out. I got back into the game as fast as possible to see a 4k queue again.

Regardless of everything like knowing the servers might have problems and the like, the fact is I sat there trying to get in for 2 1/2 hours and I can't wait another 2 1/2 hours because I have work in the morning like I'm sure most people do.

It's sad that this is happening. It gives the game a really bad feel and look. Especially for new players. I hope they do something quick. I was upset enough, that I had to vent here about it and I do feel better after posting this. The initial anger is gone, but I'm definitely leaning more to "this is unacceptable" at this point.

Yeap. In my original post, I was specifically talking about just the queue times. Its even worse when people spend all that time just to get in the game just to get dc'd, or getting that error while in the queue line for hours, then having to get back at the end of the queue long.