72 hours ZERO Progress; please do something

I know I'm just another thread in a sea of "can't get past Best Severed with Cold Steel" but I'm hoping that if maybe, just maybe, we add one more thread to the pile, something will get done.

I have NOT been spam clicking on Raubahn
I HAVE been going and doing other things
I have been playing, aside from sleeping, since 4am Friday.
I still have not gotten past the MSQ Best Severed with Cold Steel.

Please, please, consider doing something more than 'wait and let it sort itself out'

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Originally Posted by LillithCale

I know I'm just another thread in a sea of "can't get past Best Severed with Cold Steel" but I'm hoping that if maybe, just maybe, we add one more thread to the pile, something will get done.

I have NOT been spam clicking on Raubahn
I HAVE been going and doing other things
I have been playing, aside from sleeping, since 4am Friday.
I still have not gotten past the MSQ Best Severed with Cold Steel.

Please, please, consider doing something more than 'wait and let it sort itself out'

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I'm with her ^

squares going to do nothing for the majority of the playerbase they will help the few lucky people who got stuck though

I'm pretty much done at this point. Will never pre order with Square again. Done done done. Can't even get into this instance at almost 6in the morning. Waste of time, waste of money and waste of lack of sleep. Whoever thought it was a good idea to put this instrance here, needs to be taken out back and get the crap kicked out of them. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN KNOWN WOULD HAPPEN

Can concur, even after 70+ hours of the bottleneck is still too high, amount of allowed through instance battles in main quest suspiciously low. Be honest with me, how many people can get through to that instance at the same time before they are denied entry? 100? 300? 500? We are TENS OF THOUSANDS TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS at a standard during an expansion launch! This is a show of great ineptitude and I would have you pay for this in some way or another.

Like, at this point I'm more upset about the lack of communication than anything else and what little communication has basically been telling us to wait and try again later. A major issue like this would have been resolved or at least a stop gap measure beyond severely restricting the flow of how many characters can enter would have already been implemented in some of the other larger MMOs I've played.Restricting the flow only means that more and more people get caught up to that point and the back log of people needing to finish that part of the storyline grows larger. 24 hours I was willing to sit and wait for something to be done, but nothing has been done and we've moved into day 3 of early release with no word from them on what's going on since late Friday night. Heck, at this point I'd be happy if the stupid quest just tossed you into a queue so at least you could continue on your merry way doing fates or something while waiting, even if it meant waiting up to an hour in queue for my turn. At least that way, I'm not stuck in one place playing pin the arm on the Raubahn, which is no fun for anyone.

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Originally Posted by TanthalusGunthar

IWill never pre order with Square again.

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Hear hear! Any goodwill I had from Heavensward having a relatively smooth first couple of days is gone after this travesty of a release. I literally tried from 12Am to 6Am and got zero nibbles today; "it'll work itself out" is not a solution and this is only going to explode with the official release on the 20th.

I agree with Ismera. the complete lack of communication is terrible. If you're actually looking into it, then make an official post stating you're looking into it. telling people it will sort itself out isn't a very good response. It tells people paying for your game and expecting to at least be able to experience content that you don't really care and that's not a good business model to have. Most other MMOs would have made an official post on a stickied thread about it. no communication is a terrible idea. A better one would be to stick people in a queue with a number. At least then we'd know we could get though. I've got friends that I've told them to not buy this expansion because if this issue till it gets fixed. It's only going to get worse and won't really "sort itself out"

I've tried all day and all night to get passes Pippin. All my friends are pasted it and I just want to progress. Open the flood gates again its the middle of the night.

It's 6am and I'm still SOL on this MSQ :(

I try a few times and then afk/log off. In my experience if it's a lottery, I'll lose! There should be an actual queue in place for this. Something should be done. I expect server crashes at launch, but something like this I've never seen. I've been around for the EQ1 falling through the world bugs, the Vanguard "coming soon" dungeon sign, and this still is a new one. There needs to be some communication or even a vet to betas like me is going to wonder wtf is going on...

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Originally Posted by LillithCale

I know I'm just another thread in a sea of "can't get past Best Severed with Cold Steel" but I'm hoping that if maybe, just maybe, we add one more thread to the pile, something will get done.

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Hello, thank you for your more civilized thread. I would rather bump this than the "I QUIT!!!!!!GRRRR!!RAGE!!" threads.

I too have done other things since getting on this "Best served with Cold Steel" quest on the first day of early access.
I have:

-Obtained level 63 Paladin
-Obtained level 61 MIN
-Basically obtained level 61 BTN
-Gotten level 52 RDM
-Unlocked SAM
-Set up all jobs hot bars
-so on so forth

But, I have also tried clearing the Cold Steel Instance, but cannot seem to get in. After 2 full days (this this is day 3 over-lapse) I'm still unable to get into this instance. This means thousands and thousands, if not hundreds of thousands or more players have gotten past this instance who have reached this quest after I have. This is due to my severely poor RNG numbers.

I have also tried getting into the instance over 200 times per attempt. (Totaling over probably 2000++ attempts.) I try when I sign in, random times during my day logged in, then before I log out before I leave for work, and then I also try when I get off work, then before I log out to go to sleep. Then I try first thing in the morning when I wake up, and even now I have only slept 5 hours trying to get up a little earlier to see if i can manage beating the huge influx of players, and i'm now getting kicked from the game and getting errors 3102, 90002, and 90006.

Please continue to look into the issue and address it. It would be very unfortunate if i am unable to get passed this quest come the 20th and have to then contend against the release crowd as this would have rendered early access nearly pointless.

Thank you.







*Additional info for other players*
If you have a buddy who can go to the other side of the wall in "The Fringes" they can raise you into the other side so you can unlock "The Peering Stones" Aetheryte and explore there. This gave me the opportunity to do more level appropriate FATEs since i'm getting higher and higher in level based on my access areas.

Square, seriously, have have you not learned from past launches? Why are you ignoring the issue?

I'm not spamming the quest either, but I DARED make an attempt at it first thing when I woke up this morning, and now I'm in 90k purgatory. This is unbelievable.

Wanna hear the sickest joke that's only round 1 round 2 is clicking and 90k ing on pipin the killer of souls I want to punt that jerk in to that canyon he overlooks