There had better be compensation for this disastrous 'early access'

We're basically being told to not play (and try again later lol) for the game we all paid to have early access, entirely due to the developer's own incompetence towards any sort of forethought.

For it still to be going on like this after a full 24 hours is completely outrageous, when the early access is only just 4 days.

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Originally Posted by Delphinium_Consolida

we all paid to have early access,

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I always find this funny, as no one paid for early access cause even if they did not include early access the game would still been the same price. There are issues that need to be fixed yes just think you need to word it differently.

There's not going to be compensation you darn rooting tooting millennials.

Back in my day there used to be things like this happen all the time and you never saw us-

Nope, nvm. There's always been these threads. Still just as silly as when I first saw em though.

Relax. Enjoy it for what it is. These things are to be expected with mmos

It's always like this during expansion releases in every MMO. Every world of warcraft expansion launch has been much much worse then this.

I really do hate associating myself with gamers.

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Originally Posted by Ecad

It's always like this during expansion releases in every MMO. Every world of warcraft expansion launch has been much much worse then this.

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I've seen fresh MMOs launch better than this. Saying every MMO has crippling problems at launch is an overstatement.

It won't happen.

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Originally Posted by Emerald_Swords

I really do hate associating myself with gamers.

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Sadly it isn't just gamers. Nowadays people cry about anything and everything.

Oh boy here we go again. Ok I'm on board...

I demand compensation for my compensation!

I don't care about compensation. I just want to continue the MSQ.

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Originally Posted by Ayer2015

I've seen fresh MMOs launch better than this. Saying every MMO has crippling problems at launch is an overstatement.

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I'm sure there have been but a majority of the truly big mmos have had these problems out the gate or expansions. Although half-annoyed by them when it happens... least it tells me there's going to be plenty of people to play with for a while >.>

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Originally Posted by Keramory

There's not going to be compensation you darn rooting tooting millennials.

Back in my day there used to be things like this happen all the time and you never saw us-

Nope, nvm. There's always been these threads. Still just as silly as when I first saw em though.

Relax. Enjoy it for what it is. These things are to be expected with mmos

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We will try to sound more like your generation:
"You're different from me; therefore inferior!"
"I don't see what these computers are all about. Back in my day we didn't have computers and we got along just fine"
"______ these days is much worse than in my day!"
"<Insert reference/saying most ppl don't understand>"

I DEMAND compensation for my soiled eyes from reading posts such as this!

Cheers,
D.

Compensation for what? I played the MSQ up to the wall of Rauban. I've run a couple dungeons, I did a crap load of random quests, I added 2 new classes and finished their starter quests. I finished my Bard starter quest. And I finished a step on my mostly useless at this level anima weapon, and i need one aether oil pot to finish another. And I did some beast quests. I don't feel like I lost much. The MSQ will be there later and eventually it will work.

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Originally Posted by Ayer2015

I've seen fresh MMOs launch better than this. Saying every MMO has crippling problems at launch is an overstatement.

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Crippling problems? I wasn't aware the rest of the game was unplayable just because you're having a hard time accessing a few MSQs less than two days into Early Access. It's an annoyance, to be fair, but we're vastly over-exaggerating how bad it is. Could SE have handled it better? 'course they could've. But all this talk about compensation and cancelling subscriptions over a minor, temporary problem is the height of hilarity and overreaction.

And every MMO, fresh or seasoned, always has some kind of problem during big patches and expansions. It's par for the course. There's no such thing as a flawless launch where everything goes perfectly and not a single player experiences a problem.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

I always find this funny, as no one paid for early access cause even if they did not include early access the game would still been the same price. There are issues that need to be fixed yes just think you need to word it differently.

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So I didn't buy the game at least 4 days earlier because of the perk of accessing the servers 4 days earlier? Oh good, and here I thought that was exactly what I did. Thank goodness you were here to correct me!

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Originally Posted by savageink

Compensation for what? I played the MSQ up to the wall of Rauban. I've run a couple dungeons, I did a crap load of random quests, I added 2 new classes and finished their starter quests. I finished my Bard starter quest. And I finished a step on my mostly useless at this level anima weapon, and i need one aether oil pot to finish another. And I did some beast quests. I don't feel like I lost much. The MSQ will be there later and eventually it will work.

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If I purchase an airline ticket and the airline has overbooked preventing me from making the flight, telling me to try again later or find something to do at the airport does not make it right.

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Originally Posted by ElHeggunte

It's an annoyance, to be fair, but we're vastly over-exaggerating how bad it is..

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Are we? Because last time I check, I'm playing for a game that kinda sorta doesn't work like it should and honestly, I'm sick of all the excuses. "Meh, it happens, just calm down!" Oh, word? Just calm down?

I kept up my end of the bargain. I gave them my money. Where they at?

I demand compensation for the late arrival of this thread ! I wanted to be amused much earlier than this ! This is unacceptable !

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Originally Posted by winsock

If I purchase an airline ticket and the airline has overbooked preventing me from making the flight, telling me to try again later or find something to do at the airport does not make it right.

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I totally understand where you're coming from, but that's a really bad example because airlines literally do that all the time.

i actually do agree with this. no matter what age or where you are, if someone plans time to get into a game and then said game isn't working. Thats an inconvenience. We paid early to be able to play early. They got our money early, but we cant play as intended early. If our payment came with a disclaimer that the game maybe unplayable due to congestion, i would agree that we dont deserve anything, but that wasnt the case. This bad experience should be swept under the rug because people say " it always happens"

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Originally Posted by Colino

I totally understand where you're coming from, but that's a really bad example because airlines literally do that all the time.

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Sounds like a great example because those people get compensated.

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Originally Posted by Gravton

Sounds like a great example because those people get compensated.

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Who's to say we won't be too? Granted, I don't think we will, but it's entirely plausible that once the issue is solved we're given some free play time. Like I said I totally see his point regardless of the example.

I think most ppl are missing the point. None of this falls on the players. We paid for something and we are yet to get it. Yes this happens in most mmo games at launch but all that does is give the next launch data to look at to be prepared. This a fail on the developers plain and simple. They knew this would happen because it always happens. The overflow of players coming back was something that should have expected and prepared for. Yes this a new expansion but it's not the first new expansion on the first ever mmo, meaning they had plenty of other expansions and games to look at and say "we can't let that happen to our fans and customers". They didn't and here we are.

LOL.... can't really say anything else

Actually their should be. This is affecting all players. People can't complete lvl 40 job quests due to this issue and potd is almost unplayable.

You can put your main on hold, and level other jobs with FATEs and PvP, or level DOL/DOH, its not a total loss.

Thats how you should be balancing the expansion anyway, use MSQ for main job only, FATE and side quests for other jobs.

Granted it is very frustrating not being able to go through the story, but dont expect any fixes until next week.

If you haven't bought Stormblood yet DONT! it's a disaster! this is a total failure...

5am first day stuck 20 min into the story... gave up at midnight... Next morning still busted and stuck at 20 min into storyline...

Then they dump this steaming pile on us...

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We have implemented a temporary measure to address the issue of server crashes/heavy congestion in the Duty Finder.
After implementation, we continued to observe the situation and have confirmed that the issue is currently alleviated. As more players log in, we will continue to keep an eye on the server situation.
We apologise for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

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implemented what! have they checked its still busted! issue alleviated? WTF its still busted! this is a pile of horse manure...

The so called "huge number of players" should of been known about and planned for instead you took the cheap way out and bottle necked the system, what you should of done was use data from the server load test, applied it to the registered pre-release codes and put a sufficient number of servers online to handle it... EARLY RELEASE I THINK NOT... WE ARE JUST A BUNCH OF FREE BETA TEST MONKEYS TO THEM...

There probably won't be. If I recall right, the comp for Warlords of Draenor was because it lasted nearly five days, and it was during the actual launch, not an 'early access' thing.

Then again, it has been past 24 hours and the best we've gotten is effectively "just turn it on and off again", so...

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Originally Posted by Ayer2015

I've seen fresh MMOs launch better than this. Saying every MMO has crippling problems at launch is an overstatement.

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That doesn't mean anything. Fresh MMO launches generally don't have many issues....because they are a fresh mmo. It's the sheer amount of people from already established and popular mmo's that causes the server instability and overload. This isn't even a good argument.

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Originally Posted by Selova

That doesn't mean anything. Fresh MMO launches generally don't have many issues....because they are a fresh mmo. [...] This isn't even a good argument.

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FFXIV 1.0, Aion, Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, ArchAge, Anarchy Online, WoW, APB..

Really?.... REALLY?

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Originally Posted by Ecad

It's always like this during expansion releases in every MMO. Every world of warcraft expansion launch has been much much worse then this.

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I've played every WoW expansion's launch... I can't recall such immense server instability, let alone mandatory, content-gating instances' access being limited to .01% of the relevant (attempting to enter) population, from the course any of their releases. When WoW was initially released, perhaps...

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Originally Posted by Colino

I totally understand where you're coming from, but that's a really bad example because airlines literally do that all the time.

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and they are some of the worse companies out there, so are we expecting SE to be one too now?

Well if you buy the collectors edition and pay for a subscription you're paying $73 to play something that you can't even play!! Definitely not fair and they should at least give us subscription time back.. I don't care what every other mmo is like or whatever updates have done!! I pay a lot of money to play this game the fact is it should work at all times!! Otherwise don't release something that's incomplete and then tell us to try again later!! I tried for 7 hours straight yesterday and almost 2 today they should fix it! They gave the date of realease I didn't tell them to release it yesterday so if they are going to do such know they have a standard to uphold to and right now they are way below!

Y'all need to calm down.

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Originally Posted by DRHaymaker

FFXIV 1.0, Aion, Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, ArchAge, Anarchy Online, WoW, APB..

Really?.... REALLY?

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Oh man NCSoft. Aion still wigs out and Blade and Soul was a clogged mess. Some people had to wait a week after it went free to play just because thousands of people were too busy idling with their sex doll monstrosities.

maybe we could all get a shirt that says "I survived Stormblood's early access and all I got was this lousy shirt"

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Originally Posted by Clethoria

Y'all need to calm down.

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Let's step it up a notch then

Early access for Stormblood. To play Stormblood. Yet we are forced to play OLD contents because of there old and archaic systems in place. People getting frustrated is legitimate and have the right to demand some compensation for not being able to use/play their product as intended.