Look at the state of the forums.

[Lillith1047]

This is a company, a business, offering a service, that you're talking about.
This is not your friend, they are not a colleague, or a partner, or even a bystander.

People are allowed to be unhappy with a service, and complain about a company providing said service, when it is not meeting expectations. As much as you want them to get over their frustrations, you really need to get over them having frustrations.

And they have that right, but, I still see a product they promised, not their fault other games flopped and everyone is flocking here last minute. They're not clairvoyant. Ease up. This is why companies half-ass everything now, and you guys just scream harder at them.

[ZetsubouX]

I am sort of a WoW-refugee. (Although I quit WoW and MMOs in general after Classic BWL, I jumped on the bandwagon to FF14 because I stumbled onto Zepla's youtube channel and saw that this game was actually awesome, plus I played FF games as a kid.)
But I sure as hell don't support the whiners, moaners and Karens on these forums.

They're giving the developers a really distorted view of the playerbase mentality with all these endless posts that are nothing but whine in complete disregard for the reasons as to why these problems are occurring.

I'm kind of worried, because this happened on WoW too and turned it into a really shit game over the years. Whiners took over the forums and were shouting louder than everyone else like a bunch of toddlers, the game became super casual and in game systems transformed into this weird time-based "Do your dailies every day!" nonsensical design that really just made the game horrible.

On WoW classic it was even worse. Roughly when I quit after a raid called Blackwing Lair was (re)released, people started to do what was called GDKP's. (Gold Dragon Killing Point-raids.)

They essentially played into the hand of gold sellers and even went as far as becoming the gold seller's source of gold, selling the gold they made newer players or alts of players pay to be able to enjoy the raid content.

Of course, they did this for selfish reasons. And it resulted in the game dying. (Surprise!)

Similarly, I believe that if developers listen to these children crying endlessly about whatever triggered them on the latest patch, they'll start to implement changes that will not be good for the majority of the playerbase.

I mean, of course error 2002 needs to be looked at, but people don't understand that the queue getting error 2002 is far better than the server getting overloaded and shutting down. Sure, it isn't better "for them", but that's the catch, isn't it?
They're selfish and entitled and don't realise that their solutions would make the situation much, much worse, for anyone, but them.

Also, I think people are actually starting conspiracy theory type nonsense by claiming, without proof, that there are "loads of people" successfully circumventing the AFK-boot out. These sorts of things also happened frequently with WoW during the entire WoW history.

I just hope that the developers at Square Enix realise that the majority of the playerbase is actually enjoying the launch of EW, even if they have to wait for queues, or get up early in the morning to circumvent them.

Take my FC for example, people are just joking around about the queue and celebrating when someone manages to log on. Much more light-hearted than these children who come to these forums to cry wolf.