North America - Balmung Server Down - THIS IS WHAT WE PAY FOR ?

[PapesseLudovique]

@SiriusErad

You...never played Vanilla WoW, City of Heroes, Planetside, Planetside 2, SWG, SWTOR, or Aion on release....did you....

and you've never played LOTRO, Rift, Age of Conan, Neverwinter, or Guild Wars 2
What's your point?

Here's the thing, contrary to popular belief mmo launches can, in fact 'not suck'. I hate this current mentality of expecting failure and excusing it. Consumers have every right to be angry when a product they pay good money for, does not FUNCTION. No matter how much it bruises your ego.

Square-Enix has no excuse. They knew their preorder numbers, bragged about them. And yet they were caught off guard, after experience with two other mmorpg launches? If these servers were Japanese, they'd be fixed by now. How are they able to keep Japan's servers up and running but now NA/EU? How hard can it possibly be?

Why do the Japanese have twice as many servers than parts of the world with over three times their total population? The USA alone, has three times as many people. Europe has over twice that. And yet the servers for both minimal, and seem to run on AA batteries.