Final Fantasy XIV is extremely popular and the latest expansion Endwalker (currently in early access) is attracting a ton of active and returning players.
While that’s a pretty nice problem to have for Square Enix, it is creating issues with the servers.
Definitely causing LONG queue times. It's crazy too when you consider on NOT overpopulated servers the queue times are in the 5000+ length. And this is BEFORE the launch for everyone. I'm expecting 10-15k queue lines on Tuesday for my server.
Honestly it's infuriating. Saturday I accidently closed my client by mistake, got hit with a 3.5k queue. Queue for two hours, get literally to position 1, lobby server timeout and kicked right back to the end of the queue. From trying to log back in at 3pm, i didn't get in until around about 9pm, that's unacceptable.
Having said this though, I love Yoshi P's honesty. No corporate hogwash of "we thank you for your patience" just honest answers to frustrating questions.
I haven't been able to play since Wednesday and i got 3 months left on my sub this is beyond ridiculous