Why are these forums akin to a soap opera?

[Xyronic]

Oh snap. You mean people who can actually play the game (Japanese people on Japanese servers) are putting out useful conversations about bugs and problems while the people in NA/EU WHO CANNOT TOUCH THEIR SERVERS are not providing insightful bug information about the game they have no way to access or play?

I would guess the NA/EU people are able to touch our servers, otherwise they would not be full, now would they? Ive mannaged to pack quite a bit of gametime in this weekend. Had some major issues on saturday, and run into 1027 now and again, but hey, the game hasnt launched yet, im happy i even get some playtime prelaunch.

[Kuzak]

There's plenty to discuss. In fact, we can discuss our feelings about the errors..

Frustration and dissapointment. SE hasn't been doing a good job communicating with the players, and haven't disclosed any of the details. No status updates, no root causes, no plan of action, nothing.

[Ardbob]

I definitely understand the frustration and disappointment, but trust me from experience, a couple months from now if you actually enjoy the game itself, you'll be plenty happy. I personally have always gone through life thinking, "How will I feel about this in ten years?" In ten years I won't give a shit that they had a lot of problems in this game the first month. As for "no status updates, no root causes, no plan of action, nothing" i have to disagree with you. I'm not sure you've been looking. The launcher has constant updates. They made a twitter account specifically for news about issues being worked on. Yoshida and the dev team have made several posts about the issues and ensured everyone their working on it. I'm sure nothing is going to work perfectly for a while. It's just how things go. No sense getting riled up about it though. Going by japan's standards for employment I'd wager the team hasn't slept much anyway. :P

[Maphis]

FFXIV NEWS search it on twitter

[KitoOkada]

I have an idea. why not make a "bitching" section in the forums? that way, all the people who want to constantly bitch will have a rightful place.

[YoyoTanya]

Every online game have the same problem on the first day.
But none of them drive out their customer to another server and call it a solution.

I don't know how you play MMO game.

Some may never have a friends at all.
And look for make a lot of brand-new friends in this game.
In that case, you can play on any server just fine.

But for some people, They do have a friends, And they want to play together.
That's why character limitation on some server are the problem for them.

[Aen]

Well, most of the posters whining about server problems here are either:

A) First time MMO players who don't realize that the first week of an MMO launch always has full servers and stability issues and that it's your own fault if you choose a high pop server and can't get in. That's the risk you take joining a high pop server.

B) People who have experienced the above for every single MMO launch in history, but for some reason have selective memory issues and just love to whine.

Then you have the whiners that whine about whiners.

[Ksenia]

I'm still trying to figure out how people glean a persons state of mind from text. I find it speaks more to the reader than the writers view of the situation when they over project the intent or meaning of words on a screen.