Best 'FAIL LAUNCH' in MMO history

[monkeytacwa]

im glad to have stumbled upon this thread. ive never tried an mmo before because of fear that it would be like this. through my labor day weekend ive had no fewer than 17 hours of 1017 screens, and the tone of that 1017 message, saying that the world is full, blames the players for playing the product. i kept thinking i was the only one having the trouble. if i consider that worldwide hundreds of thousands of hours are being wasted on fiddling with a broken product, i think it's kinda shameful. i wanna just walk away from this mess until they get it resolved, but i dont trust the communications theyre sending out.

[elreed]

LOL, the apocalypse guys are back, this game is awesome in story, battle mechanics and in general designs like character and areas, I think everything will be forgotten after a week of being fixed, I don't say they didn't blew it, but this game is far better than most of the MMO's that are in the market. I've been having trouble to log in but when I get to play I have a great time, its frustrating for all of us but is just a matter of time to get this fixed.

So hurry up SE...

[Luciendardc]

People seem to forget how god awful World of Warcraft's launch was and last time I checked even with all that launch fail they are still around. I remember counting the credited free days from my WoW account and it added up to 18 days of free days due to technical issues and yes they had numbers of pre-orders and still didn't plan on it and almost 9 years later they still have issues. If you don't like it make your own company, develop your own game, and see if you can get it 100% perfect out the door.

[DevaraJasper]

^ this XD agreed

[Elix]

WoW and Aion never kept you from playing for over a week.

That is what we're mostly comparing the game to. I love this game, it's gorgeous, the gameplay changes and new perks are a huge plus. I can't wait to be able to play, but like i've been saying, I have never played in a launch or even family and friends alpha/closed beta that keeps you from playing for over a week because of technical difficulties. This game already launched and we still can't play.

It's really sad because this game had a 2nd opportunity to redeem itself which is VERY rare and they're digging that hole deeper with this terrible launch. I"m really hoping people can oversee this launch but people comparing it to WoW or Aion are being ridiculous. Those launches were nothing in par to this, we can't even log in and for those who can, I feel bad for your 0 key.

I hope people are patient like me, but lets be real, the patient are always outnumbered. I wish this company the best but people defending this launch can't say anything to change my thoughts on how terrible and self-destructive this launch has been handled by an obvious inexperienced and very green team.

I still love the game though and can't wait to play!

EDIT: I don't want a 100% working game because there's no such thing, every game has its flaws, but don't take what people say out of context, don't assume because they're complaining about not being able to log in for a week now is them seeking flawlessness. We're not, but logging in to a game is a basic thing. I don't care for lag, I don't care for que times, at least I have a pop up window telling me HEY YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR 20239023489 HOURS. Even that wouldn't bother me because i'm being informed of it and I signed up for this game knowing there would be que windows. Or random disconnects, or huge lag spikes, all these things are ok, we're at launch but not being able to log in to experience the plethora of bugs that come with a new launch is COMPLETELY unacceptable after almost a week when the game has officially launched. I appreciate the compensation, but it's not enough to a lot of people.

[GeorgeCostanza]

People seem to forget how god awful World of Warcraft's launch was and last time I checked even with all that launch fail they are still around. I remember counting the credited free days from my WoW account and it added up to 18 days of free days due to technical issues and yes they had numbers of pre-orders and still didn't plan on it and almost 9 years later they still have issues. If you don't like it make your own company, develop your own game, and see if you can get it 100% perfect out the door.

Revisionist history? WoW had problems that were fixed within 72 hours for EVERYONE on the NA servers. The game itself being buggy at that time is different, but most players that attempted to find a server to play on did so fine. Me and 7 of my friends were on that launch and it was much smoother, and that launch had much more people than this one did.

[A5ko]

Guys, cut SE some slack, it is only the second attempt of launching the game.

[Jatoh]

WoW and Aion never kept you from playing for over a week.

That is what we're mostly comparing the game to. I love this game, it's gorgeous, the gameplay changes and new perks are a huge plus. I can't wait to be able to play, but like i've been saying, I have never played in a launch or even family and friends alpha/closed beta that keeps you from playing for over a week because of technical difficulties. This game already launched and we still can't play.

It's really sad because this game had a 2nd opportunity to redeem itself which is VERY rare and they're digging that hole deeper with this terrible launch. I"m really hoping people can oversee this launch but people comparing it to WoW or Aion are being ridiculous. Those launches were nothing in par to this, we can't even log in and for those who can, I feel bad for your 0 key.

I hope people are patient like me, but lets be real, the patient are always outnumbered. I wish this company the best but people defending this launch can't say anything to change my thoughts on how terrible and self-destructive this launch has been handled by an obvious inexperienced and very green team.

I still love the game though and can't wait to play!

EDIT: I don't want a 100% working game because there's no such thing, every game has its flaws, but don't take what people say out of context, don't assume because they're complaining about not being able to log in for a week now is them seeking flawlessness. We're not, but logging in to a game is a basic thing. I don't care for lag, I don't care for que times, at least I have a pop up window telling me HEY YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR 20239023489 HOURS. Even that wouldn't bother me because i'm being informed of it and I signed up for this game knowing there would be que windows. Or random disconnects, or huge lag spikes, all these things are ok, we're at launch but not being able to log in to experience the plethora of bugs that come with a new launch is COMPLETELY unacceptable after almost a week when the game has officially launched. I appreciate the compensation, but it's not enough to a lot of people.

Actually I think SE is handling things better than NC when it came to Aion. Yes, it REALLY sucks a lot of people can't get in, but with Aion launch people flooded the servers logging in, they constantly crashed, but what was worse was all the rubber-banding. You would have ran clear across the zone only to pop back up 20 feet from where you started. And large pvp encounters will still cd some people, hell, 1v1 or small group encounters you get a nice little lag spike to let you know when the other faction is near by. I'm glad SE is trying to keep the servers stable, and hopefully more of us can log on soon. I am one of the ones willing to stick it out, despite the log in issues, I haven't had this much fun on an MMO in a REALLY long time. =)

[Brightwizard]

Square Enix: We are aware of the issues and it will be fixed by 5 A.M. Wednesday morning, PDT. (http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...95066b31d7fb59)

Octavious: NO! I'm MAD because I personally can't get in! Take 4 more months fixing it instead because I want you to fix it my way and not yours, and my way is unreasonably long and overblown!

Do you even realize how long that would take, dude? I'll take their solution.

I agree.. most of IT solution relies on crappy third party software to get anything done, barely. That's why there are only a few IT geniuses out there that can make a difference. But no, they're too "expensive" and "overqualified".

[Forestdweller]

They're just putting up the same form letter posts but we know NA service center is off for the weekend, OPENING weekend! A realm reborn??? More like history repeating itself. I told friends to buy this game because it was going to be awesome now I look like an idiot. I wonder how many customers they've lost this weekend. I hope numerous people lose their jobs over this.