Worst Launch Ever?

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Originally Posted by Daerellin

You can't be serious. The Garrison initiation bottleneck was fixed 4 hours after the big gaggles of people started happening. This is by far the worst expansion OR franchise launch I have ever seen. Heaven forbid you should actually make it past Cold Steel and have your character permanently eaten following Susano -.-

I'm just going to take a break for a week and try again. It's just especially infuriating because I spent 200$ yesterday coming back to the game, buying the expansion, time and services, etc., only to experience this :'(

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And people on some high pop realms had to wait a week before NPCs could spawn for them to even do quests in warlords of draenor launch.

Hellgate: London, worst. EVER. I was there, bought lifetime (like an idiot), and lived to tell the tale. Blue screens every few minutes, not just me, others. It should be taught in school for how bad it was.

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Originally Posted by MakotoNano

At least with 2.0 you could access 100% of the content, just with the risk of being disconnected every so often.

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They're functionally the same for me right now. 90k disconnects left and right, all day, probably all night.

ffxiv 2.0 was probably worse, at least at this point, same issue with people being unable to access instances but iirc it lasted a lot longer. Wow's launches had some issues, but most of them were fixed within a few hours outside of some weird bugs.

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Originally Posted by SwarleyMcSwarls

Since we all have time to be disconnected or locked out of content, just wanted to ask people the worst game launches that they can remember. The Stormblood launch is fresh on people's minds but there's gotta be worse ones than this that people can think of. Right?

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Warlords of Draenor has to be one of the worst launches.

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Originally Posted by MakotoNano

At least with 2.0 you could access 100% of the content, just with the risk of being disconnected every so often.

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With Diablo 3, you couldn't access the game, period. XIV 1.0 literally broke the game. Stormblood may be a mess at the moment, but it's not even close to some of the more publicized expansion flops.

Star Wars: Galaxies.

Shortly after the servers came up for live, the database for the game had a critical error and they shut the servers down for over 24 hours until they could actually make the servers function again

ARR's launch was worse. like 80% of the population couldnt even log in.
Aion's launch, 6-18 hour queues on every server. then you DC.. back in the queue
I've heard WoW's servers were down over 50% of the time

ARR 2.0 was a million times worse atleast we can log on to play this on ARR you couldnt even log on half the time, it was so bad they had to refund us game time

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Originally Posted by stanrir

ARR 2.0 was a million times worse atleast we can log on to play this on ARR you couldnt even log on half the time, it was so bad they had to refund us game time

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I agreed with this statement until today. Now people are getting the perma 3102 lockouts until servers reset.