After more than a decade, the game is currently approaching version 6.0 with the upcoming Endwalker expansion, so that wait might be long one. In a recent update on Final Fantasy XIV’s official website, producer & director Naoki Yoshida detailed his team’s plans for addressing current server and login issues, noting that server capacity might not be expanded until the game's 7.0 update.

Related: Final Fantasy XIV: How to Raise Your Chocobo Companion Since then, Final Fantasy XIV has been redeemed among fans, adding four major content expansions to date and earning an ever-growing army of devoted players - so much so that the game's developers are now figuring out how to deal with server overflow. After this, the game underwent a series overhaul in both its content and development staff, being relaunched in 2013 as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. The initial Final Fantasy XIV launch back in 2010 was met with a cold reception due to its gameplay and user interfaces feeling unfinished, leading to Square Enix shutting down its servers a mere two years later.

It's so popular, in fact, that some players wait in login queues just to play it, which sometimes takes hours. Traffic has been booming for Square's massively multiplayer online RPG over the past month or so, with the game setting a new concurrent player record on Steam earlier in July. Square Enix has a plan in place to deal with Final Fantasy XIV server capacity and long player login queues, but director Naoki Yoshida implies it might not be implemented for quite a while.

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