The server is full, try again later (1017)

[Dajabant]

I've stayed optimistic throughout the entire Early Access with all of my friends and LS, as well as while reading the posts on these forums. However, at the end up EA, I've played a grand total of *maybe* 4 hours. I have been absolutely unable to log in and play on nearly all of my attempts. I gave you money before the game even came out. I would hope my money would go towards a solid product that was ready come Early Access. This was something you, Square Enix, promoted as an incentive to put money into an at the time unfinished product. I have not seen a return on that incentive at all. Get it together. I am so incredibly disappointed.

[Bob-Loblaw]

Welcome to SE doesn't give a flying fuck about us .0

Oh did I forget that one... sorry about that. I figured that was just a given

[Raist]

I don't agree with you about it not being the amount of players. If the server can only handle 2000 players (random number), then it would be logical that they let in say 1000 -1500 on at at given time (this might be lower given the severe restrictions they placed). This allows for overhead so that the players in the game already don't have a poor quality experience (i.e. lag, zoning issues, etc.).

The fact that they are preventing so many individuals from getting into servers (1017) keeps the environment steady for those already in. If they open the floodgates at this point, especially with launch right around the corner (2 am?), without having additionally configured servers the servers that are running right now will crash.

bah.. forum congestion... missed an edit I made. Took a while for it to show up:

I also never had any issues with the game prior to them taking everything down (it was the same for beta and ths time around). The only reason I got kicked Saturday was because of the emergency maintenance. Since then, I was unable to get on---when SE started locking everyone out arbitrarily. The same thing happened with Beta. Once I was able to get on, I played for a whole day until SE intervened and bounced me from the server for maintenance--then I got locked out again because of their snafus trying to fix things. Both then and now, I had NO issues with stability until they kicked me out of the game and/or locked down access.

The point is there didn't seem to be any issues once in the game, save for some specific sections of content. And that was before all the lock-downs to logins.

Actual normal gameplay appeared to be being managed well. Now, if it's an issue with the logins, they could make a larger queue or something. If it's still an issue with the instance servers, they know ways to work around it (granted, it may take time to implement---but they could deny just that content in the short term).

The point is, there is a much larger portion of the game that works fine.... they are locking everyone out because of problems with a small portion of it. As long as they are trimming how many players can access it, they will never know if they've fixed it. All they are learning is, it's fine with say, 1500 players online. Nevermind that there may be 3000 registered to that server.

At this point, they need to be focusing on what they are going to do for those 1500 that are being flat out denied access all together.

[Hobbit_Pizza]

Same here. Cactuar.

[Meirii]

Throttleing back my login is not the answer, how about kick out all the afk people who have stayed in eveyday to reserve there spot once they get home from school/work? or is this too intellegent for SE.

[Syrehn]

This is what ques are for. Someone logs off and another person logs in. Right now you can't even get into a que unless you just get lucky and even then you still have a chance of being booted from it. I don't think even they know what is wrong at this point. Even being able to get into a que would alleviate a lot of the frustration. At least then people would know they have a chance to play. I have never seen a company completely lock out over half their player base from even playing the game.

How the queue and how it's working was already explained. Several times. There is in fact a queue. SE has stated they have severe restrictions in place. This means that if they restricted the server to 1000 players (random number), and if there are already 995 players online, and you are 25th in queue, the first 5 players will get in and the manual limitations will kick all the rest from the queue. When the server opens up slots individuals will be able to see the queue system again as the process repeats until SE decides to stop throttling.

They are throttling to test server capacity and load; which imo should have been done in Beta P4.

[DeathBySnooSnoo]

Maylong Mistmore from Adamantoise
It's now the 26th 24 hours later since this started happening yesterday and still getting the server full 1017 error yay

[Zarko]

I love how this game was supposed to redeem the hot mess that was FF14 1.0, looks like square is sticking it to american fans once again.

[AmaraoVayash]

Dat 1017 error. I'm fairly certain that by this time Thursday, if this problem persists, SE will have single-handedly lost about 60% of the NA populations' confidence in this game. I can't count on two hands how many of my RL friends who were interested in this game have already decided against playing this game.

To anyone who defends SE on the issue that this thread was made for: We paid for a product and we have not received a working version of that product. Furthermore, we have not been informed of why this product isn't working properly and have not received a definitive answer on when it will be fixed. Basically, it's like buying a car and then receiving it without wheels. Who wants that?

The downside to all these posts in Tech. Support/General Discussion is: None of them will be read and all of our cries will fall on deaf ears and blind eyes. Good riddance SE, for you have ceased to please the majority of your consumers.

[JakBkillin]

Throttleing back my login is not the answer, how about kick out all the afk people who have stayed in eveyday to reserve there spot once they get home from school/work? or is this too intellegent for SE.

If anything this is the best temporary solution. Alot of mmos do it as it is. It is looking like too complex a concept for SE to grasp