Reset the servers

[Komarimono]

Oddly, weird as people think this request is. They have done this in the past. So they may do this for EU servers at the very least.

Back during Stormblood, you'd get a one hour warning that servers were going to reboot, thus everyone was put back into a queue once more. This was on the Japan servers at least.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/263f9a10fe534e8c93e43d08fde73eaba1c52976

[ScriGar]

damn only 15 minutes.....why not try and click on the game everyonce in a while. Its meant I can stay in the queue for hours at a time.
(Also, its roughly 2000 places for every hour or so)

[EverQuest]

Retainer method no longer works most stuff doesn't as of 6.0

However other methods exist

[Imora]

Considering people can get away with being logged in and AFK'ing while doing things like talking to a retainer, I would garner that a reset would be good for the ques.

If people are still able to exploit the afk timer that way. Congestion is expected, but if people are holding spots on the server and not actually playing, im all for a reset.

They fixed most of that.

[Ravare]

They fixed most of that.

Cool if they did. But if they didnt fix all of the methods, those that cheated the system before will find the new current ways to exploit it as well.

[Hasrat]

In all likelihood, yeah, it'll reach this point if congestion remains over the next couple of days. As was pointed out, it's not unprecedented.