So what was the point of the server upgrades when I can't continue the MSQ?

[Vhailor]

You can give SE all the server resources on the planet; it still won't help them anticipate basic problems like this. This dev team is tremendously boneheaded when it comes to matters of game balance, content abuse, and server stress accommodations.

a video game is having performance issues immediately following a giant patch during early access of that patch that incidentally brought a giant wave activity so much so I've seen people who weren't around for almost a year? say it isn't so!

I'm sorry but NO. SE shouldn't get a free pass for this. Any idiot could have told them there would be issues with the instance servers near launch time. The obvious solution to this is to not make such an early f*cking storyline quest gated by an Instance, especially a solo one.

You put more distance between the launch and the storyline so that the flow is lessened; you make the initial instances group-based so that there are fewer instances created; and you allocate temporary extra resources.

SE did none of these things. They walked face-first into an obvious problem like complete amateurs. This is a company with as much MMO experience as any company in the industry. It is not wrong to expect them to foresee things like this and prepare accordingly.

[Genaxx]

SE did none of these things. They walked face-first into an obvious problem like complete amateurs. This is a company with as much MMO experience as any company in the industry. It is not wrong to expect them to foresee things like this and prepare accordingly.

Well, they got rid of foresight.

[_Babble_]

I have been playing MMOs since 1999 - The original EQ. I don't recall ever experiencing an expansion release without major problems - from any company.

[alimdia]

I have been playing MMOs since 1999 - The original EQ. I don't recall ever experiencing an expansion release without major problems - from any company.

WoW Legion, GW2 HoT.

[Voormund]

WoW Legion, GW2 HoT.

That's one thing I will say about WoW, I played Legion for most of 3 days from the minute the servers went up without much of any issues other than some bugged mobs. Gotta give Blizzard credit that launch was as close to flawless as I've seen.

I mean yea this is kind of a silly and big oversight but I was surprised how well things were running up to that point - granted peak hours haven't hit yet.

[Titor]

WoW Legion, GW2 HoT.

Didn't play GW2 but Legion was the first and only wow expansion I know of that was able to go smoothly. Other WoW launches were disasters. I remember in Wrath, I got stuck on a boat over to northrend and had to call a gm to get me unstuck it was that bad.

This is XIV's second expansion, I'm sure they'll figure it out sooner or later, but look how long it took even WoW

[Subucnimorning]

I have been playing MMOs since 1999 - The original EQ. I don't recall ever experiencing an expansion release without major problems - from any company.

I have played many as well: EQ1, WoW, Rift, Wildstar, this one, etc and I agree having major issues is pretty common. It doesn't mean it has to be acceptable though especially one that has affected people all day, we are going on 11 hours of servers being up.

What server did you play on in EQ1?

[Camiie]

I have been playing MMOs since 1999 - The original EQ. I don't recall ever experiencing an expansion release without major problems - from any company.

So 18 years, 20 if you go back to UO, and the industry hasn't learned a thing in all that time. And people wonder why some of us are upset.

[Hamada]

So 18 years, 20 if you go back to UO, and the industry hasn't learned a thing in all that time. And people wonder why some of us are upset.

Not just that, but SE themselves had this issue before! you think they would learn from 2.0 + having supposed upgraded servers since then??? I would give SE a pass completely for 2.0 because it would be hard as hell to know how many people would come back from such a flop that 1.0 gave. but 4.0?? 2 game revamps, an expansion in between the 2 revamps, and a server upgrade later? no excuse.

[Hamada]

SE did none of these things. They walked face-first into an obvious problem like complete amateurs. This is a company with as much MMO experience as any company in the industry. It is not wrong to expect them to foresee things like this and prepare accordingly.

Well, they got rid of foresight.

+1
that was funny