How long will this login que problem last?

[Rinlina]

So while the ques are pretty hectic, how long do you think it gets back to normal? Given the shortage of supplies, will this take maybe 3 months?

[TristanX]

Chip shortage affects many things. That depends on how bad is the server business. They are not just for games. Businesses needs servers as well.

Even desktop CPUs and GPUs are affected. I still could not find PS5 and Core i9-12900K at reasonable price after 1 month. Look at price of the graphic cards. They are insane.

Expected at least 2023 for them to fix supply issues. New manufacturing plants will be ready on that year.

[Hasrat]

Couple few weeks, historically. The active player surge on new launch never lasts very long.

[Kandraxx]

Wouldn’t be as bad if people wouldn’t idle in the inn room with auto-keypressers to secure their spot on the server. Some don’t even bother to do it in secrecy. Saw a guy jumping every few seconds directly at an aetherite.

[SamsaraTrickstar]

As things go now for 3 to 8 weeks at last. The people think it be a week and fixed are wrong. Even SE see it be longer and we mostly get 7 more "free" days.
Why I say this? Well the game on steam breaks new tops constantly. Means more and more people want to play.some did waited the first weak as well and come now.
As for cheap shortages it's not the problem here.there lots of free servers.SE do not have they're own servers farm. They rant them.

[Thoosa]

When people get sick of the long queues and give up, or the people who just play for msq finish it and leave, is my bet.

[SamsaraTrickstar]

Chip shortage affects many things. That depends on how bad is the server business. They are not just for games. Businesses needs servers as well.

Even desktop CPUs and GPUs are affected. I still could not find PS5 and Core i9-12900K at reasonable price after 1 month. Look at price of the graphic cards. They are insane.

Expected at least 2023 for them to fix supply issues. New manufacturing plants will be ready on that year.

The cards and PS5 won't get cheaper and the "shortages" stay. Why? It let them sell the same thing for 3 times more. Why stop? It creates a never seen before demand.

[Lersayil]

May also depend on datacenter. If you're on EU, then we're probably SOL. We've had small but constant queues during main hours even in the content lull leading up to EW. It'll probbaly improve in the coming weeks, but I'm expecting 30 minute main hours queues minimum for the foreseeable future.

[TristanX]

The cards and PS5 won't get cheaper and the "shortages" stay. Why? It let them sell the same thing for 3 times more. Why stop? It creates a never seen before demand.

Thank god I managed to get AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and RTX 3080 before the price hike on Nov 2020. Core i9-12900K is just for me to play around. Its optional.

Yeah, PS5 prices are still silly. Local official Sony store still not selling them.

[Fhaerron]

I suspect for at least a year and a few months (before we get new/better servers that is), The queu's themselves will go down as soon as people go back to work or all those without a job playing 24/7 get off their butt and go get a job.


Not so long ago there was a statement by AMD that they estimate chip shortages to keep affect availability to 2023.
That was mostly towards consumer related products though.

On the plus side. TSMC, together with Sony and the help of the Japanese government are building a new factory in Japan. It will take till around 2024 to be fully operational though but it would be primarily for the Japanese market first (and the car industry foremost but maybe since SE / FF is JAP based they can get some priority too here).




I'm not sure how it's on Light but here on Chaos we've had several queues long before EW even released. As soon as all the wow players came flocking to us. God I wish Blizzard and WoW was still doing great, then we had less of an issue now.