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How long after ARR launch did it take SE to finally fix its server congestion/no one could log in because the game was always too full" problems?

All you do is whine about dumb sh*t and ask questions that anyone with half a brain can google and find the answer for. You're either a troll or an idiot.

You are coming across as some one who wants to complain. Why are you bringing up an old OLD issue. As mentioned by SE - I let you go find the link because you obviously have a lot of time - "We didn't anticipate such a high popularity so fast". Might not be an exact quote but that was essentially it.

So question is what will Duo complain about next? Perhaps you can create a new post "Wasn't 1.0 so bad man".

As for some one who's not 12 answering, perhaps some one who's not 6 asking.

Only got to look at the front page to see 8 posts by Duo and if I looked deeper how many of them are complaining or even moaning about complaining...

Edited, Jun 12th 2015 5:57am by Lonix

To be honest, given the issues with WoW's expac launch and other MMO's and online games gettin off the ground recently..it's not an old issue since even WoW had the issues and it's very safe to say they have a better architecture design than SE does for XIV. So it is honestly a legitimate concern unless you truly believe nothing can ever go wrong with XIV lol.

Even with anticipating a large number of people **** can go sour very quickly..Blizzard has to anticipate 10s of millions. SE only has a million active at best (no, 4 million ACCOUNTS don't count as active subs) so if Blizzard had issues despite anticipating 10x more players flooding in, think of the situation XIV is in. The login queue despite "low numbers" and continual random 90ks currently on some clusters (namely Aether and Primal) does leave you wondering if it will be a repeat of 2.0 launch, especially after keeping your players off for 24 hours it's going to be quite the situation.

Just sayin, keep an eye on official forums for some entertainment.

Yep but times have changed.

Then: Pulling a failure from the grave with no money and low expections, and suddenly realizing that it is immensely popular.

Now: Riding a juggernaut that even the crap coverage in Game Informer can't keep down, keeping SE in the black, getting tons of money, and knowing that it is immensely popular.

Odds are siding with the fact that they know their numbers a little better this go around and our pre-order money next Thursday will be spent on putting a bunch of extra servers in before it becomes an issue.

I give it an 80% chance of no issues at all, a 15% chance of some issues for the first day or two, and 5% chance of complete and utter 2 month failure.

That is because beta for most is really not beta. We knew and warned them that the game should be delayed. Beta is really just free time to play and get people hooked on the game and spread hype, The game is actually done at that point. I have done true beta for games, software, hardware.. Funny thing is how companies think they know better and dont listen anyway.

I just did beta for a product for another hobby I am in and I took it seriously.. I tried this product out in very mode and found one of the the modes extremely noisy. Funny how there are fanboys are in every hobby. There were those who were there just to kiss back end, telling them how great their product was.

A couple of us warned them about the noise but they launched anyway and now are issuing new parts which cost them allot... First it hurt the products reputation when some started to take to the forums too say how loud it was in certain modes.. Had to be expensive too ship everyone a whole new part. See most were not brought on to actually test the product, they were already in production and shipping.. We were supposed to drum up hype for the product.

As much as I'm a fan of Yoshi-P, it also seems clear to me that the folks above him are prone to cutting corners for financial reasons... So I am not expecting to see any new servers added. Could be wrong... But I feel like we would have heard about that already.

Also, YP's mo is more about keeping old content relevant, and no better way to do that than keep newbies on the current servers.

Im hoping we have relatively few problems for early access. I'm sure there will be some issues somewhere though.

That to me is what is holding this game back.. If he had full control this game would be far better, I almost sometime feel like they themselves dont think this is going to last.

He does not have full control outside the confines of his budget. All he can do is the best with what he has.

I will say, Thayos, that you really dropped the ball earlier.

Your Poll should have been about how many negative threads Duo would create BEFORE Heavensard came out.

Side-note edit: I wouldn't have been tempted to post something snide like this, if I didn't see the 8 threads he has on the first page in spite of the fact that he's on my ignore list. Is there anyone still in coding that can add a filter for that? All they would have to do is put a footnote at the bottom of the page saying "# Threads hidden by filters <click to show>" and it would save a lot of people a lot of aggravation.

Edited, Jun 12th 2015 4:03pm by Hyrist

You should have taken the extra time to communicate some of that in the OP. People aren't just making assumptions about your posts completely out of the blue. You have a track record. Much of the time, the "questions" you ask are just veiled complaints about the game.