who said it was a successful launch?

[Erunest]

How do you know it will get better? Square Enix literally said nothing on how they will fix it, they blamed it on the customers. The Forums and Twitter is filled with people, that defend them and respond to every critique you make with "then unsuscribe, noone is forcing you to play it".

Everyone who says this game launch was a success, except monetizing effects, is blatantly just ingoring the fact what queues like that do to a game. But *inhales a lot* Let Papa Erunest explain you the World:

If queues keep up like they are now, people will stop queueing and a growth in players is no longer possible because every new player won't play a game, that has this problem of a queue. And for everyone who thinks this is the solution: Why should this be a solution anyone wants? Less players is not good. the more the merrier. It just has to be adresse hardware wise. Which SE blatantly ignored to do so. On Top if things keep up like that, negative press will start to pile up - and a bad image will be drawn as well.

All of this above results in less revenue over time - less success. No MMO Lives of the Money the make off a launch of a expansion, they live of the people that stay after the first big wave has flattened down.

And noow to the successfull launch for the people:
Story is good, game itself is good. But the queue is bad. And sadly, the queue is something EVERYONE hits. even those who are playing are getting hit by hit. I don't know how you play, but i play an MMorp - emphasis on the MM. Especially the second M. Multiplayer. I'm playing this game with my friends. and it literally is impossible for us to play with friends under the week because they cannot logg in, get kicked and then cannot join back etc. We literally had to do EVERYTHING this addon solo / random. And this cannot be the goal of a game, where a big emphasis is on "play with your friends".

And i don't know a single one who were able to play with his friends and guildmates at all. Because at least one is ALWAYS stuck in a hour long queue.

[Snorky]

How do you know it will get better? Square Enix literally said nothing on how they will fix it, they blamed it on the customers. The Forums and Twitter is filled with people, that defend them and respond to every critique you make with "then unsuscribe, noone is forcing you to play it".

Everyone who says this game launch was a success, except monetizing effects, is blatantly just ingoring the fact what queues like that do to a game. But *inhales a lot* Let Papa Erunest explain you the World:

If queues keep up like they are now, people will stop queueing and a growth in players is no longer possible because every new player won't play a game, that has this problem of a queue. And for everyone who thinks this is the solution: Why should this be a solution anyone wants? Less players is not good. the more the merrier. It just has to be adresse hardware wise. Which SE blatantly ignored to do so. On Top if things keep up like that, negative press will start to pile up - and a bad image will be drawn as well.

All of this above results in less revenue over time - less success. No MMO Lives of the Money the make off a launch of a expansion, they live of the people that stay after the first big wave has flattened down.

And noow to the successfull launch for the people:
Story is good, game itself is good. But the queue is bad. And sadly, the queue is something EVERYONE hits. even those who are playing are getting hit by hit. I don't know how you play, but i play an MMorp - emphasis on the MM. Especially the second M. Multiplayer. I'm playing this game with my friends. and it literally is impossible for us to play with friends under the week because they cannot logg in, get kicked and then cannot join back etc. We literally had to do EVERYTHING this addon solo / random. And this cannot be the goal of a game, where a big emphasis is on "play with your friends".

And i don't know a single one who were able to play with his friends and guildmates at all. Because at least one is ALWAYS stuck in a hour long queue.

Tldr it's a success if you have never experienced other MMOs expac it is. The game is stable when you get to play. Going on and on and on about it won't fix it anytime soon.

Well looky there 10 am on a Monday on a legacy server 21 people in the queue.

[Erunest]

Tldr it's a success if you have never experienced other MMOs expac it is. The game is stable when you get to play. Going on and on and on about it won't fix it anytime soon.

Well looky there 10 am on a Monday on a legacy server 21 people in the queue.

i played EVERY mayor mmolaunch ever. i played every mmo expansion start. i played every expac start from final.

this one is literally the one with the longest queues i experienced so far - and this now over 2 weeks. thats a new

[Lanadra]

i played EVERY mayor mmolaunch ever. i played every mmo expansion start. i played every expac start from final.

this one is literally the one with the longest queues i experienced so far - and this now over 2 weeks. thats a new

Over 2 weeks? Early access start was december 3. Not sure how many days you consider to be 'over 2 weeks' but by my count, 10 is not it.