YOU JUST GOT A NEW CAR!

[gamegal71]

While there is a big difference between a car and an MMO, let me see how many ways I can "1017" (or other "errors") that car for you:

-- waiting for delivery of a new car
-- car breaks down, have to wait for repairman to fix car and parts to be delivered
-- traffic jam, may be in car but can't go anywhere (and in the case of "severe" traffic jam, a few years ago it took people 24 hours to go the distance that normally would take 1-2 hours)
-- traffic accident (whether your car is involved or once again you are stuck in traffic unable to move)
-- road construction and detours (able to drive car but can't access roads, may take longer to get where you are going)
-- gas shortage, especially when you are "queued" in a long line only to have the pumps go empty before it is your turn

Unfortunately, just because a person owns something doesn't mean they can always use it when and how they want. Is it frustrating? Yes. Is it sometimes the fault of the company? Yes (elsewise a thing such as "recalls" wouldn't exist). Is using the proper means to let a company know there is a problem appropriate? Yes. Is screaming and yelling helpful? May make people feel better but chances are it isn't going to solve the problem. Is flooding the forum with page after page of threads ranting about not being able to log in due to worlds being full really helping anything? No, in fact, it may be causing other issues instead. Other bugs and errors with the game are getting buried in all the rants. People having other issues with the game are getting buried. If people want to rant, fine, but keep it in a centralized location (one thread) please.

[Telsyr]

I'd just buy a Japanese car. They seem to work fine.

.. I'll just leave this here as there are some out there.

[CodasiosD]

I just made that same argument on another post. Let me reiterate. Say you just bought a new car, then you have engine trouble, you would take it back to where you bought it from and demand it be fixed. Givin' the nature of the problem you would demand it be fixed in a timely fashion. Same goes for this. Give them a timely expectancy for the the fix and then complain if it's actually unacceptable.

[Mercenary_4_Hire]

While there is a big difference between a car and an MMO, let me see how many ways I can "1017" (or other "errors") that car for you:

-- waiting for delivery of a new car
-- car breaks down, have to wait for repairman to fix car and parts to be delivered
-- traffic jam, may be in car but can't go anywhere (and in the case of "severe" traffic jam, a few years ago it took people 24 hours to go the distance that normally would take 1-2 hours)
-- traffic accident (whether your car is involved or once again you are stuck in traffic unable to move)
-- road construction and detours (able to drive car but can't access roads, may take longer to get where you are going)
-- gas shortage, especially when you are "queued" in a long line only to have the pumps go empty before it is your turn

Unfortunately, just because a person owns something doesn't mean they can always use it when and how they want. Is it frustrating? Yes. Is it sometimes the fault of the company? Yes (elsewise a thing such as "recalls" wouldn't exist). Is using the proper means to let a company know there is a problem appropriate? Yes. Is screaming and yelling helpful? May make people feel better but chances are it isn't going to solve the problem. Is flooding the forum with page after page of threads ranting about not being able to log in due to worlds being full really helping anything? No, in fact, it may be causing other issues instead. Other bugs and errors with the game are getting buried in all the rants. People having other issues with the game are getting buried. If people want to rant, fine, but keep it in a centralized location (one thread) please.

I'm gonna keep ranting, because it is mine, and the popular opinion of the forum that this could've been prevented from the beginning with a more structured and better thought out release plan. Also they have gotten post after post regarding AFK players sleeping at the wheel and occupying what little precious player space there is. We have cried an out pour of requests for some sort of auto AFK boot so the rest of us can at least have a chance.... and not once has SE responded to these out pours. They just keep saying, "We're working to upgrade our services and add more worlds." If I have a level 20+ character on an already filled world, I'm not gonna start all over just to play again. They keep pushing this "PAID" character port service available in the future and I honestly believe that is why SE is not addressing an auto boot now. Because they are just gonna leave the current worlds over-crowded and add more new world's to join, and then charge people a premium to port their current game instead of having to start over, all because they made bad decisions and totally F'ed the current worlds and their players. It's extortion and if you don't think SE is to blame, then who? Us end users? I don't think so!

[DiamonteZ]

I'd just buy a Japanese car. They seem to work fine.

Pro comment of the year

Thumbs up good sir

[Zilvereyes]

So it's okay that you give someone money just to be fucked? .........

Prostitution ?

Sorry mate, no offence meant by this, but read your post and just had to do this ...

[Mercenary_4_Hire]

Furthermore, these posts are taking over the forum because they are such a widespread and detrimental issue. Purchasing the game and not being able to even log on??? I think that trumps most other ISP or issues currently out there. I pay every month for Directv, but if that signal goes out, you better believe I'm gonna have a credit coming. Yes, it's not a necessity, but it is a paid for service and a paid for service deserves to be honored!

[Kosmos992k]

TA for negating the premise of your entire argument. Britain is as much a car country as the U.S., even more so when you factor in Jaguar, Mini, Range Rover, Bentley, Caterham, Ariel, Aston Martin, Lotus, McLaren, TVR, Vauxhall, Rolls-Royce....and those are just the ones I can name off the top. Disparaging America is the trendy thing to do, especially for those with naivety enough to think the UK is any different.

No, it really isn't, or at least not until the last 25 years or so. Great names of motoring to be sure, but literally everything in most US towns and cities requires a car to get to. The big cities with public transport are a rarity, and there is next to no national public transportation infrastructure. The United States has been this way for 70+ years, it's a car culture. I've lived both sides of the bond at various times, I know both sides of this. The UK isn't remotely comparable to the US experience and history. mentioning Jaguar, Mini, Range Rover, Bentley, Aston Martin, TVR, Vauxhauil, and Rolls is hardly an endorsement of the UK car industry, since they are all owned by foreign companies now. Oh, and it's doesn't negate the basis of my argument to say that Top Gear was going in the '80s (and '70s too BTW), during the 70's and 80's car ownership per capita in the UK was a mere fraction of what it was in the US, the majority took the bus, train or walked.