New World

rhinohelix said:

It's a closed beta, so you know how many invites effectively have gone out. you know how many downloads for the game have been made so you can anticipate the first day crowd. You should know how your game is architected, what kind of load it can bear, etc. So you open it up and have people waiting 4+ hours to log in to play, having to stand up emergency servers to handle the load rather than scaling up your existing server infrastructure.

The point is that you shouldn't have to be figuring it out at this point, you should be polishing and handling unexpected crap. Maybe this is that sort of thing, they thought they were ready and I have just seen this too many times to be forgiving. Refining your plans for launch, not scrambling when you have servers that can't fit any more people on them so you have to shut down logins completely. Remember when SWTOR couldn't accept new logins for a day? That is this kind of BS except that was a decade ago and AWS is one of kings of Cloud Infrastructure. A closed beta for pre-orders is effectively a soft trial launch. It's a major red flag that their "server" solutions, which haven't been single servers since forever, aren't seemingly scalable enough at this point make them work so they could lift the cap on users. Surely they just aren't in the right environments yet or something but it still bothers me.

Edit: About the game. The pacing sucks. The way they are handing out flint tools that you can effortlessly craft at the first campfire as quest rewards in that First Light settlement seems weird. Doesn't everyone craft everything there? Do they expect you to do that area with just sword and board and the skinning knife and move on in 15 min? The chat sucks so bad. It makes me long for Barrens chat in the worst way. These idiots on three different servers were actively, aggressively stupid and mean. Forget VOIP, I wanted to turn off all chat. Finally crafted myself a hammer and got rewarded an iron Life staff, which I think is my favorite combo so far. Sword and Board was surprisingly good for being foisted on you as the default, which argues for giving the player a choice. That would complicate the tutorial but give a much greater sense of ownership.

I love parts of the game, I think they are not nearly as far long as I thought they were in others. There weren't be any rework in the introductory section which I think it needs, or add recipes for the rest of the starter weapons, or something. Mixed first day, to be sure but so much potential there.

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anyone could buy the game yesterday and boom they are immediately playing. it was a top seller on steam if that means anything? i would hope and imagine that Amazon can figure out the server scaling from a hardware/software perspective before release. Based on the word here and elsewhere it seems that way more people probably bought the game last minute to me and not days or weeks/months ago. me and my crew bought yesterday evening downloaded, waited in queue 25mins then played for 5 hours straight until our server crashed after midnight EST which at the time looked to be the only server down, not sure why. I'm on a 7 year old computer runnning medium/some high settings, they have a mix of oldish & brand new computers with no issues. yeah performance issues stink but i didn't have many other than minor graphical issues but I was mostly blaming my rig, some of the fire spells/1000campfires in one area slowed it down a ton. Can't really remember many games at launch without some issues, and some super AAA non-mmo games persisted forever which is inexcusable, we'll see if they can optimize and they need to figure that out for sure especially for PvP and style of combat.

the first noob camp is to introduce you to all the gathering stuff so you can skill up as you come across those nodes or whatnot which are EVERYWHERE, maybe im confused? why should you be able to get every weapon in the first 15 minutes of the game? you just do the intro quests kill the shit then yeah move on to the next thing. you can reach the first town and craft multiple tiers in the first like hour or two. i'll give you that it's not totally on rails and it prob needs to nudge you the "right" direction earlier, but your ship just crashed and you landed in a "new world". some people like their hand held more or are used to it these days i guess...?

they were kids in barrens and they are kids here. Sounds like some nitpicking like the other turds in global. most of the people just want to be heard in chat and the vocal ones usually have negative shit to say (just like social media).

in general sound like you just had a different experience than I did which happens. I had ZERO expectations which might be part of it. I'm not committing to playing the game for X months, but we definitely had a lot of fun in the world and trying different weapons and plan to continue. We want to see what the higher end game is like and actual PvP. Game feels much different than your WoW/FF14/whatever else same design traditional MMO, and for now I like the feel of the action adventure game + fun mmo aspects that flesh it out a bit.

EDIT: after I typed that I downloaded the update and now I can’t log into the game without computer crashing
EDIT: updating from ancient drivers seem to fix it

Not to sound like i'm a big defender here but I mean your taking a one-off experience that probably happened within the first 2 hours of both characters playing the game and projecting that to the entire game. kind of silly. it would be like if noob hordes mixed into noob goldshire area and pvp'd at release. no one knows shit about fuck.

It is PvP though.

games worth trying IMO just because it's something different at minimum.