This is a repost of one I made on the technical forums. The servers appear to place you on the datacenter when you enter the queue. You are not physically loaded into the server until there is room hence the queue.

IN July 2021 a 30min AFK timer was added to FF14. This AFK timer is triggered when the client does not receive client side input from the user for 30 minutes. The reason this error was not discovered since June is because we have not had queues that last longer then 30 minutes.

If I am wrong then I am wrong but this should be VERY VERY easily reproducible.

I have been trying to time this issue and it appears to be occurring every 30 minutes atleast on my side.

Connected to the login server in queue at 7:18pm(CST) and immediately got a 2002 disconnect error at 7:48pm (CST). This exact 30 minutes lines up with the AFK timer implemented in June 2021.

Is there any connection here at all?

Update: Confirmed

Reconnected to server login queue at 7:50pm (CST)
Kicked out of the server queue EXACTLY at 8:20pm
Logged in again at 8:22pm and my next 2002 error should be at 8:52pm(CST) if I am still in queue