almost a week later and still 6 hr queues

[PMSJordan]

is this an EU thing? i'm on NA Lamia and I got only 30 ppl in queue a few minutes ago

I play on Lamia as well. If I play before work at 5am there's only a few people in queue, but when I get home from work around 5:30pm there's on average 3-4K people in queue. So it just depends on when you play. Peak hours are terrible. Off hours are fine.

[crimsonwitch]

2 - the above said, the collaboration with Sia ran into neither of those issues. They didn't need to deal with the COVID restrictions to hear her concept, and have animations created, nor did they need to order new electronic hardware to do it, thus making your complaint of "they can do x but not y!" invalid.



This is the case too on the west coast of the North America.

do ya honestly believe all companies blaming " x " on covid for stuff they could've done years ago?
they could've raised wages but it took a pandemic for that to happen. was there a chip shortage at stormblood or shadowbringers launch?
side note, why is it always the 2011-2015 start date players defending the game so hard? you've been around long enough to see nothing changed

[Batbrat]

EXACTLY. I can't believe they'd call up Sia at a time like this. Could they not read the room?!
HELLOOO there's a long line to play this video game right now. Did they tell her that? Does she know? How can she sleep at night knowing what she contributed to. They just rang her up right in front of all of us. No planning, no thought-they certainly didnt do that months to a year in advance.

If they had just sent their billionare YoshiP to go buy servers out of thin air like they were supposed to instead of courting Sia for that silly song, we would all have been in-game by now having the times of our lives. SE, Sia, reflect.

[HolyReign]

I believe it's pretty silly to want even more free-sub days, granted on how much the previous 7 free-sub days cost the company. Maybe the individuals who are impatient and want to play, should freeze their account/unsub, and then when things are a lot smoother, resub, so you can make better use of your money.

/shrug

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

do ya honestly believe all companies blaming " x " on covid for stuff they could've done years ago?
they could've raised wages but it took a pandemic for that to happen. was there a chip shortage at stormblood or shadowbringers launch?
side note, why is it always the 2011-2015 start date players defending the game so hard? you've been around long enough to see nothing changed

Because the game didn't have a massive need for hardware due to unprecedented population increases back then.

They've always acquired hardware as needed. Shortly after 2.0 launched they added a ton of servers to meet demand, and also they've added several servers to the EU data centers since those were added.

People act like SE has never bought hardware for the game, when historically they have.

[wereotter]

do ya honestly believe all companies blaming " x " on covid for stuff they could've done years ago?
they could've raised wages but it took a pandemic for that to happen. was there a chip shortage at stormblood or shadowbringers launch?
side note, why is it always the 2011-2015 start date players defending the game so hard? you've been around long enough to see nothing changed

Yes, I do.

ALL companies operate on a just as needed type of system. They don't invest in more hardware than is actually needed because that would eat into their profits. If they hardware they had in 2019 was sufficient for the time, there's no reason that any reasonable person at the time would say that it would be important to get something more. You can sit and play Captain Hindsight and say "yeah but they should have because of the situation we're in now!" Now one can argue that perhaps this isn't a system that businesses should continue going forward, but there's nothing that can be done now to change that, nor was there any reason, from a corporate perspective, to change the status quo.

But nobody in 2019 would have been able to forecast that there would be a global pandemic that shuts down supply lines, disrupts production, and caused more people to be at home with time to play in the game.

[Orieldis]

I'm lucky enough that I'm on a low enough population server that I don't have to deal with anything more than a 2k+ queue at primetime. That being said, the fact that this is still a problem on other servers is, from a consumer standpoint, unacceptable.

From an outsider perspective though, I at least understand that Squenix's hands are effectively tied. Building up to release was really a perfect storm.

[Divinemights]

do ya honestly believe all companies blaming " x " on covid for stuff they could've done years ago?
they could've raised wages but it took a pandemic for that to happen. was there a chip shortage at stormblood or shadowbringers launch?
side note, why is it always the 2011-2015 start date players defending the game so hard? you've been around long enough to see nothing changed

Interesting.
When are you single and not married, would you get a van or a two door sport car?
No one foreseeing the future, it is always get it when you need it.

[Asmo86]

Attempted to log in, sat in queue for 2 hours, got 2002ed twice, gave up for the night. 2002 is really the biggest major issue at the moment.

[Ranhansha]

I believe it's pretty silly to want even more free-sub days, granted on how much the previous 7 free-sub days cost the company. Maybe the individuals who are impatient and want to play, should freeze their account/unsub, and then when things are a lot smoother, resub, so you can make better use of your money.

/shrug

Less than fixing the servers, that's for sure, Mr S-E accountant. That's why they chose to leave tens of thousands of people to rot in queues for weeks rather than fix their problems ages ago. /shrug