Quote Originally Posted by braneri1 View Post
I was in the Gridania gc building. I hadn't even gone to the gold saucer yet, all I did was get the relic quest started, did one garuda hm fine, second attempt resulted in infinite loading screen after confirming the queue.
yep, garuda and the gold saucer apparently both run on the same server, and everyone choosing to do trial spam, as well as the gold saucer meant that ~90% of the playerbase hit the server at once. yeah, that's probably enough to take it down.