Worst Launch Ever?

[ValarianHeartbreaker]

Nowhere near being the worse, and I've been playing MMOs since Ultima Online.

BUT I will say this: I was expecting better, Heavensward was so freaking smooth compared to other MMO launches... what happened?

[Bongaboi]

Cold Steel brings out the feels. Bad ones. Everything in MSQ cleared up until that point on my end...Otherwise I can't think of anything off the top of my head that can compare.

[raela]

Not the worst expansion I've seen. I am very irritated of being locked out of the story, but at least the base game is good. Ragnarok Online 2's first expansion heavily nerfed magic, boosted boss HP way up (but they hit like wet noodles), and completely changed leveling/stats/damage calculations/etc. And, for awhile, healing did hundreds of thousands per cast, with jobs having a max under 10k. They changed it from a laid back quest based leveling to hardcore grinding for hours for every level.. with any caster needing to be carried. Plus, it took weeks to fix casters, and the game never did actually return to decent before I left several months later to FFXIV.

I didn't have much bad experience with HW, so I expected SB to go smoothly. My hype has taken a serious hit.

[EdwinLi]

1.0 was far worse.

Server basically blew up in 1.0

[Evergrey]

Star Wars the Old Republic.

To prevent something like this to happen, they made a queue system where X number of people get to enter the game, then wait some time, then let the next numbers enter.
This made it so people had almost no chance (depending on when you got to start playing) to secure a name they wanted.

[AngryLizard]

Worst Launc ever? No. Not by a long shot. That award goes to either Diablo 3, FFXIV 1.0, or the Burning Crusades, IMO.

Was it a good launch though? Oh god no.

Frankly this launch could've been handled far better IMO. A queue for the instances rather then RNG lottery, a bit better Q&A testing to avoid instances like Susano's Prison, and just general improvements to avoid things like Mr. Bahn's Wild Ride.

[Obsessive]

Worse launch? No way, Diablo 3 was a freaking mess, vanilla WOW was also a disaster. There is still plenty to do even though this part of the MSQ is messed up temporarily.

[Nezia]

Diablo 3 > WoW WoD > Stormblood.

That said, stormblood is still in the launch phase, so it still has time to go up on that list...

[NorthernLadMSP]

Worse launch? No way, Diablo 3 was a freaking mess, vanilla WOW was also a disaster. There is still plenty to do even though this part of the MSQ is messed up temporarily.

What? Like fates in only half of one of the new areas? Since dungeons and POTD are bugged too.

[Exun]

Just bought the game 2 weeks ago to play with friends and hoped to catch up before the new content hit.

I've played multiple MMOs, and I've experienced my fair share of downtime, regardless of having paid to play, and not having access to my investment.

That being said, there are not very many games that take over a 24hr period to implement a patch/expansion and have it turn out completely horrendous. Buggy, maybe. Crashes? It happens. To be completely locked out 3 days later?

Perhaps my money was ill invested.

In my line of work, if you turn on something and it explodes, then you are most likely fired. Most likely, as in definitely.

As a new player, this looks extremely bad to me. The time it takes for positive action, bypassing hollow promises and one-sentence updates be damned.


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