I hope SE learns a few lessons from this.

[Ferocious]

The second point..no..have you ever played a game where many are trying to kill the same mob?

Yes, World of Warcraft. Zero issues.

They even have mob tagging restricted to your Horde/Alliance faction and still zero issues.

Besides that, they have separate "zone" storylines contributing to main storyline, so if one zone is bugged at launch, you can move to another zone. Here, we are all stuck at starting zone because everything is locked behind MSQ. It's a terrible design choice.

[Lambdafish]

Yes, World of Warcraft. Zero issues.

Did you play any expansion launch before legion? Even the juggernaut that is WoW had plenty of issues. I can imagine that for legion they poured more resources than XIV could ever pour into general development into server stability. Bad example.

[Ferocious]

Did you play any expansion launch before legion? Even the juggernaut that is WoW had plenty of issues. I can imagine that for legion they poured more resources than XIV could ever pour into general development into server stability. Bad example.

If you want to compare resources, even F2P MMOs like Wildstar, Guild Wars 2, etc have mega servers. They make FAR less money than FF14. SE needs to be a little grateful because other MMO companies would kill to have this many subscribers. It's so annoying to witness that I wish it was a law for subscription based services to provide proof that they are spending their monthly income to good use. For 4 years, this is the second most popular P2P MMO and we have worse issues than F2P MMOs like server congestion, lack of storage, bad glamour system, housing bandwidth problems (F2P MMOs give free housing to everyone), etc.