Thi is nonsense.. This is NOT beta anymore..

[Krystal_Storm]

[QUOTE=Livi;1056212]

This is not general discussion no one cares about these silly pics that contribute nothing nor accomplish anything.

[Sneakaboo]

The pre order bonuses and early access are a marketing tool to get you to buy the game earlier.
This will give them a bit more of a clear view about how many people are interested and already some cash.
It also plays on the hype and the nature of most MMO players, being there at the start.

I wouldn't view upon this as a 'mercy gift'' or 'good guy SE doing me a favour'.
Neither do I understand the need to defend SE in the way some do.

I understand that some people couldn't care less if the servers are down for a while, they will just do something else and don't feel entitled.
In fact I applaud that, though you're not one of them if you feel the need to to log on the forum and tell others to shut it.


People that pre order are usually following a MMO for longer and are very eager to play.
When your pre order code is not being sent,open beta didn't work for you and the servers being taken down 3 times while you could barley play you can get disappointed.
If people feel like expressing their disappointment, why not let them?



If you don't like reading this don't go to the forum, don't open these threads and don't post.
At best you're just fuelling topics which basically makes you intentionally or unintentionally a forum troll.

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[Lucke]

The fanbois are strong with this one. I guess it's too much to ask for a working product. The beta is over, been over for a week so you can't use that excuse anymore, find another one. These issues shouldn't be happening. SE could have and really should have had Open beta 24/7 to test server loads at all times of the day.

[Decker]

I've been around MMO's for a long, long, long time (read: UO/EQ) and yes, most have had rocky launches. It's not easy to predict everything that can or will go wrong. THAT being said:


I am highly, highly disappointed by how this "early access" has started. Just because other games have had issues on launch, and just because it isn't uncommon, does not make it any more "right" or acceptable for broken releases. Many of these issues have been present since the beta, and that's the big problem, as the first post noted. This isn't the beta anymore, we are now paying customers who all shelled out money for an expected product to be delivered on the date provided, and many of us paid extra to get "early" access, which has basically amounted to a buggy, broken, or in many people's case, unplayable product. The excuse of, "Well, every MMO goes through early release problems" or "They didn't expect this kind of load" or patience etc, are all TRUE, but it they are all excuses nonetheless. What makes it more of a shame than anything is that WHEN playable, it's been an extremely enjoyable experience, and one I was really looking forward to sinking my teeth into, and while it still is very early, the mass problems (and I've ran into most of them myself) have somewhat muted the experience.

After the problems with the FIRST game, and with the tagline of "Reborn", you'd at least think the product would be extremely polished or at the very least they would have enough capacity to handle the opening. I won't be that person that sits and screams "Omg there are problems on launch I want a refund fix it all now" because that's neither realistic nor productive, but I'm also not going to give a company that should know better a free pass on extremely poor initial execution. And this isn't a F2P game where, you basically don't have any initial investment and therefore have less room to complain about the product that is delivered, we've already paid, and will continue to do so on a monthly basis. I expect better.

[FullHornet]

Something tells me that I am glad that I had to work this weekend and have been unable to play except a few hours on Saturday morning when the EA first launched. Maybe I have gotten lucky or something but I have not experienced the first issue when playing this game.

[Tahara]

So I'm not going to say this is the greatest launch for an MMO EA release, because it isn't. But it certainly isn't the worst.

Yes i realize this isn't a f2p, we all payed EARLY (a lot of us only paying 5$ early, big whoop, wanna fight about it) and NOT MORE for the pre-order bonuses. EA launch was just a bonus of laying down your purchase early. That along with your other pre-order bonus items.

p2p or not, MMO's need these EA times to stress test the servers and make sure they can hold their own audience (in this case the audience size is unexpected. Atleast i didn't see it coming). Wait until the actual game launch. then you can complain to your heart's content.

But a lot of you are being unreasonable regarding bugs... I can name plenty of games released within the past few years that were major sellers and are still played constantly today that started with MANY MANY MANY bugs. Skyrim, Dark Souls, WoW, Diablo 3, etc..

Do I expect a perfect launch? No. Do I expect "game-breaking bugs"? No. But I'm going to deal with it for now. Until EA ends. Then I'll start giving SE crap for it.

[25six]

So I'm not going to say this is the greatest launch for an MMO EA release, because it isn't. But it certainly isn't the worst.

Yes i realize this isn't a f2p, we all payed EARLY (a lot of us only paying 5$ early, big whoop, wanna fight about it) and NOT MORE for the pre-order bonuses. EA launch was just a bonus of laying down your purchase early. That along with your other pre-order bonus items.

p2p or not, MMO's need these EA times to stress test the servers and make sure they can hold their own audience. Wait until the actual game launch. then you can complain to your heart's content.

But a lot of you are being unreasonable regarding bugs... I can name plenty of games released within the past few years that were major sellers and are still played constantly today that started with MANY MANY MANY bugs. Skyrim, Dark Souls, WoW, Diablo 3, etc..

Do I expect a perfect launch? No. Do I expect "game-breaking bugs"? No. But I'm going to deal with it for now. Until EA ends. Then I'll start giving SE crap for it.

Are you serious?? Come on do you really believe the crap you just posted?

The pre-order bonus for this game includes early access to the release version of the game, not a stress test of the servers. THAT'S WHAT BETA WAS FOR. The fact that there are currently game breaking errors at present preventing a great deal of people from even playing the game during a period of time that we have PAID for is ridiculous. Yes I get that MMO launch's are rarely problem free but come on it's 2013, surely we're past the point of referencing WoW's launch and in fact surely game companies have learned from previous mistakes and have proper strategies in place. Error's preventing people from playing at EA that were part of Beta is unacceptable.

I also have no idea what you mean by some people only paying $5 early. The game was $30 on the SE site and that seemed to be the cheapest.

[no1z]

This whole "early access" has been a failure... the worst part is that it shows they are not prepared for the amount of people playing....

I had my share of mmo's and this "early access" might easily turn out to be "consistent failure"....

They have to do something. Locking people from not playing so the servers atm play with 1000 people is not support and saying "Sorry for any inconvinience" is not working....

[Kaede_Sorano]

I'm seriously bummed out that I can't play... I did pay for early access... and I'm sad to see I can't play. If it happened during a beta I'd understand but right now we're paying for it :c

I hope they come with some compensation, that'd be awesome

I understand the delay, and I appreciate the work they're putting in it to fix it, but still.... I miss my character ;-;

[scarebearz]

I'm seriously bummed out that I can't play... I did pay for early access... and I'm sad to see I can't play. If it happened during a beta I'd understand but right now we're paying for it :c

Same here, me and my friend have had nothing but server restrictions / errors / quest bugs etc etc.

They can't really blame unexpected congestion, they know how many copy's they've sold.