who said it was a successful launch?

[Erunest]

Because it was successful? Beyond the queue issue which we were warned about repeatedly, the game is running smooth. I haven't had any lag, FPS drops, or any disconnections.

but the queue system is a critical failure for many people. its even more critical than a server crash would be, a fps drop or any disconnects or unsmooth server: because they literally cant play. If you login in shiva in peak hours, you literally are stuck for 5-7 hours queue. thats for many people "not beeing able to play this day". Playing with dros, with lags, with crashes etc is at least playing. but no playing is well... no playing

[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

[technole]

The pressure of possibly losing time to play the game definitely played a factor in going hard on the story. I don't think that's what I call the success they were looking for.

[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.

[Thaurnus]

The RMTs can get in but the subbed players can't... Yup, a total successful launch! /Reeeeeee

[LukaRoselia]

This is wrong. If you are a working that gets home in the evening, on a lot of worlds, you just can not play. Plain and simple.

Yeah this is exactly the case. I personally have all the time in the world to sit and wait so I have had no issues and been playing just fine but there's many people in my FC working 9 to 5's who just simply cannot get online at all. By the time they get home at 6pm or later, made dinner and showered it's already too late to play with the 3-4 hour queues right now.

[Adonan]

Nobody ever said it was a perfect launch, but it was successful. The queue times approximately a week after launch still being so high is testament to that. If it were as bad as you seem to want the rest of us to believe, as with any other game, there would be a noticeable decline in players, and they wouldn't be looking into adding more servers. For the most part, the login problems aren't even their fault.

I'm fairly certain New World had the same problems due to the massive influx of players at launch. The same long queues, and the same disconnection errors during the queues.

[Truen]

it was very successful

According to who's metric? 4k nightly ques line with a 3+ hour wait to get into the game is hardly a success. It's a huge problem that's splintering the community.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

According to who's metric? 4k nightly ques line with a 3+ hour wait to get into the game is hardly a success. It's a huge problem that's splintering the community.

Its a success

[Garruss]

The game itself had a successful launch, the queue system itself was a failure in Endwalker's release. I won't take away how fun the games has been to play but yeah the queueing was the weak link in the release and it does need to be treated as such and admitted as it.