Can Players Please Calm Down? ;p

I understand you're all 'paying customers' but you're also becoming very annoying, irritating ones as well. The game has been live for less than a week and people are calling for heads, crying about being maltreated, and whining left and right about every possible issue there is to whine about.

Take some time to close your mouths and appreciate the hard work and dedication the FFXIV's development team has put into revamping this game from the ground up and think about what they're having to go through right now to compensate and correct all the problems they're facing. This launch isn't *that* bad. I've seen far worse in past releases.

They will iron things out. It will get smoother and more accommodating. I could understand if several months went by and things went unaddressed and ignored but that is not the case right now.

Relax and let the development team do it's job. They don't owe us 24/7 status updates. Be happy they give us any at all, unlike NCSoft and Aion.

I agree with you, I seriously don't get why people won't understand that EVERY game has this issue, at launch, SE are actually doing very well since the servers AREN'T lagging when you finally get in and you CAN actually get on your char just by trying for 5-10 min

You're asking the internet to calm down??! A pox upon you!!!

Nah, people are just venting. The dev team shouldn't take it their words too seriously, especially if they're giving their all to get things running. All the players will be happy campers the moment the server issues are fixed. We'll barely speak of these times once we're ingame and things are running.

And maybe when they calmed down, they'll start making their threads in the right forum categories as well.

I get that, but in the meantime I'm just getting sick of listening to spoiled, annoying players cry themselves into hyperventilation over trivial things. I know it's 'how the internet is' but it's also a reason why so many past MMO's have withered away. The games were horrible and the players matched it. Players in this new generation of gaming have horrible mentalities, and suffer from ADHD overload. If people really want something to cry about, they can go back in time to Ultima Online. Origin released a patch that broke the game. Player houses disappeared and contents fell on the ground--freely lootable by all. Characters were randomly deleted. They had to take the entire game offline for 3 days to fix it and revert the server state back by a week. Servers aren't supposed to be reliable during launch week. Now is their best time to get feedback so they can improve the whole experience. Beta's can only do so much. This game feels amazing so far and I'm enjoying every minute of it ;p

I'd make my posts in the 'right categories' if the forum stopped giving me error messages and refused to let posts be made on them. Currently, this is the only forum that's allowing posts. The others are giving error messages and saying 'my daily limit has been reached', etc etc. (Erroneously)

Ah, that explains why there's so much off-topic here then. Thou art forgiven!

I'm not even sure what to do about the forum issue. Someone mentioned your character had to be level 25 or something, or that you needed to have a certain amount of posts made? lol..Never heard of game forums having such strict limits..I hope it's just a bug.

I support this topic in full Lol I don't know why players are getting pissed when they could have easily just logged on a jp server

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Originally Posted by Death5112

I support this topic in full Lol I don't know why players are getting pissed when they could have easily just logged on a jp server

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Try logging in to a JP one right now :P
Almost all of them are locked.
We do get the same issues, we just don't complain as much it seems.

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Originally Posted by Syrune

1 I'm just getting sick of listening to spoiled, annoying players cry themselves into hyperventilation over trivial things. 2 This game feels amazing so far and I'm enjoying every minute of it ;p

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You're telling those who can't play the game to calm down. The only reason you're doing that is because you, yourself are able to play the game right now.

Some companies doesn't want to look at other developers' mistakes and learn from it. THAT is why mmorpg launches turns into a nightmare, where everyting that can go wrong, goes wrong.

There's an old saying, which i strongly believe in: "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst"... If only mmorpg developers would live by these rules, we'd have less nightmare'ish launches on new titles.

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Originally Posted by Syrune

I understand you're all 'paying customers' but you're also becoming very annoying, irritating ones as well. The game has been live for less than a week and people are calling for heads, crying about being maltreated, and whining left and right about every possible issue there is to whine about.

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Let's be realistic, you're asking MMO players to be calm and rational when, generally speaking, we are the most self-entitled and whiny customer base around. If we're honest with ourselves, this launch could have been perfect, the best launch in MMO history, and there would still be droves of people crying for blood and compensation because something or other didn't live up to their expectations or cater specifically enough to what they want. Besides, this aimless rage is just as much a part of launching an MMO as any server instability or early bugs.

Actually, I've had my share of difficulties getting into the game too. I've experienced 1017 errors, and other stuff in between but it doesn't bother me that much. I'm used to these kinds of things. My solution is simple. I just go play another game during downtimes, or I find something else to do. The world isn't ending. I'm not suffering from an aneurysm. You'd think half these people never played a single MMO before.

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Originally Posted by Elegance

Try logging in to a JP one right now :P
Almost all of them are locked.
We do get the same issues, we just don't complain as much it seems.

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I noticed that I miss my Thaumaturge TT_TT

Yeah I don't get why people are stressing out so much. I mean are you really so sad that you can't wait 5 mins to get into the server?

I just get amused.

I am plagued by problems, more so than the average complainer on here, but i have not made a single thread. Ive just added my post to the right one. (Its the fact my ISP is blocking FFXIV at english prime time, so i cant play from 7pm to 12pm at night, which is pretty much the only time i could play :P)

Im waiting and waiting. Happy to give them a month or two to see if it can be fixed because the game is good fun and Yoshi really cares.

Just to be off-topic...We really need an off-topic section.
I do to an extent agree with the OP, but if we didn't have such drama then how would we pass the time waiting to get in game? XD

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Originally Posted by MisaCeliousa

I agree with you, I seriously don't get why people won't understand that EVERY game has this issue, at launch, SE are actually doing very well since the servers AREN'T lagging when you finally get in and you CAN actually get on your char just by trying for 5-10 min

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I only wish I could get in my server of choice within 5-10 mins. It was closer two and a half hours yesterday as I constantly experienced the error 1017 screen.

http://i.imgur.com/5sOdC6l.png

FML

You could ignore the topics.
These "Everyone shut the hell up." topics are just as bad.
I also like the complaining so it's fun and entertaining to read and I like to complain too.
Sooo yeah.

I think the most annoying thing about it is that it doesn't just stick us into a que and let us afk til it lets us on. Instead, it makes us have to keep 'refreshing' and retrying over and over. Why doesn't this game have a normal QUE? ;p

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Originally Posted by Syrune

I think the most annoying thing about it is that it doesn't just stick us into a que and let us afk til it lets us on. Instead, it makes us have to keep 'refreshing' and retrying over and over. Why doesn't this game have a normal QUE? ;p

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It does...it's just capped for some silly reason.
WTB working queues!

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Originally Posted by Elegance

It does...it's just capped for some silly reason.
WTB working queues!

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It works in a blue moon. You either get lucky and que, where you have a glint of hope to log in, but then it errors you...
Or 1107 error all day. Annnd I bet the game won't let me in and I just woke up.
Time for my 2nd job of tryna play this game in a 6hr shift.

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Originally Posted by Sena-Kashiwazaki

http://i.imgur.com/5sOdC6l.png

FML

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Hahaha . . . ha . . . *weep*

I wish the Real World had that same message so we could get rid of all the unwanted children ;x

Here is my problem with the game no other game in history has ever told there customers Fuck you try again later when the game is running fine for those the won the login lottery. They have put up walls to block users from playing a game they have payed for. You can make another character on another server oh wait we blocked that too. You want to play with friends? NOPE sorry cant do that unless you both made characters in open beta on the same server and login at 1 in the morning to play. You want to do a lets play or upload to YouTube? Nope sorry its against the rules and if you do it will be pulled and your account closed.

SE has discriminated its fan base and I cant wait for the media to get there review out there and tear the shit out of this game and its policies.

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You make it sound like it's permanent when they've already set a date for early next week for improvements to start...if you want to be an advocate for LETS BURN SE!! Why don't you get off the forums and either 1) go start a mob outside of SE 2) write an article and run to every media source you know of 3) start a blog and raise awareness 4) boycott the company entirely and that includes your time 5) go work for SE if you think you can do so much better or 6) whatever else that does not just include you talking shit on a forum. Otherwise stop whining if you're actually not going to do anything about it.

I admit I used to get angry about the server issues. I never ranted on here, nor really bad publically. Just on my facebook and twitter, which no one reads really. But I've calmed down and came to my senses, especially now that Square is posting more than just "sorry", and has a plan.

What I do now is simply launch the game through Steam, and browse these forums in the Steam browser while in queue. :)

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Originally Posted by surrel

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You make it sound like it's permanent when they've already set a date for early next week for improvements to start...if you want to be an advocate for LETS BURN SE!! Why don't you get off the forums and either 1) go start a mob outside of SE 2) write an article and run to every media source you know of 3) start a blog and raise awareness 4) boycott the company entirely and that includes your time 5) go work for SE if you think you can do so much better or 6) whatever else that does not just include you talking shit on a forum. Otherwise stop whining if you're actually not going to do anything about it.

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Oh look the troll follows me again from one post to another. If you don't like what I have to say because they are true then you stay off the forums. This is what the forums are for getting info out but white knight likes you keep kissing SE ass at every turn and trying to hide that facts.

They are adding new server but unless they do transfers its not going to help any of the server right now. Very few people are going to want to drop there character and start anew.

5-10 ... what game are you playing... try about 3hr now that i cant log in. And yea... CE holder / pre order / early access. And by the way i played the first version of ff14. So yea... i have every right to be pissed i cant play the game i want to because people WONT LOG OUT OF THE GAME. Leaving there characters and going to school / work / walking the dog... yea.. i have a right to be pissed.

i'm very angry because i bought the digital version on psn...and the se account says that i didnt buy...doesnt appear the service in se account....

so i would like to wait 2-3h to play because servers are full instead of this...

square only says they are resolving the full worlds problem...

Amen to this Opening post and all of Syrune's posts. Square Enix and Yoshi San's team are doing everything on heaven and earth to get it right for us and we can and should just be supportive and patient. It will be fixed ...and in a few days I am very sure. Thanks for a fine topic and spirit.