[Dismas]

The past week FFXIV has been under stress, due to server congestion/early access for Endwalker. While I don't play personally, a couple of friends have been pressuring me to try it.

Ever since Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker early access began on December 3, 2021, congestion became an issue for the game. While countermeasures are in place, frequent updates came in based on it and new error codes. Now Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida offered an additional update on both FFXIV congestion and the 90002 and 90006 error codes people might be getting.

First, Yoshida noted that congestion is still an issue in FFXIV, even though the peak numbers aren’t as high. He mentioned that because some of the fixes in effect mean the wait times are going up, since the team fixed problems that would boot people out. He apologized for the situation. He also promised the team would continue to work on keeping things running smoothly.

As for FFXIV error codes 90002 and 90006, those are two more recent issues. These come up during cutscenes and Yoshida said they are investigating them. Here’s his exact statement regarding them.

Read More: https://www.siliconera.com/ffxiv-congest...es-shared/

[Dismas]

Apparently it got so bad that Square Enix has decided to stop sales:
https://www.ign.com/articles/final-fanta...-endwalker

[Drako]

All of this while Blizzard is practically begging people to come back to WoW.