MMO Launches

[Taral]

I'm not one to post often... but I can't help but be blown away by the amount of people complaining about a pre-launch/launching of a MMO. I been in my fair share of MMO launches, and this by far as been the ea so i was wondering how many people here have done any other MMO Launch and if so list the game you have played at Launch.

Lord of the Rings
Dungeon and Dragons
Tabula Rasa
SW The Old Republic
Star Wars Galaxies

[eagleone]

I have done 1.0 lol

That is all

[Bustercucumbers]

Oh here comes the typical, "I'm accustomed to crap service, so everyone else should be too." argument again. Just because some mmorpg in the past had a crummy launch does not mean it's okay when a future one has one. Companies should study other companies past mistakes and successes, and then build off of those things. They should be held to a higher standard. It makes me absolutely sick when people try to attack others because they are not accustomed to a lifestyle of disappointments. People paid hard earned money for this game and they shouldn't have to settle because some company made someone else do it in the past.

[ispano]

Oh here comes the typical, "I'm accustomed to crap service, so everyone else should be too." argument again. Just because some mmorpg in the past had a crummy launch does not mean it's okay when a future one has one. Companies should study other companies past mistakes and successes, and then build off of those things. They should be held to a higher standard. It makes me absolutely sick when people try to attack others because they are not accustomed to a lifestyle of disappointments. People paid hard earned money for this game and they shouldn't have to settle because some company made someone else do it in the past.

Except that's not what most people are saying. It's fine to be upset or annoyed at all the issues, very few people aren't. Saying that the companies need to have it perfect at launch, otherwise it's bad service, is ludicrous. In the western world, the sheer amount of people trying to play at the same time on the release of a new MMO is FAR FAR above what would normally happen. Even if NO one left, after a while they would mostly be playing around their normal times. Not all the time and constantly.

People say the JP servers have had little to no problems, yet people fail to mention that they don't have huge droves of people everywhere. They aren't hammering the servers like westerners do. So SE should make many many many more servers, split the playerbase up more, only to have to merge them down the road, wasting that money completely? Not to mention having ghost towns and having to merge bothers a whole 'nother group of customers.

These are the reasons people say to be patient. Making special accommodations JUST for launch, is as I said, ludicrous. It's not intentional, no way, but the sheer amount of players trying to all play at the same time, all the time, are most certainly part of the issue.

[Kuzak]

Can't wait for Siege of Orgrimmar!

[Alhanelem]

Well its true there are almost always sever troubles on MMO launchers, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating or annoying.

[Elysius]

It's interesting so many are so willing to defend this type of laziness on behalf of developer. Especially when this is Square Enix's last chance in the MMO space and first week reviews/word of mouth have a lot to do with making or breaking a game in the long run.

It will probably go something like this:

If D3 is any example, then after early access and come release the problems only got worse because the size of the crowds basically doubled. So here is the way the next few days will go.

Saturday: Unable to login, servers perpetually down, unplayable once in.

Sunday (today): Difficulties logging in, glitches everywhere, almost playable.

Monday: Login getting smoother, playable for stretches at a time, but not a full day, occasional hiccups throughout the day.

Tuesday: Release, crowds stream in, see Saturday.

Wednesday: See Sunday

Thursday: See Monday.

Friday: See Monday, again.

Saturday: Weekend, pop doubles again, see previous Saturday.

[eagleone]

It's interesting so many are so willing to defend this type of laziness on behalf of developer. Especially when this is Square Enix's last chance in the MMO space and first week reviews/word of mouth have a lot to do with making or breaking a game..

So here is the way the next few days will go.

Saturday: Unable to login, servers perpetually down, unplayable once in.

Sunday (today): Difficulties logging in, glitches everywhere, almost playable.

Monday: Login getting smoother, playable for stretches at a time, but not a full day, occasional hiccups throughout the day.

Tuesday: Release, crowds stream in, see Saturday.

Wednesday: See Sunday

Thursday: See Monday.

Friday: See Monday.

Saturday: Weekend, see previous Saturday.

100% right

They need to aviod this by doing whatever they can (free time, free items, whatever.) to kep people.

Because however good the game is, if you can't play it, people will leave,

[Nero]

Because however good the game is, if you can't play it, people will leave,

The only thing which could make me leave right now, is the serious toxic community on this Forum. People will leave for reasons like that too. Think about it.

[BlueMage]

It's interesting so many are so willing to defend this type of laziness on behalf of developer. Especially when this is Square Enix's last chance in the MMO space and first week reviews/word of mouth have a lot to do with making or breaking a game in the long run.

These are the same people who encouraged 1.0 to be the mess it was, and if it was up to them we'd still be playing Tanaka's 1.0 cause everything is always fine and SE can do no wrong no matter what happens, just keep drinking the Koolaid and saying "It's a good thing this happened!" to everything.

These people encourage SE to strive for laziness and below-standard products/services. These are the people who said "The game is fine, if you don't like it leave." to everyone in 1.0, both pre-launch and post-launch. These sycophants who think of themselves as heroic "white knights" are bad for the game.