Is there any indication that things are getting better?

[b3nzyme]

I actually just wanted to add my little whine and cry here for the moment. I've been kicked out plenty of times before at the worst times... be it someone i missed and havent seen in a long time texted me, or i went to go do something and spent a little too much time doing it.. today i was setting up remote desktop so i can view my desktop from my mobile and perhaps take a chance at getting a nap after work. Got kicked from queue in the short time it took for me to set up remote desktop on my mobile device and pc and to verify that they were both working now i just had to vent this one out and just let it go. I hadn't complained the entire time and just endured but this one time i just had to let a little whine and cry out. :*(( know I'm not the only one experiencing these issues, though. That's what keeps me from feeling disparaged. I still love the game.

[Dogempire]

this SHOULD be a granted when you're paying for a game AND a goddamn monthly subscription. To think its some special treatment is absolutely insane.

It's insane because you made it insane, I didn't say that getting to log in is some sort of special treatment and if you think I did then you need to work on your reading comprehension

[Kes13a]

this SHOULD be a granted when you're paying for a game AND a goddamn monthly subscription. To think its some special treatment is absolutely insane.

you act like this is something that have ever only happened here.... new to an mmo environment?

They should make ffxiv a f2p game if there not going to fix these queue times. If your paying a sub you shouldn't have to wait hours to login and play. It by like you paying for netflix and go to watch a show and be put in queue for few hours.

considering everyone waiting in queue pays a sub... what do you expect them to do, stuff everyone in so we have unstable game servers?

not a viable resolution I am afraid.

[hynaku]

They should make ffxiv a f2p game if there not going to fix these queue times. If your paying a sub you shouldn't have to wait hours to login and play. It by like you paying for netflix and go to watch a show and be put in queue for few hours.

[TristanX]

There is one more issue that no one talks about. Bad routers. I got a lot of poor connections and disconnects using both cheap and mid range D-Link routers. I install a router fan on the mid range and disconnect issues are gone. I swapped to Asus RT-AC68U. It doesn't even need additional cooling.

[Maero]

I started out as willing to forgive Square for these constant issues, particularly after dealing with it from other MMOs for years. Now, however, its getting tiresome. Particularly since I'm fairly certain that those with an Endwalker license on their accounts are getting priority over someone who only has a sub with Shadowbringers. I sat in a 4k queue for four hours earlier, dealing with multiple 2002s, and the queue never went down in that entire time. Its always been accurate previously, but now it just decides to not be accurate? I'm not buying that for an instant. I am definitely leaning more towards the crowd that says additional server hardware should have been implemented after the launch of Shadowbringers, long before Covid brought companies this "chip shortage".

I reckon the only silver lining here is that at this rate, I'm looking at an entire month of subscription time I technically don't have to pay for before this issue stops being an issue-- provided Square doesn't just stop at the extra seven days compensation.

People are not given priority, every night this week i have been in queues of over 6K and even again about a hr ago. I have given up for now and debating letting go of my sub for a month or 2

[EnnCee]

I started out as willing to forgive Square for these constant issues, particularly after dealing with it from other MMOs for years. Now, however, its getting tiresome. Particularly since I'm fairly certain that those with an Endwalker license on their accounts are getting priority over someone who only has a sub with Shadowbringers. I sat in a 4k queue for four hours earlier, dealing with multiple 2002s, and the queue never went down in that entire time. Its always been accurate previously, but now it just decides to not be accurate? I'm not buying that for an instant. I am definitely leaning more towards the crowd that says additional server hardware should have been implemented after the launch of Shadowbringers, long before Covid brought companies this "chip shortage".

I reckon the only silver lining here is that at this rate, I'm looking at an entire month of subscription time I technically don't have to pay for before this issue stops being an issue-- provided Square doesn't just stop at the extra seven days compensation.

I've got all the expansions and have bought them all well in advance of the xpac drops, and I am still waiting in the queue to get in since 3pm est. I've had multiple 2002 errors and plenty of "unable to access the server" responses, so no, you are not being kept out of any kind of priority queue. I'm down to under 1000 again, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Hasrat]

Accidentally kicked myself out of the game, stuck in long queue, oh well. Worth noting, been sat in queue for... idk, 2-3 hours, on wifi, without any errors.