Sincere Recommendation: Accept you will not be able to play, walk away for a while

[XplicitX]

> MFW I have been logging on and playing consistently before and after work and are half way through Endwalker already.

Oh please if you're not a no lifer then you're either logging in during non-peak hours or waiting 4-6 just everyone else... sad flex buddy.

[Divinemights]

They only did this after the issues. The warning I'm talking about would have been before this became a big deal. Telling me the servers are full and that's why I can't play is something I could have figured out myself from not being able to play. What's wrong with asking "ok, how full?" and making my decision based on that afterwards? And yeah other companies have done worse things, that has nothing to do with SE right now. I don't expect them to just spawn servers out of thin air(cause it got nerfed ha) or just fix 2002 right away or anything. Is my request really so out of there?

In current situation, yes, you are really asking if impossible.
Estimated lost of 21 days for entire playerbase is up to around 12 millions US dollars, on top of all holding sales during Chrimas shopping season; a period where NA has most purchasing power is a huge loss.
Please name me a gaming company willing to take such loss.

Beside, all company's projection was done near Q4 2020 (all company fiscal year start on Oct as Q1) right in middle of chip shortage where the plan for new datacenter.
Out of no where, WoW exodus happened at Jan 2021 and an increase of FF14 popularity in Jun 2021.
How are they going to know?
Right now, you are sitting here point finger only because it is after the fact, it doesn't make you wiser or smarter.
None of us expect population growth this rapidly.
I personally only expecting que to be around 2,000 at worst before expansion.

Not to mention, US government always has a plan for how to deal with pandemic, did that work well with Covid 19?
No one can foreseeing the future and being so prepared

[Divinemights]

Oh please if you're not a no lifer then you're either logging in during non-peak hours or waiting 4-6 just everyone else... sad flex buddy.

To be fair, queue to Levithan at 7:30 PM EST looking at 6,500 and only able to get in around 10:30 PM.
Played until 1:00 AM I am still able to end up as lvl 89 SAM and Lvl 88 Reaper and progressed 80% of main quest lines.
It is not like you can never play.
Just do your RL chores while waiting for queue, and 200 situation will be improved after next patch, shouldn't be that bad
I do have a work and a life.

[Miles064]

In current situation, yes, you are really asking if impossible.
Estimated lost of 21 days for entire playerbase is up to around 12 millions US dollars, on top of all holding sales during Chrimas shopping season; a period where NA has most purchasing power is a huge loss.
Please name me a gaming company willing to take such loss.

Beside, all company's projection was done near Q4 2020 (all company fiscal year start on Oct as Q1) right in middle of chip shortage where the plan for new datacenter.
Out of no where, WoW exodus happened at Jan 2021 and an increase of FF14 popularity in Jun 2021.
How are they going to know?
Right now, you are sitting here point finger only because it is after the fact, it doesn't make you wiser or smarter.
None of us expect population growth this rapidly.
I personally only expecting que to be around 2,000 at worst before expansion.

Not to mention, US government always has a plan for how to deal with pandemic, did that work well with Covid 19?
No one can foreseeing the future and being so prepared

I'm asking for an idea of how full the servers are and that is pointing fingers? Are you guys doing this to me on purpose or am I missing something? If the servers are full, I cant play. If I can't play, why would I buy the game? "Hey we don't got the space" would get an "ok i'll try anyway or just wait" from me. Im not blaming them for not having a bunch more servers or blaming them for not being prepped for covid either. If you can't provide the product then ok i guess but im not going to still buy it.

FF was fine before the WoW exodus and got more so afterwards which is a good thing. Kick blizzard in the teeth by making a better product to get them to try harder and I have 2 tab target sub based mmos to play. It isn't my fault they can't handle the surge though. SE is clearly doing something about it at the moment but outside of people leaving or them getting more servers the big issue isnt going to go away. A datacenter sub count would at least let people know before hand what they are getting into is all.

[Divinemights]

I'm asking for an idea of how full the servers are and that is pointing fingers? Are you guys doing this to me on purpose or am I missing something? If the servers are full, I cant play. If I can't play, why would I buy the game? "Hey we don't got the space" would get an "ok i'll try anyway or just wait" from me. Im not blaming them for not having a bunch more servers or blaming them for not being prepped for covid either. If you can't provide the product then ok i guess but im not going to still buy it.

FF was fine before the WoW exodus and got more so afterwards which is a good thing. Kick blizzard in the teeth by making a better product to get them to try harder and I have 2 tab target sub based mmos to play. It isn't my fault they can't handle the surge though. SE is clearly doing something about it at the moment but outside of people leaving or them getting more servers the big issue isnt going to go away. A datacenter sub count would at least let people know before hand what they are getting into is all.

Are you not aware there is something called time zone?
You really thinks if server only has 17,000 spaces and they should only sell 17,000 copies?
Some Asian players do come to play on NA servers and they are no different time zone.
This is not those private sever host by your friend
All MMORPG have been work this way since the beginning, why are you act so surprise right now?

[Maxilor]

Oh please if you're not a no lifer then you're either logging in during non-peak hours or waiting 4-6 just everyone else... sad flex buddy.

Two Words: Remote Desktop

I just queue an hour or two before I leave work. Oh look, I can play the game.

[Divinemights]

Two Words: Remote Desktop

I just queue an hour or two before I leave work. Oh look, I can play the game.

A lot of people don't have that computer talent or knowledge, just FYI

[LunarEmerald]

If you really want to play then change your sleep schedule so you wake up early in the morning. The queue is almost non existent in morning hours. Anytime I wake up around 8 AM CST, the queue is between 20-30 and it takes about a minute to log in. If you wait until noon or later, it'll be 2000+ and it will take hours.

[Maxilor]

A lot of people don't have that computer talent or knowledge, just FYI

It's not difficult at all and there are plenty of tutorials out there for simple setup.

And it's completely free.

If you want to play the game without sitting in a massive queue or illegally bypassing the AFK Timer then this is one of the workarounds i've been using to consistently play and enjoy the expansion.

[Miles064]

Are you not aware there is something called time zone?
You really thinks if server only has 17,000 spaces and they should only sell 17,000 copies?
Some Asian players do come to play on NA servers and they are no different time zone.
This is not those private sever host by your friend
All MMORPG have been work this way since the beginning, why are you act so surprise right now?

"If a datacenter holds like 500k people total but has 600k subs active, they could slap a warning that tells you that you will most likely have a queue during primetime hours. If this starts climbing to 700k 800k etc they should 100% just state they dont have the space and let people make the decision from there"

Miss this part? The reason I even put the cap above is because not everyone subbed is going to be playing at once. Figured that was a given but it wouldn't be the first time that has happened to me on these forums.