Response to Congestion (as of Dec. 15)

[Krotoan]

And to be honest, anybody who takes off work or school for a fricken video game is just ridiculous. I'm sorry, but no video game is important enough for that.

I had vacation, it had to be used before the end of the year or I lost it.

Bummer you had none or couldn't but don't fall victim to your own claim of bias.

However now I'm done with the story and playing the other content in the expansion.. .you on the other hand are suggesting randoms on the internet be rationed so that you can play the game.

Who here is managing their own time to maximize their enjoyment.. and who is asking others to sacrifice so that they get to play a "fricken" video game?

[Nothv13]

You keep using that word... "punished".

It's more that you're being asked to "pass your turn" and if you specifically only log on to the mornings than none of this even applies to you so I dunno WTF you're arguing about.

And to be honest, anybody who takes off work or school for a fricken video game is just ridiculous. I'm sorry, but no video game is important enough for that.

Yes, if you force it, then it is punishing a person.

People who took time off to play were willing to do what is needed in order to play when they wanted to play. If video games are not so important, then no reason to force people that have gotten to play to the end of the line.

[ArkenaeuxBelmont]

Let's see here, three times a week I have to get up in the morning: on one week, I have to get up 4AM on Saturday, 3AM on Weds, and 6:30AM on Thurs. The other week, it's Sunday instead of Saturday (the Sunday and Saturday are back to back) for work. On Thursdays, I am so dead tired that I end up crashing and it's fricken hard to get out of bed early-morning, and same goes for the Monday after the Saturday-Sunday weekend. So that leaves me with what, 1-2 days a week I can possibly get on the game?

Also, this game loves to crash randomly on my PC. It is the 1-and-only out of 30+ games in my Steam library that I have played within the last year that does. Sometimes I can log on and it crashes to desktop with no errors after 5 minutes, though last week I got lucky and did a 6.5 hour session and no crashes at all. This means that waiting in a queue is absolutely useless, because God-Only-Knows how long I can actually play until I get a BS crash. And since unlike WoW, XIV does not save your place online, once I crash, that's that. I'm done because I sure as frick don't have 5+ hours to wait on a queue (and probably get 2002'd anyhow).

It's extremely frustrating. I actually care about the story of the game, and I can't hardly interact with any of my FC, I can't really talk to my friends much, because several of them have finished MSQ, and here I am just entered Garlemald, feeling quite alone and wishing I could just get on and get caught up.

And of course I get Lv90s who have finished MSQ talking down to me going "it'll be okay it'll be okay you're just being selfish" ... yeah, that's easy for them to say.

Alright, first off...

No one is talking down to you because they disagree with your opinion. To assume that is childish, and it's playing a victimized card. I in no way have insulted you, and have been giving clearly opposite yet disagreeing opinions.

You don't want people to apologize? You don't want people to have empathy? People can be empathetic towards you and still disagree with you. That isn't "talking down" to you.

[Jybril]

I start to lost empathy when people try to help each other and get hostile over it.
It's not my fault any of this happened, it's not anyones fault.
They're implementing a fix Tuesday for the 2002 disconnects.

I don't want to be mean or rude, but you guys really need to relax.
At the end of the day, it's just a video game.

And to be honest, anybody who takes off work or school for a fricken video game is just ridiculous. I'm sorry, but no video game is important enough for that.

Neither is getting worked up like this over a game either.
Just try to be patient, it'll work out.

[Arazehl]

You keep using that word... "punished".

It's more that you're being asked to "pass your turn" and if you specifically only log on to the mornings than none of this even applies to you so I dunno WTF you're arguing about.

And to be honest, anybody who takes off work or school for a fricken video game is just ridiculous. I'm sorry, but no video game is important enough for that.

Oh that is it, someone is sorry for your frustration, and has a different opinion you're going to try the tactic of insulting them and spending an exhausting amount of effort in this thread trying to be right? We get you, loud and clear. However your idea is not the popular opinion and won't be no matter how right you think you are. That energy could be better spent IMO.

[ArkenaeuxBelmont]

You keep using that word... "punished".

It's more that you're being asked to "pass your turn" and if you specifically only log on to the mornings than none of this even applies to you so I dunno WTF you're arguing about.

And to be honest, anybody who takes off work or school for a fricken video game is just ridiculous. I'm sorry, but no video game is important enough for that.

How I choose to use my PTO from work isn't really any of your business? How, and it what world, do you have any right to tell anyone else what is and isn't important enough to them personally to use their given time off for?

I'm arguing the side and viewpoint that it isn't right to punish a group of players in-game with an arbitrary cap just because they've completed MSQ. Even if I only play a few hours in the morning now to do my dailies and then log out, and it wouldn't effect me at all, to me it is something I disagree with and am opposed to. Are you saying people aren't allowed to have an opinion now too?

[thereal_aliceanders]

All I'm going to say is around this time it would normally take me 2-3 hours to log in. Today 15 min. It's amazing how things change once you don't have a bunch of free to play folks dragging down the servers just standing around in the major cities.

[ArkenaeuxBelmont]

All I'm going to say is around this time it would normally take me 2-3 hours to log in. Today 15 min. It's amazing how things change once you don't have a bunch of free to play folks dragging down the servers just standing around in the major cities.

And just like that things are getting better.

My FC mates said as much tonight too, regarding the queue times. I don't think any of us really realized HOW many free users were taking up the queue spaces.

Without a surge in Christmas buyers as well, the queues should continue to slowly decrease.

[Jybril]

Free users have been locked out now?

[Bixillarla]

Free users have been locked out now?

Yes they have.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...57f7b5b78b9bb3

"Free Trial players are unable to log in outside of late night and early morning hours, and so we will also temporarily suspend new registrations for the Free Trial."