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The recent launch of the Endwalker expansion catapulted Final Fantasy XIV to uber popularity once more. The game got and then popular, it fried up the servers and caused a myriad of technical issues for players. In response, Square Enix pulled the game from digital stores so that players wouldn't congest the servers to the bespeak of total collapse.

Players who managed to get Concluding Fantasy XIV for the Endwalker expansion before Dec 16 or were playing the game before the expansion'southward launch still have access. Those who have been wanting to play information technology since then have been locked out. So, when will the game be available for new players to buy it?

Every bit of this writing, there is no set date for when Final Fantasy Fourteen volition be upwards for sale once again. Producer and director Naoki Yoshida wrote in a blog mail service about long queue times associated with the COVID-nineteen pandemic and offered some insights on how to accost the issue. The i bespeak that stood out is that, given how congested the servers are correct now, information technology will have several months for developers to add new Worlds, if non longer.

Basically, the servers cannot be expanded because they're always at capacity at all hours of the day, rendering queue times for players to log in exceedingly long and Worlds congested. Even if supply chain problems didn't prohibit it, increasing server chapters won't articulate upwardly queue times and congestion whatsoever faster.

The only solution developers take come up up with to mitigate congestion is to put players who are logged into Last Fantasy Fourteen on a strict Away From Keyboard (AFK) timer that will automatically boot players out of the game if they have been inactive for a long while. It's not a perfect solution, but it does aid agile players stick around long enough to enjoy the game's content.

While there are no new updates to patch up server chapters issues someday soon, Foursquare Enix will be releasing version six.05 on January 4, 2022. The patch comes with the Roughshod difficulty for the Pandemonium raids as well as another content.