I'm at work and will be for another several hours. From what everyone is saying this sounds like a total disaster though, from people who aren't on right now not getting to participate to allowing other servers to congest areas.... Hopefully even if they don't do anything to fix this patch the future portions of this will have some applied lessons learned.

Quote Originally Posted by Omymy View Post
How to speak having 0 idea of the issue.
...catsplaining.

Quote Originally Posted by Legewiel View Post
In a gacha game we would get compensation for this total failure of event, but in ffxiv we'll get an excuse
we spent our day farming to fill that gauge and now we can't do the event cause ppl from other servers that didn't even help made the instance full and the game isn't smart enough to make a new instance automatically.
To be fair, the reason gacha games have to compensate for everything is that if anyone ever misses the chance to get anything they could lose someone who single-handedly contributes 10% of their profits. Not possible for a similar situation to exist with FFXIV.