So has Aether crashed again?

[Naria]

Lost access to the FC menu, retainer bell and got kicked from the game when I zoned and can't get back in. I'm also getting "unable to obtain character data due to server congestion."

[KaplanHomahru]

was just disconnected and in queue to log back in...very slow though

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I was wondering what was going on. The game wouldn't let me sign up in the DF.

[Cyreil]

Aye, failed to load back in after my duty trial.

[Dustytome]

Yep. Was getting server congestion notices earlier when mousing over some characters instead of a visual on them which happened last time. Now all my characters show up with the congestion message and the huge queue showed up.

[Beeraga]

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

[RoseOfTheRaven]

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

And this issue commonly happens like EVERY patch too it seems x.x

[Vhailor]

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

Agreed.

In fairness, I'm not sure the dev team (or anyone directly involved with FFXIV) is to blame. This reeks of corporate pinching pennies and forcing sub-standard equipment on everyone. Hard to say either way, but it's ridiculous to take 24 hours for a patch / maintenance and then have so many problems crop up.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

There is only so much bug testing they can do without actually putting stretch on the serves. That only comes with allowing people to populate them again and adjust accordingly.

[Vhailor]

There is only so much bug testing they can do without actually putting stretch on the serves. That only comes with allowing people to populate them again and adjust accordingly.

This isn't being caused my a bug; server uptime should in no way be affected by a patch. Plus, as others have stated, other companies really haven't had issues nearly this bad. In fact, even FFXI was better than this, to my recollection, and that was a far older game.

Sounds like you are more emotionally invested in a simple issue than I am lol. I just understand shit happens, since I work on server hardware for a living. It breaks, code breaks, its not perfect.

I share Beeraga's frustrations here. It's not so much a matter of emotional investment; it's the fact that saying 'well, shit happens' excuses SE completely for what borders on incompetence in this case.

I would understand your perspective if someone were blaming an individual, but a company...? SE could easily be investing enough in this title to not have this happen. I'm sure you know, as someone who works on server hardware for a living, that hardware on its last legs (as an example) is far more likely to break down than high-quality stuff. Coupled with the fact that this doesn't happen nearly as often with other major titles, even F2P titles, and we have a right to criticize.