Quote Originally Posted by Raace View Post
I was going to post a long post about this but essentially they got caught with their pants down and that is really all that needs to be said. Everyone in this world makes mistakes and sadly SE made a big one that cost them their launch reviews and judgement. Honestly though having played during WoW's Burning Crusade on launch day; I can easily tell you it wasn't rainbows and butterflys. Blizzard also had the advantage of having experience with large data traffic (Battle.Net for Diablo 2 and Starcraft) so they sort of knew what do and then for the expansions they had a fairly solid idea on what their playerbase looked like for WoW.

Burning Crusade was nothing but lag for the first few weeks and slowly tapered off as players left / servers were brought online and free transfers started getting processed. Wrath of the Lich King was practically flawless on launch day and by Cataclysm they were basically over-prepared (people quitting / leaving the game).

GW2 in my opinion had the best 0-day launch, mostly thanks to the overflow world. I personally experienced no issues.

FF14 1.0 was terrible for retrieving the client on launch day but I don't remember having connection issues (WoW was pretty big around that time so I don't think many people participated).

FF14 ARR during EA was "meh" during launch; some lag and features not working but I could play. However it progressively degraded into large periods of time where I couldn't play and in so was quite possibly the worst launch I have ever experienced.

HOWEVER as a former WoW player this is the first MMO that I can happily call a replacement to it; my only concern is end-game content at this point in time as server stability should be improved by tomorrow.
I completely agree. I also participated in the WoW BC release.. preordered logged on the hour it released. HORRIBLE LAG. Long ass queue times, and lots of DC/Server crashes. I can say that square has maintained a pretty stable server.. it's just not equipped for the people that want on.

I also agree that this is the first MMO since wow that has been a good replacement. Been waiting for something like FFXIV and so glad it's here.

I hope all you people bitching about refunds just get what you want and leave this game. We don't need you.