Dear Square-Enix. Please preemptively stabilize servers.

[StrejdaTom]

Guys you should kinda understand that it isn't possible to protect their server against the DDOS attack (which early access is) except getting lalaload of server capacity. That would be waste of money because in 1 week the pressure on servers will be away.

Financially there is just no way to solve this problem so don't be surprised when login problems occur.

[Sartori]

A request that I'm sure a lot of people feeling the hype will agree with:

Please have the servers ready for mass logins during both the early release and formal release timeframe. A lot of us would like to actually play the game instead of spending 2 hours attempting to login.

Please be ready!

It'll never happen, servers are going to crash hard....

[Laerune]

Expect a disaster.

[Kiara1]

I am gonna spend all day looking at the 90k messages. I'm prepared it will happen so its not gonna upset me.
I don't think they can do anything about it because this happens to every game when they launch.

[TessaJalloh]

Umm if blizzard can't do it, no one can, blizzard pretty much has the best servers in the business and WOD launch just was hard to log onto, this will be no different.

Nothing can be done, we just have to put up with it, I think only 1.0 launch went smoothly lol considering not a lot of people bought the game to log into.

1.0 launch was a damn farce too. It sold very well on brand name, it was only /after/ we got into it that we realised it was so bad.

[Radacci]

Servers crash even in games like WoW or Diablo3 where it's expected that colossal amount of ppl will log on at same time.
SE can't do anything whatsoever to prevent it, except early access; not everyone will pre-order, so it will reduce the amount of log-ins, by a little bit.
Players can help reduce the problems by....going to work/school/sleep/your usual stuff, and playing at your usual schedule, instead of taking days off, and staying/getting up at 4am, to spam log-in.

[Onikimaru]

I am gonna spend all day looking at the 90k messages. I'm prepared it will happen so its not gonna upset me.
I don't think they can do anything about it because this happens to every game when they launch.

Yeah pretty much but SE have made major improvements to the servers since 2.0. The servers are generally fairly stable. Even with all that effort we will still probably see some issues, it just won't be disastrous like some people claim.

[Waliel]

Okay...how exactly can they do that?

Buy triple the amount of server hardware, bandwidth, and whatnot that they normally use and then just let them sit there doing nothing after few days. Duh.

[raelgun]

1.0 launch was a damn farce too. It sold very well on brand name, it was only /after/ we got into it that we realised it was so bad.

1.0 just can't get a break can it, mind you a lot of people said the beta feedback was ignored and was released as is, but true for a lot of people it was bad after release.

[Reinha]

Players can help reduce the problems by....going to work/school/sleep/your usual stuff, and playing at your usual schedule, instead of taking days off, and staying/getting up at 4am, to spam log-in.

Indeed. If people just took it easy and lived their life as normal things would go a lot smoother. I reckon many have not seen what a popular game's launch looks like and genuinely believe that they are going to be on the front line of levelers having fun. Taking time off, stocking up on food and canceling plans etc... Those people will be really disappointed with how things go! Some of the frustration will spill on the forums too, even though SE can't do much to improve the situation. Just wait and see.