Early Access = Beta Phase 5

[Jotunhammer]

You obviously misunderstood what I was saying. The vast majority off MMOs have had issues at launch. The exceptions do not make the rule.

True. I wish SE would have learned. cause 1.0 had decent launch/pre launch/early access. This is just a disgrace.

[RaphaelDDL]

I simply can't understand why people actually defend when a MMO launch is fail. Yes, the majority of launches are fail, but hey: We had 4 beta phases! This is SquareEnix, a big fat ass game company! This is not a free-to-play freemium crap game!

We paid for the early access (pre-ordering something unreleased). Stop defending saying that this happens and stop qq. We all paid, we all can rage as much as we like. As consumers, we were sold something that is not happening. Again, this is not a F2P game, this is a paid thing. We expect some decency with promises and dates.

So why the hell we pre-ordered anyway if isn't for the early access and get leveled before normal people? For that ugly mog cap? I don't think so.

[stratogod]

I simply can't understand why people actually defend when a MMO launch is fail. Yes, the majority of launches are fail, but hey: We had 4 beta phases! This is SquareEnix, a big fat ass game company! This is not a free-to-play freemium crap game!

This is exactly the way I feel. I expect some rocky starts for smaller companies, but SE had 4 beta phases... I know shit happens, but damn I have barely been able to login this weekend to play. For some crazy reason I thought SE would surprise us and have zero issues during Early Access... or at least very minor ones. They have a smaller margin for error since this is the second time this game was released and they are trying to prove themselves again.

[RDMSeeker]

We paid for the early access (pre-ordering something unreleased). Stop defending saying that this happens and stop qq. We all paid, we all can rage as much as we like. As consumers, we were sold something that is not happening.

And if you have the right to rage, others have the right to defend it. Me personally i will roll with it, i like the game enough, it is a little annoying all these maintanence's but i would rather have them fix it now then spend days with a broken game.

[RosePrincess]

And yet, in the end, 1.0 failed.......hence why we have ARR. I'd rather have a rocky start (despite how much it sucks) & have them figure out all the issues. We may only have a handful of hours here & there that we can play, BUT - We can still PLAY. I figured not all would be baby smooth. I would have prefered smoother then this, but when they are dealing with millions of lines of coding they need to sort thru, when the issue has the potential of being ONE little piece of broken code that they need to find & fix, or some little glitch that they may never have expected to arise from a way they put things together - they are only human folks. They are trying. My husband & I are just going to enjoy what we can & be glad we have that. We've still been having fun. Sad for whoever would rather complain then enjoy what they have.

[Orangewaffle]

After being 3102ed for much of the OB, and now can't progress at all during EA cause of the instance bug. I feel like it's a lot of time wasted for me. I didn't care as much in OB, because it was a beta, and I figured they were going to fix things. But now that my credit card has been charged already, and I can't progress at all just like in OB, I'm starting to get very disappointed. In the MMO business, the launch window is perhaps the most important part to get right when launching a new game. A really bad start will start to build up bad impressions early on, as I'm sure is happening already with FF14, even if the game is decent. Yes, other games have had similar problematic launches, but there have also been many MMOs with very successful launches with minor bugs (GW2 and Tera to name a few recent ones). A buggy launch with lots of downtime should not be considered the norm these days.

[Eurynomos]

If this were a game wide issue it would be understandable, but the fact is that this problem is only occurring on NA/EU side. I've dealt with Squeenix since the days of NA FFXI release and this is nothing new for them. JP side runs smooth while NA is down more often than not. I'm not saying its intentional, but after this many years it's hard to argue with that idea.

[PeppeLepeu]

JP servers are also dead in comparison to na/eu during the hours we are getting patched. and the only problems are server not game related. so overall this has been a pretty good start. rocky server issues but great so far when the servers dont explode.

[Ruspar]

Am I ever glad I cancelled my order with another company and bought it from SE to insure I got early access.

Not only did I give up an awesome looking poster, I gave up free shipping.

I paid an extra $12 in shipping fees, and lost out on cool stuff, for this early access. and so far I've gotten 15 minutes of play time.

We aren't even guinea pigs at this point, the servers have to be on for us to be guinea pigs. The best label we can hope for, at this point, is "Sucker"

[RaphaelDDL]

I would have prefered smoother then this, but when they are dealing with millions of lines of coding they need to sort thru, when the issue has the potential of being ONE little piece of broken code that they need to find & fix, or some little glitch that they may never have expected to arise from a way they put things together - they are only human folks.

Nah. If that would br the case, JP would be out too. It's always up.

It's a matter of bad servers, not code.