Realistically, when will the 2002 and que issue be resolved?

[Sorimachi87]

Sorry for that answer but.. as long as it takes.

FFXIV is witnessing the highest server load since operation of the game started. Its difficult atm, its frustrating, its, i know.
There will be days, where things will be back to normal. It'll probably take longer then usual this time around with all the shit that is happening atm.

Hold tight, we'll get through this.

[Hasrat]

Sat through a long queue three times today without any errors, so personal impression is their efforts are working.

[Thoosa]

I can’t imagine that this is sustainable for months and months, before people have had enough. But maybe a bunch of people quitting is just a drop in the ocean?

[Snorky]

Those still getting 2002 errors, I notice y'all are running other programs in the background. Maybe that is contributing to packet loss and facilitating your error. If you read there are two reasons for that error. Yesterday, I sat in a two hour queue and didn't get disconnected once. So things are getting better. Packet loss happens to everyone because we can not control the servers that push the info down the line.

[Larirawiel]

Maybe that is contributing to packet loss and facilitating your error.

It is NOT packet loss. Even with a perfect and 100% stable connection it is very likely that the 2002 error will appear. It is built in in the client. Read this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1..._OdCBfejk/edit


Cheers

[Liam_Harper]

Given the current situation, we anticipate that it may take several months or more to add new Worlds.

So basically, months.

What we're waiting for right now is the expansion to die off or lose player base. That's literally the only way it can get better. However, despite the queues the expansion itself is amazing, WoW is in the dumpster, there's very little competition and we haven't even started on the raids yet. Even if things settle down, players will think "oh, it's playable now" and drift back. So, who knows. It could indeed easily take months.

[Rita1989]

So basically, months.

What we're waiting for right now is the expansion to die off or lose player base. That's literally the only way it can get better. However, despite the queues the expansion itself is amazing, WoW is in the dumpster, there's very little competition and we haven't even started on the raids yet. Even if things settle down, players will think "oh, it's playable now" and drift back. So, who knows. It could indeed easily take months.

It won't take months expansions peak early on in terms of player base and its a steady decline after that. The expansion is not really anything new in terms of post MSQ content and as more people finish it your going to have less and less engagement, I would give it at most a week after the normal raids is released before queue times start to become much more manageable like every other expansion.

[Garten]

Just tried do log in. Getting a 2002 on "connecting to data center".

[Raiya]

Logged in at 11am, 90min 1800 queue, played 2 hours, power tripped out again, logged back in.... 7k queue. Well thats me offline till at least 9pm not a hope am I waiting in a queue that long. :/

[ForteNightshade]

It won't take months expansions peak early on in terms of player base and its a steady decline after that. The expansion is not really anything new in terms of post MSQ content and as more people finish it your going to have less and less engagement, I would give it at most a week after the normal raids is released before queue times start to become much more manageable like every other expansion.

While I agree, keep in mind we're in uncharted territory. FFXIV is essentially the MMO right now. Hell, WoW is such a mess they didn't even have a release to coincide with Endwalker's. At least not one that many care about. There's nothing to draw people away in the MMO market.