'I think the longest I waited was five hours, it was pain. ' ramped up pretty fast and eventually I saw it go over 6,000 players when I tried to log back in the at like 1 pm ET,' Nyanners said. Many players told me they're logging into the game as early as possible in the day to avoid long lines, even if they're not ready to play yet.

Final Fantasy 14 has been far more stable once you enter, but entering has been a massive pain in the ass.' Ticket to the moon World of Warcraft suffered from insane DDOS attacks as well during their launches, which certainly didn't help. It was once you were inside that things would get hairy and you could be tossed out. 'With World of Warcraft you can at least attempt to get back in quicker and easier, you don't have to reopen the launcher and retype everything over and over, and losing your place in the queue very rarely happened. 'I've been through every single launch of both World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14, so I can compare the two, and they are both equally aggravating for their own reasons,' Mawile, a Final Fantasy 14 veteran, told me.

It's common to hop into a new release and have to try to find out which one of your friends are online and which ones are 2,000 players away from showing up. Queue times and disconnections are practically tradition for MMO players at this point. For now, the developer has explained why each of the errors can happen while you try to log in, and has promised active players seven days of free play time as an apology.Īnyone who has been deep into games like World of Warcraft have witnessed what it's like to wade through launch day woes. The ongoing semiconductor shortages and the pandemic's grip on overseas travel from Japan have stalled the developer's ability to set up new servers that might address this issue. That's largely because Square Enix and the game's producer Naoki Yoshida have been transparent about the ongoing issues in the lead up to and after the expansion's debut. Without serious bugs or glitches to yell about, Final Fantasy 14 players have instead argued about prismatic grapes. But if anyone would argue that not being able to create your new bunny boy is a problem that eclipses all others, it would be Final Fantasy 14 players. Endwalker made it through launch week without any egregious problems, except for the fact that you can't make new characters until the server populations simmer down. New World, Amazon's first MMO, stumbled over a slew of problems when it came out in September: including its own long queue times, money duplication exploits, and performance issues. With that many people online, things usually start to break. In July, the game hit a record high of 47,542 concurrent players on Steam (not counting those playing via Square Enix's own launcher or on consoles), and recently, at the cusp of Endwalker's launch, it more than doubled that peak at 95,150 simultaneous players. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic keeping people at home, rival MMO World of Warcraft's inability to entertain its playerbase along with the scandal surrounding the vile workplace conditions at Activision Blizzard, and the ever-welcoming community behind the eight-year old MMO were all reasons for this. Final Fantasy 14 had an explosive summer, seeing a massive influx of players old and new stepping into Eorzea. 'Players started forming lines and such to create a haphazard solution, but with Endwalker, you can't even get into the game to enjoy any part of it due to the queues, which is unfortunate.' The pain of fameĮveryone could have predicted that this would happen. 'Before, in releases such as Stormblood, the community had the joke of 'Raubahn Extreme' because the NPC named Raubahn prevented you from moving forward through the story due to the game's Duty mechanic being highly demanded and crashing,' she said.

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