Dear Square-Enix. Please preemptively stabilize servers.

[KayoZ]

Yeah I wouldnt get my hopes up about playing. SE isnt exactly very good when it comes to server efficiency. Unless youre in a low pop server dont expect very smooth gameplay. Otherwise prepare to get long queues from people cheating the AFK logout, lag, random drops, and even those lovely errors which plagued release.

[Callinon]

Umm if blizzard can't do it, no one can, blizzard pretty much has the best servers in the business and WOD launch just was hard to log onto, this will be no different.

Actually Rift managed to launch pretty seamlessly. I think it's still regarded as one of the best-handled launches in MMO history. I played in beta and I played on launch day and there was basically no difference between the two. The servers were rock solid.

Rift launched with about a million players.

That being said, this has definitely been the exception rather than the rule. And as someone pointed out earlier in the thread, Rift didn't manage that for their first expansion. That was apparently a disaster.

[Slirith]

*insert video of hitler ranting about XIV EA here* :/

[SDaemon]

I have a feeling it's going to be like Walmart on Black Friday.

As someone who has worked for Wal-mart in the past and on Black Friday to boot. I fear for your lives!!!

[Kitsune]

Don't even want to imagine the queues if you happen to get dc...

[Morzy]

Lol. This rmeinds me of the launch of GTAV Online. What a mess it was.

Im sure SE will do all they can but sadly there's not much to do.

[Stormfur]

Even with the best servers money can buy, too many concurrent connections can cause bottlenecks. Amplify that by the number of people repeatedly trying to login, and you'll get a mess.

[AsahinaMyLove]

A request that I'm sure a lot of people feeling the hype will agree with:

Please have the servers ready for mass logins during both the early release and formal release timeframe. A lot of us would like to actually play the game instead of spending 2 hours attempting to login.

Please be ready!

Im 100% sure PSN will crash as soon millions of people trying to buy Heavensward! (We Europeans PS3/4 user are able to "Pre-Buy(?)" at 19th Lol)
Not to forget millions of people want to download the new BIG (15-20GB?) Patch at same time too!
Also many of them want to go to heavenswards new maps.
Its like S-Rank's! Countless people at same place(massive lag, 90k errors etc).. but not for minutes!- ...Days! <,<

Pretty smart for not letting us download the datas weeks earlyer to avoid all these issues.

[Hieral]

Umm if blizzard can't do it, no one can

Blizzard is notorious for crappy quality. Square Enix is generally not.

[Fortified]

Servers get full. Expansions brings lots of people logging in at the same time. It's not rocket science and every MMO has this problem. The best Square can do is put server queues and attempt to stagger release (i.e. early access). Everyone's just going to have to be patient on 6/19, it's not a big deal.