Consider yourself lucky

Not ranting (well, trying not to) but if the worst thing that is happening in your life right now is not being able to log-in a character in a fictional world or if your minion is not here on time or you have not receive your character's hat, it means you are a pretty lucky person.

Really... reading the forum, "First world problems" comes to mind.

Some people could really revise their priority I think.
Consider yourself lucky that the worst thing happening to you is related to a video-game.

Relax! take a bit a distance from all this please.
I am not psychic but I can assure you: you WILL survive this

I know it is frustrating, but when you realize that THING that is making you THAT frustrated absolutely has no impact on the grand scheme of things, you should feel better.

Your life is a just a bowl of cherries. Don't upset yourself for something like that.

Looking forward to play with the people who will have survive this cataclysmic event. :)

Not to mention Yoshi teared up on the livestream. If anything people should be mad at S-E themselves and how they handle servers, not at Yoshi and his development team. They did a great job turning everything around gameplay and world wise.

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Originally Posted by Teknoman

Not to mention Yoshi teared up on the livestream.

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Has anyone by any chance recorded the live event? I know the are/were streaming it on twitch, but I can't watch it due to work.

I would agree. I came home today fully expecting to sign-on and play some more but could not get on. I shrugged my shoulders and did something else while checking back every 30 minutes. I was much more happy when I got to long in rather than sitting in front of my computer reading these forums and continuing to try and log in.

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Not to mention Yoshi teared up on the livestream...

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You saw that too? I am surprised no one is talking about it here yet... even the up-all-nighters. I can't post a new topic as I never really post due to being lazy but the end of the live stream was fairly shocking. I did not expect Yoshi P to mention the NA/EU servers, or any problems, to be honest. I do not know if you understand Japanese but a notion like this stands out when no issues are mentioned, minus a few developing challenges to laugh at, during an entire live stream but then to dedicate a 5 min speech to go over the NA/EU issues and how poorly things have been going. Yoshi P then get chocked up, and had to recompose himself, when trying to restate that they are doing all they can to resolve the issues and hoping everyone continues to show their support and be patient, while recognizing the expectation that this version cannot be another failure. It was good to see some humility.

Plaah... I dunno why there are people such as you OP who have to come and point out the obvious in the forums?
I get it, we have warm home, food in our table and working internet connection with fancy PCs and then there are billions of people who don't.
I know, my mother always told me to eat all my food or else they would exchange me to a little girl from Africa who would gladly eat the food I so hated - Did it make me like the food? Nope, but I ate it and survived. I wish back then I had the neighbor kid telling me that if I just eat the food I will not die, because I did not know that :S
Yes, I am saying we are all bunch of kids forced to eat food we don't like. We will kick and cry about it but we all know we will survive (so thanks for the good advice there :P).

I want to see the livestream recording too, as I couldn't catch up yesterday (din't see any links or announcements anywhere or was to busy playing).

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"First world problems" comes to mind.

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I'm so tired of this phrase. If you really gave a crap you wouldn't be posting nonsense on a forum, you'd be out saving the world or something. So ride your high horse off into the sunset and away from preaching pseudo philosophical idiocy on a gaming forum.

To me this is just another incredibly stupid way to try to excuse a miserable launch. And as such, it is fail.

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What if the reason I'm playing FFXIV in my mom's dank, dark basement is because I've lost my job and my wife dumped me and took the kids, and all I have to live for is some online game and is the only human contact I'll have all week besides my estranged mom.

Of course this isn't true for most of us (well not me at least), but thinking everyone's preveledged just because they can play FFXIV is a misconception.

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And that's just arguing for the sake of it. You clearly know what he meant. Please, guys, be civil.

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I'm so tired of this phrase. If you really gave a crap you wouldn't be posting nonsense on a forum, you'd be out saving the world or something. So ride your high horse off into the sunset and away from preaching pseudo philosophical idiocy on a gaming forum.

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In counselling psychology, or anywhere actually, we call this perspective. You compare your problems with other real problems so that it helps you stop making a big deal out of things. It's a real coping technique that many people use to get out of depression and falling into irrational thought processes. It's anything but an "pseudo philosophical idiocy". If you would apply it yourself, you wouldn't be so "bothered" by someone else's statement or even this launch. Or you can just keep complaining, being unhappy, and wondering why this launch, or perhaps other areas in your life, sucks... or be content.

If that statement really bothers you, I've heard many people also called it luxury complaints. Either way, it means the same thing; it actually has nothing to do with first world or third world countries.

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I'm so tired of this phrase. If you really gave a crap you wouldn't be posting nonsense on a forum, you'd be out saving the world or something. So ride your high horse off into the sunset and away from preaching pseudo philosophical idiocy on a gaming forum. To me this is just another incredibly stupid way to try to excuse a miserable launch. And as such, it is fail.

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And to me you just validate my point. Not trying to be philosophical or anything but I do think that the launch failure is causing stress to people because they are WAY too invested in it when you could just take a week off game, and log in when everything is fixed. Staying in front of your logging screen for hours hoping it will connect is just not good for your mind I think. It makes you even more bitter and it is not a good feeling to have.

And I am not on a high horse at all... it is a small unicorn.

regarding the live event stream, someone already recorded and posted it on niconico douga.
although not sure if that'll be of any help, especially considering the situation here lately.

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In counselling psychology, or anywhere actually, we call this perspective.

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That's funny, everyone else just calls it pretentious.

(Just kidding. sorry, couldn't resist. )

To the OP:

I was disappointed by the log in issues, but it happens, I didn't have the best experience, but I know a lot of people had worse ones. So I empathize with people who are frustrated and just need to vent. I just ignore them. Yes there are starving children in Africa who we could save, right now, by pulling two quarters out of our pockets. But we're allowed to care about small things. We're allowed to feel crappy about the crappy things in our lives even if there are crappier things happening somewhere else.

I hope the dev team doesn't take it personally, but they're humans. Skin can only be so thick. So I'm not trying to excuse the more vitriolic of the haters, but I hope they take comfort in the fact that so many people are driven into a rage that they can't play this awesome game they made.