This thread needs so much more attention.

Speaking as a new player to the game, I absolutely LOVE IT!!! -- when I am able to get in. The whole thing is fantastic. Great story, great community, great interface and technical design. Everything is fabulous.

However, it's so frustrating when you're in queue for hours starting at 4k+ and then come back to find the 2002 of death. Especially when it does it again when you queue again... On 12/12/21 I spent over 8 hours in queue, getting disconnected 4 times and sent to the back of the line.

Having to babysit the queue is not realistic for a lot of people, especially those with families and work obligations. I queue as soon as I walk in the door from work, and hope and pray that I won't get DC'd from queue before I can get to my computer after my kid goes to bed. The only thing that seems to work is when I stream my queue to my discord channel, and then watch the stream on my phone periodically and can sprint downstairs to reconnect... which is just ridiculous.

As everyone seems to be agreeing, I don't have any problems with long queues. That's just a part of MMO's and frankly it just means that this game really is that great. The infuriating thing is getting dropped from queue with no auto-reconnect option. I know it's not true, but it certainly feels like in it's current design it punishes people who cannot sit in front of the queue for hours. There are many weekday evenings that my entire "game time" budget is used watching and subsequently leaving the queue, since it disconnected me when I tried to plan ahead and queue when I got home...

I hope this is something that can be patched, because I would love to continue enjoying FF14.


P.S. - I got disconnected again while creating this post in queue....