Final Fantasy XIV Director Apologizes For Endwalker Queue Times, All Active Players To Get 7 Free Days

Final Fantasy XIV shaper and manager Naoki Yoshida has publically apologized for the ongoing congestion issues occurring successful the MMO owed to the newest expansion, Endwalker. 

He besides revealed that the squad volition springiness each progressive players and owners of Final Fantasy XIV 7 days of crippled clip for escaped to marque up for the existent queue times and congestion. This quality comes aft the aboriginal entree merchandise of Endwalker, which has seen players waiting hours to queue into the game. Many find themselves successful the thousands successful presumption of their spot successful queue lines, meaning there’s a ample fig of radical that players must hold successful enactment down earlier they’re capable to participate the MMO. 

“The congestion that has continued since the commencement of Endwalker Early Access has been the origin of galore inconveniences to our players,” Yoshida writes successful a new Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone post. “Regarding this, we genuinely admit your knowing and practice frankincense far.

“Currently, each Worlds crossed each regions person been hitting the login headdress for highly agelong periods of time, and the progression of login queues is being slowed dramatically. Across the FFXIV work arsenic a whole, the fig of simultaneous logins has reached the hardware limit, and arsenic a result, logging successful has required an highly agelong time, particularly during ‘peak hours’ erstwhile we thin to spot accrued subordinate activity. For this, I americium genuinely sorry.” 

Yoshida said that during the authoritative merchandise of Endwalker, which is retired connected December 7, each players “who ain the afloat mentation of the crippled and person an progressive subscription” will be getting 7 days of crippled clip for free. This besides includes players presently utilizing the 30-day escaped play play erstwhile registering a transcript of the afloat mentation of Final Fantasy XIV. 

“Furthermore, we whitethorn springiness further escaped crippled clip depending connected further developments connected the congestion situation,” Yoshida continues. “The timing astatine which the escaped crippled clip volition beryllium provided, arsenic good arsenic immoderate further extensions, volition beryllium announced astatine a aboriginal time. We genuinely admit your practice and patience regarding the congestion situation.” 

The remainder of the blog station details imaginable errors players mightiness tally into erstwhile booting up Final Fantasy XIV oregon attempting to queue into it. Be definite to cheque it retired for the full rundown of that. While the MMO’s ongoing server issues aren’t great, they weren’t needfully a astonishment to the team, arsenic they posted a warning of imaginable congestion past week up of the aboriginal entree motorboat of Endwalker. While waiting to queue up, check retired the latest Endwalker trailer.

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