SE dropped the ball

[rallydefault]

It's so sad to see comments like the OP's already - please relax and give SE the credit they deserve. I got in three awesome hours of uninterrupted gameplay this morning; quite frankly, that was WAY more than I was expecting for a major MMO launch day. This stuff happens on launch/patch days; it's part of being an MMO player. Somebody else mentioned something like "SE's 3+2+2" hour maintenance habits ... uhm, that's ANY MMO, to be honest, not just SE. They try to give the best estimates they can, but you never know what other problems may crop up. Please try and be patient, everyone. If you want to play MMOs, this comes with the territory.

[PantherFlash]

They didn't drop any balls. the NA population is quite simply a lot larger, clearly, and with the gazillion people doing story instances it probably just means they need to increas capacity.

This happens on pretty much every MMO launch, where they underestimate the demand. It has nothing to do with the open beta only being 3 days. 95% of the Real resting was done well before open beta even started.

As long as this only happens once and is all cleared up by official launch, I think everything will be fine. I've never met an MMO at launch that didn't have technical issues pop up. It's to be expected.

Japanese gaming devs have always underestimate the demand in overseas. *Sigh*

[Z3M0G]

Phase 4 could have lasted 6 months and this still could have happened... which, by the way, isn't anything that is a big deal at all. This is perfectly normal stuff.

Things are going rather smoothly actually. I got to play an hour first thing this morning after the servers opened. No issues getting in. If they shut down for maintenance, they probably discovered something that needed to be fixed asap and halted all play. It was likely not due to congestion at all.

[Freez]

Patience is a virtue, and this is to be expected at any new MMO launch

Consider it a well deserved break that gives you concience to do something else than FFXIV!

[oberonQA]

Well all the JP servers are still up, and up till and hour ago the NA/EU servers were all stable too. No lag, no messy disconnecting.,no stupid errors. Yes its a shame the servers are down for an emergency fix, but id say its a pretty successful MMO launch. Look at the problems of SimCity and DiabloIII and then compare to the launch of FFXIV. Theres no comparison. The only niggle is the world restrictions but theyll be lifted probably after maintenance, until the worlds start overflowing again.

Yes... let's look at SimCity and Diablo 3. Specifically, let's look at the reviews for these two games. Both were ravaged by reviewers for service outages and connection issues. In the case of SimCity, Electronic Arts ended up giving away a free game as an apology. If those two games have taught us anything, it's that game reviews are harsh and if you give a game reviewer a reason to ravage a game, then it will be ravaged.

I sincerely hope that history does not repeat itself with this game.

[Gukster]

Little do y'all know, this is actually just the devs wanting to get their own playtime in without having to deal with the whiners in shout in-game! Joke's on you!

[Colino]

If I had one gold for every whiney person on these forums....

You wouldn't have very much because the currency is gil.

[Riko_113]

this is normal compared to other beta tests I've done.

what I don't agree with is locking server population. let people have their queue times with hope to play with their friends.
it doesn't personally affect me as I got up at 5am to guarantee my roommate got into leviathan this time since he was locked out in phase 4

[Gukster]

You wouldn't have very much because the currency is gil.

Where did they ever say they would have a lot of gil? They'd have a lot of gold. Gil wasn't even mentioned. =P

[VisionHolder]

Lol..... this is definitely one of the more smoother launches I've experienced with an MMO. And they are handling this Instances issue much better than the 3102. I say Bravo SE, and you sir can go take your QQ's somewhere else. <3

^ This! I remember WoW's open beta and launch. Not only did we have to stand in line for hours at the store to buy a copy, both beta and launch were riddled with horrific downtime and lag. 3 hours downtime in an otherwise smooth start under very heavy load for FFXIV ARR? SE is doing just fine. Wish I could say the same for some of its less patient customers.