Best Served with Cold Steel still not working

[Iskaral]

I'm disgusted with the lack of response to this issue; what do we pay a subscription fee for? You move the north american servers, supposedly to enhance peoples gameplay yet all it did was destroy our pings, you also supposedly upgraded the servers (doesn't seem like it). Every time you take the game down for 24 hour maintainance you fail to give us back that full time in gameplay hours; and now this, your loyal players who purchased Stormblood for early access are left stuck at the very start of the expac because you put a stupid bottleneck in. When will you listen to the players, NO ONE ACTUALLY LIKES THE SOLO SCENARIO MAIN STORY QUESTS, they are always a really annoying fight that could easily be handeled outside of an instance, or if it has to be instanced make it a group instance. What is the point in playing an MMO if you can't help people??? If you won't take the servers offline and fix this issue, why cant you just allow people to skip the battle and continue with your precious story cutscenes!!!

[SirenBrink]

I'm guessing the instance server of theirs is the same for every region/regions (i.e. all North American servers share the same instance server). I don't know the inner workings of FFXIV, but that's my best guess considering the instances have been continuously packed for more or less 24 hours now.

Either way, the duty finder is up and working and that seems to be all they are willing to work on right now, rather than making sure their brand-new, full price DLC is properly functional. The thought process is probably, "they can do everything they could do before the update, so why scramble?"

Again, this is just a most-likely inaccurate projection coming from a direct victim of this nonsense. Feel free to correct me, Square. Please correct me.

[Oldvegeta]

now stuck on the quest "In Crimson it Began", come onnn

[Werewolf]

Either they fix this quickly or they better start handing out refunds because this is unacceptable.

[Anakhaa]

im from Midgardsormr server when EA started we realize to our dismay that DF was broken this was directly post 24 hour maintenance, some had issues with logging in and corrupted client, then to prevent server crashing which on our side happened if im not mistaken twice they implemented the instanced areas, at this juncture and at no point did we hear any thing about any emergency maintenance or que being put in place except for player to wait, now it has been more than 24 hours from EA and these following issues persist:

1. Best Served with Cold Steel is fully unavailable
2. Unable to progess anywhere nor do anything in game as due to the unavalibility of point 1 above, we cant access any new areas nor can we level up our DOL classes as it requires us to head to new areas
3. unable to attune aether currants
4. unable to level up DOH classes as guess what we need the mats from DOL as such what affects DOL affects DOH.

So at this point what exactly does SE wants us to do stop playing the game esp when we are paying for the Subs and have paid additional for the Expansion, Please SE this isn't a Free MMORPG, the excuse that you could not anticipate the crowd turnover wotn fly as u exp same thing as ARR and HW EA, in Essence, u created a MSQ with a probability of getting Flooded with players at a very early juncture in the base story where there isnt any option for them to do but either wait, spam or log off.

Waiting and spamming increases the frustration of players and contributes to the unstability of the servers, to not provide any further update the last being 14 hours ago is beyond even me, why released a product when as soon as the sheer number try to access it will collapse your entire infrastucture (server), why are we paying Subs as well as for the Expansion to be innundated with this mess, R u saying that we need to stop playing is that truly the message the SE wants to tell their Fans and potential New Players.

Also as a heads up quite a few new players who have entered the game have become dissillusioned as they cant progress and dont forget some paid additional for the potions or worked hard to level up to reach SB, as Mentors we managed to do some damage Controll but it wont fly if this persist also come what may once it hits 20th and if this isnt sorted u will have a debacle of epic proportions.

Please do something anything to fix this mess as atm the SB is for all intents and purposes unplayable by everyone, implement a que or something, trust me ppl wouldnt mind waiting for hours instead of this mess

[Kytelian]

im from Midgardsormr server when EA started we realize to our dismay that DF was broken this was directly post 24 hour maintenance, some had issues with logging in and corrupted client, then to prevent server crashing which on our side happened if im not mistaken twice they implemented the instanced areas, at this juncture and at no point did we hear any thing about any emergency maintenance or que being put in place except for player to wait, now it has been more than 24 hours from EA and these following issues persist:

1. Best Served with Cold Steel is fully unavailable
2. Unable to progess anywhere nor do anything in game as due to the unavalibility of point 1 above, we cant access any new areas nor can we level up our DOL classes as it requires us to head to new areas
3. unable to attune aether currants
4. unable to level up DOH classes as guess what we need the mats from DOL as such what affects DOL affects DOH.

So at this point what exactly does SE wants us to do stop playing the game esp when we are paying for the Subs and have paid additional for the Expansion, Please SE this isn't a Free MMORPG, the excuse that you could not anticipate the crowd turnover wotn fly as u exp same thing as ARR and HW EA, in Essence, u created a MSQ with a probability of getting Flooded with players at a very early juncture in the base story where there isnt any option for them to do but either wait, spam or log off.

Waiting and spamming increases the frustration of players and contributes to the unstability of the servers, to not provide any further update the last being 14 hours ago is beyond even me, why released a product when as soon as the sheer number try to access it will collapse your entire infrastucture (server), why are we paying Subs as well as for the Expansion to be innundated with this mess, R u saying that we need to stop playing is that truly the message the SE wants to tell their Fans and potential New Players.

Also as a heads up quite a few new players who have entered the game have become dissillusioned as they cant progress and dont forget some paid additional for the potions or worked hard to level up to reach SB, as Mentors we managed to do some damage Controll but it wont fly if this persist also come what may once it hits 20th and if this isnt sorted u will have a debacle of epic proportions.

Please do something anything to fix this mess as atm the SB is for all intents and purposes unplayable by everyone, implement a que or something, trust me ppl wouldnt mind waiting for hours instead of this mess

This. A thousand times this.

[Killdrek]

You will start lose the players. I am one trying do the same quest all day long, we paid for the game and we pay monthly subscription for this?

[Cyion_Zweihest]

I think the worst thing is that if you're stuck on Raubahn in Lamia, its a grim thing to know you're still going to get stuck on Pipin if RNGesus blesses you enough to get past Cold Steel

[Anakhaa]

I think the worst thing is that if you're stuck on Raubahn in Lamia, its a grim thing to know you're still going to get stuck on Pipin if RNGesus blesses you enough to get past Cold Steel

Problem is for a lot of people across all the Datacenters, it's not just centralised with the instanced concerning raubahn and pipin. Yup i know of the two, im personally stuck since yesterday in Raubahn BSC, but reports are coming in that this mess concerns any or all instances inclusive even job or class instances and a lot of people are finding problem with the Df, some are using prefix party to by pass that mess, Somehow post maintenance SE literally broke the entire game see the other threads on the forums, speak to the rest on your servers the issue that we are facing now is a practical collapse of all the instances, some getting access if they are lucky and the DF still being broken some still getting the 90k error so on so forth, i stand to be corrected on this or any part if in the event im wrong, But SE has to fix this ASAP, i havent played much since yest and i just logged off no point in prolonging my misery and getting to overworked and frustrated about this but trust me this events irks me and every other player, Wish we had some clarification from SE about what really is going on and why are they taking so long in addresing this issue as from past conduct they have proven themselves to be the opposite of that so why be MUM now??

[Poisonous]

I'm frustrated, disappointed and sad because there is clearly an incredible expansion that only a small fraction of the playerbase can see. What's in the game looks amazing, and then they go and sour it with such a colossal screw-up. We really need more than vague apologies at this point. DO SOMETHING.