Signs of immaturity in an MMO developer

[Saucman]

1. Not being prepared for launch after extensive beta testing.

2. Response to launch problems takes longer than a few days.

3. No (real) concessions offered for failure to provide the advertised product.

4. No queues available for an orderly login system even if immediate login is not a possibility.

5. Gold spam is alive and well inside the game. No competent filtering system. Must individually blacklist each one as a player to claim back your chat.

6. Relaunch a game because of failures and broken promises, new game starts with failures and broken promises.

Really Square Enix? This long making game - and this being the SECOND attempt at the same game and you can't get it right?

Maybe this should be the final final fantasy so as to avoid further embarrassment?


And for all the "Dun be so rude, dey be trying real hard!" responders, save your breath. It's perfectly understandable people would want to vent after disappointment and hard earned money wasted.

[Kikia_Laloo]

Can we write a list based on immature MMO players now?

1) Person who writes lists about a job he/she obviously doesn't have and/or understand



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[AVXI]

Second attempt at same game. THIRD MMO. So yeah, they knew better than to make these mistakes. Really is no excuse other than they planned and reacted extremely poorly.

[Zeila]

I think Travis would of had better luck making this game than Yoshi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ8-ETHE9AI

[YinShi]

Not to be a white knighter here, although I think the term is suppose to be degrading and yet has it's own niceness about it. SE has clearly stated there will be an extension of a free trial, and hard earned money is sad to say. But at most it's $50 for CE which is 5 hours of your work at minimum wage? Not really that hard earned.

Everyone has the issue, and people need to calm down about it.

[Saucman]

Can we write a list based on immature MMO players now?

1) Person who writes lists about a job he/she obviously doesn't have and/or understand



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Why can't a consumer be frustrated with a product not delivered as promised? My understanding has no bearing on whether or not they failed. Be as technical as you want, but all my frustrations aren't invalidated in the face of your sarcasm.

[Kikia_Laloo]

Why can't a consumer be frustrated with a product not delivered as promised? My understanding has no bearing on whether or not they failed. Be as technical as you want, but all my frustrations aren't invalidated in the face of your sarcasm.

Being frustrated is one thing. Calling out people based on a situation you don't understand because you don't have the training and experience in is a completely different story.

[Xakery]

I think the big problem was when they announced aug 27 launch date... The way the game feels now and how bugged it is, I wouldn't mind another month of phase 4 testing until the login bugs were fixed. They listened to us thoroughly from alpha-beta 3. Things got crazy from beta 4 until today

[AVXI]

Can we write a list based on immature MMO players now?

1) Person who writes lists about a job he/she obviously doesn't have and/or understand



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I've seen a few of your posts now. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Why are you defending a huge company's obvious failures?
Maybe you can tell everyone why they failed to look at how many people pre-ordered. Because all they had to do was look at that number and they would have known their servers couldn't handle it. Servers filled day one, they filled in beta phase 4.
Using "all MMO's have problems at launch" is inadequate. While true, most MMO's are first-timers, and even then they don't simply refuse people access and take this long to fix it. This is SE's third MMO, they aren't new to the game.

[Eibon]

But at most it's $50 for CE which is 5 hours of your work at minimum wage?

No, and no. People have spent $100's of dollars on this game. Also, where do you live that $10 is minimum wage? I'd like to move there.