Best Served with Cold Steel

[VirtueLol]

I'd like to tell you it gets better, but not half an hour later you're gonna hit "In Crimson It Began" and it's gonna be the same bottleneck all over again. After 14 hours of Cold Steel, I finally got through to hit another place to be stuck and unable to progress.

I'm so glad SE's official response is "go do something that isn't new content and try later, sorry bro." I mean, it both feels like they're really on my side and they're working hard to make sure I have a positive experience with their game.

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There's one pretty quickly after "In Crimson It Began" too.

It's pretty bad. I have seen a lot of bad MMO expansion launches but this is one of the worst.

[Saerydoth]

There's one pretty quickly after "In Crimson It Began" too.

It's pretty bad. I have seen a lot of bad MMO expansion launches but this is one of the worst.

So far it's not *quite* as bad as Warlords of Draenor was. For that, the servers were down for almost 5 days after launch. It launched on Tuesday at midnight and the game was not operational at all until sometime the following Sunday. It wasn't just affecting new content. At least here, the new content is offline, but the rest of the game is functional. You can just pretend it's a 4.0 pre-patch and the expansion hasn't launched yet. This is still the #2 worst launch ever though.

[Kyln]

Are they seriously not going to be doing anything about this? It's been over 24 hours since this has been an issue.

It's early access, and they should have prepared for a large release (other AAA companies do), especially considering their advertisements.

Bottle-necking people from completing a quest and throttling them so that the servers don't get overloaded is not a viable solution. Because the amount of people attempting to complete the quest is not going to decrease, it is going to INCREASE.

SE seriously didn't think about all the people who took time off of work for this. And for what? To "do something else"?

[missarielle]

I started trying to get past this yesterday at around 6am EST. I took breaks but all in all spent about 8 solid hours trying to accept a quest that won't let me progress.

3 additional hours this morning

I'm now rounding my first hour this afternoon.

I tried to be patient. I've cleared up to this bottleneck on two characters. Leveled several gathering and crafting classes up to the point of needing materials beyond what I can gather in Gyr Abania...

I've watched several friends level up RDM and SAM to this same chokepoint.

What you've done so far is insufficient.

[Jeatac]

Thanks for keeping the thread updated with continued feedback. It was tedious logging in and out just to see this in game cluster keep getting bigger and more vocal!

[missarielle]

We need a real solution and a timetable. It's unfair to have every player forced to wait until they win the lottery. I'm clearly not that lucky. <1% of people I have contact with through linkshells and friend networks have gotten through.

[OveRtheStarS]

This is absurd and insulting. You choke off the content that your customers paid to access, and then go silent on the matter beyond "Just wait and try again later?" That's not a fix, it's throwing your hands up in the air and saying "You guys figure it out."

At least have the decency to update your playerbase with something more substantial than just an apology.

[AidenGrish]

This is absurd and insulting. You choke off the content that your customers paid to access, and then go silent on the matter beyond "Just wait and try again later?" That's not a fix, it's throwing your hands up in the air and saying "You guys figure it out."

At least have the decency to update your playerbase with something more substantial than just an apology.

Square has your money and therefore now dont give a shit. You cant even write a review yet on Amazon. Needless to say its only going to get worse as time goes on. We cant do much. File a complaint with the BBB towards SE California HQ and just take it in the ass from Yoshi P in the meantime. Ive been trying to get past the MSQ for well over 20 hours and I am beyond infuriated with how we as a playerbase are being treated.

[Saerydoth]

Is this just an "early access" problem because of a limited number of servers active for new content during the early access period, and it will be resolved for sure on launch? Or is this something that's going to persist into launch?

[Blanchimont]

It's likely something that will persist into launch. They're just twiddling their thumbs on this so far.