Sincere Recommendation: Accept you will not be able to play, walk away for a while

[Andy_T93]

Would you rather they only sold limited copies of endwalker per server? xD
It is a live service and they are doing their best to make it available for as many people as possible. When they can get their hands on some servers things will improve, once more people finish msq and play a bit less things will also improve. People acting like other MMO's major releases all go off without a single issue, esp after such a surge in playerbase.

YES!!!!!! Thats exactly what they should have done, if you know your server capacity is xxxxxx number of people then you make xxxxxx licenses for it, its that simple if you were going to a sports event and the stadium had a capacity of 60k people you don't then sell 70k tickets

[Rae88]

YES!!!!!! Thats exactly what they should have done, if you know your server capacity is xxxxxx number of people then you make xxxxxx licenses for it, its that simple if you were going to a sports event and the stadium had a capacity of 60k people you don't then sell 70k tickets

Unfortunately capitalism's unlimited growth philosophy and business don't work that way.

[RitsukoSonoda]

YES!!!!!! Thats exactly what they should have done, if you know your server capacity is xxxxxx number of people then you make xxxxxx licenses for it, its that simple if you were going to a sports event and the stadium had a capacity of 60k people you don't then sell 70k tickets

Except this isn't a 1 time sports venue or something to that regards. A better comparison would be a toll access freeway that you find in alot of areas. People pay for access to an asset that is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Depending on day/time/events there will be periods where it will get backed up with people trying to access it all at once.

[juicybug]

staying in convo with an npc does not work anymore. I had to step away for a bit last night for some IRL stuff during a text convo with thancred - and as I sat down, I got red text saying inactivity will log me out.

Im going to go play TemTem for now.
Was thinking of also renewing my PSN sub, maybe check on RDO to see if their bugs have been fixed.

[DMarquiz]

Huge fan of the game, was able to get in every early in the AM but logged out cause I had to work, seriously annoyed Consider the boundary conditions of the login problem:

1. More product has been sold than can be delivered.
2. Infrastructure improvements to help deliver the oversold product is not possible due to supply chain issues.
3. Competition to log in will only increase immediately after early access.
4. To avoid queues, players will not log out. Auto logout is easily bypassed by staying in dialogue with an NPC, auto running into a wall (not tested), macro keys, etc.

The situation will not improve anytime soon. By no means am I supporting that this is an acceptable or excusable situation. I am making an appeal to fellow fans who are getting frustrated by waiting and waiting to get in. Don't do it, your time is too valuable.

Selling a product and then effectively saying, "by the way there will be issues with providing what we sold you but hey we warned you" is a morally bankrupt way to conduct business. Clearly, commercial interests and bottom line sales were prioritized. Apologies are a cheap way to make money, they don't cost anything.

If you are frustrated, walk away, there is no solution. Don't waste your valuable free time and energy friends. Come back and enjoy the game another day ... week?

(Oh shoot I'm queue number 690?! LOL!!!)

oh man, your're lucky, you got a queue time? dang....I'm constantly in spot 2002.

[Alxyzntlct]

Yeah that's the thing that gets me about people wanting them to throttle sales. Can you imagine the backlash? Going from being able to just buy the expansion when you wanted to to having to be one of the lucky ones who got there early? And if you don't, no expansion for you.

Except, because of the server issues, there IS no game for me. And not just for me but a lot of people. What you just described is literally happening because they oversold their product.

So it’s ok one way but not the other?

[Mythos12]

I understand the issues that come with launches of this magnitude but they shouldn't be charging us for a subscription for a game right now that we can't even access. They should suspend subscriptions for at least a month

[DPZ2]

I understand the issues that come with launches of this magnitude but they shouldn't be charging us for a subscription for a game right now that we can't even access. They should suspend subscriptions for at least a month

I've been able to put in 4 solid hours each day since the patch released. 7:30 am to 11:30 am on Friday, and 5 am to 9 am on Saturday. As have tens of thousands of other people (up to 1.156 million people if the 17,000 maximum population for each of the 68 worlds is correct).

Of course, if 1.156 million people try to log in at once, there's going to be major congestion. 26 minutes and counting. Queue dropped from 2950 to 2090.

At a guess, if 32,000 people try to log onto Gilgamesh, only 17,000 will be accommodated. Popular worlds will take more queue time.

[Feronar]

Get up early in the morning, as in 6:30 am or so. It will be much easier to log in.

[DPZ2]

Get up early in the morning, as in 6:30 am or so. It will be much easier to log in.

Do what this player suggests. Well, for North American time zones, anyway.