Worst Launch Ever?

[Kaisinel]

Every FF14 launch was terrible 2.0 especially

[ValarianHeartbreaker]

Nowhere near being the worse, and I've been playing MMOs since Ultima Online.

BUT I will say this: I was expecting better, Heavensward was so freaking smooth compared to other MMO launches... what happened?

[raela]

Not the worst expansion I've seen. I am very irritated of being locked out of the story, but at least the base game is good. Ragnarok Online 2's first expansion heavily nerfed magic, boosted boss HP way up (but they hit like wet noodles), and completely changed leveling/stats/damage calculations/etc. And, for awhile, healing did hundreds of thousands per cast, with jobs having a max under 10k. They changed it from a laid back quest based leveling to hardcore grinding for hours for every level.. with any caster needing to be carried. Plus, it took weeks to fix casters, and the game never did actually return to decent before I left several months later to FFXIV.

I didn't have much bad experience with HW, so I expected SB to go smoothly. My hype has taken a serious hit.

[EdwinLi]

1.0 was far worse.

Server basically blew up in 1.0

[Evergrey]

Star Wars the Old Republic.

To prevent something like this to happen, they made a queue system where X number of people get to enter the game, then wait some time, then let the next numbers enter.
This made it so people had almost no chance (depending on when you got to start playing) to secure a name they wanted.

[AngryLizard]

Worst Launc ever? No. Not by a long shot. That award goes to either Diablo 3, FFXIV 1.0, or the Burning Crusades, IMO.

Was it a good launch though? Oh god no.

Frankly this launch could've been handled far better IMO. A queue for the instances rather then RNG lottery, a bit better Q&A testing to avoid instances like Susano's Prison, and just general improvements to avoid things like Mr. Bahn's Wild Ride.

[Makeda]

Worst Launc ever? No. Not by a long shot. That award goes to either Diablo 3, FFXIV 1.0, or the Burning Crusades, IMO.

I was playing WoW back then. I remember it as pretty smooth. The only problem was that the elf zone was so full of people in elves in bikinis that you could not see even the ground or sky... they were just bouncing around everywhere...
- and the elf players have never really gotten better over there.

But I've never seen anything like this in an MMO myself. I've seen queues to log in (WoW:BC actually did have those), but not the rest of the issues we're having here.

I would easily rate this as the worst launch of an MMO or expansion that I have seen.

[Obsessive]

Worse launch? No way, Diablo 3 was a freaking mess, vanilla WOW was also a disaster. There is still plenty to do even though this part of the MSQ is messed up temporarily.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Worse launch? No way, Diablo 3 was a freaking mess, vanilla WOW was also a disaster. There is still plenty to do even though this part of the MSQ is messed up temporarily.

What? Like fates in only half of one of the new areas? Since dungeons and POTD are bugged too.

[Nezia]

Diablo 3 > WoW WoD > Stormblood.

That said, stormblood is still in the launch phase, so it still has time to go up on that list...