MMO Launches

[RedNova]

my gripe with the whole thing is if your going to sell a product and than say to everyone that there will be NO maintenance during this time thx for pre-ordering here is 3 more days to play. if your going to use this as a selling point you might want to stick to it. Games should just stop giving early access on pre-orders. this game should have had a longer beta test even some stress tests. The game might be ready on the inside but with messed up hardware that was not fully tested (so it seems) makes this a PR nightmare. Early accuse is not a lets beta test some more its a ty for pre-ordering thing and your damn right people should be upset because they payed for it and are getting shafted
In short Im upset that I payed for something that I can't use and that is not right

[Scarzi]

This is by far the worst MMO launch I have ever played.

World of Warcraft vanilla - laggy but never had issues staying connected, they did maintenance for like 12 hours and it was fine.
BC - instances had issue for the first 16 hours and then it was fine after maintenance, everything else was playable
WOTLK - no issues other then minor lag and some monsters wouldn't re-spawn now and then
Cata - minor lag, that's it.
MOP - heavy lag for the first 5 hours and bugs with some respawns. Next day was perfectly fine.
Nexus TK- game was in the late 90s and it was by far the smoothest launch. Game only had like 10k people, was one of the first MMOs ever.
Guild Wars I - I don't remember any issues except a bit of lag, could be wrong.
Dragon's Nest - Servers were backed up and it lagged a bit but it was playable.

[Yes]

I've literally played hundreds of MMOs, and I've been in betas and launches in quite a few dozen of them. And never I've seen as many game-breaking server issues as in ARR, sorry.


And speaking of which, the only game from the last decade that I've had trouble after purchase because of server issues was SimCity, which is somewhat ironic because:

1) It was never supposed to be a MMO. People wanted it to be single player, but EA decided to ruin it for the sake of DRM.
2) It's Electronic Arts. Server issues and a shitty release is something we expect from EA, not Square Enix or any other AAA developers.

[Bustercucumbers]

Maybe if people would log off or try something else rather than clogging up the servers and doing nothing but sit there whining there wouldnt be so many problems.

You're right, people shouldn't play what they paid good money for. Seriously, just go away.

[Unruhe]

I have played MMOs at launch that had queues over 1,000 people long to connect to a server.
I have played MMOs at launch that lagged to hell and back.
I have played MMOs at launch that had frequent downtime due either to crashes or maintenance.

I have never, not once played a MMO at launch...

...Where my character spent most of the producer-described trial weekend unable to log in.

...Where my character was completely unable to progress in the core quest mechanics of the game because the single player content runs off of a totally broken instance server.

...And spent an entire day unable to log in even though the servers are up because the game's developers are so incompetent that they had to drastically limit the amount of people connecting to the game in order to make it playable for the lucky few that logged in.

...That had absolutely no queue system for the connection limitation.

...That had no automated logout for inactive players.

[indira]

ffxiv 1.0 i was able to play duing EA into launch all the menus slow and stuff. ARR cant even login or do class quest i get stuck in a loading screen.
age of conan was broken but i was still able to play that one and that was enough to kill that game.

but by now they should have an idea how to make a mmo work been 11 years since there first mmo. the game has nothing new and should be expected to work.
but in this day and age people are alright buying games that need patches & DLC to work right. now that lazyness is biting the dev they frogot how to QA the stuff.

[Dijana]

You're right, people shouldn't play what they paid good money for. Seriously, just go away.

Except that...early access is free....

You didnt pay extra to get it, you paid the same amount for the rest of the game that will be there after EA. And Im talking about the people who AREN'T playing. The ones who sit there and complain on shout about how bad it all is, blocking people who are willing to get on and have fun with the rest of the game who DO want to play.

[Nyktharas]

Welcome to the typical MMO community.

It's just a small minority of usually children / teens who are used to getting everything handed to them, and are not accustomed to not getting their way. Just ignore them and you'll enjoy the game much more.

[indira]

Except that...early access is free....

You didnt pay extra to get it, you paid the same amount for the rest of the game that will be there after EA. And Im talking about the people who AREN'T playing. The ones who sit there and complain on shout about how bad it all is, blocking people who are willing to get on and have fun with the rest of the game who DO want to play.

EA is not free for the new people they had to buy the CE version of the game it cost more & non-legacy 1.0 accounts have to buy an upgrade to play in EA.

[Klefth]

Except that...early access is free....

Yeah, forget about those who had to REPURCHASE the game to be able to play early access. Screw that, right?