Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
With Diablo 3, you couldn't access the game, period. XIV 1.0 literally broke the game. Stormblood may be a mess at the moment, but it's not even close to some of the more publicized expansion flops.
In fairness, I'm not sure it's appropriate to compare brand-new game launches to expansion packs. XIV 1.0 was new; D3 was new. Stormblood is a second expansion.

And, yes, I'm aware I compared Stormblood to HL2 in my own post - so I hardly followed my own advice. This just occurred to me later.