Worst Launch Ever?

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?

WoW Burning Crusade was pretty terrible. Does Diablo 3 count too?

2.0 was a complete and utter total disaster for a launch.

Diablo was worse.

SimCity ...

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Originally Posted by Belisaire

2.0 was a complete and utter total disaster for a launch.

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

2.0 was a RIGHT SHAMBLES.

No.

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vanilla wow. couldn't do anything without causing a crash. also heard of some peoples' computer systems being damaged by it.

no worst launch goes to diablo 3.


and nothing beats the launch of 1.0

There's been many launches worse than this. This one just stings a bit more because I have my heart invested in this game lol.

Ummmm I hasn't launched yet tecnicly this is early acsess launch is tusday

No Man's Sky

Anarchy Online is still the worst.

This is nothing compared to Warlords of Draenor.

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Unfortunately I can no longer White Knight Square Enix at this time, but! The official launch isn't now, so we can't technically say this is the worst 'launch' ever. This is more so the worst early access ever.

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Originally Posted by TankHunter678

This is nothing compared to Warlords of Draenor.

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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 :'(

I would say Warlords of Draenor. I had 10-12 hour queues to get into the server to then get stuck on quest progression in some areas due to the amount of people trying to click an item that disappeared for a few minutes after a person clicked it.

FFXIV 1.0's launch was a nightmare.

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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.

Gates of Discord. EQ back before Wow came out (9 months) MMOs were still new, servers were weak and couldn't handle the load. But the bottlenecks...

EQ was a hard game but God... Gates of Discord broke people. It was balanced to the level increase that hadn't released yet (2 expacs per year, fall expac gave levels).

The flagging mission to get into the third group zone (and to be flagged for the second raid zone) was so hard that with 5 other people who were geared in raids BEYOND the flag that you still only had about a 15% chance of victory.

The mid raid zone for the expac was the worst though. Uqua, the Ocean God's Chantry. I knew full time hard core raiders (40+ hours a week) whose bleeding edge guilds broke apart on the raid like waves against the rocks. Numerous people broke down crying in the middle and logged off never to be seen again.

They nerfed the content 3 times over 6 months and it was still BARELY beatable until the second expac and level boost.

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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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Half-Life 2's Steam activation (which was the original launch of the Steam service) was awfully rough. It was made worse by the fact that it was a single-player title, so it felt very unnecessary.

That said, Stormblood is inching up the ranks for me, mostly because I find it impossible not to take into account SE's prior experience and presumed lesson-learning. Valve got a little bit of a pass for me with HL2 because they were trying something new for them. For SE, this is old hat.

Also, I'm basing my judgment solely on technical errors, not on general product crappiness. Diablo 3, for instance, was a god-awful steaming pile of crap at launch, but technically it didn't do so badly as to stick out in my memory.

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Originally Posted by Tonberrian

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

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Yeah.. I tried to do the novice mission to "Avoid Area of Effect Attacks", because it popped up on my screen and I had never seen it, and I got disconnected and cannot get back in.

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Originally Posted by winsock

No Man's Sky

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Originally Posted by Belisaire

2.0 was a complete and utter total disaster for a launch.

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this.

frankly, the susano bug is pretty goddamn bad, but there has always been worse. *cough1.0cough*

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

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.

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In fairness, I'm not sure it's appropriate to compare brand-new game launches to expansion packs. XIV 1.0 was new; D3 was new. Stormblood is a second expansion.

And, yes, I'm aware I compared Stormblood to HL2 in my own post - so I hardly followed my own advice. This just occurred to me later.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

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.

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I don't remember having any issues with Diablo 3 myself .. or 1.0. in the last 20 years I can remember every MMO launch that was terrible .. and neither of those are on my list.

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Originally Posted by Vhailor

Half-Life 2's Steam activation (which was the original launch of the Steam service) was awfully rough. It was made worse by the fact that it was a single-player title, so it felt very unnecessary.

That said, Stormblood is inching up the ranks for me, mostly because I find it impossible not to take into account SE's prior experience and presumed lesson-learning. Valve got a little bit of a pass for me with HL2 because they were trying something new for them. For SE, this is old hat.

Also, I'm basing my judgment solely on technical errors, not on general product crappiness. Diablo 3, for instance, was a god-awful steaming pile of crap at launch, but technically it didn't do so badly as to stick out in my memory.

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I'm almost positive steam existed before half life 2... As i remember playing counter strike at net cafes on steam before hl2.

burning crusades was down for a week at a time on some servers

Every FF14 launch was terrible 2.0 especially