Shouldn't the pre-orders told you how many wouldn't be able to play???

[Doki]

Shouldn't you have already known how many users were going to log into the game just by looking at the pre-order numbers and number of legacy users?

You boast the highest ever number of beta registrants and then STILL underestimate?

I have zero faith this will be resolved anytime soon... I ordered two copies of CE (1 PC & 1 PS3) and to this day only one of them has arrived. After a useless automated response, followed by a cut & paste "try asking the post office" response I have little faith I'll even get the other CE as they are out of stock and it's already going for double original price on Ebay.

Half of the friends I hyped the game about can't even make characters to play with me either. After playing FFXI and FFXIV 1.0 I can say for certain SE makes the best games and then supports them the worst.

[KiriA500]

[Strychnine]

Shipping of your products are based on the shipping company, not who puts it in the mail.

No one can predict a release and the concurrent people trying to play. Don't troll just to troll.

[EvokerKeii]

Even World of Warcraft , with their plethora of new to the mmo field bugs and server congestions, had extra backup servers ready to be flipped on right away (although it didn't help that much).
They didn't have all the data available to them that Squeenix did now.
And even if the servers were overflowing with people wanting to play, they had a login queue that worked instead of told people to go away.

[RetiredPan]

I posted something to this effect today too.

What really throws me is that the maintenance update thread was last updated a month ago.(English). Not to mention, the last time that this happened, shouldn't there be a single thread where ALL USERS GETTING 1017, so thy can get an idea how MUCH they need to expand.
Just saying.

[Lockisezmode]

Even World of Warcraft , with their plethora of new to the mmo field bugs and server congestions, had extra backup servers ready to be flipped on right away (although it didn't help that much).
They didn't have all the data available to them that Squeenix did now.
And even if the servers were overflowing with people wanting to play, they had a login queue that worked instead of told people to go away.

And servers such as Arthas were still damn near unplayable for 6 months. What is your point or are you one those people who picked up the game a year into it forgetting many of us were there for that launch. Day 1, WoW had issues with servers and I have some of the queue games people made as jokes for proof.

MMOs always have issues with launches because of how hard it is to just estimate the right amount of severs for the people will truly be playing long term. The login servers can rarely handle the hammering of people dying just to play that first month. RIFT, SWTOR, TSW and even GW2 all had issued and people raging for the first weeks or months. While it is great that you are passionate about the genre if you can't be patience this isn't the place for you OR don't play during launches. We will see you in 2-3 months once issues have mostly been taken care of and the population normalizes out.

[Roris]

Let's conveniently forget they've launched and managed at least 3 MMOs in the past 11 years including FFXI, FFXIV 1.0 and Dragon Quest X, not to mention a couple of smaller ones like Wakfu and browser games, so I'll just call you entitled and tell you to give them a chance because there's no way they could have predicted this because this is their very first MMO.

Yup, that'll do.

[meta69]

Let's conveniently forget they've launched and managed at least 3 MMOs in the past 11 years including FFXI, FFXIV 1.0 and Dragon Quest X, not to mention a couple of smaller ones like Wakfu and browser games, so I'll just call you entitled and tell you to give them a chance because there's no way they could have predicted this because this is their very first MMO.

Yup, that'll do.

Psh.

It is because the of those earlier games that they had underestimated this part. Those MMOs or browser games had never even tap the number ARR is getting right this moment.

One of the reasons ARR has such a high number of players are due to ran-away players from WoW and other big name MMOs who's trying to call Eorzea their new home.

Unfortunately, it also inherits the whiny ones as well.

[Landiien]

I love how everyone is an expert analyst and programmer.

No matter what the game is, everyone is an expert capable of doing a far better job than the current devs because they recognize that the problem is so simple! How can the current devs not see it?!

[LamiaTrucido]

The point that gets failed to mention enough is the 600,000 copies of 1.0 that got sold.

How many of them were going to play without buying anything?

All of them?

Were only the 30,000 Legacy players or so going to come back to ARR?

How do they know? If you play for all of them and none of them show up, what is that? 100 extra servers you didn't need?

1017, 90000, 3102, and 2002 have been annoying. But after maintenance tonight (cough: and emergency maintenance Wednesday and Thursday) it should be fixed.