SQUARE DONT CARE! 1017

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Originally Posted by Perledenuit

This game is really worth the patience it needs to make all the servers being able to serve this totally overcrowded for now but KEEP the Faith after all its all the fun you will be getting during 10 years and more !

Just stop with this. You're right, the game is worth the wait (for now). The problem is that the game is supposed to be live and fully functional, or at least issues that come up should be dealt with quickly. They aren't. These are all issues that should be addressed in betas. MMO's stress test their servers for a reason. They shove as many people they can at the infrastructure in order to identify and resolve as many networking issues as they can prior to release. SE never did this. Phase 4 could have been a stress test, but instead of working to resolve the issues quickly as they arose during the Phase 4 beta people were simply locked out of the game completely. It is a great game, but piss poor hardware/infrastructure and that should have been addressed well before release. People have all the right in the world to be upset about how this release went because it is obvious the proper steps weren't taken in beta's in order to minimize the issues we're seeing now.

I'm also not saying I would expect SE to have identified and fixed all of these issues in the short time span between Phase 4 and early access, but I also don't think it would have been uncalled for to delay that Early Access/Release date a week in order to alleviate a lot of the problems that could have been identified with a proper stress test. Most people are fairly understanding and also sometimes appreciative of companies that will delay a release for another week following a beta test in order to reduce frustration upon the game going live. I would venture to guess we would be seeing a fraction of the amount of frustration/venting/complaining on forums right now from people upset over a delay compared to what we're seeing right now.