Please make Balmung a congested world and lock it down like the Firmament.

[Violet_Galaxy]

This guy definitely has an erp alt or two on here.

Seriously. Look at his past posts and they'll be the first to bring up erp for some odd reason.

But yeah I would like to try Island Sanctuary sometime in the future as this week, it was inaccessible to me.

[Tlamila]

How long are these queues?
Just curious, cause I think this expansion no world apart from the few dead ones has ever had no queue. But it's usually like 10-people, are the Balmung ones actually long queues?

[Violet_Galaxy]

How long are these queues?
Just curious, cause I think this expansion no world apart from the few dead ones has ever had no queue. But it's usually like 10-people, are the Balmung ones actually long queues?

Yesterday I had the day off and tried in the morning and still couldn't get in or access my apartment. It's been congested pretty much all this week for me, no matter what time I try.

[Tlamila]

Yesterday I had the day off and tried in the morning and still couldn't get in or access my apartment. It's been congested pretty much all this week for me, no matter what time I try.

Oh wow that's so bad!

Also I'm a total potato cause I read the OP wrong and thought it was about login queues and my bad, but this is super bad too.

[Bunnycake]

https://twitter.com/SutaBuns/status/1264701751099305984

I remember that lol. Turned out it was a joke but it does happen.

[Gyson]

I usually take most FFXIV issues in stride. However, the problems that have come with the release of Island Sanctuary are really starting to frustrate me because I haven't been able to enter my house since the patch released.

I'm sure Island Sanctuary is great, and I even look forward to trying it one day whenever everyone can actually access to it. But the fact of the matter is the developers willingly released a system into the game that essentially broke housing on my server. Either they failed to test for these congestion issues under a simulated scenario on par with Balmung's traffic, or they did test it and released Island Sanctuary knowing it would create these problems. Either scenario is bad.

I was pleased when they said they were looking into potential solutions. I am not pleased with their remaining solution for players to "try again later" once those potential solutions didn't pan out. I doubt many players in FFXIV are thinking "I need to access my house a moment.. or I could wait and do it in a month or so per the advice I was given, that's fine too..". Waiting for this problem to sort itself out is not an acceptable solution.

[Jojoya]

Title says it all. It's impossible to go to the Island Sanctuary because of this many people.
There's a 24/7 queue, even at dead hours 1AM~7AM, it's way too full with all the new characters and Wanderers and Travelers both. Ul'dah, Limsa and even Gridania are a laggy mess.
Please block entry from Travelers and Wanderers and disable the creation of new characters.

New characters, Travelers and Wanderers have zero impact on your ability to visit your Island Sanctuary because they can't form new Island Sanctuary instances when not on their home world (or can't at all in the case of new characters). They can only enter an Island Sanctuary instance if visiting a Balmung player that is on their island, and that doesn't create a new instance. It places the player into the existing instance.

Every NA world has log in queues right now - it's patch week. Nothing new.

Players on every NA world are having problems entering Island Sanctuary and housing during normal and peak play hours. Island Sanctuary is new content everyone is trying out. Nothing new.

Wait two weeks and then it's something to revisit if it not being able to enter them outside of peak hours continues to be a problem (it's going to stay a problem during peak hours).

Last time Balmung was locked down as Congested for more than 2 months, Balmung players were complaining about how boring the game was without any "fresh blood" being added to its community.

Your best bet is to wait until the new NA data center opens in November (hopefully they don't have to delay it yet again) and hightail it off Balmung. You're always going to have problems as long as you remain on Balmung.

[Lunalepsy]

All the people hating on Balmung are the ones who hang out there all day long.

[Imora]

https://twitter.com/SutaBuns/status/1264701751099305984

Basically, that.

He says there's like three couples that do it and it's always the same ones.

[Sotaris]

Please lock Balmung in and never let it out.

Or set it aflame. Sickness must be purged.

I support this.