MMO Launches

[Elysius]

It's interesting so many are so willing to defend this type of laziness on behalf of developer. Especially when this is Square Enix's last chance in the MMO space and first week reviews/word of mouth have a lot to do with making or breaking a game in the long run.

It will probably go something like this:

If D3 is any example, then after early access and come release the problems only got worse because the size of the crowds basically doubled. So here is the way the next few days will go.

Saturday: Unable to login, servers perpetually down, unplayable once in.

Sunday (today): Difficulties logging in, glitches everywhere, almost playable.

Monday: Login getting smoother, playable for stretches at a time, but not a full day, occasional hiccups throughout the day.

Tuesday: Release, crowds stream in, see Saturday.

Wednesday: See Sunday

Thursday: See Monday.

Friday: See Monday, again.

Saturday: Weekend, pop doubles again, see previous Saturday.

[eagleone]

It's interesting so many are so willing to defend this type of laziness on behalf of developer. Especially when this is Square Enix's last chance in the MMO space and first week reviews/word of mouth have a lot to do with making or breaking a game..

So here is the way the next few days will go.

Saturday: Unable to login, servers perpetually down, unplayable once in.

Sunday (today): Difficulties logging in, glitches everywhere, almost playable.

Monday: Login getting smoother, playable for stretches at a time, but not a full day, occasional hiccups throughout the day.

Tuesday: Release, crowds stream in, see Saturday.

Wednesday: See Sunday

Thursday: See Monday.

Friday: See Monday.

Saturday: Weekend, see previous Saturday.

100% right

They need to aviod this by doing whatever they can (free time, free items, whatever.) to kep people.

Because however good the game is, if you can't play it, people will leave,

[Nero]

Because however good the game is, if you can't play it, people will leave,

The only thing which could make me leave right now, is the serious toxic community on this Forum. People will leave for reasons like that too. Think about it.

[BlueMage]

It's interesting so many are so willing to defend this type of laziness on behalf of developer. Especially when this is Square Enix's last chance in the MMO space and first week reviews/word of mouth have a lot to do with making or breaking a game in the long run.

These are the same people who encouraged 1.0 to be the mess it was, and if it was up to them we'd still be playing Tanaka's 1.0 cause everything is always fine and SE can do no wrong no matter what happens, just keep drinking the Koolaid and saying "It's a good thing this happened!" to everything.

These people encourage SE to strive for laziness and below-standard products/services. These are the people who said "The game is fine, if you don't like it leave." to everyone in 1.0, both pre-launch and post-launch. These sycophants who think of themselves as heroic "white knights" are bad for the game.