Be patient and appreciative

[Aluja89]

No grace period, AFKers just sitting around in big cities, no priority for healers and tanks so everything is just bottlenecked on top of that forced error crashes.

Good job SE.

[Rezef]

I'm both amused and salty over this whole situation. The servers are on fire and SE does nothing honestly
At this point they can't honestly do anything and wait out for the hype to die out. Thing is that the game got a huge new players influx over the year and they honestly did nothing. Before ppl say blah blah covid blah blah, they had a year and could put some of the money we pay to have a proper release which clearly we don't and worse is official release is in a few days where things will get even worse. Another letdown. Sadly I've so lost the great respect I had over the devs and now just see them are plainly mediocre. Pretty much like in any other game.

[DMarquiz]

Not even kidding when I say I was in spot number 1 in queu and got hit with the 2002. Got back in at number 4633.

[Unholychinchilla]

I disagree the problem isn't the queue time. The problem is the error 2002 you get while trying to get into the queue and even while in the queue. I would probably go as far to say that this expansion has actually been the most unsuccessful launch FF has had. I would also like to iterate that the game was delayed for an additional two weeks for QA and I would think one of the first things to check would be accessing the game. SE has had server problems since this game was released and the fact that they continue to have server issues 8 years later is completely unacceptable. Instead a simple apology and being told to deal with it. You can defend these actions all you want but would honestly be ignorant to ignore this fact.

Just want to address this line right here. You do know 1.0 nearly bankrupted SE, right?

[DMarquiz]

I'm thinking would the physical logistics be possible in the amount of time they had between the HUGE influx of new players and release? I don't think they had a clue there would be this many people suddenly. Would they hardware even be possible to procure in the amount of time? I know absolutely nothing of making a game, so I'm thinking that they had to suddenly make some very big and expensive purchases and try and get it set up in time...?

[Velnora]

I disagree the problem isn't the queue time. The problem is the error 2002 you get while trying to get into the queue and even while in the queue. I would probably go as far to say that this expansion has actually been the most unsuccessful launch FF has had. I would also like to iterate that the game was delayed for an additional two weeks for QA and I would think one of the first things to check would be accessing the game. SE has had server problems since this game was released and the fact that they continue to have server issues 8 years later is completely unacceptable. Instead a simple apology and being told to deal with it. You can defend these actions all you want but would honestly be ignorant to ignore this fact.

Most unsuccessful launch? Lol. This is the first time they have had an early access launch, with queues in the thousands. Shadowbringers wasn't even remotely close to having this amount of congestion.

[Ranhansha]

Most unsuccessful launch? Lol. This is the first time they have had an early access launch, with queues in the thousands. Shadowbringers wasn't even remotely close to having this amount of congestion.

And then you have people saying this is really successful because previous launch queues had 23k+ people. Weird. I guess he means unsuccessful as in disastrous. Which I support. 9 hour queues should never be accepted nor supported, yet here we are.

I'm thinking would the physical logistics be possible in the amount of time they had between the HUGE influx of new players and release? I don't think they had a clue there would be this many people suddenly. Would they hardware even be possible to procure in the amount of time? I know absolutely nothing of making a game, so I'm thinking that they had to suddenly make some very big and expensive purchases and try and get it set up in time...?

You mean 8 months in advance with all the means and data necessary after making an announcement on how congestion might happen? I suppose they saw something coming.

Seriously, it's dead simple. SE said:"Deal with it until people get tired" Their subscription, that is, the money they paid to play, expires, they decide not to sub for this absolute disaster, and queues are more tolerable. People already bought the game and paid for a month and they saved on servers.