garbage waiting times, you suck Enix

[Frank24]

here we go again, 4586 in queue, really?? I dont know the rest of the people but for me i dont have much time to play and the little time i have i have to spend waiting for hours to get in the game, this sucks!!

So Enix when the f..k are you gonna fix this!!??

[TeemoTeemosson]

They're going to input some fixes Wednesday morning.

[Angellos]

I know it's frustrating. have your spouse or roommate log you in an hour before you get off of work if you have that option. That way the queue will almost be done by the time you get home.

Otherwise, please understand there is a WORLD WIDE shortage of semiconductors, which means that they aren't able to purchase enough servers to really handle this many people playing. They weren't expecting hundreds of thousands of players from WoW (Maybe even millions.) - and no one could have predicted that, nor prepared for it in time for launch. The queues will calm down: They're already starting to.

This time two days ago the queue would have been over 2,000. It's only 450 for me now. That's a vast improvement.

[ray_lunaria]

I don't care about the queues, thats the least of the problems

Just fix the goddamn audio glitches which are preventing me from playing the game properly. Its unplayable right now

[ssunny2008]

Otherwise, please understand there is a WORLD WIDE shortage of semiconductors, which means that they aren't able to purchase enough servers to really handle this many people playing. They weren't expecting hundreds of thousands of players from WoW (Maybe even millions.) - and no one could have predicted that, nor prepared for it in time for launch. The queues will calm down: They're already starting to.

This time two days ago the queue would have been over 2,000. It's only 450 for me now. That's a vast improvement.

There have been an influx of players half year ago, maybe even earlier thx to covid and lockdowns. All what they´ve added has been an increased player limit and afk kicks. New promised server hasn´t become a thing.
And just because there is a shortage of semiconductors, doesn´t mean that no servers are available. They cost way more and i´m pretty sure that´s something SE said "Nope" to. Otherwise a big company like SE should´ve gotten some or have some in the back, for sure.

[HuaTuo]

The queues will calm down: They're already starting to.

Yeah, not sure what you've been smoking but no, kind sir, if anything, its gonna get WAAAY worse since early access ended today (it already has gotten worse in comparison with yesterday) as more people are logging in. Would you like to look at my 6544 queue right now? I actually signed in 90mins ago before I was to go shopping. On my return I found "Lobby server encountered an error" and back in the Q I go. SE is taking a piss, and you really cannot be serious, calling out semiconductors shortage??? SE is not Tesla or the like. They need to spend a nominal amount to purchase "some" hardware.

Like at this point I dont even care I have to wait in a Q, what really is making me lose will to live is the time-out error forcing me to returning to the end of the queue. WTF SE you SUCK!!!!

[Angellos]

There absolutely is a worldwide shortage of semiconductors. I don't know where you've been.

And Warcraft didn't see a MASSIVE exodus until just recently: Within the past 4 months. When Asmongold came to FFXIV: That's when everyone else started to follow suit.

The company also has a fixed limit as far as what they can pay for what goods. FFXIV doesn't have Square Enix's entire budget. FFXIV has FFXIV's budget. SE doesn't just hand them a blank check to pay quadruple the price for used servers. That's not how that works: That's not how any of this works.

FFXIV has seen an influx of hundreds of thousands (If not millions) of players just in the last 5 months. NOT enough time to prepare for such an increase in players and still get the expansion polished in time.

-- As for the audio crackling issue? That's not a FFXIV issue. I have one headset that uses different drivers than my wireless headset. The other headset doesn't crackle at all: But since the last audio driver update, my wireless one crackles in XIV quite frequently.

That's a me issue, not a FFXIV issue. I'll be updating my drivers again today and hoping it fixes it. Either way, my other headset is fine.

Try another headset, or uninstalling your audio driver completely and then downloading the updated driver.

[ray_lunaria]

What the hell are you saying? its clearly an issue with the new audio engine from FFXIV. Its not on users end

[ssunny2008]

There absolutely is a worldwide shortage of semiconductors. I don't know where you've been.

And Warcraft didn't see a MASSIVE exodus until just recently: Within the past 4 months. When Asmongold came to FFXIV: That's when everyone else started to follow suit.

The company also has a fixed limit as far as what they can pay for what goods. FFXIV doesn't have Square Enix's entire budget. FFXIV has FFXIV's budget. SE doesn't just hand them a blank check to pay quadruple the price for used servers. That's not how that works: That's not how any of this works.

FFXIV has seen an influx of hundreds of thousands (If not millions) of players just in the last 5 months. NOT enough time to prepare for such an increase in players and still get the expansion polished in time.

Preparing new servers and polishing Endwalker are completely different things and SE surely have different teams for such stuff.
And again, just because there is a shortage, doesn´t mean that nothing is available. It is, but everything got way more expensive. When a standard human is still able to buy a new PC or something just with a price-increase of 50% or more than it would´ve cost a year ago, and 2 weeks waiting time on top of it, then a company like SE should be able to purchase and prepare some servers. But for sure they didn´t want to pay for them, just for a "maybe we have more abonnements". It would be dumb... no serious gaming company does that until the playercount is high on average over months.

EDIT: The european datacentres had a player influx waaaay before some internet guy came over from WoW. I remember something like "2 new server", but it didn´t happen. And the new players aren´t even the big point here. It´s all the vets, which came back for new content.

[HuaTuo]

whatever mr. SE-simp, may your login Q be ever as big as mine!