Worst Launch Ever?

[MistakeNot]

I was thinking of Conan too, like you say so much was DOA. Its wasn't even a failed launch, it was just a failed game. IDK if it ever turned around? I didn't stick around.

They eventually fixed most of the intial problems and Age of Conan actually became a quite good game.
It never quite recovered financially though - too many people left early and never came back.
It is still around, amd was but recently put into maintenance mode. (Officially that is. Unofficially it had already been in maintenance mode for some time.)

[SwarleyMcSwarls]

Been enjoying the input a lot so far. Kind of helps me put this whole mess into perspective. Think the only commonly referenced ones I was a part of were Diablo 3 and ARR/2.0 launch. D3 I don't remember as much but 2.0 was so bad I gave up for months.

[Exun]

@Mistakenot
t3-t6 was great! Despite the initial launch---> until around circa 2011, it was trashcan; but after that, the quality of the game picked up as the playerbase slowly - and inevitably - declined.

t1-and 2 were so glitchy, that if you had a necro in your party, you could just about take down an instance with the right placement I.E.: Vistrix.

The raid mechanics of that game were amazing, however, and the combo system (at least for melee) was at a level - for the time - that no game could touch.

[Maliki_Ozari]

Since we all have time to be disconnected or locked out of content, just wanted to ask people the worst game launches that they can remember. The Stormblood launch is fresh on people's minds but there's gotta be worse ones than this that people can think of. Right?

Not even close. I can't say I'm thrilled about the way it's played out, but the worst ever?

You must be new to online games.

[Belisaire]

At least with 2.0 you could access 100% of the content, just with the risk of being disconnected every so often.

Nah. You must not remember error 3102, where you would be DC'd from the game and your character would stay logged in, for days sometimes, I think. The devs had to go around and manually log people out one by one if I recall correctly.

[ximxim]

Final Fantasy 14

[Hyperia]

Worst launch ever? FFXIV 1.0 would like to have a word with you.

[Maliki_Ozari]

Nah. You must not remember error 3102, where you would be DC'd from the game and your character would stay logged in, for days sometimes, I think. The devs had to go around and manually log people out one by one if I recall correctly.

Ugh I totally forgot about that. Yeah... That was not fun.

[SwarleyMcSwarls]

Not even close. I can't say I'm thrilled about the way it's played out, but the worst ever?

You must be new to online games.

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I'm asking for people's opinions on what they think some of the worst launches they've experienced are. To hopefully put this into perspective for everyone and also to shine some light on the frustration of the issues that we are experiencing.

[Ruri]

Wildstar FTP launch could not log in for 3 days.