Legitimate question: How are we being compensated for the expansion atrocity?

[Erudito]

Stormblood is on early access and bugs can tend to appear, but what happened and is currently still happening with the instanced fights has, for all intended purposes, denied over 90% of the player population access the the digital good experience and service that is the story, one of the main advertised key features of Stormblood.

How are we going to get compensated for this? Peoples times were wasted and the level of frustration in all sorts of boards and forums regarding this game is astronomical. Most of us will not accept a "you knew what you signed up for" or a "its fixed (eventually), get over it" type of response.

The problem was easily foreseeable and Square Enix did a massive marketing campaign for the expansion so it was evident that player influx was going to be high yet preparations were not made.

I see my friends and other people so much as even mention something past that accursed bottleneck quest and I can feel myself get angry, very angry.

So, what are you planning to do about this after it is eventually fixed, SE and FFXIV dev. team?

[storm]

a lot of the problems they face would likely be minimized if they would open a public test realm like so many other online companies. weirdly people will test their game for free, and yet they still insist on in-house testing.

[Hatman]

IIRC, I think people got a 15 day extension out of the Heavensward EA launch fiasco.

Don't quote me on that since that's entirely off the top of my head but I do remember players got something.

[LathusWHM]

You ain't gettin anything from this. Believe it.

[Zied]

You ain't gettin anything from this. Believe it.

Unfortunately right

[Dyvid]

Just a lame apology letter asking us to please understand and be patience.

[Ely]

You get the HONOR of paying SE to be their slave labor.. er beta testers, and you get to thank them for it.

[Gramul]

For a free bonus designed to help mitigate traffic at the real launch?
Not much I imagine.
Now, the fact that it's negatively impacting the game for non-SB content is an issue worth compensating.

[NovaLevossida]

I feel that compensation is justified (likely in free game time) with the expansion issues (unable to progress MSQ, the first trial in the expansion rendering characters unable to be played, etc.) and the issues that are affecting everyone (general server congestion, 90ks, game crashes that didn't occur before the expansion, and unable to log back in without being met with 90k errors after sitting through a queue).

Edit: I also forgot to mention that a lot of PS4 users (myself included) ran into an issue with having to delete their entire installation of the game and download again because the launcher wouldn't work, and there were still issues with a download that large failing to complete and not retaining progress. And besides everything else, all this has happened with a server relocation / "upgrade."

[Rokke]

Susano apparently has a chance at locking people out of the remainder of early access. If we weren't getting time for the bottleneck, heres to hoping we'll be getting something now :/