A lighthearted message on fairness.

[Sunrider]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dMoK48QGL8

Interpret what you will. I have suffered through not being able to play through EA, and I am still grateful for the team at SE for making this game.

Today is not the end of the world, and I am patient.

[Boogwerweed]

I activated my forum account just to reply to this post.

That video has got to be the single most appropriate analogy to this game's current situation that I could possibly imagine.

The question is, is the left monkey the players who are unable to log into the game and the right monkey the players who are logged in and completely content with their grapes.

OR, Is the right monkey simply the JP players and the left monkey the NA/EU players?

Its also worth asking the question "Do the cucumbers being thrown by the angry left monkey represent defective servers, or the potential subscribers square is throwing away by letting us watch others eat grapes?"

[Symon17]

I activated my forum account just to reply to this post.

That video has got to be the single most appropriate analogy to this game's current situation that I could possibly imagine.

The question is, is the left monkey the players who are unable to log into the game and the right monkey the players who are logged in and completely content with their grapes.

OR, Is the right monkey simply the JP players and the left monkey the NA/EU players?

Its also worth asking the question "Do the cucumbers being thrown by the angry left monkey represent defective servers, or the potential subscribers square is throwing away by letting us watch others eat grapes?"

I think the analogy works for both set-ups. So I guess it's however you choose to look at it.

[Joshhoowah]

This was refreshing. Thank you.

[Mhyth]

1.0 was like getting grapes with shards of glass in it - you could see the potential enjoyment there, but the lag, UI, and overall clunky-ness of it all was like repeatedly cutting your monkey fingers trying to get to the sweetness - eventually most of us just quit trying.

Now that SE has truly made this game shine they or we have become victims of their success.

It'll get better, but the mix of sweet, sour, and bitter grapes in this first harvest is going to leave the community hungover and cranky for some time.

[Boogwerweed]

also an apt analogy.

And of course, the act of spamming A at the start menu is the rock retrieval

[Decrith]

Thank you for giving me Grapes!

[Boogwerweed]

The one hole in this analogy, to Square Enix's plight, is that we monkeys aren't locked into cages and being fed. We feed ourselves, and because of this there will be plenty of people who just decide they don't like grapes so much and would rather have a slightly over-ripe melon (WoW), a crunchy apple with a few dark spots that are easily cut off (GW2) or wait for Kiwi (Wildstar) or Yams (TESO) to show up at the fruitstand.

Why is TESO yams you ask, well, some of us know >.<

[Sunrider]

The one hole in this analogy, to Square Enix's plight, is that we monkeys aren't locked into cages and being fed. We feed ourselves, and because of this there will be plenty of people who just decide they don't like grapes so much and would rather have a slightly over-ripe melon (WoW), a crunchy apple with a few dark spots that are easily cut off (GW2) or wait for Kiwi (Wildstar) or Yams (TESO) to show up at the fruitstand.

Why is TESO yams you ask, well, some of us know >.<

......what?

[Sunrider]

He said that even the other monkey refused the grapes until his companion could get one.

What's our excuse?