Why didn't they wait until 2.0 was ready to shut down 1.0?

Well anyway, my main beef with this was that I was under the assumption that the transition into 2.0 had a goal of very little down time for us players between 1.0 ending and the distribution of 2.0 software. I was sort of expecting the final save date on the 29th and the end of the world on the 11th would have been their time needed to transfer over character information, which was why character data wasn't being saved.

I understand Murphy's law with everything taking longer than expected and how things go wrong. I'm not upset that 2.0 is taking longer and I appreciate all the hard work that the developers are putting into the game and how much they still have yet to get ready. But that being said, if they projected the release date being two months behind schedule, the end of the world should have been pushed back to meet that transition.

In the meantime I know the game would probably have been in limbo for those two months with no updates planned for the game, but I personally still had a lot I could have been doing in-game to unlock some achievements or save up some money for 2.0. I know the decision won't change, and the die has been cast, but it is still something I will look back on and wonder about. I think the decision on September 29th to end billing kind of set the end of the world date in stone though. And that's getting back into the territory of not knowing what setbacks would be coming in the future. I hope alpha testing is going well. I can't wait to see more on it.

I'd rather they end it when they could so they could focus on ARR (which they stated is what happened), so that they could catch up on their 2 month backlog. Had they not cut off the save when they did, I'm sure they'd fall further behind and we'd have a 2015 release (jk but yeah..)

A lot of us would have liked more time, but it is what it is.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Kraggy

Given they said some weeks ago they'll be re-opening the V1 servers on a 'absolutely no support' basis for as long as enough people (Yoshi mention 30%) want to play, then your suggested reason clearly doesn't come into it.

---

You really think they would use the same server structure/hardware to host a game where 2/3 of the original playerbase won't even bother logging in for a considerable period?