Guess I don't get to play tonight.

[Darthgummibear]

You decided to stay on that world, it's been full for a very long time, if you want to have less queues, you are free to move.

Then pay for it or stfu.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Then pay for it or stfu.

Deal with it or pay. Queue won't take that long because people were all kicked off. You aren't waiting for people to log out.

[SicariusSeven]

Ahh so something did happen. Was wondering why there was a 2k Queue on a Monday night. Nothing new got released as far as I know.

[AnnRam]

Please insult me too.

[EvalcieChevallier]

I was in Island sanctuary when there was a massive server kick at 4 pm Pacific. A few friends on Balmung reported the same issue. at first i only had a 900 player queue. But when it got down to one player in queue, the server encountered a lobby error. lol. I logged out and flopped over to Masamune in a Japanese data center. No error there. Came back to a 2741 player queue. Got in the second time, after quite a long while, and was fine for 2 hours. Then lobby error. Now I’m sitting on a queue of 1700. I don’t think it’s because of the number of people. All servers hold the same number of people, a relatively low < 8000. And since say...Famfrit on Primal has more active characters than Balmung, if it were a population issue, then it should be Famfrit, no?

Take care everyone, and remember to drink water and eat a good snack.

[Soge01]

Sorry to hear that. Its not a perfect solution to this problem, but maybe have an alt you can play that's on a different server so you can still play. Even though it won't be your usual server, its better than being stuck in queue all night. :<

[Zomkei]

That's what happens when you pick popular servers.

I remember when people would tell you to just move off Balmung if you didn't like it. So I did.

it has nothing to do with balmung being "popular" and everything to do with the servers crashing. in fact, Jenova has nearly the same amount of active players as balmung. around 500 difference. the most popular server is gilgamesh. i get it that people hate balmung, but please at least look at server statistics before saying stuff like this.

source: https://ffxivcensus.com scroll down to ACTIVE population. inactive has nothing to do with this. (and even then Jenova has more characters over all on it than balmung lol)

[Nezerius]

Basically this, play on the most populated server in the game and you get queues, especially if there are issues, this is not new

That would be Mateus, as of the most recent census. Although Balmung's population gets very close.

It's also extremely likely that queues like this would happen on most of the NA servers, after a server crash. Aside from Mateus and Balmung sitting at an active character count of 30.9k and 30.5k respectively, every server on the Crystal datacenter is sitting in the range of 26k characters. Coeurl being the lowest at 25k. Aether datacenter servers are sitting at around 24-24.5k characters, while Primal datacenter servers are sitting at around 24-25k characters (with Behemoth being a bit of an outlier at 22.8k).
There isn't really anywhere for OP to move to, to avoid a situation like this. At least not until the new NA servers get added.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

it has nothing to do with balmung being "popular" and everything to do with the servers crashing. in fact, Jenova has nearly the same amount of active players as balmung. around 500 difference. the most popular server is gilgamesh. i get it that people hate balmung, but please at least look at server statistics before saying stuff like this.

source: https://ffxivcensus.com scroll down to ACTIVE population. inactive has nothing to do with this. (and even then Jenova has more characters over all on it than balmung lol)

That site is worthless. Its made up statistics, it pulls from nothing accurate. I don't know why people keep linking it. Its KNOWN to be false. It once had the EU servers at like, negative pop or something lol.

Balmung is an RP server. Its not going to have the most active characters at ENDGAME, which is all that filters on.

Balmung is pretty much the only server that has ever been hardlocked for YEARS at a time.

Aether was for a bit after the crystal split, but Balmung was locked for close to 2 full years to new characters.

[Zomkei]

That site is worthless. Its made up statistics, it pulls from nothing accurate. I don't know why people keep linking it. Its KNOWN to be false. It once had the EU servers at like, negative pop or something lol.

Balmung is an RP server. Its not going to have the most active characters at ENDGAME, which is all that filters on.

Balmung is pretty much the only server that has ever been hardlocked for YEARS at a time.

Aether was for a bit after the crystal split, but Balmung was locked for close to 2 full years to new characters.

right... then give me a more credible source.