MMO Launches

[ispano]

ohhhh nonono i dont see much wrong with the points you raise, so dont assume, you know what they say about assuming. I throw the label around for people who think it is ok to have an EA like this "because wow was bad" or some other mmo was bad. I waited for this game to come around for 3 years so im plenty invested and to watch SE piss away their rare chance at a second impression is quite disappointing.

And it is even more disappointing to see people patting them on the back like there isnt so much in this industry to learn from. fact remains that far more people are pissed than pleased this EA and that does not bode well for this game as history has shown so many times. This is why I find it infuriating when people use the same tired excuses, cause honestly there has not been a truely "successful" MMO, to use that term loosely since WoW.

Every MMO after has had varying degrees of "success" but there are far more failures and the ones that enjoyed some "success", ended up going f2p in 6 months and found that their success was fleeting at best. Maybe I am being a tad irrational but you know what? watching the same dismal scene of a potentially great game commit suicide is getting really old after 10 years. So I am sorry If i hurt your or anyone else's feelings but this industry has a way of bringing out the worst in people...

Most? You might want to get numbers to back that up. Sure there are plenty that are upset, but doing a quick look through the forums and other places, it's not that many, even compared to the typical fraction that actually use the forums.

No matter what has happened in the past, things to learn from, what have you, this is something that you can't properly prepare for. It just doesn't happen.

You either don't have enough capacity for everyone on AT THE SAME TIME(Which is what's happening), but it's plenty of capacity when people play normally. This is what cause the issue we have now.

OR you grossly overestimate, and everything is fairly snug on release, but then it all dies down, people go back to playing normal hours for the most part.... And you get empty servers at varying times of the day, you end up having to merge servers and waste the money you spent for the extra capacity.

[Azurus]

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eh its not even worth arguing about for me at this point. I want the game to succeed, thats all there is to it. whether it does or not is to be seen. I dont like what I am seeing because it reminds me of so many games before it but who knows, I guess we will see and you know what else? I would be absolutely ecstatic if I was wrong. Enjoy the rest of your evening.