To all those complaining...

[quieren]

Always a fanboy ready to rush to a company's side with kneepads on

[MarkisKyler]

I love the hell out of the game and want to play it very badly. Bad enough I made a side character on a JP server to mess around with. Now I am spending more time on there cuz of the lack of issues with the JP servers than I am with my friends on the NA server we chose. All I am saying is put some time and money into the NA servers and whoever is running the JP servers needs to fly over and teach whoever is running the NA servers how to do their jobs.

[Melandune]

it's day 2 of early access, the game has been out for 2 days and you expect no problems? have you never been around for a launch? either deal with it or quit.

Obious troll is obvious. Possibly also underage

[Skuld]

Square Enix has run out of excuses. They know how to do a good launch because they've done it before. If you're a professional chef and have made Fettuccine Alfredo time and time again, but you quit your last restaurant and went to the grand opening of a new one and suddenly your pasta is hard and dry and your sauce is runny... Oh, it's okay. It's just the restaurant's first day and all. No. No Excuse.
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Cant agree more.
If we're getting all this mess, what can we expect on thuesday?

[Deadross]

It's certainly reasonable to assume that there will be issues at launch, but a complete systematic failure of the server side functionality after the FULL product development cycle of 1.0, then a 2-year re-deployment cycle, then a full round of beta, then leading into a launch, with a specifically defined population ceiling... is simply unacceptable.

bugs with game play (at launch) ARE NOT cascade server failure issues!!!

If the networking approach/design SE is employing for this game, was my senior design project in networking architecture, University of Minnesota- TC campus, I would I have swiftly failed the class.... as one of the VERY FIRST considerations when designing a networking architecture is determining your optimal load.... SE engineers clearly never were taught this approach.

[Roylepython]

oooooooohhhhhhh give it a few days Square Enix can give us this response!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDjRZ30SNo#t=1m02

Sorry had to change the mood... its so catchy!

[Zastai]

One of the FEW players who UNDERSTANDS how an mmo "launch" works.
So many half-wits expecting unrealistic things because it's either their first launch or dellusions. :C

No. Whether or not other companies have failed in similar ways under similar circumstances has no bearing on things. This early access, which should be seen as a dress rehearsal for launch, has failed abysmally.

The worst part about this whole thing is the vague explanation. blah blah blah limited logins. If you don't get in try again later. Just when is later? an hour? 20 minutes? Tuesday? How about a real explanation of the plan of when you are going to let people log on.

That's a standard S/E failure. Usually all you get are direct translations of the Japanese statements (it almost looks like NA or EU branches are simply not allowed to communicate on their own), and the vague statements they make just don't cut in in the Western world.
I'm also not wild about their ability to estimate maintenance duration so far. Tell me 3 hours, I won't be happy but I'll go do something else and come back later. However, when I come back 2h45m later, if you then tell me the servers have been back up for 2 hours, I will be pissed.

[cokkish]

I read this was caused by an overflow of players and simultaneous log-ins... soooo if this is true I'm wondering: didn't SE have a rough number of those who preordered the game since they sent the emails themselves and received the redeeming codes on their web page?

They should've seen it coming for sure...
But still we don't know jack about the real causes and we're just speculating...

[ZLink]

You sir have also never been an MMO launch.
I can tell because there have been plenty that have launched successfully.
Actually; LOTS that have launched successfully.
And you can't just poke your head in on WoW and go "Yep, they had issues; that's the standard." FALSE!
Go look around the real world for real launches.
Hell, FFXI had few to no problems at all at launch. The Xbox360 launch was a disaster, but the PC/PS2 launch was nearly flawless.
Let's go a little deeper: Lord of the Rings Online had few problems during launch. They had one issue where overcrowding in the New Player area caused the servers to go down, but they were back up 15 minutes later. I think that might've happened three or four times in a single day; but a 15 minute response time is spot-on!
Dungeons and Dragons Online had very few problems at launch. Some of the models were a bit buggy and there was some coding issues with ladders and other spots where people were getting stuck (mostly because they were buffing their Jump skill ridiculously high and were getting into areas where there were no floors and falling through the map).
Holy Beast; a little not-well-known MMO came and went without a sound. Cute little game. 0 problems and very few bugs. Closed its doors last year.
City of Heroes; went over reasonably well. Never played it because I wasn't interested, but heard good things.
DC Universe Online; the Launch went great! The game, unfortunately, sucked. There were a few issues with logon passwords and they had not implemented an easy way to unlock your account should you mess up your password too many times. You had to call during their support hours of Monday between 3am and 3:01am from a Verizon phone missing the 9 key colored pink and tethered to a Dodge Ram dangling from the Empire State Building while swallowing a flashlight.
SWTOR: I never had problems with the launch of SWTOR. Not sure what soe many people were talking about.
Dissentia: Little-known browser-based MMO. Fun to play. Came and went but never any problems.
Tera: Tera's launch was also pretty good. Got a little crowded on "newbie island" and monsters were not respawning fast enough for people, but otherwise no issues until AFTER the game was out for two weeks.
Star Trek: F**K THIS GAME! It's launch was good, but the game was such a piece of disappointing CRAP! UGH! I wanted to like it but sucked the big one. It didn't suffer from server issues but launched without having all of what it promised out the door. Other than the severe lack of promised content and the absurd lack of a Z-axis IN SPACE kind of ruined it for a lot of people.

Square Enix has run out of excuses. They know how to do a good launch because they've done it before. If you're a professional chef and have made Fettuccine Alfredo time and time again, but you quit your last restaurant and went to the grand opening of a new one and suddenly your pasta is hard and dry and your sauce is runny... Oh, it's okay. It's just the restaurant's first day and all. No. No Excuse.

You sir, are the half-wit. Enjoy your day.

Ok first I want to point out that I haven't been on any otther launch other then d3 but that doesn't mean I don't see obvious things. For instance I wanted to point out that EVERY title you just listed was followed with the comment of "game was not that good" or "game is not well known" and this is where your ignorance lies. Just so everyone can realize the facts, this game was a high anticipated game but many mmo gamers from different "poppular" mmo games wich, in a previous video I heard about, was not expected to have as many people playing as it ended up haveing. There in another fact for the early access just about everyone who bought the game that was anticipateing it got early access so it has a mass of population that wasn't expected for the na and eu servers. And that in turn Is why these issues are showing now where as they didn't show in beta, because not everyone who.is playing early realese played in beta. Also for the ones saying stress test, they stress tested for what they beleived would be a high population on launch wich was no were near as much as it ended up getting. Not everything can be perfected and when a game as anticipated as this launches its gonna have issues that wearnt expected unlike all the titles you listed where they probly got less then what they where hopping witch is why they didn't experiance the issues and ran "successfully"

[KaminaBlade]

You know... Everyone complaining about problems is starting to tick me off. I get that people wanted to play and even paid to be able to get into early access. Hell, I know I did, but guess what? SHIT HAPPENS!!! Want to know what the reason I was most looking forward to this for? Something to get my mind off the fact that my grandmother, who has raised me since I was born, is dying. She is dying and nothing can be done about it. This game, the Early Access and Launch, were supposed to help distract me from that issue and that is currently all going down the drain. However I am being mature and not incessantly flooding the forums with complaints about it. So how about everyone complaining about this takes a chill pill and wait out the problems like I am trying to.