Hello everyone,

I'm rather certain this has already been said by others, since it's a huge problem, but I wanted to tell about my own experience with the release of the Expansion as well as the Early Access.

For starters, I tried to play every day, but wasn't successful very often.

My normal workday starts at 7:30am and ends at about 4:30pm.
Normally I get home by 5pm, make something to eat, check my private mails and do chores etc. At this point, the first thing I do is to open up FF14 and log in, since the Queue is always at 4k+ people during the time I get home, which means 4-5 hours waiting time.
So, on my average workday, I get about enough time to do my Roulettes, and then it's already 11pm and I need to go to bed, progression is the main quests (or god forbid side Quests) is an absolute no-go.

Then, during weekends it looks better. In the morning, until about noon, the login is basically instant (to maybe half an hour).
So then I was finally able to get some Story progression and an actual look at Endwalker content. However, I don't have time to stay at the PC the whole day and grocery shopping takes longer than half an hour, so at some point I have to get kicked out for inactivity. Yesterday, that was for example the case at 3-4pm, where I went grocery shopping. After coming back, and logging back in, I was in a queue of over 5k people, that took over 6 HOURS for me to get back in to the game. So that was basically it for the day.

Today I was busy the whole morning and, thanks to an Error during the queue, I got thrown out at some point. After logging back in at 2pm (half an hour ago) I was placed at 3.5k in queue. So I guess I hardly get to play today again.

Thing is, I bought "Playtime Cards", not "Queue waiting time Cards"
I simply can't understand how in todays time the queues can be longer than maybe half an hour, and the compensation of 7 days of playtime, is a joke, considering that it hasn't gotten any better at all.

My point is, when you are an adult, working throughout half the day, and get back home, only to have to spend in a queue the whole time, so you get maybe 1 hour of playtime out of it... That's just horrible.
I couldn't even imagine how much worse it'd be if I also had a child. Probably wouldn't have seen an inch of Endwalker content.

I would have much rather kept playing Shadowbringers and not have Endwalker at all, if it means that I could actually play the game.