Is the queue really not moving after 30 minutes?

[LucidErgot]

ya im on gilgamesh and i was in the thousands and got in all of a sudden, was like yay , right?played for a good 30mins.. i admit tho, there was some sync issues and laggin. but iwas in.. !

then i get disconnected, and have had 3001 world is full try again later nonstop since, been a hr... just let me into the queue again ffs

[Catwho]

Yoshi P explained what happened.

When a world is at user cap, the lobby server waits until 100 spaces have cleared up. Then it checks again, since people are returning from duties all the time, and allows however many of the next batch of people were in the queue to get in.

When the world is full and the queue doesn't seem to be moving, it's because you're literally waiting for enough people to join a duty, log off, or lose their connection to free up spaces.

Large scale instance duties like Bozja actually could help clear out some of the server overhead, but there aren't enough people doing that content any more since everyone wants to be in the overworld for MSQ.

[Yoseph]

They should have been ready to come online with a dozen new servers before launch.

[Catwho]

They should have been ready to come online with a dozen new servers before launch.

Yeah, they wanted to. That's the OCE data center they promised us. That's at least a dozen more servers right there, and would alleviate the strain from all the current Australia and Oceania players current on JP and NA. They ordered the servers last spring. But the expected delivery date is not until early 2022.

All enterprise data center server sales currently have a backorder of 12 months or more. Square Enix is suffering through their own version of queue hell.

[Tridus]

Yoshi P explained what happened.

When a world is at user cap, the lobby server waits until 100 spaces have cleared up. Then it checks again, since people are returning from duties all the time, and allows however many of the next batch of people were in the queue to get in.

When the world is full and the queue doesn't seem to be moving, it's because you're literally waiting for enough people to join a duty, log off, or lose their connection to free up spaces.

Large scale instance duties like Bozja actually could help clear out some of the server overhead, but there aren't enough people doing that content any more since everyone wants to be in the overworld for MSQ.

That doesn't really explain what I'm seeing, though. The queue didn't budge at all for an hour. Then it went down 500 in under ten minutes. I guess it's possible that less than 100 people logged off in an hour and then 500 people logged off in 10 minutes, but that seems unlikely.

[LucidErgot]

wow i finnally got in the queue , prolly cause i posted something? :P 2000 people, lets go! cant wait. i do like this game, been playin a month now, went ahead and baught it, so it kinda sucks that now when i want to play i cant, and sometimes when i finnally get in after queue finished , my mind has wandered and im up too something else.. hope these issues resolve soon.. wish i played , monthes ago, to get to current content thats causeing the population boom lol. o well, atleast 3001 is over and im on the waiting list

[Aenau]

Hrmmm....every other time I have joined the que, there has been at least some change to the number I am at....tonight I am at 2075 on Coeurl....left que, tried logging into other charactors and got "Please try again later". Finally back in que...at 2075. I think it broke.

[Andanie]

The queue is much slower today. I've usually been able to get in a queue of 4k people in about two hours. Today, the line was less than that- and in Two hours I've barely gotten half way.

I know it's congested and I'm trying not to be ticked off but I'm mad and tired of it. There has got to be a better way. The worst part is I can't even transfer off the server I'm on to try and reduce the queue because the service is down.

EDIT- The queue is a lot more stable, I didn't have to baby sit it at all. The trade off I guess. it takes three hours to go down at 3/4k, but you're less likely to be instantly disconnected.

[LucidErgot]

odd, im seeing the queue go much faster today then the last week.

[SieyaM]

I have noticed the last two days that while queue seems shorter and much more stable, it is moving much slower. For me this has been a huge improvement since I can actually get a place in queue and log in to the game without constant errors, even if it is a long wait.