All the lag, network issues are server side [CONFIRMED]

[Appleh4x]

How is that news? They have been admitting server congestion since launch.

They admitted to the game being more popular than expected, but not actually congestion. Server congestion directly causes packet loss, timeouts, refused connections... basically all the issues described. The 90k error once logged in is a timeout, and 90k before logging in is a refused connection, and the lag is the mass packet loss.

[Brises]

They admitted to the game being more popular than expected, but not actually congestion. Server congestion directly causes packet loss, timeouts, refused connections... basically all the issues described. The 90k error once logged in is a timeout, and 90k before logging in is a refused connection, and the lag is the mass packet loss.

I believe when they say servers are running at max capacity, character creation has been blocked, the lobby server has been closed at times due to too many concurrent connections, and have now had two phases of adding more servers. And Yoshi P constantly apologizing for server problems. I think that means they are saying server congestion.

[Raist]

They admitted to the game being more popular than expected, but not actually congestion. Server congestion directly causes packet loss, timeouts, refused connections... basically all the issues described. The 90k error once logged in is a timeout, and 90k before logging in is a refused connection, and the lag is the mass packet loss.

What the...???!!! What rock have you been living under? Haven't admitted to Congestion problems? The Notice section on the Lodestone has posts specifically addressing it.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...ac432b3e55a9ba
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...77fc01eaf49bf5
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...bf87957cdd329f
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...1e2dffa67cccc8

All for of them are from 9/12, and even state Congestion in the title of the post.

There's another on 8/30, again... it's in the title of the post:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...7ef1e00d43f6a7

08/30/2013 11:32 AM
FINAL FANTASY XIV Congestion (Aug. 30)
Currently, due to the heavy traffic, players may experience the following issues.

- An issue wherein the game launcher screen may take some time to display.
- An issue wherein a lobby error may appear at the start screen.
- An issue wherein the World name may not appear correctly on the World selection screen.

If you encounter any of these issues, please wait and try again at a later time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your cooperation.

And that's just what I found with a couple mouse clicks... good grief.