Remove timer SE

[Luna-M]

If you played on not a heavy populated server you wouldnt get 600+ queues.

[Jojoya]

If you played on not a heavy populated server you wouldnt get 600+ queues.

I'm on one of the lowest population NA worlds. On the 13th, I tried logging in one minute after the servers came up. I was 987th in queue. I waited 14 minutes to get into the game. One of the other members of my FC tried logging in two minutes after I did. They were over 1300 in queue and had to wait 25 minutes to get in.

It's pointless (and ignorant) to tell a NA player they should have picked a lower population server when the lowest population servers in NA are also getting those queues and don't have available houses anymore than the server they are currently playing on. We don't control the number of servers available to us - SE does.

[Almagnus1]

I'm on one of the lowest population NA worlds. On the 13th, I tried logging in one minute after the servers came up. I was 987th in queue. I waited 14 minutes to get into the game. One of the other members of my FC tried logging in two minutes after I did. They were over 1300 in queue and had to wait 25 minutes to get in.

It's pointless (and ignorant) to tell a NA player they should have picked a lower population server when the lowest population servers in NA are also getting those queues and don't have available houses anymore than the server they are currently playing on. We don't control the number of servers available to us - SE does.

I'd bet money that if even you doubled the wards, you wouldn't put a dent in the housing problem because I suspect that a lot of the NA servers growth is from FFXIV absorbing WoW's population since Blizzard keeps doing dumb stuff, which is only going to make this problem worse in the short term. I'd like to think we're not going to have the long term retention issues because WoW:Retail is such an inferior game to both FFXIV and WoW:Classic.

[Jojoya]

I'd bet money that if even you doubled the wards, you wouldn't put a dent in the housing problem because I suspect that a lot of the NA servers growth is from FFXIV absorbing WoW's population since Blizzard keeps doing dumb stuff, which is only going to make this problem worse in the short term. I'd like to think we're not going to have the long term retention issues because WoW:Retail is such an inferior game to both FFXIV and WoW:Classic.

It's honestly hard to say what the effect would be. Some worlds it could solve the problem but I doubt it would solve it on all worlds.

But it would only be a temporary solution unless the player base stopped growing. The 4.2 wards seemed to be a solution at first. There were multiple NA worlds with hundreds of houses available for most of 2018. Then the player base started rapidly growing in 2019 and all those houses disappeared even before the data center reorganization could happen.