Concerns for EW launch

[Jojoya]

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,

Unfortunately, world visit wait times appear to be an Aether specific problem at the moment due to congestion. We definitely haven't had the problem on Crystal and there hasn't been the two times I hopped on my Primal alt since the weekend. Hopefully SE is looking into why Aether specifically is having the issue.

YoshiP did say they have a multi-million dollar server infrastructure improvement in the works but it was not expected to be completed until after expansion launch. Perhaps with the recent surge in new players to NA and EU, they may try to get at least part of it done sooner.

I'm sure there will be multiple instances for EW launch just as there were for SB and ShB. Perhaps they'll increase the number from 3 to 5 or something similar. It won't help much with the initial log in queues but it will help smooth the experience once in game.

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.*

Why couldn't you log out? You don't have to log out on your home world. I've logged out cross world a few times.

I mean it's definitely a bad situation there right now but claiming you couldn't even log out to sleep is just plain false.

[ShasVa]

I've never experienced an FF14 expansion launch. But I have experienced several WoW expansion launches...

MoP: Okay at first but then terrible once questing got going
WoD: Horrendous even with new Oceanic servers, laggy to high-heaven, quests bugged up the wahzoo, queue times stretching to nearly a full day
Legion: Smoothest ever, I was present for the actual switch from WoD to Legion, and it is still the best ever
BfA: Don't remember much at all about this one, but I don't recall it being terrible
Shadowlands: Somewhat between BfA and Legion in terms of smoothness

With the recent influx of players to FF14, I could only guess how Endwalker's launch will go. I do hope that it happens without major (or even minor) incident.

[SniperCT]

I've never experienced an FF14 expansion launch. But I have experienced several WoW expansion launches...

MoP: Okay at first but then terrible once questing got going
WoD: Horrendous even with new Oceanic servers, laggy to high-heaven, quests bugged up the wahzoo, queue times stretching to nearly a full day
Legion: Smoothest ever, I was present for the actual switch from WoD to Legion, and it is still the best ever
BfA: Don't remember much at all about this one, but I don't recall it being terrible
Shadowlands: Somewhat between BfA and Legion in terms of smoothness

With the recent influx of players to FF14, I could only guess how Endwalker's launch will go. I do hope that it happens without major (or even minor) incident.

BC and Wrath were both super laggy with people effectively lined up to kill quest mobs. Cata wasn't too bad. The rest of this sounds about right.

[Hysterior]

They always had issues first days of new expansions.
I think Shadowbringers was by far the smoothest one... I don't remember too many issues outside of long login queues and some area crashes.
But a Realm Reborn, Heavensward and Stormblood were a quite a mess a times...

But even if there is a sudden influx of players (WoW), it shouldn't mean that everyone will still be there by the time the expansion hit.
Let's hope they don't add instances early n the expansion... I think they learned from Raubhan so it should be fine...

[Cortawraith]

In my experience it won't be as bad as ppl might fear. Maybe overcrowded servers like Balmung may get some problems, though ^^

[Tsumdere]

While it won't be a normal day and there will be queue times across the board, I don't think it will be that bad. Shadowbringers launch was smooth as butter and they are making further changes to ensure people can at least log in.

In my experience it won't be as bad as ppl might fear. Maybe overcrowded servers like Balmung may get some problems, though ^^

An aside, but I'm excited for the next Lucky Bancho survey. Most of the new players joined Aether/Primal and queues have been skyrocketing. Meanwhile, Balmung still only has the bog-standard 10-30 person queue. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Balmung went to the #1 most populated server to down in the double digits in terms of ranking.

[Sotaris]

SHB was fine, since they learned a lot from SB release. I'm not worried. Sure it will be queues and minor stuff but that expected.

[MilkieTea]

Why couldn't you log out? You don't have to log out on your home world. I've logged out cross world a few times.

I mean it's definitely a bad situation there right now but claiming you couldn't even log out to sleep is just plain false.

I was stuck in queue. If I’d logged out I would’ve logged back in to the same situation of being stuck in queue. I needed to go to my retainers and reapply FC buffs, both of which I couldn’t do off my home world. If I could access my retainers I would’ve left once the queue got to hitting the 30 minute mark.

I’m autistic. I also have a log out routine that is very specific and if I can’t do said routine I get anxious.

^^^ That’s not SEs fault, that’s on me and my brain, but I still couldn’t log out as I was stuck in queue and would’ve just been stuck in queue had I tried again the next day.

[Hyperia]

I am expecting the initial server up login queues for EW to be in the high hundreds, if not thousands. After they are up, it will probably be a few hundred in the queue at any given time for around one to two weeks. They will also turn on the inactivity logout and EW zone instancing so that will help. So, once your on, you should be good unless the dreaded emergency maintenance shows it’s ugly head.

[hynaku]

First week of a new expansion for me I just level my gathering jobs and crafting jobs to max.