Square Enix’s work “Final Fantasy XIV” issued an announcement today (16), saying that due to the huge crowd of players brought by the 6.0 expansion, the server cannot be loaded and the game sales must be suspended. For this, the producer Yoshida Naoki once again I apologize to the players and said that they will provide 14 days of free play to existing players as compensation.
Since “Final Fantasy XIV” was opened for early bird play on December 3, the game server has been in a very tight state. Until now, there are still a lot of queues, and even some data centers (Data Center) are in There was also a case of waiting for more than 2 hours during World transfer.
Game producer Naoki Yoshida wrote in an announcement issued today that the sales of the physical and digital versions of the game have been suspended, but the advertising part is due to the payment, so there is no way to stop and stop, so that players always see the suspension. We are very sorry for the game advertisements sold.
In addition, the current queuing status of game logins will also give priority to paying players. Free players can only play in the cold hours of the night, and the registration service of the free trial version has been temporarily suspended.
It is understood that this wave of compensation covers Taiwan time from now to 16:00 on December 21st. Players who have paid for the game during this period of time can get compensation for free 14-day play rights.
Originally scheduled to be released on January 4, 2022, the 6.05 Patch, Yoshida stated that if no serious problems occur, the version will still be updated at the original scheduled time.
In the face of extremely insufficient game servers, Naoki Yoshida also mentioned the possibility of a new data center. Due to the current impact of the epidemic, the production capacity is limited, and it will take a while to improve the problem of insufficient servers in a short period of time.
However, the next plan is to consider large-scale expansion of machines for North America and Europe. If there is relevant new progress at that time, it will be reported to the players one by one.
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