Enough is enough

[Escalon]

Me : Its 8:50pm : Gonna check the queue for laughs : 8640 people
Me : Ah, F it, gonna hit the sack and sleep.
Me : Wakes up
Me : Its 4:00am : Gonna check the queue for laughs : 1
Me : AAAALLRIGHT THEN

Been playing like this in the mornings and just going to sleep more early. Rather wake up 2 hours earlier, Make me coffee, log-in in under 2 mins and play before leaving for work. Its quite better than being tired from work and sitting in a 4 hour queue so I can play 1 hour before going to bed.

[Maxilor]

Me : Its 8:50pm : Gonna check the queue for laughs : 8640 people
Me : Ah, F it, gonna hit the sack and sleep.
Me : Wakes up
Me : Its 4:00am : Gonna check the queue for laughs : 1
Me : AAAALLRIGHT THEN

Been playing like this in the mornings and just going to sleep more early. Rather wake up 2 hours earlier, Make me coffee, log-in in under 2 mins and play before leaving for work. Its quite better than being tired from work and sitting in a 4 hour queue so I can play 1 hour before going to bed.

This is the way.

[Reinha]

Me : Its 8:50pm : Gonna check the queue for laughs : 8640 people
Me : Ah, F it, gonna hit the sack and sleep.
Me : Wakes up
Me : Its 4:00am : Gonna check the queue for laughs : 1
Me : AAAALLRIGHT THEN

Been playing like this in the mornings and just going to sleep more early.

I've been doing the same since release and have had barely any queues. No point in wasting time when I can just sleep and play in the morning. Bonus: people who play like this are not taking up space in the evening queues.

[BaconBits]

Me : Its 8:50pm : Gonna check the queue for laughs : 8640 people
Me : Ah, F it, gonna hit the sack and sleep.
Me : Wakes up
Me : Its 4:00am : Gonna check the queue for laughs : 1
Me : AAAALLRIGHT THEN

Been playing like this in the mornings and just going to sleep more early. Rather wake up 2 hours earlier, Make me coffee, log-in in under 2 mins and play before leaving for work. Its quite better than being tired from work and sitting in a 4 hour queue so I can play 1 hour before going to bed.

Shoot that's what I did this morning too. Went to sleep early, woke up at 2 and got 3 hours of gaming in before going to work.

[OzumaKuma]

They literally said this was gong to happen before the expansion. They've offered up free game time. Stop being mad because you ignored the warnings.

Stop defending their lies and I'll stop getting mad.

[Escalon]

Stop defending their lies and I'll stop getting mad.

Dude, eat a snickers.

A lot of people make it a bigger deal than it is.

Lets go with your version : Its a lie.
And so what ? The WORST, WORST its gonna cost you is 30USD if you do NOT play for 2 months but stay subbed. Is there like a race to finish Endwalker first ? Are they giving away some prizes ?

I play by bits in the mornings, just got to the moon and what ? If I cant queue I just do something else or dont play at all. And before you say I'm blindly defending them, no I am in fact not. I critique FF14, The Community and the Devs a lot, like a LOT, but as I said before, the worst it costs you is 30 USD in 2 months if you stay subbed while not playing. I'm anything but wealthy, and even I can somehow manage that and if I could not, I just unsub, its that simple.
And "Demanding" things because I gave a company 15 or 30 USD is a joke, I own Endwalker and I will own it even after the 2 months.

[Darksummoner]

So common sense. Well, I tell you something about common sense. We subscribed to a service where we pay money for. SE is not able at this point in time to provide that service for me (and others) to an extent that I am comfortable with. When I come home at 7 pm I stare at a queue of around 8k players waiting, even if I do not get disconnected I face around 4 hours plus to wait. By that time i have to go sleep because my night ends at 5:30 am.

So common sense for me is, if SE is not able to provide a service worth the money, they don´t get any money from me unless they are. I do not care 1 cent why they are not able to. I am aware of the semiconductor shortage, I work in IT for over 25 years as a system engineer. Where I work we suffer from that too, but you know what, our customers don´t freaking care too, they care about us providing the service they paid for. That´s how business works, it does not work with excuses.

Honestly what is that with gamers excusing every- and anything so easily, you are customers and you and your money is more worth than Square Enix is providing at the moment.

My subscription ends by the end of december, if this shit show is going on by then, i won´t resubscribe. That´s my common sense.

I think this post right here literally sums it up and says it all. 800% agree

[Darksummoner]

Which is why they gave the 7 days to compensate so you don't lose money. Of course they will give more depending on how long and how severe it gets/continues. If they fix the queue issue before this Friday than you are getting FREE days. I also don't get home till about 7:15pm. The longest queue I've been in is around 4700 which took about 1H 20m. So I think you are overly exaggerating on the whole 4+ hours waiting around 8k.

No. He is not exaggerating at all. I get home around 5:25 to 5:35 P.M everyday Monday through Friday from work. My Que last night was 4465 when I logged on. It took 1 hour 22 mins to get to 2210. I got booted from que, logged back in fast as hell and was back at the que saying 4483. So yeah. Things are nice and dandy in your world and God must be blessing you. But keep in mind not everyone playing this game has your EXCELLENT and rather Wondrous luck as far as getting into this game.

[EtherRose]

No. He is not exaggerating at all. I get home around 5:25 to 5:35 P.M everyday Monday through Friday from work. My Que last night was 4465 when I logged on. It took 1 hour 22 mins to get to 2210. I got booted from que, logged back in fast as hell and was back at the que saying 4483. So yeah. Things are nice and dandy in your world and God must be blessing you. But keep in mind not everyone playing this game has your EXCELLENT and rather Wondrous luck as far as getting into this game.

The question is though, how long until you noticed until you were booted from queue? Because if you logged back in as soon as you got the error you would have been in the same place in queue. This has been confirmed by me and many others from my discord. I don't know if it's the same all around but if every time I dc/d and I immediately logged back in and had the same queue position as I had before and others said the same thing than I'm going to stick with that. So apparently you waited to long to log back in or just didn't notice in time that you got kicked and took to long to get back in to keep your spot.

[Darksummoner]

The question is though, how long until you noticed until you were booted from queue? Because if you logged back in as soon as you got the error you would have been in the same place in queue. This has been confirmed by me and many others from my discord. I don't know if it's the same all around but if every time I dc/d and I immediately logged back in and had the same queue position as I had before and others said the same thing than I'm going to stick with that. So apparently you waited to long to log back in or just didn't notice in time that you got kicked and took to long to get back in to keep your spot.

So on my computer screen, since I have a 35 inch monitor, I have a movie going on a minimal view. That way I can see the view of FFXIV Que while it counts down to letting me in. So as soon as the Error 2002 message pops up, I click it and then relog back into the que.


There was one time last night when I got down in the que to around 2K from 4k something. Saw the error 2002 pop up. immediately logged back in and it put me back in que to 4.8K something. Talk about pissed off.