Stable Servers!

[XplicitX]

Great!!! Stable when you log in, but that takes hours if you're lucky... looks like I can only hope to get in after 12am or so my time. I just spent 10 hours with up to 6.5K in the queue which as bad as that was then the 2002 errors kicked in every 1-2 hours & would reset the whole process. This is just early access so just wait till oh I don't know a few million extra people try to log in another day from now.

[Hasrat]

This is just early access so just wait till oh I don't know a few million extra people try to log in another day from now.

Players that do not have early access are still able to play.

Will full release have an extra bump in players? Probably. "A few million extra?" Please.

Early access launch day is always the rockiest. These doom-n-gloom posts are a perennial thing every expansion.

[XplicitX]

So you think the WoW exodus & the lack of servers they could've bought before covid hit won't affect the state of the game? I mean more people than ever in the recorded history of the game are trying to log in right now, but there hasn't been a new server added since 2019. The supply chain issue didn't happen overnight so don't tell me SE couldn't have swiped some up asap especially since they knew more money was heading their way via more people being stuck at home & their new expansion being only a year away. It's not they have BILLIONS of dollars or anything.

[Kes13a]

So you think the WoW exodus & the lack of servers they could've bought before covid hit won't affect the state of the game?

why did they need servers prior to the wow exodus?

they were adding the oceanic for players there having to connect to NA and suffer performance issues

I would say the majority of people who bought endwalker got the pre order version which... came with the early access key. I doubt server stabilty will be any worse than now, which seem pretty stable.

the issue is the login server, which seems to be an issue in most game launches

[IdowhatIwant]

People that claim this is a successful launch are just ignorant to the actual issues that exist. That is sadly a major issue with the FF community is every one white knights over this game and ignore actually issues that should be address. Shadowbringers was actually the most successful launch so far, no server issues, queues were reasonably 30min - 1hr, and no getting booted from the queue due to a poorly implemented fail safe. I would say this has actually been the worst expansion launch FFXIV has had and yes I believe it is worst then Raubahn as at least you could actually get into the game.

[Jojoya]

People that claim this is a successful launch are just ignorant to the actual issues that exist. That is sadly a major issue with the FF community is every one white knights over this game and ignore actually issues that should be address. Shadowbringers was actually the most successful launch so far, no server issues, queues were reasonably 30min - 1hr, and no getting booted from the queue due to a poorly implemented fail safe. I would say this has actually been the worst expansion launch FFXIV has had and yes I believe it is worst then Raubahn as at least you could actually get into the game.

If you think this wasn't a successful expansion launch, you've never participated in a bad expansion launch.

In a bad launch, the game is near unplayable once you get past the log in queue.