Concerns for EW launch

[WK74648]

Hey folks,

I'm happy to see the FF XIV community growing but at the same time I can't help think that with this many players coming to the game, it's going to be a mess with insanely high que times and server stability issues at EW launch. I hope everyone can enjoy it.

Aether is crazy during peak hours. It's nearly impossible to transfer servers. I think Midgard had over a 30 minute wait at one point if I saw correctly on the ETA.

Are there any plans or discussions about addressing this issue from the devs? I remember back in SHB release there were different instances. Do you think something like this would help?

This isn't a complaint thread but just reaching out on the forums and hoping to find answers that may put my mind at ease.

Hope everyone is having a good night/evening.

Thank you,

[ryouma17]

in my 15 years of WoW and my 9 years of FF14 if theres one thing i learned its never play during an expansion release, i plan to spend the first week either leveling my alts or playing other games till everyone is out of the starter zone then i'll creep my way into the expansion

[MilkieTea]

I think Midgard had over a 30 minute wait at one point if I saw correctly on the ETA.

Had to go from Sargantas to Faerie after server hopping to advertise. Took 130 minutes. For those who don’t want to do math, that was 2 hrs and 10 minutes.

2 hrs and 10 minutes that I *couldnt log out and go to sleep.*

[Thaciscokidd]

Just don't go in and expect everything be perfect(expecially this time around). Be patient, report bugs, (sadly)expect a DDoS attack and understand that this launch is going to be very chaotic especially on the busier servers, launch day is basically digital Black Friday.

No amount of testing and planning can predict what bugs my pop up when a metric ton of people trying to do the same content at the same time. Early Access will be a cluster and hopefully they'll have everything sorted out(except ques) by the 23rd

[Equitable_Remedy]

The sky is not, in fact, falling.

[Vahlnir]

It'll be fine. Probably. They've handled launches increasingly well over the years. Still, an emergency maintenance or two should be expected.

[TaleraRistain]

They kind of hit rock bottom with Raubahn Savage in Stormblood and the way Aether used to constantly crash before the new data centers moved some servers off. They've made a lot of backend stability and design decisions since then to help mitigate load at launches. May see an issue or two that will need an emergency fix, but we'll probably be fine.

[Garet]

in my 15 years of WoW and my 9 years of FF14 if theres one thing i learned its never play during an expansion release, i plan to spend the first week either leveling my alts or playing other games till everyone is out of the starter zone then i'll creep my way into the expansion

Same here. The experience of trying to play the newest content the very first day can also be bad for me since it make it laggy etc. and this breaks the immersion. So I will also probabaly maybe unlock the new jobs and play around with them till the population on the early content stabilizes. I remember in 5.4 the areas where the new MSQs are was so laggy for me lol. I do not think I have enough PC power to go along with the early crowds

[Krotoan]

Considering they just added the ability to straight up login your character to a different server from character selection to avoid queues and could conceivably add the same for the cross-datacenter play , I think they've been preparing pretty well.

Sure you can't do EVERYTHING.. but you can at least play and progress.

[Alien_Gamer]

As with other expansions they'll add 3 instances to every zone and reinstate an idle timer so people can't afk all night. After SB they learned their lessons about instances and don't stick them in the beginning of the story arc anymore and they've made significant back end improvements, not the least of which was changing the DC structure to allow for more resources to be devoted to infrastructure stability.

There's no cure for having 10,000 people trying to log in at the same time, so you'll still have a queue when you log in but they've made improvements to make that faster and more stable as well. Queue times will resolve itself after the first week as people stop trying to rush the servers and go back to their normal routines.

Any MMO expansion launch will have its bumps but FF14 seems to handle it more smoothly than most.