Enough is enough

[Hasrat]

I do suspect there's something wonky going on with the "down to 1 and then kicked" situation. There's gotta be some bizarre miscommunication where the server recognizes you're up for getting logged in, and starts making the attempt and somehow can't find your character or something.

Realistically, there shouldn't be nearly so many cases of players genuinely sitting at literally the front of the line. If you see yourself down to first in line, you should immediately be suspecting something's gone wrong and the server can't sort it out.

[Scardrak]

I'm fine waiting in queues if it means I'll eventually get in. It's not even a queue at this point. It's an artificial timer. If there happens to be a spot when it ticks down to 1 you get in, if there's no spot you get sent to the back of the line. How there are people that can excuse that is beyond me. Server's congested at the beginning of an expac...WE ALL GET THAT. At this point the queue numbers mean squat. That's the irritating thing.

[AlwaysConfused]

I do suspect there's something wonky going on with the "down to 1 and then kicked" situation. There's gotta be some bizarre miscommunication where the server recognizes you're up for getting logged in, and starts making the attempt and somehow can't find your character or something.

Realistically, there shouldn't be nearly so many cases of players genuinely sitting at literally the front of the line. If you see yourself down to first in line, you should immediately be suspecting something's gone wrong and the server can't sort it out.

Absolutely correct, has happened to both me and a friend (separate times and one day apart).

[Hasrat]

Absolutely correct, has happened to both me and a friend (separate times and one day apart).

I actually tried logging in earlier (usually wait for the dead hours) and got it, too. But, rather than be frustrated about it, it's just got me curious. It's spread out enough that it's probably not an ISP issue. Maybe a chance of some packet bottleneck somewhere or whatever... but it's across regions/data centers, too... Or could just be the server knows you're supposed to be in the game but it's too overloaded and can't find your character data to actually put it in the game. Idk. Quite possibly even the devs are still working out exactly what's happening. It's strange, to be sure.

Ultimately, I'm not too fussed, tho, because I'm willing to accept the infrastructure is just struggling on all sides. This is a situation they've probably never encountered before because they've never had this many players trying to be active all at once. Best case, they figure out where the losses are happening and patch the leaks. Worst case we suffer until the load lightens and hardware upgrades down the line will resolve the issue.

In essence, this is a stress test. They've never known about these issues because they've simply never come up. Maybe they'll get fixed quickly. Maybe not. Maybe they can't. Whatever the case, this is demonstrating the limits on their system and where they need to make improvements. Just, those can't really happen immediately.

[Yhisa]

Once again, I get down to number 1 in the queue, sit there for 10 minutes, then get 4004ed. Immediately log back in and am 7,368 in queue.

This is far beyond simple congestion. It's broken, and doesn't work at all. And the worst part is the absolute silence on this. At least acknowledge that your queue servers don't work for crap.

It just boggles my mind that after all these years we still have these 'mysterious' errors with no explanation and a queue system that is just flat out wonky and doesn't work at all.

You do realise that SE have legit made an entire lodestone about the situation right and what each code does


https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...a8505e75541ab1

Like legit just read the "news" on your laucher its right there

This is 100% your error

Iv been around since 2.0 early access and i will tell u know, SE will not STOP trying to fix things until they are happy with it, so give them a break and let them do their thing

[Remx]

You do realise that SE have legit made an entire lodestone about the situation right and what each code does


https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...a8505e75541ab1

Like legit just read the "news" on your laucher its right there

I've read that post in it's entirety and there is absolutely nothing on how they intend to resolve the 2002 error. Players were given a temporary solution of hardwiring their routers but other people have already debunked that solution as useless.

[Kanzer]

You do realise that SE have legit made an entire lodestone about the situation right and what each code does


https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...a8505e75541ab1

Like legit just read the "news" on your laucher its right there

Again, not all of them. Doesn't explain 3001, or why the queue server randomly decides to drop a huge dump occasionally.

And again, their explanations simply don't hold water. These errors are run into even outside of the scenarios they say you will run into them. It's excuses, nothing more. And it's inexcusable.

[Darksummoner]

... The errors have been explained.
The congestion has been explained.
They have apologised.
They have given out free subscription days.

It does work, I'm playing right now.

This has to be the most selfish shit I have ever read. Like damn. So because you can get in and play, the system just has to be great.

I love Yoshi-P and Square-Enix but their log in system is straight trash...end of the discussion.

[Yhisa]

I've read that post in it's entirety and there is absolutely nothing on how they intend to resolve the 2002 error. Players were given a temporary solution of hardwiring their routers but other people have already debunked that solution as useless.

The 2002 error can legit be from "weather" a "faulty" wire in a line or problems with "ISP" basically its an "outside" source which us causing the 2002 error which they physically cannot fix

I havent had a single 2002 error and my connection is always excellent and it doesnt even drop in game aswell , however my friends have had it a few times and i know they gave faulty connections anyway because they DC in raids or within the world (their voice even goes robotic and also get kicked from discord)

But even these friends will blame the server even when its clearly their own internet or something is going on with their area like a blackout in the next county over

[PewPewPewPewPew]

You do realize folks are trying to get on to play the new content that requires a high level character not a fresh level one do you not?

"Just created a new char, just logged in through several chars within seconds."

I have a level 80+ here. Tested it on a new char, alt char, actual char. No change in results.