The login issues and you: Why most posts here are uninformed and pointless

[Raist]

Reread #2 and #4. Beta is not paying users. People were still buying DURING EA. Beta 4 which was only 1 week from EA only had duty finder go down. During EA is when they realized there was a problem. Like I said before shit takes time. They needed time to get new servers and prepare them and test them. EA was 3 days from launch. The were dealing with servers around the world. NA is in Canada, JP is in Japan.

Nope... wrong again. They knew it was instanced content (Duty Finder is included there) DURING beta4.

WITH LOWER PLAYER DENSITY IN BETA4.

All they did at beta4 was try to alleviate the aftermath of getting kicked and locked out when the instance tanked.

Then the problem reared it's ugly head even WORSE at EA.

All they did was work on the symptoms, and not the cure.

The problem has been consistently there, and all they've done is dance around it.

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Really... Sales Figure Tracking? Sales figures can be tracked nationally in almost real time these days. Look how fast they get box office figures up. Retailers can poll their data EVERY NIGHT, and generate reports on the spot--all they had to do was contact them about it, if they weren't already getting reports.

Also, trying to remove beta4 from EA doesn't work either. Beta4 rolled into EA, which rolled into Official Launch--all of it was bound to the SE AM accounts. So, those preorder codes were also getting registered to the SE AM accounts that the Beta accounts were bound too.

On my account, I had FFXI, FFXIV 1.0 beta, ARR beta, Pre-order ARR, and eventually Launched ARR. The numbers are all right there in their databases and can be pulled with queries that would take minutes to script. They could have seen that I was a former XI player consistently for about 7 years, was in 1.0 beta (but didn't buy release), applied for XIV Beta4 and registered, and purchased and registered XIV preorder (bought almost a month ahead of time, many bought before me).

So to say they had no way of being able to get any hint of how many Beta's were going to EA or launch does not hold up. Plenty of opportunity existed for them to guage membership in advance.