This launch is a mess.

[TheMaldingBard]

i was among the lucky ones hitting the launch button yesterday at 9 AM getting itnto the game after 30 minutes and having a blast for 12 hours straight. BUT.. TODAY ,its literally IMPOSSIBLE to use the product i paid for. Theres no word of compensation to players, the pre order money was taken by Squeenix well aware that they wouldnt be able to provide an adequate or barely acceptable experience due to their server capacity and the fact that they do not DISABLE free user accounts (including thosuands of bots1!!) from congesting the queue, the "priority" system is clearly NOT working, also if it would work it is not the adequate measure in such a state of emergency. The adequate measure would be NOT allowing free accounts to login at all for the time being. "Semi Conductor" shortage has been going on for 2 years nearly, theres NO excuse for the lack of pre planning while at the same time OVER selling and over booking your servers with pre orders. I am furious right now that theres not even e mitigation process for being removed from the queue with a 2002 error and the launcher closing immedieatly. This is BAD CODING, lack of care and simply insultingly disrespectful to the paying customer.

EdIT : EIGHT HOURS OF LOGIN ATTEMPTS all followed be 2002 after a random amount of time, the worst was 3800 queue and getting 2002 at position 16 ! Finally at around 20:30 PM after this ordeal i was able to play the game...and literally had almost all life sucked out of me from having to manually reconnect,, enter my OTP and having this dogsh. launcher crap all over me.

[Cudda]

i was among the lucky ones hitting the launch button yesterday at 9 AM getting itnto the game after 30 minutes and having a blast for 12 hours straight. BUT.. TODAY ,its literally IMPOSSIBLE to use the product i paid for. Theres no word of compensation to players, the pre order money was taken by Squeenix well aware that they wouldnt be able to provide an adequate or barely acceptable experience due to their server capacity and the fact that they do not DISABLE free user accounts (including thosuands of bots1!!) from congesting the queue, the "priority" system is clearly NOT working, also if it would work it is not the adequate measure in such a state of emergency. The adequate measure would be NOT allowing free accounts to login at all for the time being. "Semi Conductor" shortage has been going on for 2 years nearly, theres NO excuse for the lack of pre planning while at the same time OVER selling and over booking your servers with pre orders. I am furious right now that theres not even e mitigation process for being removed from the queue with a 2002 error and the launcher closing immedieatly. This is BAD CODING, lack of care and simply insultingly disrespectful to the paying customer.

So ask for a refund.

[Sacrilegion]

It's not about the money, Its the principle. Yoshi P is not to blame, their marketing division is. They promised more copies than they could give out and probably lied about the numbers to Yoshi P. Corporate greed is the real problem here.