I am not going to defend anyone here....

[Amulrei]

"I am not going to defend anyone here...."

*Proceeds to white-knight SE for penny pinching on network infrastructure and amazingly poor planning.*

[daedalusAI]

The amount of passive aggressive activity and hate in this thread is hilarious. You guys are eating each other, calling each other entitled, white knights, impatient, idiots, ect, all because the perceived launch of a game went badly?

Sorry to the people that took time off for the first day, or a few days after that, but hopefully this gets fixed or a better solution comes before the actual release. SE did a bad, and now all we can do is wait.

You're the dream customer of every software company: no matter what crap software I throw your way you're happy for every tiny bit - and if nothing is functioning you're even fine with waiting.

On a serious note: early access was the 16th with the main release for the 20th. Can you really ignore the reality that with almost 2 days over and nothing major has been fixed that the main release will be anything but even worse with even more players flooding the servers?

[Loxguard]

Europe and Japan aren't having these issues. I know people who have transferred over to those data centers and everything is running great (my transfer got stuck though...so I'm still stuck on NA servers). I think this is a hardware issue, which is why they haven't made any mention of a patch to fix it. The new NA datacenter is garbage.

[GauBane]

I said some people, I would never trump work for a game. I have to do this adult thing all the time. Being a former computer science major I do not expect a game to be bug free. There are always little bugs that make it through. But what i do expect is that if the bug is game breaking and stopping people from playing the game to their enjoyment then my response to it is different. I'm also a businessman so i know why they have responded the way they have. Pro tip, you should use your head a little more kid. Those 3 quest are not the only instance quest in Stormblood. I've been doing this for a long time, and of all the mmos I've played there have only been a few that have had "bugs" of this magnitude. 0 of them have responded this way. They would even go so far as to shut down servers to investigate, rolling server restarts... We haven't seen any of that. So go sit on your Common sense trumpst.... nevermind.

[Sinrai]

oh, I don't know. I'd like to receive a minion for my trouble. Of Raubahn holding a big stop sign.

And I'd like for people to stop thinking their entitled to anything. In Heavensward you couldn't even login, so deal with it.

White knights gotta white knight, plus complaining about complaining is edgy.

It's really cute how everyone who disagrees with you people is a white knight, apologist or corporate suckup.

[daedalusAI]

And I'd like for people to stop thinking their entitled to anything. In Heavensward you couldn't even login, so deal with it.
It's really cute how everyone who disagrees with you people is a white knight, apologist or corporate suckup.

For a proper disagreement you yourself should first provide some reasonable arguments as to why a paying customer for early access should just literally "bend over" and accept this current disaster.
And no: pointing your finger at another game release which was supposed to be even worse doesn't mean anything.

I paid for a software I currently can't even use properly - and those login-queues already...

[Derceto]

I really can't support this line of thinking and I keep seeing it spammed everywhere. It's like complaining you can't go straight out to hyrule field minute one in OoT.
Theres far better things to properly complain about.

Stating that there is a painfully obvious bottleneck that a 5 year old could have foreseen, is the equivalent of complaining you can't go to a specific area instantly in another game is it? Your "line of thinking" bothers me even more.

Nobody is complaining they can't get there "minute one". They're complaining they can't get there AT ALL. Why does this have to be explained?

[Derceto]

It's really cute how everyone who disagrees with you people is a white knight, apologist or corporate suckup.

If the shoe fits.

[DemonwrathDeathreign]

Just to everyone, early access is a beta really so chill and shut up, get some exercise, clean, work, pvp, so older content if ya can't progress.

[Tavira]

So I take it that SE will not fix their broken game until well after Early Access is over and that us honest hard working people who bought the pre-order is going to get shafted because they didn't even plan for this to happen. They knew that the servers will be congested, hell they probably even knew that the game will be filled to the brim with players and should have gotten either better servers or even more to compensate those of us who actually took time off of work to play their game.

Honestly what the hell SE, we paid you for a service that doesn't even work properly. Either you fix this mess and compensate us for time wasted, or you don't fix this and watch a shitstorm unfold before your very eyes here in the forums and for those of us that can still get ingame.