Auto log off does not work, 2400 queue to enter after going down. Upgrade servers!

[RayneLittlewinkle]

It does work at 10:10pm Central time my queue was only 734 and it took me less than 30minutes to go log in. Probably like 24 minutes?

[Rita1989]

Any 'proper' fix would take development time and testing time, and wouldn't be able to help with the issue now.

A proper fix still needs to be implemented, but this 'band aid' fix will serve to alleviate some of the issues in the meantime.

This exploit was known at HW launch but SE decided to ignore it then, they had lots of time to address it so dont give them a excuse.

[Felis]

I saw this coming a mile a way. All it did was put everyone back in a queue. Sure it solves the AFKer problem but it just made everyone scramble to log back in and the higher populated servers got to play the queue game again. Granted the one thing it solved was making the queue slightly smaller.

Not only smaller, but also faster

[TaranTatsuuchi]

This exploit was known at HW launch but SE decided to ignore it then, they had lots of time to address it so dont give them a excuse.

I'm not excusing them.

I'm only pointing out that it takes time.



Seemingly it wasn't exploited nearly enough for long enough during Heavensward's release for SE to take notice of it and have the 'higher ups' allocate dev time to fixing the issue.

Now, it's been exploited so bad that the devs have been required to take steps to try and alleviate the issue.
These steps are a 'quick fix' and are helping in the short term.


But they do need to work on a proper long term solution.

[Coratanni]

I saw this coming a mile a way. All it did was put everyone back in a queue. Sure it solves the AFKer problem but it just made everyone scramble to log back in and the higher populated servers got to play the queue game again.

Please. You couldnt be further off from reality if you tried. For two weeks I've been dealing with on average 3 to 4 hour queues. Today I was 1,327 in line at 5:15pm Pacific time and it took an hour to get through. My second time a couple of hours later took 20 minutes. Everyone I know has seen a drop of login times, by 2/3's. That's a HUGE improvement. I knew the AFK-exploiters were making our problems several times worse, and people were justifying it. Then I watched people cry about the auto-log out when it was announced this morning in /shout chat and on facebook FFXIV groups. Well the sky didnt fall, they didnt do this during prime time, and it made logging on MUCH better.

[Nixxe]

They'll basically pay you to leave Balmung.

Bye.

But really, the queues were 3+ hours as recently as two days ago. If they're under an hour, then that's a huge improvement.

[Tinibou]

Even one hour instead of three hours is not tolerable.

[Kuutamo]

There will always be a queue, the login servers don't allow everyone to connect at once so it doesn't crash the servers so it has to let people trickle in. But happy that the queue speeds have increased. Kicking people out still isn't the solution though and I hope they are working on something more player friendly.

[Janhyua]

The problem on Balmung will be resolved when enough people leave or go inactive. The more people complain, the greater the likelihood that the devs will forcefully break up the server.

That's like asking people or waiting for people to quit lmao it's sad that it's the only thing we can hope for