A sad but common practice...

[Otoha]

OP

Your rant is arrogant, some people actually take pride in their work.

[Tygerr]

there is nothing arrogant in my post. I didn't bash the ITs over there working their ass with terrible pressure on their shoulders. But what I'm trying to say is that with every MMO launches ever since Everquest, most of thos MMOs had troubles with servers congestions and stability. And the same excuse always comes up : we didn't expect that many people. Yet we are all into the Early Access for either of the 2 following reasons : You were a legacy player with 1.0 or you pre-ordered the game. I think it's safe to say that everyone who pre-ordered the game didn't do so just for a moogle cap and a caith sith doll. We all did it for early access. All those pre-order sales are tallied somewhere. It gives them a number. A number of people who WILL try to connect once the servers are up. Throwing the excuse that they didn't know just doesnt cut it : not for this game, nor any other online games out there.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about the server troubles, the bugs, or whatever. I will patiently wait for them to resolve it, and unlike many on the forums, I know those problems will be a thing of the past in a week or 2, probably less, and we'll all be able to enjoy a great and fun game. Like I said, I'm used to those launch day problems, and I pre-order an MMO fully aware how it's gonna be. But I'm debatting that this "particular excuse" all game companies always throow at us is just bad PR.

[Esus]

OP

Your rant is arrogant, some people actually take pride in their work.

How is that arrogant?

All companies have 2 "drives". Money and more money. SquareEnix wants to make profit, and that's what they'll do. If they do not make profit, they'll remove the product and either toss it in the trash or remake it and sell it as the "much improved new product". If you realy think that SquareEnix is only doing all this "because we have the moral obligation to provide thousands of people with a pleasant, virtual, fun time", then you are being ignorant.

That being said: I don't really agree with the OP either. I don't think the massive influx of players is the core-problem of all the issues right now. I guess there's something else up. I assume the amount of Japanese players equals the amount of NA/EU (since the FF-franchise is realy popular over there).

Anyways, the same thing is discussed in 2000 other topics. I guess I'm just preaching to the choir here...

[Lockisezmode]

OP

Your rant is arrogant, some people actually take pride in their work.

If you do something with PRIDE, you tend to do it well. Are you trolling or just foolish? Either way this has been a typical launch and after all the promises SE made it isn't living up to the standard they set for themselves.

[Sahdee]

I just had to say how much I like your sig xP

Nearly stole it, but I feel bad for Yoshi....
Poor guy put his heart and soul into this game, only to be failed by.... by whoever it is that's failing so bad right now, whether it be SE tech support or SE PR-dept. or some SE middle management person, arrangement or subsidiary, or, most likely, all five and then some.