The waiting times are horrible for any working adult

[Shaliel]

Basically you can only reliably log in at morning so gg if you have any life or your day/work-rhytm is upside now.
I wonder how long white knights can defend this bs or reply some generic *****-

For example I managed to play few hours this morning and after coming back home some hours later I was stuck in endless queue.
Additional spice nad maybe even bigger problem to ridic long wait times are random errors.... They are guaranteed to happen and bam you get thrown to end of the queue....

It's ridiculous there's no grace period on crashes and this my post gets most likely deleted in some hours because every negative feedback has always been deleted from forums.

[Garten]

It sucks yes. I just do not understand why so many people are straight up disregarding the fact that the release is quite a disaster. It has been more than a week since EA. We received bonus 7 days of playtime for free but within this week many people have not been able to play because of the irl schedule. I would ask a simple question - how would you rate the game that you know it is perfect but you cannot play it, despite purchasing it? My score would be very, very low. I was one of the lucky ones to be able to play quite a lot but have been struck with queue savage a few times and this is a complete disaster. And I get it that many people want to play. The worst thing is, queues are not reliable. You still can get the error, even with perfect internet connection and if you do not react quickly, you end up on the end of the stick again. Happened to me every time I was thrown into queue savage.

And of course this post is some kind of venting my rage but seriously, in my opinion Square was not ready for the launch. As much as I love FFXIV and consider this game a part of my life, I cannot defend a product that is not accessible for many people with normal (!) life schedule. If anything - I would love to see Square stagger the patch release schedule so people can hop into the game after work normally. Right now should I not be on my holiday - I am pretty sure I would not be able to play a single minute.

All in all - the situation is pretty bad for many people and I cannot sympathize enough. After all this is the grand closing of the sage. The milestone. The finale. And people are reacting very emotionally, because they care about the game. And I think Square should think of somehow compensating players, even after giving us 7 days of free time.

This i think is the most honest and balanced assessment of the situation we are right now..

[Lanadra]

I don't buy the excuse about "world real problems". computer-chips don't get covid , that is for humans. Square Enix is abusing. They have plenty of time to setup servers and data centers, they don't do it because want cheap stuff.

Oh my fucking god.. please tell me you didn't go there.. I.. I'm not even going to bother trying to meaningfully respond to that..

It sucks yes. I just do not understand why so many people are straight up disregarding the fact that the release is quite a disaster. It has been more than a week since EA. We received bonus 7 days of playtime for free but within this week many people have not been able to play because of the irl schedule. I would ask a simple question - how would you rate the game that you know it is perfect but you cannot play it, despite purchasing it? My score would be very, very low. I was one of the lucky ones to be able to play quite a lot but have been struck with queue savage a few times and this is a complete disaster. And I get it that many people want to play. The worst thing is, queues are not reliable. You still can get the error, even with perfect internet connection and if you do not react quickly, you end up on the end of the stick again. Happened to me every time I was thrown into queue savage.

And of course this post is some kind of venting my rage but seriously, in my opinion Square was not ready for the launch. As much as I love FFXIV and consider this game a part of my life, I cannot defend a product that is not accessible for many people with normal (!) life schedule. If anything - I would love to see Square stagger the patch release schedule so people can hop into the game after work normally. Right now should I not be on my holiday - I am pretty sure I would not be able to play a single minute.

All in all - the situation is pretty bad for many people and I cannot sympathize enough. After all this is the grand closing of the sage. The milestone. The finale. And people are reacting very emotionally, because they care about the game. And I think Square should think of somehow compensating players, even after giving us 7 days of free time.

Edit: Please don't cut single lines from the post and prove me wrong. I will not engage in such asymmetrical discourse. This post was meant to reflect my feelings after spending 2 weekend days in the queue being booted and getting back on the very end again. Hope this save boss will go down soon enough we all get to play as much as our hearts desire

We know it is a disaster from a queue perspective, so do Yoshi and his team, it is why they're compensating the game time. I do believe they also said they're not likely to leave it at just 7 days if the problem persists.. which clearly it is persisting. So we'll have to see what more they're going to do.

[Sceros]

People have every right to complain. It just is the way it is: very bad. I did go a few days with logging in during work. But I did quit this. Now I guess I won't be playing during any resemblance of "normal times" - if at all. Reason being: It was fine if you took sime time off to adjust your schedule somewhat to what the queues did dictate you. But this ain't fine any longer once you get back to usual business.

And, with this said, we pretty much can make one rather sure assumption. Under "normal circumstances, normal people can no longer play the game!". That is bad and needs adressed. Because these people are paying without being able to access what they pay for.

[cadejocr2019]

SE should absolutely either provide additional free subscription days to compensate or implement a means to pause subscriptions. Aside from that, it is what it is, and if you don't understand why this problem is here, it's because you've made no effort to figure it out, because they've told us why, and they told us it was going to happen (and why) before it did.

Yeap , they told us , i don't believe them. The semi-conductor shortage is an automovile issue not a computer side one.

[lalin]

I am just tierd of this 2002 error cycle that will never end ... it's been days now and i get this error multiple times perday ... i am talking over 10 times i have to keep the monitor infront of me the entire time or game over . i don't think any sane person is ok with that ..

[Escalan]

If I knew I wouldn't be able to play the game I would've canceled my subscription. Now I just paid money to sit in an endless queue. I love how Yoshi p. is interacting with the player base and maybe that's not his fault but it is neither ours.
I understand why people complain because there is a valid reason for that.

[cadejocr2019]

Oh yes, i'm sure the devs deliberately put in long queue times just to piss us off.

Seriously, you really think the devs wanted this? they didn't know the WoW and new world were going to implode and so a good portion of their playerbase were going to flock over here. It's not their fault there's a chip shortage in the world so they can't make new servers. And seeing countless threads moaning about the same thing is not going to help, the devs are going what they can, if there was some easy fix to this problem they would have done it by now, just wait a few weeks and the queues will quiet down.

The chip shortage is an automovile issue , not a computer one. Cars use lower chips not premiun ones used in computers. SE is lying ask then. ¿why?.

[cadejocr2019]

People have every right to complain. It just is the way it is: very bad. I did go a few days with logging in during work. But I did quit this. Now I guess I won't be playing during any resemblance of "normal times" - if at all. Reason being: It was fine if you took sime time off to adjust your schedule somewhat to what the queues did dictate you. But this ain't fine any longer once you get back to usual business.

And, with this said, we pretty much can make one rather sure assumption. Under "normal circumstances, normal people can no longer play the game!". That is bad and needs adressed. Because these people are paying without being able to access what they pay for.

Exactly we pay to play not for waiting

[Listrella]

The chip shortage is an automovile issue , not a computer one. Cars use lower chips not premiun ones used in computers. SE is lying ask then. ¿why?.

clearly you've been fed misinformation, if SE could easily solve the issue they would.