Best served with cold steel.

[Elamys]

It's just depressing. I want to play with the few of my friends that did manage to get through. But I can't, so I'm stuck mining for hours on end, when I eventually get tired of talking to Raubahn. It's completely ruined the expansion launch for a lot of people. It would be one thing if it was a side quest. It would be one thing if this was much farther back. But this happens almost right out of the gate, and it's been two days almost. The only information we've gotten is "we're sorry." I don't pretend to know what's going on over there, but it's really upsetting.

It's even MORE upsetting when I know there's another bottleneck on Balmung right past the first one.

[Theodric]

Worse yet, it's intentional - they're limiting access to prevent the servers from crashing which suggests that they're not prepared for a large influx of players even after a lengthy track record of lots and lots of people coming to the game everytime there's a fresh content patch. In an hour and a half as of this post it will officially be day three of early access, too.

[Ayer2015]

Let's all just remember this when 5.0 launches

[JunseiKei]

At this point, I'd be willing to bet that the issue regarding Best Served with Cold Steel is a problem that cannot be readily fixed by the FFXIV team alone. From the looks of things, too, not sure who exactly, they seem really adamant about not taking down the servers. Makes sense if they really cannot do anything to fix the congestion. Still wishing they'd just completely turn off DF and PF for a couple of hours if it could help.

Worse yet, it's intentional - they're limiting access to prevent the servers from crashing which suggests that they're not prepared for a large influx of players even after a lengthy track record of lots and lots of people coming to the game everytime there's a fresh content patch. In an hour and a half as of this post it will officially be day three of early access, too.

Ran into an issue similar to that with the game I worked on. It boiled down to this:

add more server/hardware/bandwidth/whatever was needed to keep the server stable for the entire playerbase at this peak time, increasing the overall cost,

or

bite the bullet and stick to what you have because numbers show your income and player influx will die down and you don't want to be stuck paying a figure you cannot sustain.

[syunikiss]

Let's all just remember this when 5.0 launches

I hope 5.0's EA will actually be playable than 4.0's EA.

[AureliusDraconium]

Someone mentioned doing a player search in the area to see how many people are in the instance and are watching the cutscene . There are over 200 people trying to get in on my world and only maybe one or two actually making it in what seems like every 15-30 minutes. There will be long stretches like a whole hour where no one gets in though. The limitation is set to insanely low so not sure when this will be resolved.

[Nekopaul]

90% of all NA at this point will have spent all of EA trying to get pasted that stupid instance! its coming up for the 48 hours since EA has started and they STILL NOT SORTED THIS!!! SORT THIS SHIT NOW! we dont care at this point if you shut servers down for EM, at this rate the servers might as will crash as next no one can play stromblood's MQS beyond the 1 hour mark!!!!

[Drakana]

Just open up more instance rooms. Right now 160 players on my server are trying to get in. Let more ppl in slowly.

[thatslayerchick]

Man, an update even stating what to do/not do could freakin' help or tell people to just not bother at this point. People's hopes go on every hour as 1 or 2 people get past, so they continue to spam. I'm seeing fights break out over people lining up/not lining up, spamming, etc. 1.0 didn't take long for people to give up on. I feel that this could be the end to a lot of people playing because they have no patience and seemingly no update,support from the creators. Telling people to just try again later is not an update. I guess our money means nothing to SE, nor our time. White knights can back them all they want, say this is SUPPOSED to happen, but no, it's really not. If I had known I was signing up for a beta, I would have waited until the bugs were out so I didn't have to deal with the frustration. And do you really think they will fix this by the 20th??? I doubt it. That's when the real chaos and unsubbing will occur. Not just this quest either. Just a huge disappointment.

[LunarEmerald]

Is it just me or or is a lot easier for Aether users to get in than Primal? Most people I see that do get past it are from Aether. It's almost as if Aether has higher priority. I've had friends on Gilagmesh tell me they got in early morning quite easily because hardly anyone was there. On Gilgamesh no less. Whereas here in Leviathan, early morning doesn't help. There's still 30+ people crowding by Raubahn and you can click spam for hours without accomplishing anything. You can't even tell if anybody is getting through.