Launch Predictions!

[Shiroyama]

I suspect it will be hugely successful. WoW has lost 4.3 million subscribers, I count myself amongst them. This game is exactly what I had been looking for in an MMO. So I could see Square picking up a lot of former WoW players. The game is solid and really awesome.

I let my WoW subscription go. I've played since launch and between 1.0 and alpha/beta tests for ARR but I can't bring myself to do it any more. My brother is still hardcore WoW but.. he's been talking a lot about ARR since open beta last weekend. Hopefully I can swing him fully into this game; it's so much more fulfilling, in my opinion.

[Jimsvaliant]

There will tons of WoW refugees and other MMO enthusiasts for sure. It'll die down a bit after launch but hopefully SE will pick up enough people to sustain some populated servers.

[Kubie]

There will be a few hiccups during early access, but I have faith in SE to smooth things out pretty quickly.

[madpinger]

EA players are test subjects to help ensure the 27th is smoother than phase 4. I suspect.

Let me in all ready >:

[Bluezero]

Let's hope for a smooth day, but I expect some queues logging into servers.

Pretty much this. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

[Tam3n]

Just let me say I'm happy I was able to create my character on Moogle in Phase 4. Took what, only 8 hours of updating the server list before I was able to slip in. Later most of the servers were locked from new character creation altogether.

When SE announces beforehand that they might face congestion and need to restrict server usage, you'll know what to expect

Hopefully they have been able to expand their servers, though probably not.

[SashaBraus]

All I'm hoping for is that there isn't some terrible bug that occurred during the registration part. If I log in and find that I didn't get my coeurl mount, I'll be very sad and frustrated.

[Truvy]

Step 1: Produce game hordes of people want to play
Step 2: Charge money for said game
Step 3: Don't over plan for bandwidth and create mass panic with error codes, early access, and login issues.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit

All according to the plan!

[Quesse]

All I'm hoping for is that there isn't some terrible bug that occurred during the registration part. If I log in and find that I didn't get my coeurl mount, I'll be very sad and frustrated.

The bonuses don't bother me too much because if you have proof you have the CE or are Legacy or whatever you know you will get them eventually. Just work with the GM. For me its just getting in and playing with my main since she was locked out with 3102 for most of beta!!!!!!! :O

[CactusJack]

I think EA will go smoothly with a few hiccups. Once the 27th rolls around I think this is where we will see more problems. I feel a little optimistic about this because of the problems we had at P4. I know more can happen but we can only hope things will go well.