It's apparent SE doesn't care that non-JP servers are encountering 2002 issues

[RezPls]

It just goes in line with them creating an Oceania server cluster, so that JP players can no longer have to interact with AUS players, who doesn't even have 1/10th the population of US alone. We had similar (more mild) versions of this issue during SB launch and almost non during ShB launch because it wasn't as popular during 5.0. But SE knew that their servers were complete garbage on NA during the summer, yet refused to upgrade or remedy it in any way.

Having a stable and wired connection yet having to babysit a 6 hour queue is complete bullocks. If you're defending this, yikes.

[lezard21]

It's not apparent. It's obvious at this point. 10 days and no solution, refunds or actual compensation.

[kejakalope]

It's not apparent. It's obvious at this point. 10 days and no solution, refunds or actual compensation.

7 days of free game time + probably more to be added is no compensation?

Also, as to OP, those are some pretty brazen assertions about the culture of the JP realms and AUS/NZ players for someone on friggin Gilgamesh.

[Exosapien]

7 days of free game time + probably more to be added is no compensation?

Also, as to OP, those are some pretty brazen assertions about the culture of the JP realms and AUS/NZ players for someone on friggin Gilgamesh.

Let them have their baby rage, we've already had several updates and if they want to believe conspiracy theories no amount of logic and facts are going to convince them of how ridiculous and ignorant they're being.

[Jeslynn]

I'm in NA, haven't changed anything about my network or PC. Since they took servers down for that 2002 patch, I haven't gotten ANY errors in queue. Multiple times going through 3-5k. If you're still having issues, I highly doubt it's the code, and probably not even your local home internet. I have a 100% stable connection and have had no issues since then. It sounds like you're in Australia and you're dealing with packet loss at a level there's nothing you can do about it.

Yes it sucks, especially trying to get extremely stable internet in locations that are far-flung from the servers themselves.

The queue system COULD be better, but only if completely re-written from the ground up.

[Welsper59]

If you're defending this, yikes.

I'm curious what statements you'd consider as "defending" the situation. If it basically amounts to anyone who is not completely up in arms to blindly complain and demand they fix the problem immediately (as in within a day or even 10 days), well...

[Yahallo]

It's not apparent. It's obvious at this point. 10 days and no solution, refunds or actual compensation.

You mean aside from us likely getting more free game time since it was stated that additional compensation may follow based on how the situation unfolds. Also, when the situation is them needing more servers when they can't get them even when paying marked up prices, not much you can do unless you expect them to employ creation magicks to conjure up hundreds of server machines from thin air (remember, each world needs tens of server machines).

[Penthea]

It just goes in line with them creating an Oceania server cluster

SE announced those servers early this year which means they began working on them last year which was long before the population of the game suddenly exploded this year. There is no conspiracy. Just unfortunate timing with a pandemic, an industry-wide hardware shortage, and a sudden massive surge in player population all happening at the same time. SE can't even repurpose those Oceanic servers for NA because they're literally located in the wrong part of the world.

so that JP players can no longer have to interact with AUS players

A lot of AUS players are on NA. Not just JP. I even met one in EU.

Babysitting the queue sucks. We all hate it. But just because the situation isn't good and there is no easy way out of it doesn't mean there is some conspiracy behind it...sigh.

[CaptainFishSticks]

If you're defending this, yikes.

Nobody is defending the server and queue issues; people who have been paying attention will have known ahead of time that there were going to be issues if they were just paying attention. Like, literally, what do you want us to do about it? Yoshi-P's team has already tried to put together a solution and were willing to pay more money for the deployment of better hardware to avoid server problems. Guess what, though--there's a global pandemic going on right now that's affecting both the supply of microchips and the ability to travel to the different datacenters for hardware deployment. They've exhausted their options.

[Kalocin]

The 2002 queue drops are pretty bad, there's no going about it. Unless the queue is under 3k I'm guaranteed a 2002 error and probably back at 5-7k which just means that you're probably not getting in until like 1am. Dunno what can be done to alleviate it but that's currently the only thing really rough about the queues to begin with