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Harkon

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Which seems odd as well - can't pay for it? The reason these issues seem to stem from is server load, meaning there are far more people logging in/playing than they had anticipated. With their history in the MMO space, don't fuck it up AGAIN because of something like this. The game systems are great, the game is great, etc - but seems silly to me to go cheap on something so critical to the success of your game. Again, is Japan having these same issues? If not, that should tell ya something about where the priorities are - and if I'm honest, it kind of worries me going forward. Red headed step children?!
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Well I would not be too hard on them for the Japan VS NA/EU populations its like 128~ million in Japan VS 350~ million in NA + 500~ million in the EU.

Kinda actually makes you wonder what their stats were telling them when they decided to keep NA and EU together though. On further thought, thats probably the whole damn problem. They cheaped out on having a data center based in the EU.
 
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Loving the quests in this game.

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Lejina

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rolx_sl said:
Blizzard didn't make that money until after the game released and they had no idea how popular their IP would be.
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Yeah, Blizzard had no money and nobody knew their IP when they launched D3 in 2012.

Please pass around whatever you are smoking.
 
Kreugen

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The apologists are cracking me up. Sure, every launch had overcrowding issues that resulted in server queues. We're on day 5 here and we have had the character stuck online bug, servers outright blocking new characters from being made, queues, instance server congestion completely blocking quest progress, crashing on zone, and now nobody can log in across the entire US/EU cluster. These are not isolated to individual servers - it's the ENTIRE 'merica and urop server farm.

If it was just "gilgamesh and leviathan keep crashing but the rest of the servers are fine" then sure, it'd be par for the course and you're own damn fault for picking Archimonde again. I think we've gone way beyond "Oh, so and so game had server queues at launch, so that was a bad launch, too!"
 
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Lejina_sl said:
Yeah, Blizzard had no money and nobody knew their IP when they launched D3 in 2012.

Please pass around whatever you are smoking.
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When WOW LAUNCHED plz pass me whatever you are smoking. No wait I don't want that shit makes you not be able to read apparently.
 
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Kreugen_sl said:
The apologists are cracking me up. Sure, every launch had overcrowding issues that resulted in server queues. We're on day 5 here and we have had the character stuck online bug, servers outright blocking new characters from being made, queues, instance server congestion completely blocking quest progress, crashing on zone, and now nobody can log in across the entire US/EU cluster. These are not isolated to individual servers - it's the ENTIRE 'merica and urop server farm.

If it was just "gilgamesh and leviathan keep crashing but the rest of the servers are fine" then sure, it'd be par for the course and you're own damn fault for picking Archimonde again. I think we've gone way beyond "Oh, so and so game had server queues at launch, so that was a bad launch, too!"
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Agree completely but I'm stuck with nothing really entertaining to play instead. So until then, internets
 
Hachima

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Quaid_sl said:
Lol 'problems'. It's called revenue management. They are definitely doing this shit intentionally.

Why the fuck would you open servers you potentially don't need at a cost? Airlines overbook, hotels oversell, MMOs under provide on launch day.

Better to just save all the potential money you can, piss off customers (who have already purchased anyway) and just apologize and give a coupon.

Welcome to the world we live in.
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Hotel overbooks? Inkeeper laws require them to pay for a hotel stay somewhere else if they can't find something in house. Airline overbooks? People volunteer to take another flight for nice coupons/free hotel stay/meal tickets if needed. MMO overbooks? We will get a nice news letter with a bunch of PR spin.
 
Lejina

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rolx_sl said:
When WOW LAUNCHED plz pass me whatever you are smoking. No wait I don't want that shit makes you not be able to read apparently.
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Way to miss the point. With all their money and IP recognition they still had a shitty launch in 2012.
Why the fuck do you talk of a game released 10 years ago when you can compare with one that launched last year?
 
Harkon

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Kreugen_sl said:
The apologists are cracking me up. Sure, every launch had overcrowding issues that resulted in server queues. We're on day 5 here and we have had the character stuck online bug, servers outright blocking new characters from being made, queues, instance server congestion completely blocking quest progress, crashing on zone, and now nobody can log in across the entire US/EU cluster. These are not isolated to individual servers - it's the ENTIRE 'merica and urop server farm.

If it was just "gilgamesh and leviathan keep crashing but the rest of the servers are fine" then sure, it'd be par for the course and you're own damn fault for picking Archimonde again. I think we've gone way beyond "Oh, so and so game had server queues at launch, so that was a bad launch, too!"
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I agree completely, all they needed to do was open up a Euro datacenter and I doubt we would be having these problems at all. This problem lies totally on the decision of SE management not wanting to spend the money for a reliable launch.
 
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Its not the worst, but definatly not a good start. WoWs launch was bad as well no one cares which was worse.
 
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Mazim_sl said:
Its not the worst, but definatly not a good start. WoWs launch was bad as well no one cares which was worse.
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No matter how anyone wants to white knight SqEnix, there has been almost nothing good about this launch. Those that could log in were plagued with incessant issues since Early Access began. Those who couldn't create a character to join their friends probably either didn't play or demanded a refund. I heard there was a massive issue with Early Access for PSN/PS3 subscribers in the first place and they were getting refunds left right and center.

This was a huge fumble. Why is irrelevant. Let's hope they pick the ball up and get this shit working before they have another failure on their hands. It would be a big shame, too, because the game itself is great.
 
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