FF14 needs to understand how queues work

[CritzMcGee]

Signing on to a game where your spot of only 5000 (which shouldn't even exist in the first place) is already bad enough. Tack on to that a good majority of these spots are perma-filled by people who would rather AFK all day/night, than give up their sweet spot on the server. Don't add even more onto that by making people wait in queues to enter the server, only to be thrown a "World is full" message as you get to the 1st or 2nd position. It's a bit of a slap to the face.

[Netherblade]

just a properly working Queue system would be nice. Some other issues aside that need to get fixed, but just the constant "world is full, try again" is insanely annoying. Then i can just log on, wait for my turn, and play...

[katnip1]

All of this should be fixed by Wednesday according to Square Enix, right? I've been able to log in/out several times throughout the past couple days with no errors (probably just lucky).

[Eshura]

All of this should be fixed by Wednesday according to Square Enix, right? I've been able to log in/out several times throughout the past couple days with no errors (probably just lucky).

Probly just lucky. Ive logged on several times since early access to errors, like every other day, and have been able to stay on and play without any errors... until today. i guess SE didn't like all the crafting and progress I was making, so I got the 90k error.

[katnip1]

Ha, well hopefully that continues. I just hope it's mostly all fixed when they do their major update on Wednesday so the forums can be used for useful things instead of 9000 people whining .

[Miyagi]

Excalibur sees 1017s even at 9-10am on weekdays. This crap is ridiculous. The only way that I can guarantee that I can play when I want to play is by logging in as early as possible and then afk'ing all day until I am home and able to play.

[math101]

The easiest fix is to kick afk players. Those increase not only the serverload by a huge amount for doing nothing at all, but also by increasing the number of login attempts per minute by a factor of 1.5-1.8 estimated, i.e. leading to the overload of the entire system.

Kick afk players, and the attempts per person should reduce by 50-80%, looking how 50-80% of the players in major cities are afk [not counting other resting areas]

[Miyagi]

...the attempts per person should reduce by 50-80%...

Or they could just have a queue system that actually queues people instead of spitting out 1017s.