Should I buy or wait longer?

I've been waiting patiently for today to buy the game because of the addition of new servers and the promise of error fixes, so I'm asking the community, is the game playable now? Are the same problems happening? Did the addition of new servers solve anything? I have no problem waiting longer. I do have a problem buying the game and not being able to play though..

Man your lv 18, if you don´t mind having fustrating level gap with others players just wait and see whats happens, its only 40 box

WAIT!

For heaven's sake, don't buy this game until all the issues are fixed!

I love the game, but you might want to wait another week.

There's still lots of problems going on and now a new 3102 problem has appeared after the 10 hours of maintenance from yesterday which was supposed to fix other problems (which it may/may not have done).

It seems a large handful of players got locked out this morning, probably due to the new structure they're using at the datacenters, but it also seems that they have been prompt about fixing them. A large handful of players I know that were affected, are now able to login.

And yes, logging in is very easy now. No more mashing keys, no more frustration lack of queues, and no more being trolled with 1017 when you do finally get into a queue. I was one of the people affected by the new 3102. Wasn't able to login from 8am til 1:30pm. Now that I'm on I've had not a single issue. I have also tried logging out and back in again... no problems. Always instant. Got in a queue once and waited about 2 minutes tops.

I would say its worth buying now for the extra 7 days of the free trial. Any issues that are still lingering will more than likely be solved by next week - during the extra free 7 days.

Cool thanks for the replies fellas. I will wait to buy until I hear the main problems have been properly fixed. I might just buy it and register on the 8th or 9th so I can take advantage of the free 7 days.

I would recommend waiting at least a week.

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Originally Posted by alfred480

Cool thanks for the replies fellas. I will wait to buy until I hear the main problems have been properly fixed.

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You posted in a forum where the majority of angry players are. You're going to get the "DONT BUY THIS SHITTY GAME" response for the next month...

The people who would say yes are for the most part all online playing the game at the moment...

You can buy it but probably won't get to play it much.

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Originally Posted by alfred480

Cool thanks for the replies fellas. I will wait to buy until I hear the main problems have been properly fixed. I might just buy it and register on the 8th or 9th so I can take advantage of the free 7 days.

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It's my understanding that you get the free 30 days from the day you purchase the game. So even if you wait a month you should still receive that free time.

I'd hang out and wait until the major server issues have been resolved.

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Originally Posted by Axiom

I would recommend waiting at least a week.

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Once again, you wait a week and you won't get the extra 7 days... so it won't make a difference.

Also, this was just posted a few minutes ago. As I've said, they've been fixing characters all morning since the issue was brought to the lodestone....

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1189492

They have been pretty quick today. I'd say people are overreacting. By tomorrow I'll be everything is stable and worlds open up by the weekend.

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Originally Posted by Orophin

It's my understanding that you get the free 30 days from the day you purchase the game. So even if you wait a month you should still receive that free time.

I'd hang out and wait until the major server issues have been resolved.

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Untrue. If you knew how to search and read you would've seen this.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...afea11e7c857de

If you register on or before the 9th, you get 37 days. Anytime after that, 30 days. So if you buy now and wait until Monday to register, you'll get to play for 37 days from Monday. Otherwise, you'll only get 30 days from the date you register.

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Originally Posted by Orophin

It's my understanding that you get the free 30 days from the day you purchase the game. So even if you wait a month you should still receive that free time.

I'd hang out and wait until the major server issues have been resolved.

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Yeah the free 30 days comes with the game no matter when you buy it, but I heard that you can take advantage of the 7 free days if you register on or before the 9th, so 37 days sounds better to me. :D

And I know a lot of people on the forums are the ones not able to play, I'm just trying to get an educated guess on the state of the game. I could very well end up being a rager on the forums if I had bought it. I'm never very lucky :/

I would buy it now and register it on the 8th. From what I hear it's hard to get a hold of in some areas. Do you know for sure that it's available around you? Seriously the game is awesome when you get to play. These issues wont last forever people acting like it's the end of the world is pretty amazing. I understand being pissed of I really do I like thousands of others are in the same boat. Just take a chill pill people. MMO's get better with time don't believe me? Take FFXI and Everquest as an example. After 3 years of a terrible game this one is a must buy!

i've had the game for about 48 hours and have only been able to play 3..... i would definitely wait.

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Originally Posted by alfred480

Yeah the free 30 days comes with the game no matter when you buy it, but I heard that you can take advantage of the 7 free days if you register on or before the 9th, so 37 days sounds better to me. :D

And I know a lot of people on the forums are the ones not able to play, I'm just trying to get an educated guess on the state of the game. I could very well end up being a rager on the forums if I had bought it. I'm never very lucky :/

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I think you'll be fine... Just buy it and wait til Monday to register if you're that concerned. By then you'll have your free 7 days and another 30 ontop of that. Should be fixed by then, otherwise I guarantee SE will issue another week long trial, so you'll get even more extra time if there are issues. Keep an eye on the lodestone in the meantime. Don't listen to what the ragers have to say, as its mostly just negative BS. I've been one of the lucky ones able to play since early release day with little to no problems - other than being locked out for the entirety of beta phase 4.

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Originally Posted by jayquik03

I would buy it now and register it on the 8th. From what I hear it's hard to get a hold of in some areas. Do you know for sure that it's available around you? Seriously the game is awesome when you get to play. These issues wont last forever people acting like it's the end of the world is pretty amazing. I understand being pissed of I really do I like thousands of others are in the same boat. Just take a chill pill people. MMO's get better with time don't believe me? Take FFXI and Everquest as an example. After 3 years of a terrible game this one is a must buy!

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So true.... Honestly, the reason people are raging so hard, is because deep down they really love this game and can't stand to not be able to play. It has nothing to do with the fact that they wasted $30 on a game... How many times have you wasted $50 or $60 on a game that you hated and just didn't care and didn't want to even pick it back up again? If they REALLY hated it that much, they'd return it and get their money back and stop bitching and move on....

They're mad because this game is so good and they're not able to play when they want because of the complex technology that goes behind one of these games.

Absolutely wait, there is no reason to purchase this product at this time as it has been unusable by many, and even after promised fixes we are in the same sinking ship.

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Originally Posted by BigManShawn

Absolutely wait, there is no reason to purchase this product at this time as it has been unusable by many, and even after promised fixes we are in the same sinking ship.

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See, like this guy. He's so mad that he signed up for the forums just to tell you not to buy it.

Pick a world thats not full. If the world you're already on is full, do what the smarter people who are actually playing are doing and grab a program to spam the 0 key. This basically puts you in your own little fake queue by trying over and over again. It has worked for me since day 1 and I've had over 40 hours of gameplay so far.

On the other hand, the servers aren't full anymore. So you shouldn't continue to have that problem.

Another question for buying, what is the best online retailer for digital downloads? Has SE fixed it so you actually get a registration key if ordering from their site now? Would Amazon be better?

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Originally Posted by alfred480

Another question for buying, what is the best online retailer for digital downloads? Has SE fixed it so you actually get a registration key if ordering from their site now? Would Amazon be better?

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Unfortunately digital downloads have been suspended. You'll have to pick up a physical copy of the game if you want to play. Amazon still has them in stock and they are prime eligible.

At the moment I don't believe anyone is sending out registrations codes. Amazon has it listed as unavailable.

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Originally Posted by mDaWg

See, like this guy. He's so mad that he signed up for the forums just to tell you not to buy it.

Pick a world thats not full. If the world you're already on is full, do what the smarter people who are actually playing are doing and grab a program to spam the 0 key. This basically puts you in your own little fake queue by trying over and over again. It has worked for me since day 1 and I've had over 40 hours of gameplay so far.

On the other hand, the servers aren't full anymore. So you shouldn't continue to have that problem.

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Not mad at all, just said to wait because there are currently still a lot of issues, that were supposed to be fixed, but we are experiencing many of the same issues, new issues and a large number of people are completely locked out of the game. Still nothing to address players who were sepperated and unable to make characters on the same server, as well they are locking down character creation on all the servers again, so again... no change. They only added 3 new servers, which is pretty underwhelming considering the demand.

So... yes wait. I love the game, but why encourage someone to potentially pay money in order to be very frustrated and denied service. Until the dust settles you can just watch from the sidelines and make sure it something you want to spend your money on.

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Originally Posted by alfred480

I've been waiting patiently for today to buy the game because of the addition of new servers and the promise of error fixes, so I'm asking the community, is the game playable now? Are the same problems happening? Did the addition of new servers solve anything? I have no problem waiting longer. I do have a problem buying the game and not being able to play though..

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If you haven't already bought it, can you? Last I heard SE was stopping sales of the game until they resolved the issues of their current customers being able to get into the game. Also, honestly I would wait until they actually fix the problem and at least a few smooth days go by before purchasing anything. It's pointless to pay for something that only works some of the time, and not necessarily the time that you want it to.

I'd suggest waiting.

I have a copy from 1.0 and I bought a copy of 2.0 for my husband to play. So far I have not even registered his copy yet, or let him register it. After all the issues I've been seeing on the servers, problems with registering the game, patch downloads, etc. and the fact that he can't even make a new character to join me on a legacy server so we can play together, I'm not even going to let him play it for another month at the earliest.

Since beta patch 4 I have not been able to play this game for an entire day, uninterrupted without some kind of issue coming up. "Early access" I maybe only got to play for four hours total and couldn't even queue up for the server that my legacy character was assigned to. Now that the game has gone live I can't even log into my legacy server everyday, and I play at off peak hours. All the other servers, except those located in Japan datacenters, have character creation locked. I had none of these issues in 1.0 or all the previous beta phases--I could log into the game when I wanted to and play without issue, and things worked. Now I can barely play at all. If this doesn't turn around soon, I'll be damned if I'm paying for a subscription fee when my free time runs out. I don't care how great the MMO is, if I can't log in and play when I want on a regular basis then I'm not paying a subscription fee for it.

At this point anyone I know IRL that asks me about this game, I straight out tell them not to even consider getting a copy and playing until next month, at the earliest. By then maybe the population issues and bugs will ironed out.

All of this is a damned shame too, because I want this game to succeed after all the care and hard work that went into the revamp. I played 1.0, and that game failed because well, it was terrible. Now 2.0 is out, and it looks like its going to fail not because the game is bad, but because its server infrastructure and customer service are awful.

Thanks again for all the replies. I am definitely going to wait to buy it until I see a substantial decrease in problems.

FFXIV Community, saving souls one thread at a time.

lol the people in this thread are so mad.

Have you even tried logging in today? There hasn't been an issue... There was a brief issue this morning of 3102 (of which even I was affected) but it has been resolved already. I'd say they're more on top of things now that they know the problems and the causes than they were last week... If you look at it from an IT standpoint, they're doing pretty damn well actually. I know plenty of IT guys who would fail hard when it comes to this type of work.

Once again, you are all just mad or don't understand. Closed beta was a different story. Of course you could login, there was nobody playing! There was no issues because most people were too greedy to even accept their invite knowing their data would be deleted... Once open beta came and everyone could play and their data would be saved, they all rushed to play something that before they had gave off the impression they had no interest in... I know multiple people who just went and deleted their beta invitation when they read the data would be wiped...

I have been able to login every single day by not giving up and not incrementally trying. You have to understand that thousands of people are trying to login to this game, all day every day since its been out. Even though they're here complaining on the forum about how bad it is, they're still running the game in the background trying over and over and over to get logged in. That means the window for login is about 10-30 seconds long... if you try once, get 1017 world full, then try again 3 hours later... you're going to see the same message - then complain you've been locked out all day... Why? Because people don't stop trying... and guess what... some people are smart enough and figured out that you can run a simple little program to spam the 0 key over and over on PC and guarantee yourself a login. Give it 10-15 minutes and you WILL get in - guaranteed. Now that maintenance is over and logins have been restricted, it's extremely easy to get in. You'll probably wait about 1-2 minutes... if that.

Anyway... this game is fine. I've almost got my 2nd class to 50 in the short amount of time this game has been out... and have a third in the pipeline.

Also... this game isn't going to fail because of this. This will all be over in a few weeks.... come Christmas time, everyone will forget this even happened.... Funny the way people work. So many good games have these same type of issues... and I know people who play them years later that aren't even aware it had those issues at launch.

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Originally Posted by alfred480

I've been waiting patiently for today to buy the game because of the addition of new servers and the promise of error fixes, so I'm asking the community, is the game playable now? Are the same problems happening? Did the addition of new servers solve anything? I have no problem waiting longer. I do have a problem buying the game and not being able to play though..

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Id say buy it, dont listen to most of the complainers on here, the game works fine and you can play it at will now, ive logged on multiple times since maintenance with no issues. This 3102 error some of them are talking about is nothing but you have to wait for your character to be logged out of the sever before you can log back in with it again, all mmos have this error and it is normal, it may sound bad when the people say a new error but fail to explain what it is.

All in all, this game works as intended.

Just make sure you open your ports, turn on QoS on your router and set it to highest priority, and add the exception to your firewall and peerblocker programs for it, and you will have no issues.

You do what you think best. I would buy it now if it was me, but thats me. You decide on your own. That way you can stand by your decision because u made it

The game is great. The angry mob, not so much.
Hyperion has not shown problems today, for the first time since early access, i was ble to log in with a single push of a button. No queue, no errors, nothing. Smooth.

If you will be creating a new character, maybe then do wait, because the weekend will prove a bigger test for SE with the new worlds opening up and almost certainly clogging up from excess users.

If you lready have a world and character in it, id take advantage of the seven extra days and register the game on the 8th or 9th.

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Originally Posted by alfred480

I've been waiting patiently for today to buy the game because of the addition of new servers and the promise of error fixes, so I'm asking the community, is the game playable now? Are the same problems happening? Did the addition of new servers solve anything? I have no problem waiting longer. I do have a problem buying the game and not being able to play though..

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Don't buy it. Realms are still full...wait another month or maybe two. If you buy it you'll face frustrating wait times and a bunch of 1017 errors.

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Originally Posted by mDaWg

lol the people in this thread are so mad.

Have you even tried logging in today? There hasn't been an issue... There was a brief issue this morning of 3102 (of which even I was affected) but it has been resolved already. I'd say they're more on top of things now that they know the problems and the causes than they were last week... If you look at it from an IT standpoint, they're doing pretty damn well actually. I know plenty of IT guys who would fail hard when it comes to this type of work.

Once again, you are all just mad or don't understand. Closed beta was a different story. Of course you could login, there was nobody playing! There was no issues because most people were too greedy to even accept their invite knowing their data would be deleted... Once open beta came and everyone could play and their data would be saved, they all rushed to play something that before they had gave off the impression they had no interest in... I know multiple people who just went and deleted their beta invitation when they read the data would be wiped...

I have been able to login every single day by not giving up and not incrementally trying. You have to understand that thousands of people are trying to login to this game, all day every day since its been out. Even though they're here complaining on the forum about how bad it is, they're still running the game in the background trying over and over and over to get logged in. That means the window for login is about 10-30 seconds long... if you try once, get 1017 world full, then try again 3 hours later... you're going to see the same message - then complain you've been locked out all day... Why? Because people don't stop trying... and guess what... some people are smart enough and figured out that you can run a simple little program to spam the 0 key over and over on PC and guarantee yourself a login. Give it 10-15 minutes and you WILL get in - guaranteed. Now that maintenance is over and logins have been restricted, it's extremely easy to get in. You'll probably wait about 1-2 minutes... if that.

Anyway... this game is fine. I've almost got my 2nd class to 50 in the short amount of time this game has been out... and have a third in the pipeline.

Also... this game isn't going to fail because of this. This will all be over in a few weeks.... come Christmas time, everyone will forget this even happened.... Funny the way people work. So many good games have these same type of issues... and I know people who play them years later that aren't even aware it had those issues at launch.

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There most certainly still are issues.
I can't login period due to 90000.

I'm glad to hear you have no problems, but many people still do. It's pretty ignorant and selfish of you to think just because you're fine, everyone else should be.

Wait a bit. Imo worthless to try it now because most of the time I was not able to play while my free game time ticks away.

if you just going to buy and play on any server then yeah why not game is awsome. How ever if you want to join your friends on a specific server then maybe waiting a bit might be better since alot of the servers are locked from character creation. The problems will be fixed eventually

If you are going to buy it either way then just buy it now. They are making progress on the known issues and you will be given extra free time due to those ongoing problems.

If you don't want to deal with the first few waves of bugs, I would wait a month. I don't know why I didn't do that myself to be honest. It'll just save a bit of heart break.

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Originally Posted by alfred480

I've been waiting patiently for today to buy the game because of the addition of new servers and the promise of error fixes, so I'm asking the community, is the game playable now? Are the same problems happening? Did the addition of new servers solve anything? I have no problem waiting longer. I do have a problem buying the game and not being able to play though..

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Well I play everyday some days I dont play on my server I started on lol. If you have no problem waiting maybe wait a week. So far looks ALLOT better then it was.

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Originally Posted by AbandonAllHope

if you just going to buy and play on any server then yeah why not game is awsome. How ever if you want to join your friends on a specific server then maybe waiting a bit might be better since alot of the servers are locked from character creation. The problems will be fixed eventually

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This.
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Buy it now, unless you are rolling Ultima on the JP servers, then wait.. don't want you clogging my queue.

My advice : if you are the type that expecting to work perfectly after you registers or the type that "I want it now", the don't buy it. It will lead you to more frustration. But if you are the patience type, know that shits happen, and wiling to wait until it is fixed (not too long, I mean), then buy it.

Now, so you can focus on other stuff until they get it working.