Stormblood = Nightmare for casual players

[DarkLiriel]

Transfer is not a solution!

Transferring IS a solution. If you don't like how populated balmung is, you and your group of friends can transfer to select other servers free of charge.

To those saying "We pay the ff14 team all this money" no, you don't. You pay the entirety of the square-enix company a sub fee, which goes into a pool of gross/net profits and gets distributed to each department accordingly. the ff14 dev team has a strict budget that they absolutely have to adhere to, or the higher ups will pull the plug on the servers and no more ff14 ever again. Just because you pay 15$/mo does not mean you're going to see 100% up time. During early access, you can and should expect a VERY low access window because early access is when a company stress tests servers to see how they handle high populations slamming them at the same time. In this case, they didn't handle it well, and they have to figure out how to correct the issue within their budget.

[Nixxe]

Transfer is not a solution!

Yeah, it's absolutely a solution. Balmung is a mega server. That means there are going to be queues, often lengthy ones, when new content comes out. They'll die down after a bit. If you can't stand that, then leave the server. They basically pay you to leave if you choose an appropriate destination realm.

[Dezee]

i LIKE CHEESE AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE DAMMIT!!!!

[Pence]

Balmung

They have done the best they can...they added new instances (3 copies of every new zone), and allowed free transfers. The servers are unstable as is with the current player limit. If they add more it'd just cause more stress and crashes. Why does every Balmung player throws around 'Cloud Computing' like it fixes everything, refuses to accept that an over populated server is over populated and won't transfer due to friends? Ya'll aren't very interesting people anymore. It's always the same. Give us better drama please.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Nightmare...? How is...

....Oh. Right, Balmung. Well, you made a very poor server choice. Still having no queues getting in.

[Yahallo]

Transfers are a solution, may not be the one you want but it is a solution, and with them giving out free transfers and all those other bonuses, they are trying to give some incentives to those who transfer off the highly populated server. If you stay on Balmung or other high population server you have to accept the possibility of long queue times. I am on Greg, another overly populated server and I learned to deal with the queue times.

[Atlas-04]

OP is on Balmung lol. Tired of Balmung players crying about queue times and blaming SE.

I've said this before, my server has at most 1 minute queues if any at all. The most populated WoW servers have huge queue times as well, especially on expansion launch. Not only a SE thing.

[Synrin]

OP is on Balmung lol. Tired of Balmung players crying about queue times and blaming SE.

I've said this before, my server has at most 1 minute queues if any at all. The most populated WoW servers have huge queue times as well, especially on expansion launch. Not only a SE thing.

Dude this was 5 years ago. Legion had a smooth launch. And let me tell you that 2k people in WoW log in faster than 2k in XIV. It is not the same.

[savageink]

Dude this was 5 years ago. Legion had a smooth launch. And let me tell you that 2k people in WoW log in faster than 2k in XIV. It is not the same.

Legion wasn't that smooth. There were still que times and server lags even with the instances up. It wasn't all fairies and rainbows....admittedly nothing like the craptacularity of WoD's launch. Since Friday, the longest queue I've been stuck in is 785 which took less then 5 minutes to run down. And I have had no lag at all. My character got locked out for a half hour for some reason, which they fixed a half hour later and I had to wait a bit to get over Raubann's wall because everybody DDoS'd the instance server. No biggie. I did some roulettes...which didn't boot me out and got all the side quests and alt quests in the peaks done while running some FATEs. But I'm on a "Standard" server. On Primal. So, there's that.

[Mission]