Early Access should it be longer?

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12-03-2021, 07:27 PM
Moonlite

Early Access should it be longer?

Some people are a little choked that login isn't going smoothly. Early Access is kind of a weird thing. If most of your players pay for it is it really early? But maybe people wouldn't be so choked if it was longer.

Instead of a weekend of early access change it to a week. So then players won't feel so cheated. They could have just as easily started the patch Sunday night or Monday morning.
12-03-2021, 07:32 PM
EusisLandale

The people losing their minds over difficulties logging in wouldn't react any differently even if EA was a month long. "I can't get in NOW. LIES! SCAM! WORST LAUNCH EVER!"
12-03-2021, 07:33 PM
Shirosama

People whined and cried when HW, SB and ShB launched. It would be no different tbh
12-03-2021, 07:35 PM
LaylaTsarra

Price of success. Seems the game is doing really well so no I don't think it should be longer. I can just imagine how the servers will feel when 6.1 gets here with new housing. Going to be a circus for sure and can just see the complaint threads when it means getting a house rather then starting main story a bit late.
12-03-2021, 07:36 PM
Moonlite

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Originally Posted by Shirosama

People whined and cried when HW, SB and ShB launched. It would be no different tbh

SB was hot garbage. And anyone who defends it is on off the charts fanboy.
12-03-2021, 07:37 PM
Shirosama

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

SB was hot garbage. And anyone who defends it is on off the charts fanboy.

Lol not defending just stating a fact. And Lmao come on don't tell me you didn't enjoy Rahuban savage and pippin ultimate
12-03-2021, 07:37 PM
Moonlite

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Price of success. Seems the game is doing really well so no I don't think it should be longer. I can just imagine how the servers will feel when 6.1 gets here with new housing. Going to be a circus for sure and can just see the complaint threads when it means getting a house rather then starting main story a bit late.

New housing is always a stressful mess. But now you can't get a house when the new zone goes live anyways. So shouldn't be a rush this time.
12-03-2021, 07:37 PM
SilverObi

It's literally just a few hours of a whole weekend, it's not that big a deal.
12-03-2021, 07:41 PM
Hasrat

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Price of success. Seems the game is doing really well so no I don't think it should be longer. I can just imagine how the servers will feel when 6.1 gets here with new housing. Going to be a circus for sure and can just see the complaint threads when it means getting a house rather then starting main story a bit late.

Eh, we've already been through it with Shirogane, and every time new wards were added. It'll be chaos for a minute, then it'll be fine.
12-03-2021, 07:46 PM
Moonlite

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Originally Posted by SilverObi

It's literally just a few hours of a whole weekend, it's not that big a deal.

This defence sounds pretty insensitive to me. We hope that people have a life outside this game. The window that people can play is a lot smaller then a whole weekend. If I have 72 hours to dedicate to the game and miss out on two hours, big whoop. If someone only has a window of 2 hours each day and login is 2+ hours each time. How much time did they actually get to play? And this isn't like some phone game where they only charge you when you are actually using the service.
12-03-2021, 07:49 PM
Darksummoner

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

This defence sounds pretty insensitive to me. We hope that people have a life outside this game. The window that people can play is a lot smaller then a whole weekend. If I have 72 hours to dedicate to the game and miss out on two hours, big whoop. If someone only has a window of 2 hours each day and login is 2+ hours each time. How much time did they actually get to play? And this isn't like some phone game where they only charge you when you are actually using the service.

Hmmmm. Well said.
12-03-2021, 07:52 PM
Flipityflu

First day teething problems are MMO's way of showing who the adults are, and who the children are.
12-03-2021, 08:03 PM
TheMightyMollusk

You can really tell who's never been through a truly bad MMO expansion launch.
12-03-2021, 08:11 PM
LaylaTsarra

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

New housing is always a stressful mess. But now you can't get a house when the new zone goes live anyways. So shouldn't be a rush this time.

Yeah was talking about 6.1.
12-03-2021, 08:57 PM
Catwho

Those of us who got up at 4AM knew it was going to be like this. I kept trying, kept trying, kept trying, eventually got in, and now doing MSQ.

Seems like once they disconnected the Lodestone, the lobby server was much better.

Early access is essentially the final public beta test.
12-03-2021, 09:04 PM
Sotaris

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

Some people are a little choked that login isn't going smoothly. Early Access is kind of a weird thing. If most of your players pay for it is it really early? But maybe people wouldn't be so choked if it was longer.

Instead of a weekend of early access change it to a week. So then players won't feel so cheated. They could have just as easily started the patch Sunday night or Monday morning.

Congestion comes with the territory. I wouldn't pay attention to people complain about it.
When I managed to login on my PS5, 25-30 minutes after the game went live it was 3000 in queue, took maybe 15-20 min and I was in. Nothing too bad if we comapre ARR and SB launches.