So is anyone playing?

[Sehkmet]

I wouldn't go as far to say it's shameful. This isn't even close to my top three most frustrating launches.

Nice to know you are very happy with the launch. Can't say the same.
We are angry, with reason.

[Dreathor]

I finally got on the game. Oh and yes a LOT of people are just standing around afk.

[Dragonus_Darque]

I have been trying for almost an hour now. Still getting 1017 error. What exactly has all this maintenance of the last few days been for? It certainly wasn't to fix the server issues, or else they wouldn't have returned. I am REALLY starting to rethink my purchase of this game.
I know this is only EA, but with two days to release, there is no way this will be fixed by then (since they already failed to fix it the last two days and through all of Phase 4).

[Keiichi81]

I finally got on the game. Oh and yes a LOT of people are just standing around afk.

I figured as much. With how much of a crapshoot it is getting into a server, anyone who gets in probably isn't going to sign out. Better to go AFK while you take a nap than to log and risk not being able to get back in again.

[Jrimmer]

I have tried to get onto the Exodus (NA) server for about the past six or seven hours without any luck. It would appear I'm in the Majority with only maybe two or three people who have posted have been able to get in.

I am REALLY starting to rethink my purchase of this game.

You and me both.

[koop]

Here is a game with potentially thousands of hours to gameplay, lots of upcoming content patches and the option to play on the couch on a console - yet two days of access woes is apparently too much of a heavy loss to recoup your $40 ($60 collectors). We get these armchair IT whizzes spouting off all the *dead simple* things Square Enix can do to fix a problem like the forum poster is the Brain and Square-Enix IT employees are Pinky.

Is this a fantastic launch? No. Could they have done things better? Yep. But how about you guys come down from this cloud of consumer entitlement where you've been brainwashed by the market culture that because you've spent money you've got the right to curl into a fetal position and kick your feet until Mother Yoshida gives you your binky and makes it all better. If you want a refund, get one. Stop stomping your feet all over the forums.

[QuikFoX3a]

Considering that my main character was only level 16 I just rerolled her on Durandal and I'm leveling on here with no issues, chat is for the most part quiet with a few English speaking players on it. Once the NA/EU servers are fixed for good I'll do a server transfer to one of them but for now at least I'm playing, and that's good enough for me personally.

[Kitty_Inkura]

I'm getting error 3102... Because apparently I'm already logged in!

[CaptainJudaism]

I was able to play from 10 AM EST to about noon until I made the mistake of trying to zone into a new area. Boom, connection lost and error 1017. Sod it... I'm going to bed with only 4 hours total play time over the weekend. Time to pray they actually fix something by the time I'm done work. I'd like to be hopeful but sadly I cannot.

[trixster67]

got in about 3 hrs of play for the whole weekend and I been trying the whole weekend too