SE dropped the ball

[Gramul]

I paid for the game and bought the collectors for the free items, the early access was just a bonus for preordering So im ok with this

Even still, you should hope that they can iron out the more unsavory errors in the beta so the game can work right when it's brought to the consumer.
Not saying you should be angry and unsubscribe or anything that extreme, but it's good to hold them accountable.

[Leory]

i have waited for a long time to play again and i can wait for Square-Enix to kill some bugs and flush some errors.

[Seig345]

I don't usually bother staying up until 4am for MMO servers to start up, but I wound up being sick (night before a 9 hour shift that I'm currently less than 2 hours into, yay!) so I wound up being awake, so I decided to try my luck in logging into the game from my PS3 for the very first time right as 4am hit, when the servers were gonna get hit with going from empty to OMGWTFBBQWAFFLES!, and had 0 issues. No log-in queues, nothing. Played for a couple hours, relogged just to see if I'd hit a population queue, nothing. (this when the server had a lengthy queue around the same time of night as when they brought our servers back up near the end of phase 4) I got right back in with no wait, no lag, I could jump out of those AOE rings just fine, didn't get disconnected. On a PS3

Then I log in later in the morning after I get to work, same thing, no queue, but I hear about the duty finder issue and that's it. For an early access/early launch, that's pretty damn impressive to me compared to the other MMO's I've been in since beta. So, all that's left for me is wondering:

Whining + Ball dropped = Irony?

[Zorkind]

It's because the JP rules the rest is the rest, after all it's a JP company ^_^

Joking :P

[Hubert]

So Kudos to SE for being better than 2004

And it's not even their first MMO. Hell it's their third try if you count the 1.0 launch.

[Septamus]

If I had one gold for every whiney person on these forums....

If I had one gold for every white knight on these forums....

[Heat]

It’s amazing how people react of things like this, have you ever played an MMO before? Have you ever played an early access before? Things like this are expected and happen with almost every MMO I played.

I even expect worse than this, look how crowded the starting zones are, some MMO’s would crash every minute.

We have a solid game and running smooth, that’s the important thing.

[Valmonte]

SE got cheap with hosting EU/US servers, its just as plain and simple as that.

the Japanese aren't having these problems.

[PantherFlash]

Cope with another mmo. Eve Online's space sandbox keep me busy till the servers are up again. They got 3 days till the real launch. Don't make this worse than v 1.0 SE.

[VisionHolder]

So Kudos to SE for being better than 2004

Not just better than 2004. Significantly better than 2004. As others have said, this is very good compared to other releases. If you're expecting perfection at a time when the servers (and their ISPs) are seeing significantly higher traffic than they will probably see on any other day, then you've got your own issues.

Feel free to name other highly popular releases that did not suffer a few hours of downtime or severe bugs at launch or even for the first week or two. I'd like to see a list, as would others.

I've said it before: Comparison is null and void.

When people come to my work with complaints, I don't get to say "I did better than Wal-Mart".

And that's why I refuse to work retail. The customer isn't always right, and they're welcome to go elsewhere. The kicker is that I know they'll get the same quality experience or worse elsewhere in most cases. Customers pull this crap because they hope to get free stuff, and they often get just such rewards. The same thing is seen in small children when they cry endlessly in the toy stores.