"Lobby server connection has encountered an error" 5006

[CatsWithShoes]

is it just instanced zones again?

[Arixtotle]

Honnestly SE, and I don't want to be mean here, but fix your servers !
I mean, every expansion, this s**t happens. Can't you take any measures to avoid massive number of players making your servers crashes? I mean, you know it will happen... and you have time to prepare yourselfs... So why, every time, we have to get servers issues?

It's not us players that are the issue. Just like at SB launch it looks to be a concentrated DDOS attack. There is absolutely nothing they can do about it.

[LalaSpuedo]

Me also, on ultros

[SamSmoot]

Same here, Got kicked off, now server error at login. Guessing it may be due to players getting out of school and work on the US east coast, and it will sweep across the country adding more and more people to the load.
Oh well, time to wash clothes and buy some groceries.

[Arixtotle]

Same on Aether > Siren

They can not be bothered to learn from Heavensward and Stormblood. It had the EXACT same issues. And only because people that left the moment they had nothing new to do, now suddenly come crawling back and cause issues for us LOYAL players that stuck around no matter what. We should be getting our own dam queue!

EDIT: PC btw. In case that matters.

There's nothing for SE to fix and it has nothing to do with queues. It's a DDOS attack like at SB launch.

[plasmacutter]

another "me too" reply

[HyoMinPark]

Same on Cactuar — was doing Doma Castle just fine and then suddenly the entire party was dc-ing. I managed to get back in once, disconnected again, and now I can’t even get past the lobby server — keep getting 2002 and 5006 errors.

[Cylestea]

was smooth from when the gates opened till this happened. but hey already did a good job not repeating the issues we had in SB. Also i think we where in the same party HyoMinPark

[Eriathe]

I have been playing since the servers came up and there has not been a hitch in anything. Not with the first dungeon, any of the FATES, no lag, nothing. So this is not SE and it is not because it is pre-release. This has all the hallmarks of DDoS

[Cptknottz]

Ditto everyone else