Why not have queue for instanced cutscenes

[Gramul]

compared to the massive effort they're undoubtedly doing now.

What effort? All they have to do is wait till more people log out and more people can slip through, relieving the focused congestion.

[Wildsprite]

All they have to do is wait till more people log out and more people can slip through, relieving the focused congestion.

except this doesn't really fix the issue which is they weren't prepared for how many people would be doing all this new content at once. they should have redunancy server clusters set up for this but apparently that's too much

[Gramul]

they should have redunancy server clusters set up for this but apparently that's too much

It would be. Why spend the time and money when the worst that will happen is complaints for a few days?

[Wildsprite]

It would be. Why spend the time and money when the worst that will happen is complaints for a few days?

you are thinking short term. what happens when 5.0 is released? probably more of the same. redunancy server clusters should be in place regardless. and think about this. they have redundancy for the new areas. why not instances too? sorry but instances regardless of size should have redundancy.

several other MMOs I have played have a redundancy set up. the more people in a area the more instances of it appear. these are free to play MMOs. FFXIV is a pay to play MMO. it should have these redundancies

[Gramul]

you are thinking short term. what happens when 5.0 is released? probably more of the same.

And like this time, the issue solves itself relatively quickly and people forget about it.

The cheaper long term solution is to not bother with it, because there's virtually no standing consequence.