Worst expansion launch in MMO history?

[LathusWHM]

Not just the bugs, the support from SE.

The perma DC, the MSQ gating, the fact that friends are unable to level together because of forced gaps from the bugs.

Among many, many other problems happening right now.

[Efesell]

No, not really. It's better than 2.0 still and on par with some of the other bad MMO launches I've seen. WoW had a couple that were worse but they've gotten better about it.

[Avenger]

There were similar problems with 2.0 -- lots of error 90K disconnects, as well as ongoing emergency maintenance for months. Worse than that, from the time your load screen appeared you were instantly overwhelmed by a continuing wall of gilseller advertisement /tells and /shouts from RMT spambots!!! You couldn't even follow text from the actual game in your log window.

Eventually I took a break to play FFXIII because FFXIV was usually unavailable when I wanted to play it!

Eventually it got better though and became awesome, fun, and generally reliable. So I expect 4.0 to follow a similar trajectory. In the mean time I'd recommend leveling crafting and gathering - you can often make a lot of money doing that early in an expansion. FATE grinding or palace of the dead (if you can get in) isn't the worst thing either - it's no worse than the kind of level grind you'd do in old-school MMOs.

[Anubix]

Well, at least it's better than some MMO launches like Anarchy Online, Age of Conan, and Vanguard. Ah... the good ol' days.