It's not the GAMES FAULT people, it's the PLAYERS

[A5ko]

Your lack of level is, questionable.

(and this will clear up those that don't know sarcasm, as he is level 50 and always got on, and probably never saw 1017)

Level 50 - Correct, Legacy Player - Right on.

Not been able to play since Phase 4....

[Kissker]

Level 50 - Correct, Legacy Player - Right on.

Not been able to play since Phase 4....

Exactly the issue at hand. 1017 is just simply "too many players on one server" How exactly "adding new servers" will fix this without stating more information - is questionable at best. If they allow character transfers, then yes, if they increase population limits - then yes, but otherwise... the next move could very well be a full SE faulted thing. And not just a SE oversight and a Massive Player Overload problem

[AlienWacKo]

Lulz at all those that didn't actually read anything but the title, because the title was intended to troll while the post was informative.

regardless if it was informative or not, his whole post is about stuff that SE themselves are supposed to take into consideration IE, planning. The launch disaster itself is simply poor planning, even yoshi said that, with excuses for it though. There really is no excuse IMO. If this was where i work and i was responsible for this mess i would have been fired already! Yes this may be the norm for mmo's but that is only because if they over plan and than have to scale back it looks as though they are failing rather then optimizing. It's a lose lose situation really!

[TouchandFeel]

I am neither going to defend or place all the blame on either side.
In my opinion, the fault of the current situation lies on both sides.

The problem stems from SE not being prepared and having enough servers and not having systems to regulate the server populations (AFK Kicker, Server Population Display, etc.).
They admitted the fault on their part and are trying to fix the problems and make up for their mistakes.
Whether what they are doing is enough is up the individual.

The problems have however been made worse by the players by doing things like logging in and leaving themselves logged in, causing server congestion and not allowing others to be able to get into the game. Whether or not this behavior is justified due to the state of things and the mistakes made by SE is again up to the individual.

So to put it simply, SE made mistakes that caused the current problems but we, the players, have helped to make it worse.

[A5ko]

So to put it simply, SE made mistakes that caused the current problems but we, the players, have helped to make it worse.

Yet we are the paying customers. Why shouldn't we want to log in and play?

[TouchandFeel]

Yet we are the paying customers. Why shouldn't we want to log in and play?

We should want to log in and play, also we should be able to.
I never stated otherwise, I actually said that the initial cause of the problems was due to SE not being prepared which was a mistake on their end.
I also stated that because of players doing things like keeping themselves logged in while going AFK for extended periods of time, that it is making the initial problems worse.

[AlienWacKo]

The problems have however been made worse by the players by doing things like logging in and leaving themselves logged in, causing server congestion and not allowing others to be able to get into the game. Whether or not this behavior is justified due to the state of things and the mistakes made by SE is again up to the individual.

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The above is still SE's fault and the result of poor planning, the above is easily taken care of in 99% of other mmo's that has a built in auto kick AFK feature. Yes i know you can script around that via macros/bots but the majority of players would have no clue how to do so. the Auto AFK kick while in of itself would not resolve the issues but would allow for more players getting there chance to play!

[TouchandFeel]

The above is still SE's fault and the result of poor planning, the above is easily taken care of in 99% of other mmo's that has a built in auto kick AFK feature. Yes i know you can script around that via macros/bots but the majority of players would have no clue how to do so. the Auto AFK kick while in of itself would not resolve the issues but would allow for more players getting there chance to play!

Again, I explicitly stated this in my initial reply and said almost exactly what you are saying.

From my original reply.
"The problem stems from SE not being prepared and having enough servers and not having systems to regulate the server populations (AFK Kicker, Server Population Display, etc.)."

[feesh]

Yoshi said in an interview recently that they're looking at AFK kicking if it's still necessary after this maintenance. I bet if we make enough noise they'll also give us free server migrations (eventually).

[zombifiers]

HOW DARE YOU PEOPLE BUY THIS PRODUCT

HOW

FUCKING

DARE

YOU

IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT FOR BUYING THE GAME THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU'D JUST KEPT YOUR DAMN MONEY TO YOURSELF IT'S ALL YOUR FAAAAAUUUULLT

I didn't read the post because I just assumed that that's ^ what it said. I also assume that OP is a virgin who lives in their mom's house and will get super butthurt that I just called them a virgin.