What happens when "early access" is "cancelled" by server fail?

[Evergrey]

Never expect a smooth launch of an expansion.
One would be naïve to do so.
A launch can only do better than others but there are like not a single launch that doesn't have downtimes for hotfixes and maintenances.
And expect queues, long ones.
Imagine a Black Friday rush that one can see clips on youtube.

[Floortank]

I was stuck behind Raubahn's MSQ during Stormblood early access, but I was still able to log in every day.

I got two jobs to 70 before I got through the MSQ bottleneck, DRG 70 entirely in PVP and in about three hours. PVP at Stormblood launch was insane. You got a massive amount of exp, and the same amount win or lose. It was amazing. Levelled so fast. Sadly they quickly nerfed PVP exp.

I didn't really feel like Stormblood's launch was a disaster. I was able to get on and do things. I just had to adjust my plan and finish MSQ a bit later.

[Curisu]

Expect longe quene times to the server and some instances and maybe a few server crashes.

Due to the new gained popularity these times will be a bit longer then in the SHB early access.

And I think the biggest issues will be caused by Ddos attack's.

[Duskane]

I don't think itll be as bad as people think it will be
ShadowBringer also had way more people than Stormblood,Stormblood only messed up because of 2 story instances at the start of the expansion so just about everyone was bottle necking the game,Shadowbringer didnt have any story instance till after the first dungeon because they learned their mistake.
we will have long log in ques and maybe a dungeon instance crash but i dont expect anything like HW or SB

[Setesh45]

Well, what happens huh?
I'll probably look to my right, watching the empty chair, feeling sad again that nobody sits there beside me.
The game always manages to take my mind off things, but if the servers crash the sadness returns. I'll sit there for a while, checking the game for a little while, hoping the servers are back on.
After a few minutes I'll probably give up, go to the kitchen to get a snack to help me cope better.
I'll sit there watching an anime or something, eating, waiting for the game to come back online, hoping I'll get to play again before going to bed.
Other than that, the world will most likely keep spinning, the servers will eventually come back online, and we'll be wasting our time playing the game for great many reasons again.

[Ranhansha]

Have we ever had any kind of compensation in XIV?

[Arazehl]

Have we ever had any kind of compensation in XIV?

Nah SE license agreement covers any downtime due to crashes. It's part of any mmo really.

The only time was with the legacy players and 1.0 calamity. I think they all got ARR expansion for free.

[DrWho2010]

Have we ever had any kind of compensation in XIV?

We got one day back I believe when they moved the NA Data Centers from Montreal to Sacramento.

[Roda]

We got one day back I believe when they moved the NA Data Centers from Montreal to Sacramento.

I wanna say we got a couple days from the arr launch?
Oh yeah we got a week!

[Vahlnir]

I wanna say we got a couple days from the arr launch?
Oh yeah we got a week!

ARR launch was rough for sure, but I don't think anyone could have really seen that one coming. SE was NOT expecting it to take off so quickly. Neither was I, honestly.