Best launch of any mmorpg I've played

[Catwho]

Staying on isn't the problem, actually making it in the game through queue hell is. 4.5 hours tonight for me so far and STILL WAITING...

It's because of the insane folks who did a 16+ hour marathon after logging in at 4-5 AM - most of us are just now logging off to free up a space.

I took a break around 1PM to go outside and get fresh air and exercise, and when I logged back in at 2PM the queue on Lamia was still a very reasonable 49 people.

However, the queues got terrible around 6PM when the folks who got home from work tried to log on, and ran into those of us who took the day off.... still playing.

[DBriggs304]

Shadowbringers launch was near perfection. This launch is pathetic. 4 expansions in and suddenly we have these 2002 and 2004 errors from being in queue too long. They are blaming the pandemic for not buying more servers. They've been working on this xpac for 2 years now, I don't feel sorry for them for waiting less than a year before their next xpac to decide that it was in their best interest to buy more of them. They should've added more servers 8 months ago when there was a surge of players joining the game, but they didn't do anything. It has nothing to do with availability, they didn't want to pay the price to upgrade at the time.

Why would they have purchased more servers then when the game only recently exploded with new players? Yes, Covid is absolutely a factor.

[Selova]

Shadowbringers launch was near perfection. This launch is pathetic. 4 expansions in and suddenly we have these 2002 and 2004 errors from being in queue too long. They are blaming the pandemic for not buying more servers. They've been working on this xpac for 2 years now, I don't feel sorry for them for waiting less than a year before their next xpac to decide that it was in their best interest to buy more of them. They should've added more servers 8 months ago when there was a surge of players joining the game, but they didn't do anything. It has nothing to do with availability, they didn't want to pay the price to upgrade at the time.

There are far, far more people playing during this expansion than there was during Shadowbringers launch, which is why the errors are happening. This isn't even remotely a fair comparison.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Literally what I'm doing right now.

Current thoughts revolving around what comment could infuriate a person greater than boasting about an awesome launch when thousands of players are waiting to get in.

Where's Titanmen?

Hey! Share some of that popcorn! The smell is driving my salivary glands into overdrive!

[keichirou]

It's not FF14's smoothest launch for sure (smoothest one was 5.0, and 3.0 wasn't that bad as well), but it's absolutely much better than the horrendous disaster that was 4.0 early access.
People cry about 1 hour queue, yet I remember Rauhban duty issue that would kick entire server at once and welcome player into 23k+ queue where you would sit for 4-6 hours with the hope of not being kicked from lobby because it would mean starting from scratch.

All things considered, I think 1st day was as good as it could possibly be with current servers's state that wasn't exactly perfect prior update either.

you do realize we have 1hr queue and we get kick out of the lobby for...idk...and also we get the 2002 error ...js meow~

[ClaudeHerel]

fantastic bait

[SturmChurro]

The first hour was rough as any game it's first come first served and a lot of luck to get in first to avoid most login issues.

After that though? Haven't been kicked after 16h+ and the server's as far as I can tell haven't gone down once.

Amazing.

After trying and trying to get in when the servers went up, I got in, and stayed logged in for maybe 13 hours or so. Then my own internet died. I just decided to go to sleep, in queue again now. It seems like most of the issues are coming from EU datacenters?

[Thari]

I had almost exact the same experience. Had a 4k queue at the launch of the servers got in and Played for almost 10 hours straight.

[Lufir]

I'm absolutely enjoying the arguments of the SE white knights vs. the raging customers. This has been the best forum debate since back in HW of whether Lyse was a Monk or a Dancer.

[SturmChurro]

After trying and trying to get in when the servers went up, I got in, and stayed logged in for maybe 13 hours or so. Then my own internet died.

So, while the servers seem to be fine for me, my internet isn't. My internet going out during the afternoon, was definitely not the only occurrence. I have lost connection to the server about 5 times now tonight, due to my internet. During lengthy cutscenes as well, so it's just lovely. I may have some words for my internet provider here soon.. At least getting back in hasn't been a major issue..