Even before the official debut Final Fantasy XIVEndwalker’s expansion on Tuesday, the MMORPG’s servers were overloaded during the early access period for those who pre-ordered, for players to queue up join. Oh, the danger of fame! Sharing a status update over the weekend, game director Naoki Yoshida once again apologized for the issues and said it plans to give all active subscribers seven days of gameplay. free of charge.
“Considering that we are asking players to wait in extremely long queues and the ongoing situation makes it difficult to play normally, we have decided that during the official release of Endwalker on December 7th, we’ll be offering 7 days of free game time to all players who own the full version of the game and have an active subscription,” Yoshida said in Sunday post.
He noted that they “may offer additional free game time depending on the next evolution of the congestion situation”.
Yoshida also explains some of the issues they’ve identified that make it even worse by kicking players out of the queue or not letting them queue at all.
Error numbers 4004, 5003, and 5006 occur when players queue for so long that their connection to the login server times out. He said they are “currently working” to extend the session. For Error 2002, he explained that it happens when a data center already has more than 17,000 players in the login queue, not allowing more people to join the queue. He also notes that players can lose their place if their internet connection drops or becomes unstable, and “because of the long wait times in the login queue, we believe this increases the likelihood of Internet problems or temporary disconnection”.
Knowing what causes problems is not pleasant if you are still suffering from them, mind. The game, which has struggled with capacity issues for months, has grown in popularity during a time of global technology shortages, which Squeenix says has prevented them from expanding servers as much as they wanted. .
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker officially launches on Tuesday, December 7. Anyway, this is Sia???
