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

[Jettinson]

Eeh, i imagine lots of roughness happening and that's it. While i want to get the story done, i can mostly spend time checking out the new areas, levelling the 2 new jobs etc. if it gets real bad on progressing.
If i can't even connect, patience i'll just play\do something else while the problem goes away

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I'm also a bit worried tbh, I don't remember having a queue ever except at the beginning of an expansion. Yet, we have a queue for at least a year now, this suggests we're already at capacity. And yesterday for some reason the server got nuked twice.

Unless SE plan to have some serious scaling for launch day, it'll be a shit show.

The queues were just forced login queues, they aren't real server queues.

You can tell because they tick almost immediately and log you in.


Its just lobby server management is all. It was in patch notes when they implemented it.

[KittyKet]

Heavensward was a nightmare, too. Logging in was impossible, and if you did manage to get logged in, you got kicked. But I think I remember finally being able to play later that night... it just took a few hours more than I would've liked. But days of server issues? Nah, I don't think so, unless I'm remembering wrong.

Like everyone else said, you kinda just have to roll with it. Get comfy, hang out in the forums, have something else to do in the meantime in case your EW plans end up falling through. I don't expect things to be perfect, either, given what we're dealing with now with the server Calamities. BUT, most likely we will be inconvenienced for about half a day, give or take.

[Vahlnir]

Heavensward was a nightmare, too. Logging in was impossible, and if you did manage to get logged in, you got kicked. But I think I remember finally being able to play later that night... it just took a few hours more than I would've liked. But days of server issues? Nah, I don't think so, unless I'm remembering wrong.

I was able to play pretty well during EA. After official launch the servers went to hell in a handbasket. It actually took up until the following major patch or so for me to finally stop lagging. lol

[TheMightyMollusk]

If the server is that bad, I'll just go play something else and come back. But Shadowbringers EA was pretty smooth, so I'm not expecting any major trouble.

[Katie_Kitty]

I think there's zero evidence that we need to worry too much about this. Shadowbringers launch was fine, and at the time they were dealing with an influx of new players back then as well. I guess nobody remembers that anymore, or they weren't playing at the time. People were really hyped for Shadowbringers too.

[ryouma17]

Shadowbringers launch was fine, and at the time they were dealing with an influx of new players back then as well.

theres a difference between a small influx of new players and having half of wows playerbase jumpship overnight, thankfully most of the wow refugees have all moved on to other games so it shouldnt be too bad

[KittyKet]

I was able to play pretty well during EA. After official launch the servers went to hell in a handbasket. It actually took up until the following major patch or so for me to finally stop lagging. lol

Yeah, the nightmare was during official launch. Good times, good times.

[Omedon]

thankfully most of the wow refugees have all moved on to other games

Um... until Endwalker, perhaps?

[HyperiusUltima]

I think there's zero evidence that we need to worry too much about this. Shadowbringers launch was fine, and at the time they were dealing with an influx of new players back then as well. I guess nobody remembers that anymore, or they weren't playing at the time. People were really hyped for Shadowbringers too.

Also don't forget that SE rents out servers to help stabilize any launch issues; this is why we got multiple instances of the same zone in Stormblood so we don't hit the area population cap so easily, and even then it was flooded because of Ixion Campers. Getting Locked out of the Lochs was a thing.

Come Shadowbringers, things were smooth and they fixed their issues from before. The other thing is that they did a major ad buy campaign for Shadowbringers because it was going to be this big hit - and it did hit big. Endwalker's going to be the same thing since I bet they've got a larger budget thanks to Yoshida's leadership and Creative Business Unit III's work.