SE dropped the ball

[Esk]

(All times quoted are EST)

5:00am Servers go live
10:30am Instances start to fail. (5.5 hours of game time)
11:00am - 1:00pm First Maintenance. (2.5 hours of anti-game time)
1:00pm - 6:00pm 5 hours of no instances in a game where all content is instanced. (up to 7.5 hours of down time)
6:00pm - 8:30pm 2.5 hour second maintenance (Down time up to 10 hours)
8:30pm - ∞ Who the hell knows?

So thats 10 hours of "no game" versus 5.5 hours of "game"

Granted "a lot" is a subjective phrase... so would you care to clarify?

Fair enough, I only knew about the instances issue about 20mins before the server went down myself and no one i knew (or that i had seen in local) had commented about it till that point.

So i guess the comment should have read:
The servers have been up a lot of the day and playable with only a small # of problems..
I'd much rather have the Servers off for a fix, then just crashing and being rebooted.

But regardless i still believe this is a good 1st day overall.
The servers haven't been laggy.
No random crashes of zones or servers (- the DF).
Logging on doesn't take long.
Game is running smoothly.

[Sunarie]

1:00pm - 6:00pm 5 hours of no instances *snip* (up to 7.5 hours of down time)
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I wouldn't count the 7.5 hours as downtime. Sure, you couldn't do instanced content, but that's not all there is. I (and my guild) was able to level some gathering and crafting, as well as get a sub-class slightly leveled.

Yes, it's frustrating that I couldn't advance my story, but that wasn't needed to play.

I'm not saying SE is guilt-free, but lashing out on the forums isn't going to do much now. Should open beta have lasted longer? Probably, but we can't go back in time. They're working on fixing errors, so they are aware of mistakes and addressing them.

I don't understand the "SE needs to learn from there mistakes" mentality when they're trying to fix said mistakes, they can't go back in time to make the launch any more smooth than it has been, and according to a lot of the nay-sayers they won't get another shot at an MMO in the future.

[AjoraOak]

Ah SE, keikaku doori...

[Eliniell]

If you re-purchased the game simply to gain the three days of Early Access it was probably a waste of money. Almost every single AAA MMO title released in memory has had issues of some sort regarding server stability on launch / early access. You probably should have been prepared for this eventuality considering there's a very documented history of this exact thing happening over the course of MMO history.

[Ratm3000]

Expect more issues on the 27th and whole next week.

[Kallera]

I'm seeing less "Root Cause Analysis" in this thread, and more "Mr. Spacely Impersonations", which isn't going to get the maintenance to complete faster...

[JunkPunch]

Always expect the worse, and hope for the best when it comes to MMO's. It's widespread knowledge, that every MMO launch has F*** uped. Why on earth would this RE-launch be any different? Even with all the prior MMO's failed launch examples, how could SE learn from that? I mean who ever learns from their mistakes?

Let's be truthful here everyone expects, and accepts SE's F*** up's. It's not like they have anything to prove this time around, right?

[redisdrunk]

I'm wildly tired of people apologizing for the game because it's the launch of a new MMO.

No. It's the first day of the re-launch. Square has run MMOs before. They've run this MMO before.

Wasn't one of the reasons they shuttered the doors so they could bring it out once again, polished and waxed, and get rid of the poor impressions people had with the original bug filled and problematic launch? Rhetorical, by the way. It was one of the reasons.

They knew exactly the kind of disastrous launch the game had previously, and they just leaped right back into that same pit and no amount of (other players) excusing and apologizing their lack of preparation or planning undoes the kind of impression that leaves with a lot of players.

[M4Fade]

I'm wildly tired of people apologizing for the game because it's the launch of a new MMO.

No. It's the first day of the re-launch. Square has run MMOs before. They've run this MMO before.

Wasn't one of the reasons they shuttered the doors so they could bring it out once again, polished and waxed, and get rid of the poor impressions people had with the original bug filled and problematic launch? Rhetorical, by the way. It was one of the reasons.

They knew exactly the kind of disastrous launch the game had previously, and they just leaped right back into that same pit and no amount of (other players) excusing and apologizing their lack of preparation or planning undoes the kind of impression that leaves with a lot of players.

This. ^ SE has had TWO other MMO's under it's belt(FFXI and FFXIV 1.0).. You would think they would of a been a little more prepared for the bombardment of players logging into their servers. Right? Maybe not? Meh, it's whatever. I worked all day anyways and didn't get to experience the "fun".

[Drako]

I was about to go do the first maelstrom grand company quest you get, and I ran into that error of course. But while I was chilling there, this one guy had a conversation with himself. I just busted up laughing, gold..