This is starting to get to be as bad as the 1.0 launch

[Penthea]

The WoW exodus to XIV was almost a damn year ago, you had plenty of time to prepare.

Summer 2021 was a year ago?

Sure WoW players started coming to the game gradually long before 2021 and the population swelled with time, but in the summer of this year it suddenly exploded and summer 2021 was not a year ago.

[SgtPepperUK]

Summer 2021 was a year ago?

Sure WoW players started coming to the game gradually long before 2021 and the population swelled with time, but in the summer of this year it suddenly exploded and summer 2021 was not a year ago.

Yup, a few big WoW streamers started giving FFXIV a go in early July, people saw them actually having fun with FFXIV and the dam broke.

Then two to three weeks later, we started to hear of those problems at Blizzard, which no doubt pushed a few more WoW players who had maybe been on the fence to give FFXIV a go.

It's so crazy.

I mean, FFXIV already did the unprecedented after taking 1.0 down, due to it failing to ignite the market, for months to rebuild and relaunch to great success. At a time when pretty much any other MMO would have just kept going by switching to a free-to-play model.

Now another unprecedented situation, a massive influx of players from another (extremely well established) MMO shortly before FFXIV's 8th Anniversary, just 4 months (at that point) before a major expansion was due to drop that wrapped up the story that began all those years ago and in the midst of a global supply chain crisis and pandemic.

As frustrating as the queues have been, my mind is blown by this game not just going through one unprecedented situation but now two. Crazy.