How was Square-Enix unprepared for this? (not a rant)
As we all know, the game's servers are full and no one can log on to the game. My question is how was Square-Enix unprepared for this? Sure, launch trouble is standard for MMOs, but wasn't the point of phase 4 to stress-test the servers? That phase went off without much of a hitch, save for that "still logged in" issue near the end.
So shouldn't this mean they were ready to handle the traffic on launch day? If anything, they should have been extra ready, since phase 4 was free open-beta and to play at launch, you actually needed to buy the game, so there should be less people than there was in phase 4.
2 main problems that if fixed, would make players a lot less angry
Honestly, there are 2 main issues as far as I'm concerned.
1. The fact that sometimes when I try logging in I get put into a queue and other times it just gives me the world is full error and I get thrown back to the start screen.
2. There is currently NO AFK TIMEOUT.
I truly wouldn't be upset if I tried to log in and instead of being thrown back to the start screen where I have do click start, choose my character, then click login again...I was just put into a queue and could just leave it waiting in queue while I did something else. Honestly...even if that queue was 1000's of people and I could just let it sit in queue and then go play a game of League of Legends or something, I'd be happy because I'd know that I was eventually going to get in.