How long will this login que problem last?

[Dyvid]

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?

Until people give up and stop trying to play.

[Hayden]

About as long as it takes for the hype to die down, and the rush to get on to settle.

People will get back into a more casual play schedule, and the Que's will settle. About a month or two.

I know...

We've been there before....

Every. Single. Xpac. Since. Launch.

And every time, people rage, rant, get angry. Then they forget.

I was in the FFXIV Discord channel before Endwalker Launch and explained this would happen and that there was often 2 to 3 hr ques at launch, someone said in reply "I call BS on this happening, I don't think you waited that long."

We did

We are.

Every time.

Just how Squenix runs things server side. I'm fairly sure they just don't have a solution they deem affordable, or possible.

[Hysorn]

I believe by January people the queues will be shorter, a lot of people play just for the story and even games like WoW where the focus is in the endgame content gets "cleaned up" a month in the expansion.

However, I do worry about 6.1 launch if they don't fix the server issues.

[Dyvid]

About as long as it takes for the hype to die down, and the rush to get on to settle.

People will get back into a more casual play schedule, and the Que's will settle. About a month or two.

I know...

We've been there before....

Every. Single. Xpac. Since. Launch.

And every time, people rage, rant, get angry. Then they forget.

I was in the FFXIV Discord channel before Endwalker Launch and explained this would happen and that there was often 2 to 3 hr ques at launch, someone said in reply "I call BS on this happening, I don't think you waited that long."

We did

We are.

Every time.

Just how Squenix runs things server side. I'm fairly sure they just don't have a solution they deem affordable, or possible.

IDK, I haven't seen it this bad since the ARR launch. Hell even during SB's Raubahn's Revenge we were still able to log and play.

[Hayden]

IDK, I haven't seen it this bad since the ARR launch. Hell even during SB's Raubahn's Revenge we were still able to log and play.

I mean, you can argue that this is the WORST its been, this is also the most popular this game has ever been. I think we owe some of that to ol' Bobby Kotick....but thats beside the point.

You're right, it hasn't been THIS BAD. But it was always bad.

I think by Jan we'll be back to reasonable to no Que's?

An optimistic outlook.

Pessimistic...Feb-March

[Hasrat]

However, I do worry about 6.1 launch if they don't fix the server issues.

Eh, patches are never as bad as expansion launch. There's much less content. Much less of a rush because there's much less of a gain from it.

[Macleod]

The login problems will last until they're over.

[Losara]

If SE can't do anything regarding the physical server infrastructure they definitely have to look into better anti-afk measures. Currently players can probably dodge the afk timer via simple methods.

I would implement something that requires a human to actually think even at the bare minimum of levels to prove they are at their devices.

[Geirskogul]

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?

Currently i'm inhaling a whole lot of copium and i would say 2-3 weeks. BUT, it could potentially last longer. However, i wanna make one thing very clear; this situation can not under any circumstances last for over a month. If it does that would be disastrous and most likely leave the game with borderline irreparable damage and really screw over the game's growth. Imagine if you're a completely new player and everyone is talking about FFXIV so you give it a shot, only to find out (atleast on the EU servers) that the game is literally unplayable from noon until midnight, when most people have the ability to play, for months. Do you think that player would stick around for long? I sure wouldn't when there are so many great games out there to play.

Currently i'm on Twintania, literally the least populated server on the Light data center and definitely one of the smallest EU worlds and between about 3:30 PM until midnight i've yet to see queues lower than 3-6K which basically means that unless you have literally the entire rest of the day to sit in front of your computer and watch the queue, you're not playing because you are guaranteed to get several errors and if you don't log back in immediately you're kicked to the back of the line. Not only that, the queues move at a snail's pace currently. Pretty much anyone who works a standard 9-to-5 job and or has a family basically has zero chance of playing the game in the EU right now, because if my little world has queues like these that means that every other world has it just as bad or way worse.

From a pragmatic and dispassionate viewpoint Square simply has to figure it out, immediately. They have to get new servers ASAP no matter the costs or handicap the game's growth and burn through a whole lot of the good will they've built up. The current situation simply is not sustainable and while it is somewhat understandable due to the current chip shortage, there is a limit to the patience and understanding that you can ask of your paying customers. Personally, i'm not getting worked up over this situation because while it's frustrating there's there's nothing we can do about it other than wait and see. I do have faith that they'll figure it out sooner rather than later but there's no denying that this situation is rather dire.

[FFWinner]

don't blame the player, blame square. The game is wonderful but slow fix to terrible online feature seems to be a recurence in ffxiv. I mean look at how unhealthy the housing is when it should be instanced out the ass. Instead of allocating more space to it years ago when it was already an issue, they just left it as is and arguably made it worse.