Getting frustrating at the 2002 and losing queue position

[Almiraj]

Greetings fellow Eorzean,

We apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced with server congestion on Final Fantasy XIV. Due to the recent early access period for Endwalker and the upcoming full release, we are experiencing an extremely high surge in player base which may result in long queue times and possible connection based errors. We are aware of this inconvenience and have addressed it in the following Lodestone post:

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...9cad782363f25b

We appreciate your patience and understanding regarding this matter.

Thank you for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support forums!

They have known of this surge in players since June, the server i am on has literally had a queue every day since June so the "recent" garbage can stop. Also as to chip shortage, um cloud hosting? if it was known the servers would not handle the load and that parts were not available then why was a hosting service locked in for the new instances or to provide hosting for new servers? Then no issues with procurement for hardware. Yes it would have taken effort, yes it would have been a large cost and yes it would have taken non traditional thought but these issues were avoidable. Hey bare all of that since they knew the preorder numbers they could have delayed until servers were ready. Content is polished and is amazing, everything else is a dumpster fire.

[Fyrestorm58355]

Don't worry, we get 7 days of free game time today, meaning we get a free week of trying to log in and being unable to play!