Best 'FAIL LAUNCH' in MMO history

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.