Disconnect - Returning to Start of 4k Queue

[Penthea]

Note: This is exactly why I prefaced my initial post with the statement "I know what other people will say, fix the internet issue." Because I am aware of it, but am proposing that Square Enix could also help alleviate the pressure from people that disconnect. I'm sure you can see the merit in that request?

I can but I have come across people who don't try to improve their game or connection stability even if they easily can simply because it wasn't a big problem before. Some have this idea in their head that just because it wasn't a big problem before means it should not be a big problem now, and so that means they should not even try to make their situation better. I'm not talking just about FFXIV. I have seen people do this in other games.

That being said I know some issues can be difficult to tackle even with the bounty of information the internet has. I just wanted to say that if a person can try to make their chances of playing the game smoother then they should.

And while WoW has a better situation with their servers we should remember Blizzard have a significantly higher budget for WoW and its servers. The Mog Station funded the FFXIV EU servers, SE didn't hand the FFXIV team the money for them. Also Blizzard didn't have to face suddenly needing to increase server capacity during a pandemic and an industry-wide hardware shortage.

Sure SE can change how their servers function to make things better but that is easier said than done and would likely require the servers being taken down for quite some time to achieve this. It's probably why we got a two week delay for EW launch. And SE have cannibalised their own dev back-up servers to improve the queues and disconnect issues for players...which just shows how horrifically bad the hardware situation is and how desperate SE are to improve things.

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I can but I have come across people who don't try to improve their game or connection stability even if they easily can simply because it wasn't a big problem before. Some have this idea in their head that just because it wasn't a big problem before means it should not be a big problem now, and so that means they should not even try to make their situation better. I'm not talking just about FFXIV. I have seen people do this in other games.

That being said I know some issues can be difficult to tackle even with the bounty of information the internet has. I just wanted to say that if a person can try to make their chances of playing the game smoother then they should.

And while WoW has a better situation with their servers we should remember Blizzard have a significantly higher budget for WoW and its servers. The Mog Station funded the FFXIV EU servers, SE didn't hand the FFXIV team the money for them. Also Blizzard didn't have to face suddenly needing to increase server capacity during a pandemic and an industry-wide hardware shortage.

Sure SE can change how their servers function to make things better but that is easier said than done and would likely require the servers being taken down for quite some time to achieve this. It's probably why we got a two week delay for EW launch. And SE have cannibalised their own dev back-up servers to improve the queues and disconnect issues for players...which just shows how horrifically bad the hardware situation is and how desperate SE are to improve things.

I completely agree with your assessment and observation. Let's just say that the idea of having a grace period for people that disconnect is a wish list item for me. If SE officially say that it is technically not possible to achieve or not feasible to implement, then I would let it go and keep playing the game. I wish I knew what their official stance on this proposal is.