Concrete proof finally provided that the 2002 error has NOTHING is server side issue

[Kes13a]

The same corporation that authorized setting up one single datacenter to service multiple countries both in the Americas and the EU then thought, this will end well.

Meanwhile nearly every other publisher including EA has the common sense to understand that a minimum of three geographical regions should be covered for NA. Western (Cali), Central (Texas), Eastern (Chicago). I try not to get sassy with these posts but some things just boggle the mind.

back in the day with dialup you would have a point. these days... not so much.

[MiaShino]

back in the day with dialup you would have a point. these days... not so much.

Huh? It is incredibly common for nodes across the Comcast i-bone to become oversaturated. This is.. basic networking stuffs here even for someone like me. It is even more important in modern era than dial up era to properly distribute data centers across large countries due to number of internet users constantly rising.

NTT nodes have been oversaturated for years resulting in still ongoing problems (90006). There is reason why most organizations have region based datacenters and this has been common practice for decades. When I self hosted I owned four virtual servers for good reason, spread out across the country.

what seems odd is that it obviously requires a condition to cause the 2002. what is the condition it requires?

Yoshi P himself;
"In order to prevent a major login server outage, FFXIV has a limit of "no more than 17,000 total players waiting to log in per logical data center". This cap is set uniformly regardless of how many Worlds exist in a logical data center.

・ The Issue

If the total number of players waiting in the logical data center exceeds 17,000, Error 2002 will be displayed and you will not be able to queue for login."