Response to Congestion (as of Dec. 15)

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

to be fair, i can only speak for myself but i do believe that the same goes for a lot of people and I at least would be a lot more open to "hey square, could you take a look at this ? some part of the hivemind found THIS problem and thinks you may have overlooked it" instead of "fuck you square, someone at reddit found out that you are cheating lying bastards that blame the players for your own shortcomings !!!!" which is basically how the thread mentioning the aforementioned problem started, continued on and ended.

Yeah, thats also true, and with all the trolls who've been posting on here for months, its hard to separate the info we should pay attention to and the people who are just messing with the rest of us.

[Jaibamon]

Although the game login experience has been terrible, this has been a great expansion and I am glad that Square is keeping us informed and delivering a well deserved compensation.

Waiting is not a big issue, getting a 2002 error is, so I am glad they can address that.

[Yahallo]

What's really wild with the suspending sales/advertising is... they may very likely have no solid idea how long they'll have to be suspended. Maybe they're hoping, like the rest of us, that things calm down quickly enough that they can resume sales by the end of the year or something. But, they could seriously be looking at waiting until they've got new hardware...

That is grim. I mean, I know they won't necessarily be suffering for it. But, that's definitely an admission of defeat, that they can't keep up.

Just goes to show how severe the chip shortage is. To be honest, I think they may not fully realize how popular the game is. I imagine the situation feels rather surreal to them. Like it is really weird saying that a game sold too well.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

The complainers are still going to rage at SE and play their little victim complex. Watch.

[DamianFatale]

Just goes to show how severe the chip shortage is. To be honest, I think they may not fully realize how popular the game is. I imagine the situation feels rather surreal to them. Like it is really weird saying that a game sold too well.

It's also possible they are being humble to avoid looking like narcissists.

[Sorimachi87]

Having to suspend sales is massive for any company. Although i am sure they'll be okay, this is just... idk.. massive.
Once again thank you for this level of information! May it take as long as it needs..

Thank you for the 14 days as well, it won't be forgotten.

Edit: I think this is by far the biggest trial of patience for all of us in the history of ffxiv.

[TalithaSolarien]

One more big issue is coming. Log4j. I wonder if FF14 servers are affected.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...ity/index.html

My guess is that very, very few games are using Java, esp. not at the backend. While possible doing this with this code is usually written other languages not affected by that thingy ....

[xou_]

The complainers are still going to rage at SE and play their little victim complex. Watch.

Well, the issue was not fixed and nothing is gonna change so yeah, why would "complainers' stop raging?

[Larirawiel]

It is propably this bug:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ver-side-issue

One more big issue is coming. Log4j. I wonder if FF14 servers are affected.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...ity/index.html

It is not a bug, it is a feature.


Cheers

[Lium]

This is the very definition of suffering from success. Suspending sales and advertising. That’s crazy.