MMO Launches

[Cyberpirate]

its not a fresh mmo launch the game is 3 years old

they knew how many pre orders they sold and how many to expect to login for early access

they know how others mmo launches went

no matter which way you slice it they failed

that being said now that they know its a problem they should be able to fix it I will give them a few days then just simply play on JP servers

[blademasta]

lmao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab2L-bSp4CY

[Dijana]

Everyone's complaining about the game, my experience has been pretty good. There were some times I got the 'world is full, please try again later' so I...tried again later. Went and made some food, took a shower, tried again and got in a queue and was on in 5 minutes. When instances were 'broken' I just went and did fates and stopped clogging up the servers, came back later before the scheduled maint and got into them just fine because congestion had died down. Maintenance time? Went and made some dinner and headed to bed. Aside from congestion issues, this has been pretty smooth compared to other launches. I dont know why people complain about bad service and saying SE is doing nothing, what do they think the maintenance is for?

Maybe if people would log off or try something else rather than clogging up the servers and doing nothing but sit there whining there wouldnt be so many problems.

[Bustercucumbers]

Maybe if people would log off or try something else rather than clogging up the servers and doing nothing but sit there whining there wouldnt be so many problems.

You're right, people shouldn't play what they paid good money for. Seriously, just go away.

[Dijana]

You're right, people shouldn't play what they paid good money for. Seriously, just go away.

Except that...early access is free....

You didnt pay extra to get it, you paid the same amount for the rest of the game that will be there after EA. And Im talking about the people who AREN'T playing. The ones who sit there and complain on shout about how bad it all is, blocking people who are willing to get on and have fun with the rest of the game who DO want to play.

[indira]

Except that...early access is free....

You didnt pay extra to get it, you paid the same amount for the rest of the game that will be there after EA. And Im talking about the people who AREN'T playing. The ones who sit there and complain on shout about how bad it all is, blocking people who are willing to get on and have fun with the rest of the game who DO want to play.

EA is not free for the new people they had to buy the CE version of the game it cost more & non-legacy 1.0 accounts have to buy an upgrade to play in EA.

[Klefth]

Except that...early access is free....

Yeah, forget about those who had to REPURCHASE the game to be able to play early access. Screw that, right?

[Yes]

Except that...early access is free....

You didnt pay extra to get it, you paid the same amount for the rest of the game that will be there after EA.

I think you need to look up the word "free" in a dictionary.


If you're unable to acquire the being free of charge, it's not free. You can't acquire Early Access free of charge (in legal ways), so it's not free.


At best you could consider it a tied good, which is an illegal practice in most places.

[Nero]

Rift had the best launch ever in any MMO to date.

That is so far from being true. Can people stop being liars, just to start an arguement?

I was there for Rift Release and to name a couple things which happend:

- In the six days of EA in Rift we had had queue's with waiting times up to SIX HOURS.
- Servers were FULL as well.
- They added 20+ Servers in the first days to get rid of the Server Congestion.
- Ongoing Maintenances for 30-60 Minutes each, every couple hours.

and so on... do you may see a pattern here compared to FFXIV ARR? The actual LAUNCH Day of Rift, AFTER Early Access was smooth and pretty much without downtimes for the Players, but if you were not in the EA you probably have no clue about what happend before to get those Servers as stable as they were.

[RedNova]

my gripe with the whole thing is if your going to sell a product and than say to everyone that there will be NO maintenance during this time thx for pre-ordering here is 3 more days to play. if your going to use this as a selling point you might want to stick to it. Games should just stop giving early access on pre-orders. this game should have had a longer beta test even some stress tests. The game might be ready on the inside but with messed up hardware that was not fully tested (so it seems) makes this a PR nightmare. Early accuse is not a lets beta test some more its a ty for pre-ordering thing and your damn right people should be upset because they payed for it and are getting shafted
In short Im upset that I payed for something that I can't use and that is not right