It's Been Fun

[Trae]

So here's what I don't understand. SE acknowledges their system is broken and tell us that it won't be fixed until Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, and they say that in order to compensate for lost playing time they're going to extend our free play period.

Waiting until Wednesday sucks, but it is what it is. At least they told us.

But I don't get why people keep trying to play and aggravating themselves into rage-quit territory. Go play something else this weekend. Let them deploy their fix and see if it actually fixes things. If it doesn't, then by all means rage quit (I will!).

But trying to play on a holiday weekend (in the US anyway) when the servers are busted is just like slamming your forehead into a concrete wall and hoping somehow you're going to knock a hole through the wall. All you're going to get is a headache out of it.

All my friends are rage-quitting and all they're doing is hurting themselves since they already paid for the game and I don't believe they're persistent enough to get a refund. I'd rage-quit too if I'd spent the last 4 days trying and failing to log into a game.

Step away, let SE fix it, and come at it fresh. MMOs are marathons, not sprints, and in the overall scope of things not playing this first week isn't going to gimp you -- and now that SE has said they'll compensate us for the downtime, we don't have that clock-ticking pressure to play, either.

[Hiroichirou]

But trying to play on a holiday weekend (in the US anyway) when the servers are busted is just like slamming your forehead into a concrete wall and hoping somehow you're going to knock a hole through the wall. All you're going to get is a headache out of it.

This i have done and made a hole , no headache .

[VeriferVenti]

everyone is soo entiled!

If you purchase a piece of fruit at a supermarket, bring it home and realize it is rotten on the inside, it is not a sense of entitlement that causes you to be dissatisfied.

[PhineasThunderpots]

If you purchase a piece of fruit at a supermarket, bring it home and realize it is rotten on the inside, it is not a sense of entitlement that causes you to be dissatisfied.

And I'd like to add if you brought that piece of fruit to serve at a party on Labor Day but the super market said they would refund your fruit on Wednesday (two days after the holiday), you'd be very upset too. Oops they're sold out at the moment too

[monkrog]

i havent been able to log in for four days now because of error 1017

[ntharotep]

This is only an opinion and a stray thought, not meant to offend.
That being said, I have to wonder when people say be patient if these are people who actually paid for the game themselves (i.e. did their parents buy the game for them) or is it someone independantly wealthy who can afford to throw good money after bad.
It matters because that generally will determine your attitude towards getting poor customer service or a poor product.
When you actually have to work for every cent you spend it became a lot more personal when you wasted your money on something for example.

More importantly, how did you get away with 30$ I paid 40$....

Also, if you are on Holiday like in NA right now, it can be a bit daunting when you don't get to spend that one extra day off from work the way you had planned (wheter it is gaming, going to the beach, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, what have you) and it ticks you off when companies don't take that into consideration. Not that they should or shouldn't it is just a "thing" that is annoying.
Kind of like dogs eating your turkey on Christmas and you having to go to a Chinese restaurant instead....oh no wait, that was a movie...
In this case WoW is the Chinese restaurant and FFXIV is the turkey...just saying...

[TunaTime]

It's funny how all the players who are logged in 24/7 (*cough* AFK'ers *cough*) tells the rest of us the be patient and wait it out. They can play when they want and never have to try logging in for 2 - 4 hours so sure they can be "patient" and "wait it out" lol.

[moteets]

It's raining !!

I log out when i'm done as well. Maybe when I do that someone else can get in. Its not hard to be courteous and think of someone else besides yourself !

Same complaint thats why they remove them probably. They are working on it and we will see wednesday or Thursday.

You really think they dont read those ? The more people that walk before its fixed the better.

[Skrem]

Do you think if we encounter another issue like this again in the future that the game will survive its first year? I suppose SE is smart in that its financing it with its own money, suggesting that they wont have the pressures of investors demanding returns. For that reason, the game will never switch F2P, which has ruined so many great games.

Still, if this isnt fixed properly on wednesday, more and more players will find other games to go to. I'm sticking it out because I'm a persistent old man, but I'll always have a bad taste in my mouth over this whole thing.

[moteets]

This is only an opinion and a stray thought, not meant to offend.
That being said, I have to wonder when people say be patient if these are people who actually paid for the game themselves (i.e. did their parents buy the game for them) or is it someone independantly wealthy who can afford to throw good money after bad.
It matters because that generally will determine your attitude towards getting poor customer service or a poor product.
When you actually have to work for every cent you spend it became a lot more personal when you wasted your money on something for example.

More importantly, how did you get away with 30$ I paid 40$....

Also, if you are on Holiday like in NA right now, it can be a bit daunting when you don't get to spend that one extra day off from work the way you had planned (wheter it is gaming, going to the beach, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, what have you) and it ticks you off when companies don't take that into consideration. Not that they should or shouldn't it is just a "thing" that is annoying.
Kind of like dogs eating your turkey on Christmas and you having to go to a Chinese restaurant instead....oh no wait, that was a movie...
In this case WoW is the Chinese restaurant and FFXIV is the turkey...just saying...

I hope I paid for it. My grandkids wont do it !

I still dont think I wasted my money, It takes time to get new things off the ground. If I have to limp along for a few weeks, so be it. It looks like now I may be in luck after that if all the "blow hards" that threaten to quit, do. But they wont they just like to complain

I hear that WoW is needing players. They might welcome you. hehe