Your plan with overcrowded servers has failed you.

[Grimmel]

It's been at this number for the past 10 mins.

I'll honestly give it till the weekend's over to see if it changes any... but your plan with the incentives for people to move servers ect has so far been an absolute blunder.

From a business standpoint you've underestimated your player base as well as giving us this early access, that we've all already paid for and the game is completely unplayable for most.

It happened in 2.0, in 3.0, it's happening again.. but what baffles me is you've ha 12-15 years to fix these types of issues. Do you remember FFXI? I remember the lines in XI just like as what's being seen on Balmung and other servers.

Previous WoW Expansion launches didn't see this type of issue (I can't speak for Warlords and Beyond cause I didn't play those.) Even Guild Wars 2 has been outstanding about patching issues and getting fixes out every time a new patch goes live; And they are a Free To Play Game.

I love this game, This won't stop me from playing indefinitely, but it has put a damper on my hype for this Expansion, as it had done so for the previous expansion.

Yoshi-P, You seem like an awesome guy, but you and the developers should have foreseen every little detail that could go wrong with this launch and have a planned work around. Planning ahead would have saved this Early Access instead of looking into the issues as they sprout.

But this is what I've come to expect of a Square-Enix MMO.

[Thunderblaze]

Stupid of them to take down transfers....and they should have allowed them before early release.

[Brill_]

The servers have been up for less than 24 hours since the plan was released. I transferred servers with some friends before heavensward, took us weeks to decide where we wanted to go.

[Hasrat]

It's a shame they haven't given us any lower-population servers where players might have an easier time getting in even during congestion hours.

/s

[Hyrist]

You... are speaking out of a profound level of ignorance of anything involving technology, business and people if you think putting this on the lap of Yoshi-P.

Simmer down.

There is no physical way the money can be put behind projects like this, expected or otherwise. Sure, you and argue against the way something functions in production when the problem happens. But you don't get to be put in the 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' positions and decisions that these guys have to face every single day during design, balance, implementation.

And honestly, there's no excuse not to be an informed customer -to not look at the history of popular MMOs and realize that hey, during popular releases, crap like this happens constantly. If you need a socially understood equivalent, every time there's an online game release or expansion, it's the Zombie apocalypse, the Day Z movie level Zombie apocalypse. Put bluntly, there's more of us than they could possibly be ready for.

Blizzard really is the only company with the level of dedicated funding to their MMO project that can handle a large tide of numbers, and that's mainly because their numbers have been declining for the better part of a decade now.

[Hustensaft]

And honestly, there's no excuse not to be an informed customer -to not look at the history of popular MMOs and realize that hey, during popular releases, crap like this happens constantly.

Yes, crap like this happens, but it's handled signficantly better in other games...

Want the WoW-WoD example:
1) Roadblock quests were fixed within hours
2) Server load was alleviated within days by actually increasing the physical hardware
3) They compensated with playtime.
4) They communicated -up to- hourly.

What we have here? An "apology" stating "just wait it out"....

[Taggerung5]

Yes, crap like this happens, but it's handled signficantly better in other games...

Want the WoW-WoD example:
1) Roadblock quests were fixed within hours
2) Server load was alleviated within days by actually increasing the physical hardware
3) They compensated with playtime.
4) They communicated -up to- hourly.

What we have here? An "apology" stating "just wait it out"....

Yeah, I love that last part. "Hey guys, we're stupid and don't feel like actually spending more money on increasing hardware server space, so uh, just wait it out. Eventually, you're bound to get through as others do."

[Natashio]

Yeah, I love that last part. "Hey guys, we're stupid and don't feel like actually spending more money on increasing hardware server space, so uh, just wait it out. Eventually, you're bound to get through as others do."

Because that's exactly how it's going to happen. Why are they going to waste additional money on adding hardware that is only going to be temporary in use for a problem that is temporary.

[Grimmel]

snip

I'm not going to reply to anything you said out of the respect that you don't know me and by making blind assumptions that I know nothing of anything involving any aspect of gaming and the business of gaming and technology. But I will say it is rude to make assumptions of people based on something they bring up as a general concern for the populace of an entire game. Even the Japanese Players are complaining about the issue with the MSQ.

TLDR: Don't make blind assumptions of people. It makes you look hypocritical.

[Hyrist]

TLDR: Don't make blind assumptions of people. It makes you look hypocritical.

Cool, prove me wrong. Explain what's going on in depth and how you think you can solve the bottleneck. I'll reply and tell you why it wont work.

I'm not being hypocritical. I'm speaking from experience. Let's see if yours matches up.