Dawntrail launch log-in queues

[Jojoya]

Wanted to bring this back up now that we have a Lodestone topic about Dawntrail congestion and travel posted.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...56e40c77a5af8e

Summary for those who don't want to read the entire topic.

NA data centers: players will be restricted to their home world and worlds on the Dynamis and Materia data centers. No world visit will be available on any NA data center except Dynamis. No data center travel to Aether/Primal/Crystal except for return trips to the player's home world.

EU data centers: players will be restricted to their home world and worlds on Shadow and Materia data centers. No world visit will be available on Light or Chaos. No data center travel to Light or Chaos except for return trips to the player's home world.

JP data centers: players will have access to world visit and data center travel though there will be a limit on how many visiting players can be on a given world. If a player logs out their character on a world that reaches the visitor limit, they may not be able to log back in on that character until that world's visitor count drops lower.

Materia players will have access to world visit as usual but are still unable to visit other data centers.

Main takeaway: make certain to return any characters to their home worlds and log out on them there before servers go down for the 48 hour maintenance or you may not be able to play those characters for up to 4 weeks depending on how bad server congestion is. Restrictions will definitely be in effect until 7.01's release (July 16th). SE may choose to extend the restriction period to 7.05's release (July 30th) if congestion continues to be severe.

If you wish to play with friends that have different home worlds for their characters, you will need to meet on either the Materia or Dynamis data centers.

[LianaThorne]

Wanted to bring this back up now that we have a Lodestone topic about Dawntrail congestion and travel posted.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...56e40c77a5af8e

Summary for those who don't want to read the entire topic.

NA data centers: players will be restricted to their home world and worlds on the Dynamis and Materia data centers. No world visit will be available on any NA data center except Dynamis. No data center travel to Aether/Primal/Crystal except for return trips to the player's home world.

EU data centers: players will be restricted to their home world and worlds on Shadow and Materia data centers. No world visit will be available on Light or Chaos. No data center travel to Light or Chaos except for return trips to the player's home world.

JP data centers: players will have access to world visit and data center travel though there will be a limit on how many visiting players can be on a given world. If a player logs out their character on a world that reaches the visitor limit, they may not be able to log back in on that character until that world's visitor count drops lower.

Materia players will have access to world visit as usual but are still unable to visit other data centers.

Main takeaway: make certain to return any characters to their home worlds and log out on them there before servers go down for the 48 hour maintenance or you may not be able to play those characters for up to 4 weeks depending on how bad server congestion is. Restrictions will definitely be in effect until 7.01's release (July 16th). SE may choose to extend the restriction period to 7.05's release (July 30th) if congestion continues to be severe.

If you wish to play with friends that have different home worlds for their characters, you will need to meet on either the Materia or Dynamis data centers.

It feels like Christmas.

[Carin-Eri]

Intend to take at least one day off work to get started with Dawntrail, but am thinking it may be better to do so a week or so after launch. Not sure I see much value in spending most of my day off looking at a message like this

[Myrany]

Intend to take at least one day off work to get started with Dawntrail, but am thinking it may be better to do so a week or so after launch. Not sure I see much value in spending most of my day off looking at a message like this

I will just be playing my dynamis characters. I can get back to my main when things calm down a bit

[LianaThorne]

Intend to take at least one day off work to get started with Dawntrail, but am thinking it may be better to do so a week or so after launch. Not sure I see much value in spending most of my day off looking at a message like this

If you can get to Materia it might be the best option to avoid that.

[LianaThorne]

I will just be playing my dynamis characters. I can get back to my main when things calm down a bit

See, I was going to say Dynamis but I have a suspicion that a lot more people than we think will try to go to Dynamis to escape queues now that this restriction is in place. Materia has the advantage of worse ping so I think less people will be going there, at least on the NA side of things. That, at least, is my plan as I find the ping hardly noticeable.

[Myrany]

If you can get to Materia it might be the best option to avoid that.

Assuming the lag doesn't get you. I played on Materia (when I live in NA) for awhile. The following was a frequent problem for me.

In the trial where you have to jump on the whales back in Heavensward. I would see the whale pull up along side the platform and immediately jump to its back...and fall to my death as the whale had in reality already left. That kind of delay can be VERY hard to live with. In the end it was why I left Materia as I really loved the people there.

[Myrany]

See, I was going to say Dynamis but I have a suspicion that a lot more people than we think will try to go to Dynamis to escape queues now that this restriction is in place. Materia has the advantage of worse ping so I think less people will be going there, at least on the NA side of things. That, at least, is my plan as I find the ping hardly noticeable.

I will admit I have an advantage many do not in that I am retired. So I am able to play in very off peak times if I choose. For me the ping on Materia was a gamebreaker.

[PercibelTheren]

I predict it might be just as bad as the Endwalker launch. Considering we've also been getting DDOS attack, and those attack could be just a test run before the real one?

I don't think so. I don't remember the specific numbers but I saw a rough estimate based on how many people have the preorder minion. Around Endwalker launch, it was almost 900k people, now it's around 500k or so. There is still clearly a lot of interest but it shouldn't be as insane.

[LianaThorne]

I will admit I have an advantage many do not in that I am retired. So I am able to play in very off peak times if I choose. For me the ping on Materia was a gamebreaker.

Interesting, I've personally never experienced that and I live on the East Coast. Sorry to hear that.