I am officially fed up.

[Quesse]

Yeah I haven't been able to login to NA/EU all day. But JP has been pretty much fine. So I'm just having fun on my other character there.

I've saving my complaining until after the maintenance. If on Wednesday there is major issues like this, I'm going to be on fire XD

[NoSwwweat]

man i can't wait to play this game you guys are talking about


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[Haoma]

Yeah I haven't been able to login to NA/EU all day. But JP has been pretty much fine. So I'm just having fun on my other character there.

I've saving my complaining until after the maintenance. If on Wednesday there is major issues like this, I'm going to be on fire XD

You're gonna be on flames, then.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if they actually manage to fix these issues in a week. I sincerely doubt it will happen, though.

[ZyloWolfBane]

You're gonna be on flames, then.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if they actually manage to fix these issues in a week. I sincerely doubt it will happen, though.

Exactly, they couldn't fix these issues in beta and open beta was a complete waste of time. Technically they've had two MONTHS to clear this up, only reason it's so bad now is that there's more people playing than before, but since they knew how many sales they had, and since open beta was for "Stress tests" they clearly had no idea what they were doing.

And now we're all paying for it, literally.

[Haoma]

Exactly, they couldn't fix these issues in beta and open beta was a complete waste of time. Technically they've had two MONTHS to clear this up, only reason it's so bad now is that there's more people playing than before, but since they knew how many sales they had, and since open beta was for "Stress tests" they clearly had no idea what they were doing.

And now we're all paying for it, literally.

Pre-order sales aren't a solid figure to go on, so that's always been a bad argument (plenty of folks ordering and cancelling for early access, expected fall-offs, et cetera). Early access and open beta were also pretty terrible figures since a lot of people weren't even able to log in for those 3 days.

As far as my last comment goes: most MMORPGs suffering from server issues at launch have persisting server issues for quite some time afterward. It's rare for them to fix issues completely right from the onset. I know it's an old example, but WoW had server issues for something like a month and a half before things started to calm down and the game became playable. So expecting SQEX to beat the odds and make everything smooth in a week is wishful thinking.

And it's not fair to say they don't know what they're doing as a whole; the planning was bad, but the design is mostly solid. It's the lead programmer and the programmers in charge of infrastructure I'm doubting, here (well, and the UI guys). They've done a lot of things that just don't make too much sense.

Also: we've yet to pay for anything (outside of the game itself) since they've literally been piling on free days for each day of inconvenience. If you've already bought days, chances are they'll be pushing back the next billing period.