Queues ASAP

[Senzura]

Thats not what I meant. Server assets mean talking to NPCs, entering instances, obtaining server-side things such as items. These are the biggest stress on servers, so to compensate and prevent a crash, games will block users from touching assets by putting them into a queue. However, there are so many people playing the game that the server is being crashed simply by you being connected to it, IE, a DDoS to put it simply.

Therefore, you can't just stick 1000 people in a queue, because their very act of being connecting stresses out the servers. Limiting connections is the smartest thing they can do until they allow transfers or buy new servers (in my dreams)

This video might be better able to explain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzgsT-_GC4Q. Think of Yoshi as a attacker turning your computer into a bot because you want to play FFXIV.

When you are on a server, you constantly send packets to the server and request some back, that includes updates on the queue. If a bazillion people are queued, a bazillion packets are requested from the servers. Unfortunatly, the speed of light is not infinite, and therefore only 1 user can be processed at a time, regardless of how fast a computer might seem. When there are too many users being processed, the server will not reach you, and therefore you are disconnected. 90000