The terrible Server Performance and SSG's lack of impactful changes to it is seriously pathetic

[Cambruyn]

Do people forget that we are living in a pandemic and semi conductor shortage? You just can't miraculously get out new servers out of thin air because a youtuber made a video that came around the anniversary that brought in 2x the amount of players that this game would normally take. FF14 is probably the biggest MMO on the market and them upgrading/adding more servers took a delay of over a YEAR because they couldn't literally get new hardware anywhere even when they were begging for it and saying they would play higher than the normal market price. You have to be realistic how fast the dev team can actually respond to this new traffic

Sheesh.. you act as if people have been asking for a miracle. Pandemic? Semi conductor shortage? Yes, that is surely why the servers are in this current state they've been in for over a year now. SSG's provider ordered a whole new set of server infrastructure, but first there was ship blocking Suez canal, then there's Covid, now there's Ukraine.. I'm sure the ship carried the parts, the captain caught Covid while anchored in the canal, crew quarantained for 6 months and now that the parts finally reached the factory in Ukraine, the plant got shut down by Russian ******

Or.. or.. it just doesn't affect enough people or the gains do not outweigh the losses or.. or... or...

Pandemic and shortage... come on.

[Forodir]

This is getting out of hands.

I used travel to Premium house skill, but after the animation nothing happened. I stayed in the previous location and was able to walk around. While waiting the skill timeout to pass, decided to return to my normal house. That skill worked but it brought me to my premium house instead! Ok, I started to walk around on the yard but after a while I then suddenly got relocated to my normal house. So now even the traveling skills get massive lag and start acting very weirdly.

Btw. needless to mention that both premium and normal house were empty, all decorations gone. Cannot even access the chest to offload decorations from my overflowing bag. I've paid real money to get that Premium house and currently it is completely broken.

Something needs to be done here and relatively quickly, things are getting worse and worse.

Edit: This again in Laurelin server.

[Laurelinarien]

This is getting out of hands.

//cropped//

Edit: This again in Laurelin server.

Nearly the same experience in Gladden regarding travelling, stable masters, housing. Landscape lag when interacting with objects has been bad before but it's just nasty now.

Not to mention raiding on my LM or Burg.. even making an effort by checking which server the raid's been launched on, we are plagued with issues. Skill queueing fails all over the place, alt-tabbing mobs makes you shoot a skill at the target you had previously selected or it takes 5-10 seconds for the debuff / corruptions icons to even display under the names.

Oh well