Yea this is par for the course for MMO's. EA, with the shitload of money they got, had launch issues and their solution was to throw a shitload of servers at the problem. Didn't help there either. Rift/Tera/Aion had epic queues on launch day. All of these games launched in the past 5 years. This isn't a 1999 problem. It's a MMO developer problem. Ironically, the one game I can remember that has basically zero issues at launch was Sony (DCUO).
Blizzard didn't make that money until after the game released and they had no idea how popular their IP would be.
The root cause of all this is server load. Those games you listed also had server load issues but were dealt with in different ways (queues, etc). They all prevented from the player from playing the game. You need to refresh your history, this isn't a new or unique problem to SE.
Thats not the same as not being able to log in at ALL because the servers are down. Not being able to do the storyline quest AT ALL because duty finder is down. Not having to create 3 different accounts and buy the game multipul times because your region code is wrong, I could keep going but i've been on every hour almost since launch trying to play so time to power nap.
yea and SE is in a massive hole on this game because of how terrible the first version was
Rift had multiple server down times its first week.
I never had a single problem getting in aion swtor rift aoc d3 like this game. What are you guys talking about d3 for a week? Most people killed diablow in inferno by day3. Que's arn't a problem they are a solution. But ya this is my first mmo so what do I know.Rift had multiple server down times its first week.
Swtor had massive population problems at launch. They had to add 31 servers that opening week just to get people in.
Maybe since this is your first MMO, you shouldnt talk anymore .
Trion did it correctly, they had a real open beta for there game. But still that first week was tough for them with servers going down.
Sitting in a queue for 4 hours (ala Rift with a queue of 2000 on launch day) is the same thing as this = your not playing, your sitting at the screen waiting to get in.
Lol hear that. I'm 28 with no subclass and level 10 class quest done. Had to reroll on another server at launch because gilg is not going to be fixed due to reddit. Can't even get airship quest to get to lima for subclass.
Again, never had that que. Maybe you should take macro actions into game to spam servers directly before opening and then spam abilities while you sleep and afk so you don't get kicked.
