Thread: My first expansion experience, should I expect long queues and down time?

I'm just curious. I mean I get a queue to log in now from time to time so I'm assuming it's going to be nasty when shadow bringers launches.

What's it been like in the past and why are there queues now at the end of an expansion weeks before the new one launches? Typically an mmo is slow before an expansion.

Expect the servers to potato at least a few times during the first 24 hours, max 48 hours.

After that it's usually fine.

I'm speaking from experience with SE and a lot of other MMOs. After a new expansion release, server usually fails a couple of times, then maintenance, long login times, lag, crashes, disconnects. It's pretty hectic at the start.

It chills out after 48 hours max though. Never seen any MMO take longer than 48 hours to chill.

Originally Posted by Cincierta

It mostly depends on what you're queuing for and what class/job, and what time of day you're queuing on.

Typically tanks and healers have much faster queue times compared to dps, though if you're trying to queue up solo for the msq it'll be a wait. Make popcorn while you wait on the timer.

I'm talking about servers.

They just reclassified Ultros and 7 other NA servers as Congested World. That's a lot of congested worlds.

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ARR was brutal, everyone stayed logged in because it took 15+ minutes to get into the game. I don't think I ever had to wait more than a few minutes for HW and SB, except when the servers were failing and needed a fix/reboot.

Yeah it'll depend a lot on how congested your World is. This is why new players really should join the preferred/smaller worlds.
Queing into Balmung (biggest world) took a lot of minutes, definitely 15+ in Stormblood While in other servers it was more like 5-10 minutes.

The queue line might seem long but it's never 30+ minutes. The problem happens when the servers are unstable and you get kicked out and have to log into the game again. We'll see, this game is actually very good when it comes to early access "launch." Never seen a situation where it takes hours to log, not in Heavensward, not in Stormblood.

Well what's concerning is that I get stuck in queue now from time to time. It's only for a few minutes but still... Around launch time could be bad. I wonder if they would consider free transfers.