2nd night unable to play because of LONG queue times

[Yahallo]

Stormblood did open their eye and because of that Shadowbringers was incredibly smooth. However, the game saw an explosive growth in population with WoW refugees that threw their population predictions out of the window. Unless you would have preferred that they prevented people from buying the game which would have probably cause another similar backlash, there is no real solution to this. The solution is server hardware but there is no supply for them to purchase. Unless you want them to magically conjure up servers, then they best they could do beforehand was to warn people that this would likely happen, which they did a month ago.

[ApeKing]

Stormblood did open their eye and because of that Shadowbringers was incredibly smooth. However, the game saw an explosive growth in population with WoW refugees that threw their population predictions out of the window. Unless you would have preferred that they prevented people from buying the game which would have probably cause another similar backlash, there is no real solution to this. The solution is server hardware but there is no supply for them to purchase. Unless you want them to magically conjure up servers, then they best they could do beforehand was to warn people that this would likely happen, which they did a month ago.

You can defend them all you want friend. They are still responsible for this mess and we are still being shafted. No amount of white knighting will change that.

[Jukebox12]

You can defend them all you want friend. They are still responsible for this mess and we are still being shafted. No amount of white knighting will change that.

Legally I don't think there responsible eyes of the public yes legally no

[Raiban]

I was in for a while then while in Frontline I got a server disconnect error .. 3001 error can't get back in and way too late in the evening to try and get back into a queue that may last 2 hours or continue to give me the 3001 error

[ApeKing]

Legally I don't think there responsible eyes of the public yes legally no

THAT depends on your country. The USA has nothing like that sadly.

[Yahallo]

You can defend them all you want friend. They are still responsible for this mess and we are still being shafted. No amount of white knighting will change that.

This isn't white knighting. This is understanding circumstances and being reasonable. I heavily criticized them during Stormblood (Raubahn EX yo), but in this situation, there were no good solutions. There are times when criticisms are deserved and this isn't one of them. People are underestimating the chip shortage and its effects.

[ApeKing]

This isn't white knighting. This is understanding circumstances and being reasonable. I heavily criticized them during Stormblood (Raubahn EX yo), but in this situation, there were no good solutions. There are times when criticisms are deserved and this isn't one of them. People are underestimating the chip shortage and its effects.

You do realize there are more issues going on than just lack of servers right?

[Rahst]

Never before have I seen such a blatantly obvious example of ignorance and entitlement from a group of individuals. I'm legitimately confused if I should be angry you're all this ignorant, amazed at how easy it is to tell absolutely none of you lot have any idea what you're actually talking about, or if I should simply feel sorry for you that you seem legitimately convinced you have any semblance of a good point being made here.

You paid for the pre-order of a game, you got the key to add the early access, and you'll get the key to add the game itself. Product paid for, product received.

You paid for the subscription of FFXIV to play it. You have it. Can't actually play yet? That's why you're getting free sub time, 7 days worth, or more depending on if issues continue. It's actually hilarious to me you lot actively avoid mentioning that part just to make your points seem more dire and impactful, when anyone with the ability to actually read the dev post understands more free game time will be added if congestion continues (which it's pretty obvious it will be continuing). SO, you're being compensated for paid subscription time not being delivered.

Angry you don't get to log in 'RIGHT NOW, RIGHT THIS SECOND, I PAID MONEY!' ? Unsubscribe. That is your legal right. Which brings me to the next hilarious thing that makes it so blatantly obvious you lot have absolutely no clue what you're talking about - your uses of the term 'legal'. There is 100% nothing illegal about any of this, and if you legitimately believe there is? That just proves how completely ignorant to the situation you are.

Please. Please. By all means, unsubscribe and leave the game if any of this is what you actually believe. You get to continue believing you're somehow right, and we get to continue enjoying this game and these amazing developers without the cringe-worthy stain of your presence here anymore. Please? I'd love that.

If not? Actually have a real point to make next time.

[Yahallo]

You do realize there are more issues going on than just lack of servers right?

All of the problems people are having come from the root issue of not having enough servers. 2002's during queue is the most common complaint from what I've seen. Why is that happening? Connection instability/packet loss while in queue. Which probably means network collisions are happening. Why are we seeing this more often now than before? Because a lot more people are connecting, keeping us in the queue for a longer period of time, which greatly increases the chance of network collisions. What is the solution? Either less people play or more servers.

The recent 3001 outage where people couldn't even queue? That's when the login cap is somehow exceeded according to the explanation they gave us. So again, either less people play or more servers are added.

All of these issues can be traced back to the lack of servers. Which means there are no real solutions due to the chip shortage.

[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.