Emergency maint

[SirianGage]

Agreed they need to do something about it, but I get a feeling they feel like they've fixed the problem.

because you know waiting hours for a single story quest is totally fixed and normal ^_^;;;

They should make this quest queable in df that way you have a spot guaranteed in the line this would be done by now if the just did that

[Riardon]

This is a joke and it's not first time it happens. At this point there are no excuses.
They knew very well how many people had Early Access and that all of them would line up for duties.
And like I said it's not first time this happens.
Fix it asap.

[Slirith]

This is a joke and it's not first time it happens. At this point there are no excuses.
They knew very well how many people had Early Access and that all of them would line up for duties.
And like I said it's not first time this happens.
Fix it asap.

SE tends to ostrich a lot too. Any other MMO would've taken the servers down by now.

[Vhoxz]

They should really stop calling this early access and start calling it open beta. It was the same for heavensward unplayable until early access is over. Oh you get disconnected? here is a 3 hour queue, but here's something you'll really like. We created a bottleneck in the MSQ just for you, because we know you like that!
Reminds me of wow and their garrison quest other game exact same issue; developers not thinking/ preparing what will happen when there are a lot of players trying to get into the same instance.
It can't be that hard to temporarily increase the instance/ login server capacity when you release a big expansion for a big game!

[dalta]

They should really stop calling this early access and start calling it open beta. It was the same for heavensward unplayable until early access is over. Oh you get disconnected? here is a 3 hour queue, but here's something you'll really like. We created a bottleneck in the MSQ just for you, because we know you like that!
Reminds me of wow and their garrison quest other game exact same issue; developers not thinking/ preparing what will happen when there are a lot of players trying to get into the same instance.
It can't be that hard to temporarily increase the instance/ login server capacity when you release a big expansion for a big game!

i dont remember HW early acc being like that :/
the only thing i recall is duty finder taking an hour to find a room that whasent in use. had no problems with instence's and i never dc after 10 mins of connecting ether :/

[Sayora]

They should really stop calling this early access and start calling it open beta. It was the same for heavensward unplayable until early access is over. Oh you get disconnected? here is a 3 hour queue, but here's something you'll really like. We created a bottleneck in the MSQ just for you, because we know you like that!
Reminds me of wow and their garrison quest other game exact same issue; developers not thinking/ preparing what will happen when there are a lot of players trying to get into the same instance.
It can't be that hard to temporarily increase the instance/ login server capacity when you release a big expansion for a big game!

HW wasn't anything like this.

[Breezelyn]

HW was more tame than this. FYI~

[Hacchan]

HW wasn't anything like this.

It was worse.
Day 1 was the server kept crashing and that's when they started the instancied area and the whole return of the limited number of instance for msq etc...
SB they just right away put limit only the handful of people that rushed at the first hour got through pretty much.

[Listrella]

oh calm down, if there was a need to take the game down the staff would have done it.

[Taggerung5]

This is a joke and it's not first time it happens. At this point there are no excuses.
They knew very well how many people had Early Access and that all of them would line up for duties.
And like I said it's not first time this happens.
Fix it asap.

I can imagine the SE main office discussion:
"Hey gais, how many do ya think will be online to play the new content as soon as we launch it?"
"Uh, well, I think... we sold 23 million copies of pre-orders. So, I'd guess that many."
"What?! No way dude! I expect maybe MAX we'll see 200,000 people online. Let's just plan for that and act surprised when we're wrong. Again."
"All in favor?"
"Aye! Aye! Aye!"