Sincere Recommendation: Accept you will not be able to play, walk away for a while

[TinkerToys]

On the whole, I guess I wouldn't mind it so much sitting in queue if I didn't get kicked. To be honest I'm kinda regretting pre-paying for the expansion, might have a been a bit better to wait for a couple of months. Eh hindsight being what it is.

[Alxyzntlct]

Yeah that's the thing that gets me about people wanting them to throttle sales. Can you imagine the backlash? Going from being able to just buy the expansion when you wanted to to having to be one of the lucky ones who got there early? And if you don't, no expansion for you.

Except, because of the server issues, there IS no game for me. And not just for me but a lot of people. What you just described is literally happening because they oversold their product.

So it’s ok one way but not the other?

[Mythos12]

I understand the issues that come with launches of this magnitude but they shouldn't be charging us for a subscription for a game right now that we can't even access. They should suspend subscriptions for at least a month

[DPZ2]

Well from what I've been reading more people than ever in the history of the game are trying to log in, but they didn't add any new servers & now they can't buy anymore. It's a cop-out though because they should've bought some right as covid hit since they knew more money was on the horizon just from people having nothing to do not to mention their expansion being only a year or so away... it's not like they already had BILLIONS of dollars sitting around or anything... nope SE just runs on bare-bones... lul.

Congratulations! If you know Japanese, you might qualify as a marketing/sales forecaster for a major Japanese gaming company! Your elite skills are on display right here ...

Or not.

The game has been running fine since Shadowbringers launched back in, what, 2019. The rapid implosion of World of Warcraft in 2021, and the drift of players looking for something new was not predicted back in March of 2020. Why would a major company, just at the start of a major world-wide pandemic, suddenly decide to increase the number of servers in the existing data centers when projected growth was well within bounds of the current hardware, and the continued existence of a large player base was put into doubt by events beyond the corporations control?

lul. < does this make the post better? more palatable? show that I'm just speaking ironically? give me an out if someone takes the prognostication badly? >

[DPZ2]

I understand the issues that come with launches of this magnitude but they shouldn't be charging us for a subscription for a game right now that we can't even access. They should suspend subscriptions for at least a month

I've been able to put in 4 solid hours each day since the patch released. 7:30 am to 11:30 am on Friday, and 5 am to 9 am on Saturday. As have tens of thousands of other people (up to 1.156 million people if the 17,000 maximum population for each of the 68 worlds is correct).

Of course, if 1.156 million people try to log in at once, there's going to be major congestion. 26 minutes and counting. Queue dropped from 2950 to 2090.

At a guess, if 32,000 people try to log onto Gilgamesh, only 17,000 will be accommodated. Popular worlds will take more queue time.

[Feronar]

Get up early in the morning, as in 6:30 am or so. It will be much easier to log in.

[IDontPetLalas]

The big issue is going to be raiding, with the premium this game places on getting there right from the start ...

So pretty much endgame participation will be a lottery then, luck of getting enough good queues or having a WFH job so you can just semi-idle all day or you'll be too far behind to be considered by the time you do limp into endgame? That's what it's starting to look like to me at least.

And now that I actually have Tuesdays off, I might've been in a decent position to give Savage another whirl

Really? Not with my job. Not with many people who WFH, I'm actually..working . Full time.. The only benefit, which is RNG is the possibility to be able to queue, and WFH isn't even required to do that either.

[TinkerToys]

I wouldn't be so irritated with sitting in the long queues if I didn't get kicked. I could at least alt-tab out to a vid or something while it counted down. Kinda really regretting pre-paying for an expansion that I can't get access to unless its in the wee hours of the morning (PST). And no, I really don't feel like re-organizing my life around a game. This is only day two, but I'm already considering un-subbing for a few months till things return to a level of normalcy. To those of you with more patience, I salute you!

[DPZ2]

Get up early in the morning, as in 6:30 am or so. It will be much easier to log in.

Do what this player suggests. Well, for North American time zones, anyway.

[TinkerToys]

eh, just saw an earlier post that I thought I'd canceled.....apologies for the double post.