SE dropped the ball

[loco12]

this is my last weekend!!!! plz fix it!!!

[Ironhelix]

I have been doing this since Ultima Online, and people bitching on launch day still never ceases to amaze me.

[Rohobian]

[Ifervan]

I have been doing this since Ultima Online, and people bitching on launch day still never ceases to amaze me.

Ha, I played from Ultima Online as well but still haven't seen a day with 5 hours of maintenance during prime time.

Guess these issues are important to them, sucks because this always happens on my time off. Hopefully Monday which is my full day off will be smooth! *fingers crossed*

But i still have nightmares of the 24-48 hour reverts! :-)

[Kallera]

A lot of hyperbole here. Technical issues with instances != NO instances available at all. before the second maintenance hit I was able to complete both instances in "Lord of the Inferno."

Also, "All content is instanced"? really? The FATEs, the crafting, the fishing, the exploring, all that, and you couldn't find one thing else to do?

[Sunarie]

1:00pm - 6:00pm 5 hours of no instances *snip* (up to 7.5 hours of down time)
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I wouldn't count the 7.5 hours as downtime. Sure, you couldn't do instanced content, but that's not all there is. I (and my guild) was able to level some gathering and crafting, as well as get a sub-class slightly leveled.

Yes, it's frustrating that I couldn't advance my story, but that wasn't needed to play.

I'm not saying SE is guilt-free, but lashing out on the forums isn't going to do much now. Should open beta have lasted longer? Probably, but we can't go back in time. They're working on fixing errors, so they are aware of mistakes and addressing them.

I don't understand the "SE needs to learn from there mistakes" mentality when they're trying to fix said mistakes, they can't go back in time to make the launch any more smooth than it has been, and according to a lot of the nay-sayers they won't get another shot at an MMO in the future.

[Teta]

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.

really? it took you hours to get 10% of a level? I don't think this genre is for you.

[Aish]

"FFXIV was marred by a barrage of errors during it's early access phase, sending many players into a perpetual loop of login attempts, frustrating those who spent money to pre-order the game for Early Access and disheartening returning players"

Any review that has this in it, is one that's utterly useless. A barrage of errors? A Barrage?! Seriously? 2 Errors now constitutes a barrage of errors? As far as I can tell, the two 'Errors' are instances occasionally not functioning properly and congestion.

Fun fact, congestion happens. Unless you can design software that can handle tens of thousands of 'hits' (And let's not forget all the data-handling that goes on with tens of thousands of hits) simultaneously you will get congestion. Computers don't do things instantaneously, unfortunately.

Instances not working properly sometimes? That's not a major issue, especially since it's not happening every time to everyone.

Know what major issues are? 5 Second delay between button-press and action. 5 Minutes everytime you're in the loading screen. Crash everytime you go to a busy area. Mobs/People 'teleporting' (And I don't mean using the Teleport ability). Falling through the world. Getting stuck. Actions not functioning properly. Game freezing everytime you open X-UI element. Cool Story: None of these latter examples are happening.

[WiiTee]

I am DIGGING the forums right now. All this fantastic misery. Hahaha. One should think the world was about to end, just because people can't play during their Early Access or there's bugs and issues. What did you expect when thousands of people are bashing the servers.

Please.. Do continue to QQ so I can laugh my ass off.

[Z3M0G]

Severs are up, everyone can STFU now. LOL