Yeah guys. 1 month free time is going to have to happen

[Divinemights]

You know what I don't get?? Why billionares don't just buy everything. Why don't they just buy it?? Just buy everything. Even things that don't exist-you have money, right? Simply buy it. Pay someone for it. Select anyone off the street and tell them, "why yes, ONE chip please! and several servers, I'll be needing those by noon". It's really not that hard. You know, I often wonder why most of you who clearly know better than SE don't just simply go and run SE yourselves. You're clearly all onto something here... Alright, new plan. Replace the CEO with one of you guys. If that had happened, there is no WAY it would have played out like this. Absolutely no way, we wouldnt have made it past ishgards restoration-iiii meannnn and anyway!

It is not that simple.
For example, China requires semiconductors but US government is trying everything they can to deny them access because of trade war.
This is why China also starts to want to take over Taiwan so they can take control of TMSC for semiconductor production.
Once they gained TMSC, all major US giant such as Apple is going to be in trouble.
They have way more money than billionaire but it doesn't mean money can buy anything you want.

I also seeing immature company about SE being a billionaire company, but ignore the fact that is just a number including fixed assets, not their cash flow.
World is not that simple as you think it is

[MeldinX2]

oh come on, a month of free time is only like 10 bucks... /s

seriously though, i cringe so hard whenever i read something like "oh come on square, a week of gametime is like what? 3 bucks?" as if they are only giving free time to a single account. there have been lawsuits for some really shitty things that got settled for less by companies bigger than square that doesn't cost the kind of money these free week cost them.

10 bucks per player is alot of money when there are millions of active players though. xD

[Saier]

Lol some quotes from your Brilliant man -

1. "Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks."

2. "Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."

3.(Speaking about MLK Day) What an infamy Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day."

This isn't getting into other stuff like his anti-Semitic views, Or his hate towards LGBTQ+ community. Or even the fact that he voted against making people be forced to report pedos they find downloading CP. But yes, you continue worshiping your "Brilliant Man"

You legit rolled and smoked my dude Haseno over here man. I was searching for his response and there was none XD

[Garten]

He's a level 90 Paladin and he's complaining he hasn't been playing.

i'm just level 84 after 6 days (that i could barely play tnx to SE). Can i complain?

[Eli85]

The issue over compensation is overblown. Assuming you have the Entry subscription (which is all you need), you're losing 43 cents (USD) for every day that you cannot access the servers. The queues have been long, yes, but i haven't seen a 2002 error the last two days. So, what, we're looking at 5 days of 2002 error, so we're concerned about $2.15. I mean really. If you're worried because you lost $2.15, you've got much larger problems.


That said, I agree that 2002 error is unacceptable. Long queues? If you've been around long enough, educate yourself, you accept these as part of expansion launches. You can't escape from it. So I don't care about compensation from Square-Enix, but I would love an assurance that the 2002 error will never happen again.


Also, honestly, I haven't been disappointed often with S-E, but the company being too cheap to even buy / rent cloud servers to reinforce the login server is just so irresponsible. Yes, you don't want those servers reinforcing the game servers, but virtually all the animosity would be gone if they had just used them for login.

[Eriane_Elis]

I don't need compensation. I never experienced errors logging in or while logging in. The max queue I've experienced was about 50. This takes about 2 minutes. I'm thankful I can choose when I work :P But I think if people are in line for 4hrs then they should just unsub for a few months and wait out the storm. There's nothing that can be done at this point in time except wait for them to be able to get more hardware. It's not their fault there's a shortage and millions of players from other games suddenly decided without warning they would flock to this game. lol IMO the proper solution really is for people to wait it out. There's no need for them to compensate players for time that cannot be used anyway. Demanding more is entitlement.

[Viirin]

i'm just level 84 after 6 days (that i could barely play tnx to SE). Can i complain?

You "can" do anything you want, but you shouldn't. Everyone is dissatisfied about the situation. If it actually makes you mad at SE, then quit. If you're not willing to quit, then you're not actually mad.

[AnnaUK]

I'm happy to wait as long as it takes.. it's worth it.

This company care, they aren't locking you out of the game for fun and I'm sure if they could fix it right now they would. I have only been around on and off since just before Shadowbringers... and compared to the lack of service/content in WoW these guys are angels.

They worked through the pandemic, and the one guy even continued to work from the hospital while battling cancer!

Have a heart people.

[Sathona]

Square Enix just admit the servers are screwed or the client side functionality is trash but this 2002 stuff is not acceptable in 2021 and YOU CANNOT BLAME this on a chip shortage.

No other MMO developer on the planet has these type of disconnects while waiting in the queue and lets not pretend Classic WoW did not launch just 3 years ago or New World less than a few months ago.

We have recent example of this not happening with other game developers and they did not blame the chip shortage. Queues are whatever but disconnecting people for a 2002 error than resetting their queue position is a serious issue.

I just want to understand, you're a lvl 90 Paladin, that went through a rather long msq and other content[excluding queue times]..and yet u complain you cant play?

[Puremallace]

10 bucks per player is alot of money when there are millions of active players though. xD

The reason I can pretty much tell you this is going to happen is not the queues which noone really cares about because compared to other MMO's these are actually pretty quick. The real issue is the unstable client side connection to those servers causing random D/C's and resetting queues.

That error is 100% on Square Enix to fix that is severely affecting all players of the MMO across all regions. It is especially brutal in EU that has very few servers and data centers compared to others. There are some players that due to scheduling and time available to play who probably have not even gotten the chance to really even log in due to these disconnects.

Just get the one month out of the way now or 1 week to alleviate the rage of quite a large amount people and deal with the backend issues and provide frequent updates.