/doubt Login Failures

[Shaone]

"It didn't happen to me so I doubt that it happened to you."

Login for me these last few days has been like a lottery spawned NM with a high drop rate. Except you really don't want the drop it awards, even if it NPCs for 90k.

Yes, persistence gets you in, but unfortunately for me my play windows are fairly short most nights (1-2 hours), it might not get me in during my window.

[whoopeeragon]

This is true, and it's something I thought about as I was writing it. Generally if I find myself unable to get in after 30 minutes or so I'll come back while later, because there's really no point in hammering away at it if I have other things to do. Normally I get in within 10-15 minutes of trying at peak hours, despite being on Excalibur, but maybe I've been lucky. Any stories about spending many hours trying to log in this past weekend though, and today too, I'll go ahead and say I believe fully what with so many people being home for the holiday weekend in North America. It's been rough to say the least.

It's been a rough week for sure. I've suffered from it as well as said before, but I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope it doesn't dim.

"It didn't happen to me so I doubt that it happened to you."

Login for me these last few days has been like a lottery spawned NM with a high drop rate. Except you really don't want the drop it awards, even if it NPCs for 90k.

Yes, persistence gets you in, but unfortunately for me my play windows are fairly short most nights (1-2 hours), it might not get me in during my window.

I can understand that, but nor do I think you attempted to persistently login for the grievous 3-10 hours many of our forum participants apparently obtain? It's an issue which will hopefully be resolved, but I would rather much see the community be much fairer and honest.

[whoopeeragon]

I would have agreed with you up until last night when I was kicked from the game mid mission. I tried for three hours solid to no avail to get back in but couldn't. I'm playing with a microsoft pad so I also have the advantage of spamming just one button but it didn't help last night! Anyway.. the point is we shouldn't have to wait to play. They allowed more characters to be created on the servers than the servers could handle and that's just stupid! End of story!

Yes, last night was also the first time I ever had to endure a one hour spam, once I got the NA/EU servers to load. Including the time rebooting the client, mayhap it was an hour thirty. Wasn't pleasant, but I got in. I believe last night's issues were more prevalent than the other day's. In regards to your last post...I offer no opinion in this topic, but I have expressed my view points on the process in other topics.

I tried for 2 hours last night before giving up and an hour this morning with no luck.

I've been lucky for the most part having usually 30 mins of errors, maybe 1 hour on a bad day. But last night it was 2 hours of constant 0 pushing while watching some TV.

Don't be ignorant and think "It's working for me so it works for everyone".

I'm not hungry... Doesn't mean there aren't people starving in the world.

Last night was an exceptional case for me as well, as stated above.

However, I'm not 'not hungry'. We are all hungry. I myself get the same errors as everyone. I just don't believe those who are persistent enough to go to five or ten hours of attempts and have nothing to gain for it. As you said, you typically get in after 30 mins of errors. So do I. At the same time as we do that, there are numerous posts claiming the 5-10 hour spans of being unable to login, and the ensuing name-calling and ridicules.

I can agree that some people are not persistent enough with trying to get into the game, but it's still ridiculously frustrating to sit in front of your computer for over an hour at a time just to log in. Though, I'm trying not to focus my efforts into complaining because this isn't a permanent thing. However, I had to work over labor day weekend, and when I came home I felt like playin' some FF. It took me an hour and 20 minutes to get into the game, but you better believe I got in. > I didn't do any NUM-0. I don't know what that is. I manually brought up the launcher, logged in, etc. etc. until I got in.

I can perfectly understand your feelings as I have experienced as such. D:

And NUM-0 refers to the number pad 0 which acts as the confirm button. By spamming it, you do not need to move your mouse or anything to continually go from start menu -> character selection -> ok -> start menu -> character selection -> ok -> start menu etc.

Well you got in and that colours your opinion greatly. It's 1pm in the afternoon here in the UK, considered an off peak time, in the UK and the US and the log in restrictions are in place. Do you see having to spam log in for, as you said up to an hour acceptable. The whole launch event had been a fiasco.

I don't blame them for the servers being busy but what I do blame them for is how it has been handled. I agree with them that it would be a bad idea to have 10s of servers at launch only for them to be abandoned months down the line but there should have been plenty of back up servers in a ready state not ordering some and waiting for 'the UPS man' to deliver them. And the queue system, well it's not a queue system. It might sound good on paper not letting queues last for hours but when the alternative is to have people 'spam clicking' for the login lottery is terrible. I would rather be in a queue of 5000 and wait 2 hours than have to 'spam click' for 30-60 minutes

Yes, I got in, but not without my share of troubles. Troubles which have been plaguing everyone. I'm not alone. I've had every issue everyone on this forum has had, from 3102 during beta to the login issues now. For the rest of your post:

This post seeks to merely point out the hypocrisy in a certain segment of the community's behaviour and attitude towards a similar problem for everyone

This post does not seek to imply a bias on/provide an opinion on:
- the manner at which SE has handled the process
- the length of period for which this has occurred and consequences
- the decisions and communication SE have had with the community
- the function of systems in place for the game
- anything which has not been explicitly stated in the post

See other topics for discussions on how SE could have done better. There are plenty on the front page and the following 100 pages.