And the congestion predictions are

[The Rizzler]

Just as bad as the last expansion packs

Make sure you prepare for heavy que times With a light shower of 90k Disconnects

Please note there's also an MSQ advisory in effect we may encounter something similar to the Devastating
Raubahn extreme Which was responsible. Holding back hundreds of thousands of players during the first few Weeks of Stormblood

Expect world travel to take a long time.
And slash or not work all together

[hagare]

it'll be fine.
This isn't a perfect storm like endwalker was

[Topper mcnabb]

EW and SHB were smooth, boiled lala soup smooth.
HW and SB were a nightmare.

"Raubahn holding back hundreds of thousands during the first few WEEKS" is the hyperbole of the year.
Raubahn ex lasted 2 days of early access being an actual blocker to everyone and got fixed in the first week(singular), the whole legendary line memes were from the first 2 days, two painfully awful days.
BUT
This was 7(SEVEN) years ago, the devs have learned, gained xp and implemented changes like splitting the first steps of the MSQ, this will never happen again, and it never had.

World travel will take long, for sure, in the direction of congested servers as visitors are not given priority during periods of big load.
If anyone want faster queues I strongly suggest that you log out in a dead DC like Dynamis and Materia before maintenance goes up, it's really absurd how different queue lines are between big and small servers.

But then, the game infrastructure have improved a lot over the years and they're even adding more servers as we speak, so who knows maybe this is the smoothest that it has ever been.

[The Rizzler]

Postat inițial de Topper mcnabb:

EW and SHB were smooth, boiled lala soup smooth.
HW and SB were a nightmare.

"Raubahn holding back hundreds of thousands during the first few WEEKS" is the hyperbole of the year.
Raubahn ex lasted 2 days of early access being an actual blocker to everyone and got fixed in the first week(singular), the whole legendary line memes were from the first 2 days, two painfully awful days.
BUT
This was 7(SEVEN) years ago, the devs have learned, gained xp and implemented changes like splitting the first steps of the MSQ, this will never happen again, and it never had.

World travel will take long, for sure, in the direction of congested servers as visitors are not given priority during periods of big load.
If anyone want faster queues I strongly suggest that you log out in a dead DC like Dynamis and Materia before maintenance goes up, it's really absurd how different queue lines are between big and small servers.

But then, the game infrastructure have improved a lot over the years and they're even adding more servers as we speak, so who knows maybe this is the smoothest that it has ever been.

You may of gotten passed on day 2 but that don't meen it was over

[Shield]

Even their "best" launches, Shadowbringers and Heavensward, had hours long queues if you played on a big server. The other three had that and worse. ARR had e1017, Stormblood had Raubahn EX, and I mean Endwalker literally had to stop sale of the game due to server congestion, just like ARR did.

I think the answer really remains the same any way you slice it. DC travel to something that isn't Crystal, Aether or Primal and hope a million other people didn't have the same idea.

[Sunny]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny

/shrughands

[Scarla8888]

In my 25 years of playing MMO’s I’m pretty used to “issues” at launches of major mmo expansions. Pretty much the same then as it is now, though more players and no need to blame my dial up modem lol.

[The Rizzler]

Postat inițial de Sunny:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny

/shrughands

I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-kiri Rock. What do you think?

[Lord Doober De La Goober MXI]

oh its going to get congestion no doubt, probably not as bad as EW but as always everyone and their grandma is going to resub to bum rush the story as always.

would be shocked if balmugs didn't have to wait for more than five minutes to log in

[The Rizzler]

Postat inițial de Lord Doober De La Goober MXI:

oh its going to get congestion no doubt, probably not as bad as EW but as always everyone and their grandma is going to resub to bum rush the story as always.

would be shocked if balmugs didn't have to wait for more than five minutes to log in

Oh i'm expecting half an hour at least on balmung

[Scarsick]

Postat inițial de The Rizzler:

Just as bad as the last expansion packs

Make sure you prepare for heavy que times With a light shower of 90k Disconnects

Please note there's also an MSQ advisory in effect we may encounter something similar to the Devastating
Raubahn extreme Which was responsible. Holding back hundreds of thousands of players during the first few Weeks of Stormblood

Expect world travel to take a long time.
And slash or not work all together

I like how your prediction is based on nothing.

Back in EW 14 is on it's peak of popularity, they underestimated the amount of players trying to log in at the same time, and they couldn't buy more servers because there was none available because of covid (the problem was the login server not the world servers). They even suspended sales for like 2 weeks and apologized during one of those live letters.

Queues are to be expected, it happens with every major MMO when they release new content, but it won't be like EW.

Postat inițial de The Rizzler:

Postat inițial de Sunny:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny

/shrughands

This literally makes no sense

Just like your prediction.

[The Rizzler]

Postat inițial de Scarsick:

Postat inițial de The Rizzler:

Just as bad as the last expansion packs

Make sure you prepare for heavy que times With a light shower of 90k Disconnects

Please note there's also an MSQ advisory in effect we may encounter something similar to the Devastating
Raubahn extreme Which was responsible. Holding back hundreds of thousands of players during the first few Weeks of Stormblood

Expect world travel to take a long time.
And slash or not work all together

I like how your prediction is based on nothing.

Back in EW 14 is on it's peak of popularity, they underestimated the amount of players trying to log in at the same time, and they couldn't buy more servers because there was none available because of covid (the problem was the login server not the world servers). They even suspended sales for like 2 weeks and apologized during one of those live letters.

Queues are to be expected, it happens with every major MMO when they release new content, but it won't be like EW.

Postat inițial de The Rizzler:

This literally makes no sense

Just like your prediction.

You know They literally made a post about this on the ffxiv website right

And youtubers are making videos covering this topic

[Scarsick]

Postat inițial de The Rizzler:

Postat inițial de Scarsick:

I like how your prediction is based on nothing.

Back in EW 14 is on it's peak of popularity, they underestimated the amount of players trying to log in at the same time, and they couldn't buy more servers because there was none available because of covid (the problem was the login server not the world servers). They even suspended sales for like 2 weeks and apologized during one of those live letters.

Queues are to be expected, it happens with every major MMO when they release new content, but it won't be like EW.



Just like your prediction.

You know They literally made a post about this on the ffxiv website right

And youtubers are making videos covering this topic

I suggest you read the post.

"Youtubers"... LOL.

[Havok]

I predict queues will be miserable unless SQE force people back to their home worlds and make them play on them and repopulate their home DC queues

However, given I play on a locked and historically overpopulated world, if I can’t login in just gonna go to Dynamis for a few days.

[Sunny]

Postat inițial de The Rizzler:

Postat inițial de Sunny:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny

/shrughands

I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-kiri Rock. What do you think?

Just 'cos the point went over your head doesn't mean it didn't make sense.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

There's no disaster, my dude. It's going to be fine. Your predictions are overreacting. Read the official post you're squealing about, have a cup of tea, everything is gonna be OK. Your precious youtubers get paid to make you panic and watch more videos. Just like CNN, if you're not hysterical they're not making as much money as they could.

[Kitty]

Well, last expansion we didn't have the DC's sorted as they are now, we now have a 4th DC for NA, 1 for OCE and a 3rd for the EU. Now we can DC travel as well, even select "visit a different world" so the system picks the less populated at the time-world to shorten the queue.

OCE has a ton of room for travellers, as does Dynamis, so I think this time around we won't see the problems we had for Endwalker.

Not to mention they have said they could add more DC's, possibly they mean like Shadow to use for only visitors/travellers to begin with or just temporary.