In this episode of GameSpot News, FFXIV Sales are suspended due to server congestion, New World’s Winter Convergence Event goes live and a free access weekend starts for Call of Duty: Vanguard’s multiplayer.
In this video, DeVante talks about how Square Enix will temporarily suspend the sales of both Final Fantasy 14’s base game and the complete edition. Since the release of the game’s Endwalker expansion, long queues to even get into the game’s servers have been a headache for both players and devs. In response to the long wait times, Square Enix released another announcement with what steps it’s taking to address the congestion.
DeVante also talks about New World’s Winter Convergence Festival live from December 16 to January 11, 2022. Players can earn Winter Tokens from repeatable quests across Aeternum to earn exclusive new armor, weapons, and more, as they look to stop the evil Winter Warrior from plunging the land into the dreaded Forever Winter.
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Find this insane. People with actual money to spend are getting turned away because of free trials?
I would like to play this game, but I'd start at level 0 and have no help in story raids.😢
Acti Blizz would get a heart attack for even thinking on doing this
I bought the game, and can only log on at 1 am. It makes sense why they're suspending sales. However, they should be investing in server infrastructure tbh.
At this point
Once endwalker comes out the servers might become a fire hazard form the height generated from end walker
more like FOREVER
The information was posted beautifully.
just before the holidays seems like a weird move
Sounds like a good plan to me. Been playing FFXIV for literal years and I can barely play so good idea
Man this semiconductor shortage is a real killer. In a normal year they would just be able to buy more server space.
Makes me glad I’m not playing this
Suffering from success.
"Fortnite got robbed at the VGA's. No one plays this game!!!"
💀💀💀💀 they are dead wrong.
Gotta say, all those ice puns were pretty cool.
I play off and on, getting to lvl cap and finishing the MSQ. I bought Endwalker and it was always some sorta long que. My gf timed it once at just over 30 minutes. I work 10 hours a day 5 days a week.
The chip crisis hits gaming in a new way…my conspiracy brain says it's time to bury your MMO competition by starving them of hardware…wow..what a new world we live in…
Man this semiconductor shortage is a real killer. In a normal year they would just be able to buy more server space.
Man this semiconductor shortage is a real killer. In a normal year they would just be able to buy more server space.
Guess with how many wow players migrated to FF14, Square wasn't prepared for just how massive the flood of players would be for the new expansion.