SE dropped the ball

[InVizO]

So your going to play for 3 days then stop?... you sir are a Fing Liar

and u sir have no common sense and ignorantly defend ur game company like a fanboy. I ONLY rebought to play the few days and the items were a simple bonus, i could have not bought anything and just subbed by the 9th like every other 1.0 non-legacy player. Read and learn before posting next time

[WiseWolfHolo]

Off-topic a bit:
The game is not even that good.
I really wish they would have just BUILT off of 1.23. They changed a whole lot more than I expected.

I agree, by the end of 1.0 they had a perfectly functional game and recovered from their flop once no one really played it anymore. Now a year later and SE not much wiser, has a barely functional game that you cannot progress through which like at the start of 1.0 will drive away the player base and we will be right back where 1.0 was, soon a game that will work, but no one to play it. It is not like I want to feel like a "whiner," but 2 previous games, ffxi and ffxiv 1.0 and still the same errors and game breaking problems, not to mention all the hype, they should have known how many players to expect from pre orders and beta test applications, so ultimately it came down to being ill prepared.

[Drsilly]

I paid for a product key and did not get one. Is this going to be the normal for this game?

[Galione]

Am I like the only one who has not had one single problem accept the game not letting me use my goobbue mount (petty problem)? Outside of my mount problem this game is running ace for me. Albeit I haven't done anything besides main story quests and craft 50% of the time.

[Eric1987]

So much for "early" access. How many hours of downtime is it now?

[M4Fade]

I agree, by the end of 1.0 they had a perfectly functional game and recovered from their flop once no one really played it anymore. Now a year later and SE not much wiser, has a barely functional game that you cannot progress through which like at the start of 1.0 will drive away the player base and we will be right back where 1.0 was, soon a game that will work, but no one to play it. It is not like I want to feel like a "whiner," but 2 previous games, ffxi and ffxiv 1.0 and still the same errors and game breaking problems, not to mention all the hype, they should have known how many players to expect from pre orders and beta test applications, so ultimately it came down to being ill prepared.

Let's give it 6 months to a year.. We'll see how well their 2.0 "experiment" goes then.

Although I may not be around by that time. *shrug*

[InVizO]

So much for "early" access. How many hours of downtime is it now?

when the servers go down at 12am it will be a total of 9hrs

edit: but thankfully things are starting to work again in game, and SE actually is giving us a decent enough heads up, hope they keep it up and this turns smooth after maintenance

[wlakiz]

too many people threatening to cancel pre-orders under the pretense that the game was to easy caused SE to underestimate player capacity on their server

[Mug]

This is the first time during this whole process where I'm starting to feel a little annoyed. I went to bed during the last maintenance, only to wake up and find out that the problems still exist and that another three hour maintenances has just started. The weekend is almost over, and I've hardly been able to make any progress at all, even when the game has actually been up, because of the instance-issue.

What people tend to forget, is that this launch need to go as smooth as possible. More so than any other MMO, because the FFXIV name is so tainted. Yoshida must be freaking out now, cause this is slowly becoming a bit of a disaster.

[Livi]

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