SE dropped the ball

[SionDurant]

Too bad FFXIV:ARR is a game by SE which has no "investors" to answer too.
But if you honestly think that any MMO launch is going to be flawless, you are on a level of delusional that there is no coming back from.

I am afraid you do not know what you're referring to, see the webpage below. You'll note it states "Investor Relations".

http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/

This is why the CEO was replaced by the way, share holders said enough and SE has already said they're moving away from their current models and focusing on the Mobile market where they've had more success.

Do research before you talk. Also, you're in denial and have stockholm syndrome if you think you shouldn't be enraged about a failure to launch of a game that's had roughly 3 tries now to get this right. (Beta 1, Launch 1, Beta 2 to be exact.)

[EzraA]

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The Heading may say "Investor Relations" but the thing you are missing is that All information in those PDFs is for Shareholders, which are two different things buddy.
Square Enix is Both the Developer and Publisher of this game. SE answers to its Shareholders, not from random investors who funnel money into the company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder

[SkyeWindbinder]

Let us all hold hands and cry into the forums repeatedly until the issues are fixed.
It is super effective.

Or we can all rage until our heads explode.

Because, apparently, that's just as effective? lol

[Silvyaniss]

On Balmung Server "chasing Shadows" instance has been broken for 4....4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hours already really SE???

[Kaleftya]

[NA] Regarding the Instance-Related Issues (Aug. 24)

While we were able to address the previous issue wherein players were unable to access instances, we conducted another investigation and confirmed that the issue was ongoing for a number of players.

We have been able to identify the cause of the issue and have started the recovery operations. Once we have tested the fix, we plan on conducting another emergency maintenance. We will follow up once we have a better idea on the time frame of the maintenance.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Spec another shut down soon....

[SionDurant]

[NA] Regarding the Instance-Related Issues (Aug. 24)

While we were able to address the previous issue wherein players were unable to access instances, we conducted another investigation and confirmed that the issue was ongoing for a number of players.

We have been able to identify the cause of the issue and have started the recovery operations. Once we have tested the fix, we plan on conducting another emergency maintenance. We will follow up once we have a better idea on the time frame of the maintenance.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Spec another shut down soon....

Soon should be now, dunno why they think they need to wait. They clearly are having many problems with the server and it's better served to look at the tables while we're not updating them.

[TheRac25]

Why did they insist on only 3 days of open beta, even when their beta was NOT stable? Seriously their is no excuse for that, the mess we see here today is SE being cheap, lazy, and over-confident with their product during the beta test. Now on launch days where people have paid exclusively for 3 days of early access(only reason i re-bought the game) we have major issues.

Thanks SE!

this is the product you put out when you think your poop doesnt stink

[Kaleftya]

AND BEN AFFLACK IS GOING TO BE BATMAN on top of this freaking Early access thing... *)&()&_*(&)_)_)*(&^)(...... Damn it

[Inosaska]

I wonder how many of you were at the WoW launch day of vanilla. The same thing happened with servers filling faster then they could pump out so please just get some damn patience and wait for another server to come up and ask your friends to just transfer over or you just transfer over to there server.

[TheRac25]

I wonder how many of you were at the WoW launch day of vanilla. The same thing happened with servers filling faster then they could pump out so please just get some damn patience and wait for another server to come up and ask your friends to just transfer over or you just transfer over to there server.

the server isnt full the queue system completly shit itself for excalibur