{"id":64865,"date":"2024-06-20T11:33:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T11:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/busiest-peak-server-congestion-times"},"modified":"2024-06-20T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T12:30:00","slug":"busiest-peak-server-congestion-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/final-fantasy-xiv-online\/busiest-peak-server-congestion-times","title":{"rendered":"When Is FFXIV Busiest? Peak Server Congestion Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Final Fantasy XIV\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/final-fantasy-xiv-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Final Fantasy XIV<\/a> remains as one of the most popular MMORPGs on the market, with players regularly finding themselves in, albeit very short, queues to access the more popular servers\/Data Centers. With the rollout of the latest expansion, Dawntrail, these queue times are expected to skyrocket.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, there are ways to help minimize the wait times a little bit by taking note of when FFXIV is typically at its busiest.<\/p>\n<h2>What Are The Busiest Times To Play Final Fantasy XIV?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"img-figure\" contenteditable=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" contenteditable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/QlbCQz-AvldW6sWmb6KN2ElgcZ292oQHKmL9DXyjnAU\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzMy82NjYwZmE3ZTY3YTFlLVNjcmVlbnNob3QgMjAyNC0wNS0zMCAxMi01Ny0xNi5wbmc\" alt=\"6660fa7e67a1e-Screenshot 2024-05-30 12-57-16.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption contenteditable=\"false\">The busier the better! Until I can&#8217;t get into the damn game. (Picture: Square Enix, screenshot: Alexandra Hobbs)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Peak congestion times will vary depending on which server\/Data Center you&#8217;re playing on. Below are the busiest times for each Data Center:<\/p>\n<p><strong>North America<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From 13:00 PT\/16:00 ET to 23:00 PT\/02:00 ET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From 7:00 GMT\/8:00 BST to 13:00 GMT\/14:00 BST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From 16:00 JST to 00:00 JST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Oceania<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From 17:00 AEST to 23:00 AEST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With Dawntrail early access beginning on June 28, 2024 and the full release rolling out on 2 July, 2024, expect higher levels of congestion around these times and outside of these times too. Director Yoshi-P <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/final-fantasy-xiv-online\/you-don-t-need-to-worry-about-dawntrail-queue-times-says-naoki-yoshida\">has revealed that measures have been put in place<\/a> to ensure we don&#8217;t end up with an Endwalker-type situation, but that queues are very much still likely.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Fantasy XIV remains as one of the most popular MMORPGs on the market, with players regularly finding themselves in, albeit very short, queues to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12874,"featured_media":64866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-final-fantasy-xiv-online","genre-mmo","content_type-guide-tutorial"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When Is FFXIV Busiest? 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