Early Access should it be longer?

[Moonlite]

It's literally just a few hours of a whole weekend, it's not that big a deal.

This defence sounds pretty insensitive to me. We hope that people have a life outside this game. The window that people can play is a lot smaller then a whole weekend. If I have 72 hours to dedicate to the game and miss out on two hours, big whoop. If someone only has a window of 2 hours each day and login is 2+ hours each time. How much time did they actually get to play? And this isn't like some phone game where they only charge you when you are actually using the service.

[Darksummoner]

This defence sounds pretty insensitive to me. We hope that people have a life outside this game. The window that people can play is a lot smaller then a whole weekend. If I have 72 hours to dedicate to the game and miss out on two hours, big whoop. If someone only has a window of 2 hours each day and login is 2+ hours each time. How much time did they actually get to play? And this isn't like some phone game where they only charge you when you are actually using the service.

Hmmmm. Well said.

[Flipityflu]

First day teething problems are MMO's way of showing who the adults are, and who the children are.

[TheMightyMollusk]

You can really tell who's never been through a truly bad MMO expansion launch.

[Catwho]

Those of us who got up at 4AM knew it was going to be like this. I kept trying, kept trying, kept trying, eventually got in, and now doing MSQ.

Seems like once they disconnected the Lodestone, the lobby server was much better.

Early access is essentially the final public beta test.

[Sotaris]

Some people are a little choked that login isn't going smoothly. Early Access is kind of a weird thing. If most of your players pay for it is it really early? But maybe people wouldn't be so choked if it was longer.



Instead of a weekend of early access change it to a week. So then players won't feel so cheated. They could have just as easily started the patch Sunday night or Monday morning.

Congestion comes with the territory. I wouldn't pay attention to people complain about it.
When I managed to login on my PS5, 25-30 minutes after the game went live it was 3000 in queue, took maybe 15-20 min and I was in. Nothing too bad if we comapre ARR and SB launches.