Look at the state of the forums.

[MiaShino]

Do others honestly believe that corporations and developers lack metrics on this type of stuffs?

They had pre-order data, they have had past server load issues to corroborate said data against. It doth not require clairvoyance to make projections from datasets. This is.. this is umm, common practice especially in software development and server administration. It is college level basic science. Collect data > examine data > form hypothesis > test hypothesis > generate working theory > test working theory in simulated environment > apply learned outcome and all this.

Welp. This lala over here kinda predicted this would occur many months ago and was told I overreact yet here we sit re-launching our clients over and over and over.

I do have baseline expectations for multi billion dollar corporations and their dev teams. These expectations include understanding how to queue requests to a main database so overloading does not happen. You do not drop the initial request for login info when server is overloaded you place login requests into queue and process them when resources are available. This is also kinda basic stuffs here.. I have not worked on servers or coded in much time.

[Zarkovitch]

Forums where always bad, what do you mean?

[Artemiz]

To be fair the OP is a bit much and blaming former WoW players is obviously wrong. That said, some of the tantrums these last few days have been embarrassing. No wonder so many are terrified of the ToS and dare not give constructive feedback if thats how they behave.

[Lillith1047]

Says the person from Dec 2021. Nice trolling kid.

Trolling hardly, just never signed up for the forums. But, ok. And I love how no one addressed my question. It still stands, what did they NOT provide?

[Caurcas]

In all honesty the way they've handled this is very meh. Sure they are giving 7 days of free time, but at the same time the error they can most likely fix is the prime culprit in all the anger. 2002.

[Lillith1047]

To be fair the OP is a bit much and blaming former WoW players is obviously wrong. That said, some of the tantrums these last few days have been embarrassing. No wonder so many are terrified of the ToS and dare not give constructive feedback if thats how they behave.

Tbh, I was giving an examples, because on Aether data center, that is where all of the streamers flocked them. It's pretty messy on Aether right now.

[Aphyd]

In all honesty the way they've handled this is very meh. Sure they are giving 7 days of free time, but at the same time the error they can most likely fix is the prime culprit in all the anger. 2002.

This.

If the 2002 Error wasn't a thing, the outrage wouldn't be nearly as high. As it stands, not only do you have to sit in a 3-4 hour queue. But you literally have to sit there and stare at the screen for those hours just in case the error happens, so you can frantically try to get back in.

When people can't do much else besides staring at a screen waiting for their inevitable doom, they get upset and start roaming the forums.

[Taebok]

This is completely asinine. Has anyone even stopped to consider how the company feels?

I literally fell out of my chair laughing when I read this.
I have some news, I know this may shock you ... multi-national conglomerates don't care about you.
They care about their market share, they care about getting your money, they care about their profits.
That's it, that's all.
Psst ... governments don't care about you either.

[Poporito_Popoto]

Protip, no one on the XIV team is your friend, no need to white knight for them, everyone handles frustration a different way.

Protip, 'white knight' is an overused term that some throw around even if it doesn't apply. BTW, here are some visuals to help explain it to you:

Adult:



Toddler:

[Myrany]

Says the person from Dec 2021. Nice trolling kid.

You do know that forum join date is not the same as game join date?

My forum join date is years newer than my game join date. Why because when I first made my account I had no interest at all in forums; I wanted to play the game. Many people do not bother with forums at all or only bother with them when they are having a problem with the game.