Final Fantasy 14 Temporarily Pulled From Stores Due To Endwalker Congestion Issues

Square Enix has temporarily halted income of Final Fantasy XIV owed to the ongoing Endwalker congestion issues. 

The institution has besides offered up further escaped game-time to players who ain the crippled oregon person an progressive subscription, adding different 14 days of clip on apical of the seven announced past week. This quality comes by mode of an FFXIV Lodestone blog post made yesterday by manager and shaper Naoki Yoshida. Yoshida originally issued warnings of expected Endwalker congestion successful November and arsenic predicted, the servers filled up immediately, with immoderate players hitting queues with implicit 5000 people ahead of them. 

It’s not surprising, though, considering the MMO added 1 cardinal caller players up of Endwalker’s launch. 

“We apologize for the ongoing congestion that has been occurring since Early Access and the authoritative motorboat of Endwalker,” Yoshida writes successful the blog post. “It’s been astir 2 weeks since the commencement of Early Access and players are inactive experiencing important congestion erstwhile logging into the game. As we person caller contented acceptable to merchandise successful upcoming patches, I’d similar to supply you with respective updates connected our plans to code these issues.” 

Anyone who owns FFXIV and has an progressive subscription arsenic of December 21, which is erstwhile Patch 6.01 is acceptable to release, volition beryllium eligible for the 14 escaped days of crippled time. Yoshida besides said that “due to the dense attraction of play hours which acold transcend our server capacity, particularly during the highest times,” the merchantability and transportation of some the Starter Edition and the Complete Edition of FFXIV has been temporarily stopped. 

“Additionally, though those with an progressive subscription are prioritized to log in, Free Trial players are incapable to log successful extracurricular of precocious nighttime and aboriginal greeting hours, and truthful we volition temporarily suspend caller registrations for the Free Trial,” Yoshida writes. “These impermanent suspensions volition beryllium phased successful implicit the adjacent fewer days arsenic we enactment with our retail partners.” 

Advertisements for FFXIV has been suspended for now, though Yoshida notes that immoderate can’t beryllium suspended owed to the quality of however they were acceptable up. However, Expansion Packs and Collector’s Edition integer upgrades volition stay connected merchantability for existing players. 

The manager besides reconfirmed that if everything goes according to plan, Patch 6.05, different known arsenic Pandaemonium: Asphodelos (Savage), volition inactive beryllium released connected January 4, 2022. 

“We recognize that determination are concerns astir World First races and archetypal week progression, but Patch 6.05 volition adhd a fig of caller elements, specified arsenic the summation of a caller Allagan tombstone, caller crafting recipes, arsenic good arsenic the caller treasure hunt dungeon, the Excitatron 600,” according to Yoshida. 

Elsewhere successful the blog post, Yoshida says Square Enix hopes to person a roadmap for its plans regarding a caller logical information halfway and further server worlds sometime successful January. 

While waiting to queue into FFXIV, watch the latest Endwalker trailer and past work astir however you tin gain an “Eat Pizza” emote.  

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