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

[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

[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.*

[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.

[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.

[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.