Tomorrow(Monday Aug 26th)

[Decrith]

The WhiteKnight denials have come full circle. They're now happy the game performing so badly, that people will justifiably write it off, which will make this great game even better.

If you guys actually spoke some of that nonsense out loud, you'd probably realize how insane it sounds. Calling this anything short of a cluster-fuck is disingenuous at best; and "Stage-1 Grief: Denial" at worst.

I, personally, am glad that the WhiteKnights are finally in the minority. Maybe we can can get SE to listen to the REAL feedback that's been coming since Phase2 now.

You're missing the point good sir, the people who are saying they want a bad-ish review or something along those lines have one thing in mind, and to have a nice community in general. And to be honest, IGN's fanbase or whatever you call them are filled with trolls and entitled whiners, so having them in this game feels like a bad deal for us players who want to play for the long run.

The thing is right now, ignoring the log-in issues, the game is amazing, In my opinion it's the best MMO of all time, but because of how amazing it is, the population was bigger than what SE expected, which in turn caused all these bugs to occur. If you take a look at it, pretty much all of the recent bugs are related to the server being full or heavily congested, a bigger population would simply make this worse.

As for me, I don't mind what kind of review IGN makes about this game, I'll probably still take a look at it because of my curiosity but I've already decided that I'm staying for the long run and so are a lot of people, so what we really want is a game we can enjoy, and having a bigger population may or may not be a good thing, it depends on what kind of people decide to join in.

[Arianah]

Isn't the NDA still in effect until the 27th?

Media gets a special pass for the NDA tomorrow.

Ah okay, thanks

[boogyman42701]

Hopefully IGN demands stream from an NA/EU server.

[Parodine]

All these people that are like "Less players? Good!" or "Who cares about IGN?" are seriously missing the issue here. I love the mechanics of this game and it looks beautiful, but unless they have a successful launch this go around and get a lot of people hooked, there may not be a future for this game.

It's not only a game, this is a business. And part of making a successful business is making sure your product is sellable...and right now it's hard to sell it. I don't care about "no MMO has had an error free launch!" or "give it time!" I care about the here-and-now.

[khmeric]

All these people that are like "Less players? Good!" or "Who cares about IGN?" are seriously missing the issue here. I love the mechanics of this game and it looks beautiful, but unless they have a successful launch this go around and get a lot of people hooked, there may not be a future for this game.

It's not only a game, this is a business. And part of making a successful business is making sure your product is sellable...and right now it's hard to sell it. I don't care about "no MMO has had an error free launch!" or "give it time!" I care about the here-and-now.

This.

It's all about the money. The subscriptions will help it survive, sure, but you need to have a population of players to have subscriptions.

[PlanckZero]

Seriously? People are worried that metacritic scores will suffer because of server issues in the first week?

Any critic worth a grain of salt is going to judge the game on things like its graphics, story, and interface. These things are constants that carry into any persons experience of the game.

Server instability isn't a constant. Unless you can guarantee that server instability is going to be a persistent issue and that the developers have no interest in addressing it it isn't the kind of thing that would ever get factored into a decent review.

[Fantasy9]

Media gets a special pass for the NDA tomorrow.

[Bamhead]

Everybody chill.. The game is not "officialy" launched yet, so it's better that they fix the problems NOW, even if there is alot of downtime.
This means 1 thing.. that they can fix a problem much faster at launch (27th), or that there won't even be a problem, since they are looking into it. They still have 2 days left to make the official launch of the game go as smooth as possible.
Also I understands everybody wants to play in the early access, same for me..
Keep yourselfs busy people.. There is more in life than final fantasy.

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RD

[PantherFlash]

SE still have plenty of time before TUESDAY. IGN picked the WRONG day to review a game. They dare make themselves foolish to review a game not officially live. Gamespot, now that's one community I'm worrying about when it comes to reviews(They're picky with JRPGs)

We had THREE maintenance last Saturday. This is the 4th main today..... I thought they fixed the duty finder by now. I'm not having problems with logging in on my account.

Better not let a western rpg fanboy review a Final Fantasy game, IGN.

[zenmetsu]

Welcome to Beta5.

There is no excuse for the current state of affairs. SE should have properly load-tested the servers during any of the numerous betas by bringing down all but a handful of servers and create the expected per-server population levels. This was obviously never done.

If SE was unable to accurately forecast the population, then some of their folks are asleep at the wheel. They know from advance sales and the number of copies of the game that they shipped how many new players would be coming over. They know the player counts from 1.0 and the betas. They should have at least used this number as a conservative low estimate and given themselves capacity to handle at least 20% more.

I agree that this is a business, and there is interest in making the launch go smoothly. Clearly things are different in Japan. Had this been an American affair, heads would have long since been rolling.

White to move. Hey look, he's reaching for the knight...