Concerns for EW launch

[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.