SE dropped the ball

[pmac1328]

All this nonsensical banter aside, get out of your chairs, dust the cheeto crumbs off your shirts, shake off the leg atrophy caused by your already 12 hour gaming/forum ranting session, and take a walk. There's more to life than this game and making a marathon of it. If you're pissed about the 88 cents worth of gameplay that you're missing or that you can't flex your epeen because you aren't level 50, yet, then you need to re-evaluate your priorities in life...

[Weks]

Anyone else getting that the server can't find the NA/EU list error again? I've been trying for a while now and can't seem to connect.

Maintenance is currently scheduled from 3:00pm (PDT)/22:00 (GMT) to 5:30pm (PDT)/00:30 (GMT) http://t.co/jFFMDkO5A1

[Treble]

(All times quoted are EST)

5:00am Servers go live
10:30am Instances start to fail. (5.5 hours of game time)
11:00am - 1:00pm First Maintenance. (2.5 hours of anti-game time)
1:00pm - 6:00pm 5 hours of no instances in a game where all content is instanced. (up to 7.5 hours of down time)
6:00pm - 8:30pm 2.5 hour second maintenance (Down time up to 10 hours)
8:30pm - ∞ Who the hell knows?

So thats 10 hours of "no game" versus 5.5 hours of "game"

Granted "a lot" is a subjective phrase... so would you care to clarify?



That's right... its SE of America that is to blame. SE communicates perfectly with them and they just lack comprehension.
Except.....

Stephane D'Astous, Founder of Eidos (See: Thief, Deus Ex) who recently QUIT, had this to say of SE:



Check out the Full Article here

awww sheeeeeet, cats outta the bag!

[seikenflash]

You all realize the combined population for NA/EU is about 3-4x larger than JP, so we have that many more people occupying the servers, if you can't stand watching the NA/EU servers go down, play on a Japanese server, no one is stopping you.

[Chocob0charmer]

It's easy to attack a person for being upset that they can't play and say this and that, but I can't access my main so am on a JP server on an alt... having ZERO problems.

Let people be upset, frankly they have a right to be when there's an amazing game out there that only can be enjoyed by JP servers.

I hope they can resolve it because this truly is a great game, but til then let the angry people vent and let the fires burn out on their own.

[kelsethel]

So anyone want to guess the subs lost in the last 2 weeks when they don't have any subs to lose yet haha love this fanbois gotta love them.
Oh and who's great idea was it to put all the regions forums on one page no wonder why this site is so damn slow, I really do wonder if this company has any clue what hell there doing.

[ArchBanshee]

Can't advance story line without defeating Ifrit. Group finder is absolute and utter trash.

No worries, though right? I'll just go work on a job quest and get some gear, xp, gil, etc. Until you find that in order to actually defeat the shear amount of mobs in level 20 job quests, you must once again have a group. So again, one is reduced to standing in Ul'dah shouting repeatedly for no one to answer a group plea.

This is not to bash the content (as i haven't/ can't experienced most of it). Class system seem fine. Abilities seem fine. Everything but PROGRESSION is outstanding in this gamer IMHO. I refuse to spend hours at a time to gain 10% of a level. So, thanks but no thanks SE. I'll keep checking back to see what a few of the first patches bring.

[AngelVincere]

Time to play Tetris

[Celedh]

Games that don't have an early access will often fall to these connection issues and such when the game is actually launched.

Why are these issues a surprise?

Do we need to show what happened with World of Warcraft when they launched? Took a week of up and downs.

A bad launch is not the reason a game will fail. Its the gameplay and the rest of what you see when you're actually on it that determines it.

We are connected on the internet, its always going to have issues, they can iron out 99% of them and still have maintenance downtime because of that 1%.

[Esk]

(All times quoted are EST)

5:00am Servers go live
10:30am Instances start to fail. (5.5 hours of game time)
11:00am - 1:00pm First Maintenance. (2.5 hours of anti-game time)
1:00pm - 6:00pm 5 hours of no instances in a game where all content is instanced. (up to 7.5 hours of down time)
6:00pm - 8:30pm 2.5 hour second maintenance (Down time up to 10 hours)
8:30pm - ∞ Who the hell knows?

So thats 10 hours of "no game" versus 5.5 hours of "game"

Granted "a lot" is a subjective phrase... so would you care to clarify?

Fair enough, I only knew about the instances issue about 20mins before the server went down myself and no one i knew (or that i had seen in local) had commented about it till that point.

So i guess the comment should have read:
The servers have been up a lot of the day and playable with only a small # of problems..
I'd much rather have the Servers off for a fix, then just crashing and being rebooted.

But regardless i still believe this is a good 1st day overall.
The servers haven't been laggy.
No random crashes of zones or servers (- the DF).
Logging on doesn't take long.
Game is running smoothly.