Aether Data Center Down

[Rhindas]

The game is so popular that it cannot handle all the people who want to play it. We're beating down the doors, willing to slog through this because we really, really want to play. You should be thrilled about this! Now, let us play. The reasons were always "we were too strained thin to do this or that." Well now you've had a significantly successful year with a previously spectacular failure whose reboot has almost single-handedly turned the fortunes of the entire company around. Let's let us help you continue to do just that by getting doors that are open to us. Get management to give you the resources you need to expand and let more of us enjoy the game. I like to think a lot of the complaining is just masked frustration because, to quote that trope "Why won't you let us love you?!"

I guess I can't understand why, after this happening far too many times over the period of a year, that lobby server errors still crash the client and why that's never mentioned in explanations of these problems. I mean, I suspect it's a poor coding choice problem that can't be fixed now, lord knows FFXI was and is plagued with that, but still folks, you should really try to do something about this. I don't think there's any other game on the market that does this, or ever did this. I don't think XI did, I think it just put you back on the title screen. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised to see 2002/5006 Survivor badges soon. Actually somebody get on that, we need some!

I also cannot fathom how we live in an era where "unsteady launches" should be an acceptable event and people defend it as an inevitability. Time and time again we see it, and it's become a "well you should've expected this" and we brush it off, and then fall for it again and again. Why do we do that? But that's just the ramblings of an old man, I guess.