So is no one still excited for Island Sanctuary...

[hagare]

I'm actually more excited for it.
Which is worrying because I don't want to overhype it for myself

[ZephyrMenodora]

To be honest I never was interested to begin with. I play mostly for the story and dungeon / raid content. After that, maybe RP stuff like housing. Then PvP.

Last on my list is mini games or random content like this.

[Shibi]

...I also expect criterion dungeons to, idk, have no animations and for players to be stuck in t-pose even after leaving.

Please look forward to it!


XD

[FoxyAreku]

If it gives me something to do in this game outside of raid time for longer than 2 days, then I'll see it as a success.

Nothing has succeeded in doing that for me in any patch since stormblood, not counting full blown expansion releases.

[VelKallor]

I KNOW Eorzea Crossing is going to be a total disaster for weeks after it drops like everything else in endwalker has been.

Thats a MASSIVE exaggeration and absolutely untrue.

: the game is so hypercrowded many players couldnt complete them msq until january

Te game is a massive hit , immensely popular and thats...bad? i can think of a dozen MMO's that would LOVE to have that problem.

hrothgar lose their ears for no damn good reason and single-bidders on houses LOSE THE BID do to a numerical error

A system glitch that can happen to anyone and was fixed.

Several thousand players lost access to their accounts for hours after attempting DC travel, and those who could play still couldnt hop back meaning they couldnt access retainers, fcs, any myriad activities you can do natively

They were deluged with 15,000 transfers per minute which overwhelmed their system. it happens. it was fixed.

I dont see a disaster here.

[UkcsAlias]

Te game is a massive hit , immensely popular and thats...bad? i can think of a dozen MMO's that would LOVE to have that problem.

To a certain degree its good to have such issue, but in this case it had major downsides. If players are unable to game at all due to excessive queue lengths, this can cause negative feedback. You couldnt make a new trial account, that is a bad thing as that is already a potential lost sale. And especialy during such releases, it grabs attention of new players.

While WoW also faced similar issues, they generaly werent this excessive except for its original release.

And dont be surprised, but these spikes are predictable, and normaly you can generaly hire hardware to cover such spikes, or mitigate these things in other ways. Sure, that something might cost some time to make, and the hardware also costs money, but to repeat. New players that keep playing bring money to the game for an extended duration. This adds up quickly.

So yes, the EW release was a disaster.

The housing bug on that is also just a problem because housing in general is that anyway. It only amplifies the problem. The system glitch on that was somewhat decently handled, except still in an unfair way (some people got a free house). And nothing was done to compensate at this part. It realy rubs it into players that not only lost the bid, they also didnt get any bonus gil.

And now the DC travel faces similar problems to the EW release. Clearly indicating no improvements were made (there probably have been some, but we do not see that!).

[VelKallor]

If players are unable to game at all due to excessive queue lengths, this can cause negative feedback. You couldnt make a new trial account, that is a bad thing as that is already a potential lost sale. And especialy during such releases, it grabs attention of new players.

The reasons for that were well explained and as everyone knew, the issue was owing to the last two years and an ONGOING issue with parts and server hardware. Remember? Everyone has the same issue and production is still ramping up, after being ground to a halt for two years.

“When it comes to adding new Worlds, we need tens of ‘server machines’ for every World that we add,” Yoshida says. “Server machines are high-performance computers, which utilize numerous semiconductors. However, due to the COVID-19 countermeasures currently in place, many factories across the globe which produce semiconductors, have halted production or have faced labor shortages.

As for lost sales, have you forgotten they had to STOP SALES owing to the massive influx?

The pandemic created chaos worldwide...which is still being remedied.

Semiconductor production is still in train and will take at least a year to get to a stable volume to meet demand. SE did the best they could in a very bad , very volatile situation. if anything you should be thanking them for the massive efforts....they couldnt buy hardware ANYWHERE even when they offered BIG money.

, and normaly you can generaly hire hardware to cover such spikes

NOTHING about the last two years can even remotely be called "normal". Catastrophic would be a far better word.

You cant just "hire" hardware for a game like this, thats ridiculous..especially when there was none to be had at any price. COVID 19 brought this planet to a screeching halt, getting back to speed will take a very long time...and lets not forget that games are LOW on the totem pole when it comes to essential..especially when said hardware is also badly needed for things like TCAS..a system that stops aircraft meeting by accident at 35,000 feet?

There was literally nothing anyone could do.

[Lustre]

I KNOW Eorzea Crossing is going to be a total disaster for weeks after it drops like everything else in endwalker has been.
6.0: the game is so hypercrowded many players couldnt complete them msq until january
6.1: hrothgar lose their ears for no damn good reason and single-bidders on houses LOSE THE BID do to a numerical error
6.18: Several thousand players lost access to their accounts for hours after attempting DC travel, and those who could play still couldnt hop back meaning they couldnt access retainers, fcs, any myriad activities you can do natively

I think people should set their expectation bar to molten-core levels honestly, I also expect criterion dungeons to, idk, have no animations and for players to be stuck in t-pose even after leaving.

Based and true

[LianaThorne]

I dont see a disaster here.

"I don't see an issue, therefore one does not exist."

[VelKallor]

"I don't see an issue, therefore one does not exist."

Hrothgar ears: not a disaster.

Game issues at launch: unavoidable and no one with an ounce of sense thinks otherwise. Dealt with quickly as possible. Not a disaster.

World / DC travel system: overwhelmed by far more requests than was expected or could be handled, issues fixed, attended to and managed, with maintenance this week to reopen systems so they can cope. Accounts in that situation attended to and fixed. Not a disaster.

Issues yes, attended to, yes, managed yes.

Given all thats happened over the last two years, given the massive problems the SE team has met and handled as best they could, given the current state of the game and that a lot of problems have been overcome, I dont see a problem here.

I personally am grateful to them for their dedication in creating this masterpiece...especially when they succeeded in keeping it together in the face of a global catastrophe. A comment made to me a few days ago in discord still resonates: we have been through the type of dislocation that comes with a world war ( I know many may disagree, but the description is an apt one)..thanks to the dev teams we have had a community and a game kept alive for us to gather together, band together, support each other in what Dickens had rightly called "the worst of times".

No game is perfect..never said it was.

To my eyes at least, from all i have seen, the SE team has busted their caboose over and over again to try and keep things on an even keel, succeeding far more than could be expected of them..in all truth, given my experience with other games companies, quite frankly, they are incredible and dedicated...an example for more than one company to emulate.

God knows some of them could stand a lesson or three in excellence.. ( and yes Blizzard, I am looking at YOU. ) After the chaos, death and utter worldwide misery that was 2020 - 2022, they have risen above and beyond countless times.

We should be THANKING THEM, not throwing brickbats for mundane matters that can and will be addressed. Issues crop up, they always will.

I have immense faith in Yoshi and his team....to use a parallel,in the last two years, we faced our own real Calamity..and thanks to them...here we are.

Here we remain.

So, IMO, no, I dont see any "disasters" anywhere.