The early access to Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood has started. So far, it is running fairly well. Players cannot enter instances for now.
Those who were eager and had early access could start their adventure in Stormblood, the new expansion of Final Fantasy XIV, today at 11:00 AM.
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood – You can’t get in here
There are two announcements regarding the launch:
- The good news: Logging in works, the servers are holding, and everything is stable.
- The bad news: The content search is heavily overloaded. It has been disabled – quests that require entering instanced areas are currently struggling as well.
Error messages in Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood
When signing up for content, the message appears: “You cannot participate in any content at the moment. Please try again later.”
When signing up for an instanced quest, one can see the cutscenes but gets kicked out later. Error message in Rort: The location could not be changed due to a system error or because the destination is overcrowded.
Square Enix says: Just have patience
Square Enix has already responded and says: This is currently a problem. We apologize. Please wait a while before signing up for content.
The background of the message could be that with Stormblood, people are now catching up on the leftover content from Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward. The 260 gear items can now be obtained relatively easily, which reduces the item requirements for instances, and they are being stormed. Everyone wants to be ready to set out after Stormblood.
Large inventory, 260 gear available, new bars
I experienced the same; I logged out just before the Heavensward merchants and was able to significantly increase my gear level in just a few minutes.
I had 2000 of “Allagan Stone of Poetry.” They were quite useless before, but now they are enough for 260 gear, and with that, you can enter all Heavensward instances – and you need to do those to be allowed into Stormblood.
With the new gear, it was quick to reach the endgame instance “Baelsar’s Wall” with three random players. We were all a bit nervous: We didn’t know the instance and skills had changed significantly.
But after two wipes and with a boss guide, we defeated the end boss in the instance – but the next quest could not proceed: Instance access denied due to overload.
Interesting now: The changed gameplay is noticeable with the first shots – and the inventory is visibly much larger. Now everything just needs to run smoothly, and then it’s on with Stormblood. What do you think?
More information about FF14 Stormblood can be found here:
Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood – Patch roadmap – This is how the first month will be
