To handle this surge in the number of players, Square Enix had to make some changes to its servers.Ī nine-hour downtime for Final Fantasy 14 that lasted from Monday to early morning Tuesday increased the number of simultaneous logins for North American servers by 18,000 in order to reduce long queue times to play the game, according to a blog post by Naoki Yoshida, Final Fantasy 14's producer and director. So much so that digital copies of the game sold out earlier in the month.
Everyone is jumping on the Final Fantasy 14 train.įinal Fantasy 14 first came out in 2013, but it's more popular now than ever.
