Best 'FAIL LAUNCH' in MMO history

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Originally Posted by PSxpert2011

I take money, effort and willingness of the company to put cuntomers first before their own economical needs.
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Ha-ha

After getting a technical error and not being able to log back in this cheered me up, bunch of other cuntomers hogging the server so I can't play.. I'm bored :(

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Originally Posted by Headshot

You're forgetting this is their 2nd launch, they've dropping the ball... twice.

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You're right!

You'd think they would've learned from their own mistakes in the past...../facepalm

If what they're planning for wednesday doesn't pan out I could then see it easily becoming the worst MMO launch ever.

PSxpert2011 I think you need to get off squares nuts lol. people have a right to be upset they can't play a game they paid for.

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Originally Posted by OldCuban

You're right!

You'd think they would've learned from their own mistakes in the past...../facepalm

If what they're planning for wednesday doesn't pan out I could then see it easily becoming the worst MMO launch ever.

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yeah if they don't turn this around quick their will be a lot of people and including myself who say fugg this game I can hold out for Elder Scrolls Online or Destiny.

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Originally Posted by Jatoh

Everyone keeps saying biggest and best fail launch.... none of these people played Aion at launch lol. This is GREAT compared to their launch.

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I still have a screenie of my log in woes from Aion. At least they implemented a queue system and you knew where you were!

you had a q though.

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Originally Posted by RebornSAZUZAKI

So having played almost every MMORPG game out there on game launch doesn't count as good enough credentials, and counting that on the past 15 years?


The only thing I see here is you sir being a fanboy obsessed with the game. /kthxbyesir






even at 4am I wasn't able to log in.. LOL!

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I am a fanboy, MAD? That's why I bought the game but I'm not raging.

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Originally Posted by Lexika

I wont cry like a child but i will say this the game is good and yes ppl want to play it but maybe management should of said hey how many ppl are going to play we should take that figure and at least double it and make sure we can turn on more servers if we need to and have plans in place for issues

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Yes, you are correct. I can't help but think how Se manages the sale of their software and downloads and not know how many users are there going to be during early access and after launch day. I wonder what the number crunching department is like.

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Originally Posted by Tero

Heh, PSxpert2011, it doens matter, common player, oldschool o pro gamer. So if u find something funny in mu post, you can laugh, as u wish....that simply.
And dont troll, ok? =)
I write my opinion, dont like it? Just dont read.

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I'll do me best! I'm only practical. Yet, i have a right to my own opinion and facts too.

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Originally Posted by Firepower

Ha-ha

After getting a technical error and not being able to log back in this cheered me up, bunch of other cuntomers hogging the server so I can't play.. I'm bored :(

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Lol"Cuntomers"(typo)... I'm one of them! Hogging my spot I have a right to in-game. Only way I log off is when i switch from PC to PS3 or when the electricity is cut off(never!)

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Originally Posted by K-Jaxom

PSxpert2011 I think you need to get off squares nuts lol. people have a right to be upset they can't play a game they paid for.

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I'm sorry? You sir can please get off my nuts and stop humping my leg-taru!

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Originally Posted by PSxpert2011

LAST 10 YEARS? Wow, really?? Do you work for the industry, if "no", you don't have enough credentials.

The only fail I see here is you sir.

You can not log in, you can't speak to me about 'that'. I was on all last night and decided to log off without a worry. Yes I have problems about the 1017 also, that's why there's a technical service forum to rant in,lol!

Data centers were and always be the best thing SE has ever done for us players. I take money, effort and willingness of the company to put cuntomers first before their own economical needs.

I suggest you go apply for work if you think you have what it take to resolve their IT issues, if not, get back in line with the rest of us trying to log in and act silent.

For now, this is the greatest thread in HISTORY to be the one "blowing smoke".

Good day,sir. Thank you for your support! I'm sure SE appreciates it!

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I see what you did to customers...I think SE speaks your language.

Seriously wished I'd saved my money. I've hardly played.. Can't get on to Jp or NA/EU servers. And when I do, I get booted afer an hr or 2.

yes they screwed up i agree i haven't played yet either and I'm also quite a bit mad:mad:

but it was a holiday weekend so an extra day was needed to fix things and its a national holiday so in America so they could have a billion dollars and still not be able to do anything today.

at least after re-reading Mr. Naoki Yoshida's post he said we are getting free days added to our 30 day free month trial we get for purchasing the game, so its like hmm okay cant play but not losing anything either other than some of our time i am frustrated too but it looks like Mr. Yoshida is trying to fix things and make it right so we gotta be more patient.;)

Unprofessional for a company to spend a week after final project is release and it's basically still beta testing mode.

Never have I ever seen a company take over 3 days to fully fix an issue.. this makes you appreciate other company's TRUE passion for their game.. not just a pay check.

BTW>. Holiday week....... REALLY? IT"S ONE DAY.. NOT 7! HELLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?

Japan doesn't even celebrate this day! FAIL.

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Originally Posted by Earis_Gainsborough

Unprofessional for a company to spend a week after final project is release and it's basically still beta testing mode.

Never have I ever seen a company take over 3 days to fully fix an issue.. this makes you appreciate other company's TRUE passion for their game.. not just a pay check.

BTW>. Holiday week....... REALLY? IT"S ONE DAY.. NOT 7! HELLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?

Japan doesn't even celebrate this day! FAIL.

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calm down. were all frustrated. but the data services (servers for Americans) is in America so they cannot do anything today

also another thing we gotta understand is square-enix was low on money and didn't expect much at first for ffxiv because of 1.0 so here is what happened, whoaaaa omg great sales. omg we were wrong about our server sizes and amounts of people next now we gotta wait on banks to take and turn all these us dollars and euros into Japanese yen, then we gotta pay everyone for working on this game for 3 years, now we have a bloody holiday weekend now we have to add more servers and hopefully increase the servers already in place. YES I'M MAD yes i have not played yet but i also have a brain and understand how a little bit about how stuff works and how crap happens. so i'm upset but i also understand i can get as mad as i want but at this point i need to be patient and give them the time they need to make it right

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Originally Posted by PhirePheonix

calm down. were all frustrated. but the data services (servers for Americans) is in America so they cannot do anything today

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Not only but this is a game that has delivered so well (in gameplay terms and not server obviously) that the huge Fail that was XIV has been totally forgiven and forgotten.
Add to that that with this being an American national holiday most of America has the day off and guess what those that bought the game are do .... that's right flooding the servers to play this amazing game. Square should be giving a more detail explanation of what they are doing to fix this and if they will be giving world transfers so people can go onto a new sever without starting again, as the opening of this game is very slow but awesome THE FIRST TIME

at least we are not losing any of our 30 free day game time Mr. Yoshida said we will get compensated.

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Originally Posted by PhirePheonix

at least we are not losing any of our 30 free day game time Mr. Yoshida said we will get compensated.

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Has he confirmed that those of us that bought FIX will have our time extended too?
And of cause that is another awesome thing Square have done. Those of us that bought the original XIV get 2 weeks of free game time too

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Originally Posted by NickTheSane

Not only but this is a game that has delivered so well (in gameplay terms and not server obviously) that the huge Fail that was XIV has been totally forgiven and forgotten.
Add to that that with this being an American national holiday most of America has the day off and guess what those that bought the game are do .... that's right flooding the servers to play this amazing game. Square should be giving a more detail explanation of what they are doing to fix this and if they will be giving world transfers so people can go onto a new sever without starting again, as the opening of this game is very slow but awesome THE FIRST TIME

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yes i agree with you it was a somewhat vague explaination about what they are going to do on somethings maybe they are not entirely sure or maybe they dont wanna say one thing and have it come back to bite them in the arse. but my friends who invited me to play are on Hyperion server so i hope i can go there and join them when they finish work on the servers or else i gotta say i will be very upset, even more so then i am now that i have not even played yet. as for this character i was told in response to my ticket to use the forums so i made this character on a Japanese server typhon but i wasn't able to play because of 1017 lol :(

PSxpert2011,
SE had the information and statistics from beta and early access registration data that the load on the servers would be consistently high. Added onto the information from FF11 and FF14 1.0 which shows that the average concurrent connection is going to be comparable or greater to those numbers. And I am not attacking the producer or development team but simply stating the numbers were there. And I truly hope that they can overcome the issue of concurrent connections and load. Though I think developing a method to split loads of each world between another server would be an interesting option.

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Originally Posted by NickTheSane

Has he confirmed that those of us that bought FIX will have our time extended too?
And of cause that is another awesome thing Square have done. Those of us that bought the original XIV get 2 weeks of free game time too

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the man said yes about a 7 day extension. but i wouldn't be surprised if they decide later to do a case by case basis on the matter but that is just me thinking fairly i don't know what they will do beyond the 7 day extension

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Originally Posted by PhirePheonix

calm down. were all frustrated. but the data services (servers for Americans) is in America so they cannot do anything today

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Yes, while true.. it is pay to play.. sometimes you have to just suck it up and work for your customers.. I mean, you see labor day sales and people working today... It isn't a government job where they take off for the hec of it.

The reason hy I mentioned the Japanese not being off is because it's THEIR designers that didn't do their job to begin with.

But yeah... no excuse for the BS.. lmao

Speaking purely from a position of past experience, I would say that yes, this ranks as one of the biggest failed launches in the history of the genre (which is really saying something). It's true that there are almost always issues for MMO launches, but with even the worst of them, the issues were at least bandaged within one to three days.

There is no evidence that the issues for this game are any better than they were when it first launched. It's literally JUST as bad as it was day one...which is to say, near unplayable for an incredible number of people. I have never encountered a launch THIS bad before, in all honesty. Not even SWTOR.

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Originally Posted by Earis_Gainsborough

Yes, while true.. it is pay to play.. sometimes you have to just suck it up and work for your customers.. I mean, you see labor day sales and people working today... It isn't a government job where they take off for the hec of it.

The reason hy I mentioned the Japanese not being off is because it's THEIR designers that didn't do their job to begin with.

But yeah... no excuse for the BS.. lmao

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nah i agree with you totally they screwed up i haven't even played yet myself. so i know how you feel i feel very mad and frustrated myself. but lets just see what happens this week after labor day (today) lets give them another work week and see what they do to make improvements i dont expect everything to be magically fixed but i do expect some kind of huge improvement over whats going on right now

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Originally Posted by ReiX89

PSxpert2011,
SE had the information and statistics from beta and early access registration data that the load on the servers would be consistently high. Added onto the information from FF11 and FF14 1.0 which shows that the average concurrent connection is going to be comparable or greater to those numbers. And I am not attacking the producer or development team but simply stating the numbers were there. And I truly hope that they can overcome the issue of concurrent connections and load. Though I think developing a method to split loads of each world between another server would be an interesting option.

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Thanks and even if the numbers were there, I wouldn't by angry and spitting in anyones faces. I'm still annoyed but I have to share the internet with half(if not more) the rest of the world. Because seriously, RPGs used to be an underground pass-time before it went mainstream. Not everyone enjoyed RPG now everyone wants a piece of the pie. Thanks for the informative and intellectual reply.

There's so much flaming going on now and I have to apologize if I seem to be one of them. @___@

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Originally Posted by Octavious

I'm tired of the server list indicating that the servers are up but you can't log in...guess what this means they are down square enix!!! I've been a part of 90%+ of MMO releases in the last 10+ years and yes there are some problems but they are usually resolved quickly usually within 3 days. This launch is almost at a week now and we still cannot log in, this launch takes the gold medal for fails.

Their data center sucks (Move to a better facility ASAP)
Their servers are under powered (Upgrade your Hardware!!!!!)
Their IT staff does not know how to fix the issues and they keep blowing smoke ( fire these freaks and hire real staff!!!)

Here is to the best 'FAIL LAUNCH' in MMO history, great job Square Enix!!!:mad:

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You logged in more then me if your level 20. I tried yesterday for 12 hours and didn't get in even for 1 minute.

Hey guys chill. This is not a fail launch. It may be from your own personal experience.
I have logged in every day and played for hours with 0 problems. Then logged out.
I have seen a few minor things happen like having to wait for servers to show up etc.
No i am not rubbing your faces in anything. I am just pointing out that even though for some people it is a bad experience there are plenty of us playing who are loving every moment of it.

ie The world does not revolve around what you think.

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Originally Posted by Sixmp

Hey guys chill. This is not a fail launch. It may be from your own personal experience.
I have logged in every day and played for hours with 0 problems. Then logged out.
I have seen a few minor things happen like having to wait for servers to show up etc.
No i am not rubbing your faces in anything. I am just pointing out that even though for some people it is a bad experience there are plenty of us playing who are loving every moment of it.

ie The world does not revolve around what you think.

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ah i see so because you are not having issues it's an awesome launch but because thousands of us are having issues we think its a failed launch. i see i see

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Originally Posted by Jatoh

Everyone keeps saying biggest and best fail launch.... none of these people played Aion at launch lol. This is GREAT compared to their launch. Are there issues that need to be handled? Ooooh most definitely, but they have posted their intent to fix it in the upcoming maintenance. But, all the multiple temper-tantrums on the forums really wont do much. As for me, I'll just play a little Xbox, and hope I can get on later. I hope everyone has a good labor day. :)

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Your a complete Moron.

I was there at Aion all through their Beta and the launch of Aion September 19th 2009. Yes, there was issues.

Let me state them for you because I remember clearly.
We couldn't log in due to high demand of the game. They noticed the issues - took servers down for 5 hours straight away, made changes to their servers which were required to hold these new numbers and the amount of players logging in.

After 5 hours we could log in without an issue. There was a little lag but at least we could play just fine.

This has been 13 days of failure so far, no other game I've played in the last 15 years have compared to this.

They state they will fix issues, were you blind did you not see the "16" updates stating we know of a problem yet, we are still doing nothing? That's not professional.

This isn't a go at you mate but Aion/D3/Linage/ Even WoW was not this bad. They all at least had a solid Queue which said. " Servers full - position in line 1000++ come back in 6 hours" it wouldn't time out and eventually take you into the game.

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Originally Posted by PhirePheonix

nah i agree with you totally they screwed up i haven't even played yet myself. so i know how you feel i feel very mad and frustrated myself. but lets just see what happens this week after labor day (today) lets give them another work week and see what they do to make improvements i dont expect everything to be magically fixed but i do expect some kind of huge improvement over whats going on right now

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They had issues since pre-launch (early access) so they better have stuff sorted by Wednesday at the latest. That's a week after launch with a day of normal stability issues most companies have worked out by.

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Originally Posted by Sixmp

Hey guys chill. This is not a fail launch. It may be from your own personal experience.
I have logged in every day and played for hours with 0 problems. Then logged out.
I have seen a few minor things happen like having to wait for servers to show up etc.
No i am not rubbing your faces in anything. I am just pointing out that even though for some people it is a bad experience there are plenty of us playing who are loving every moment of it.

ie The world does not revolve around what you think.

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Actually that's the point of the game, to revolve around the player's time to play, not vice-versa.

The fact you got on "every day" just means your server was locked early and lucked out not being quite as congested as the rest. No NA/EU servers are accepting new characters at this moment, so, even "re-rolling to play elsewhere" isn't possible, unless you want to high Ping on JP servers.

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Originally Posted by PhirePheonix

ah i see so because you are not having issues it's an awesome launch but because thousands of us are having issues we think its a failed launch. i see i see

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Yes i and 1000s of others are having no problems. I see them all running around on the servers.

its funny how people can drop 20-60 bucks on a game and then all of a sudden they have years of networking and IT experience. Let's see your Net+, A+ and other more vendor aligned computer certs since you clearly know what to do to fix the game Mr. OP

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Originally Posted by Lukums

Your a complete Moron.

I was there at Aion all through their Beta and the launch of Aion September 19th 2009. Yes, there was issues.

Let me state them for you because I remember clearly.
We couldn't log in due to high demand of the game. They noticed the issues - took servers down for 5 hours straight away, made changes to their servers which were required to hold these new numbers and the amount of players logging in.

After 5 hours we could log in without an issue. There was a little lag but at least we could play just fine.

This has been 13 days of failure so far, no other game I've played in the last 15 years have compared to this.

They state they will fix issues, were you blind did you not see the "16" updates stating we know of a problem yet, we are still doing nothing? That's not professional.

This isn't a go at you mate but Aion/D3/Linage/ Even WoW was not this bad. They all at least had a solid Queue which said. " Servers full - position in line 1000++ come back in 6 hours" it wouldn't time out and eventually take you into the game.

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THIS THIS THIS! FF14:ARR the biggest fail launch ever.

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Originally Posted by Cenewulf

its funny how people can drop 20-60 bucks on a game and then all of a sudden they have years of networking and IT experience. Let's see your Net+, A+ and other more vendor aligned computer certs since you clearly know what to do to fix the game Mr. OP

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Its funny how internet wisemen sit there and ask for credentials and resign themselves to subpar service and a failed launch all under the great banner for the fanboy ways.

Been around 24 hours since my last successful login, got disconnected about 6 hours after that and haven't been able to get back in. This is utterly ridiculous SE. I tried to login at like 3:00 AM and nothing

Here's how you scale a launch from 1 to 10 on the fail scale...

1) Does it load and update properly?
2) Can you login?
3) Is there latency?
4) Is there disconnects?
5) Are there multiple game breaking bugs that prevent progression?
6) Are there multiple bugs that cause severe annoying workarounds to be made?

So, from that list, which ones or rather, how far down the list does FFXIV go? If you said anything past 2, you are a lucky individual who more than likely is sitting AFK in game for 8-12 hours a day.

Anyhow, truth be told, a broken game is always better than an unplayable game. Considering how well the game plays, I truly am surprised at how badly the past 2 weeks of login issues has been. If I was SE's IT department, well, I'm still going to school for IT, so I won't judge. Still a bloody mess.

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Originally Posted by Rallos_Zek

Its funny how internet wisemen sit there and ask for credentials and resign themselves to subpar service and a failed launch all under the great banner for the fanboy ways.

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I don't like the state of things myself thank you very much. And I would appreciate it if you did not call me a fanboy because I am not. I have other hobbies and things to do to occupy my time besides this game hence my disposition. it is also why I don't make retarded ass threads like this one. I would rather have login issues and the game be great than be able to log into what was 1.0

and quite honestly if the game is such a fail launch, Why are you here? Why don't you go to customer service, get your refund and be on your way? Some of us are willing to deal with server errors to get into the game and some of us have gotten our refunds and went on our way. I suggest you do one or the other and have an amazing week friend.

Ugh this sucks...I set my alarm early to wake up (this is a very rare day off for me) before my 2 year old gets up...found myself with my head down at the desk spamming 0 listening for the sound of a successful login... didn't happen. Now she's down for her nap...same thing, head down spamming 0...I just want to play, this is such a great game. I'm not even mad, just bummed and ready to give up :(