Real Talk, SonFollow

Again. 24th != 27th. This isn't launch. This is early access. It's a privilege to be able to play early, before launch. If you don't like it, log off and come back on the 27th. Don't complain about about a privilege that didn't have to be shared with anyone.

Privelege? Privelege? Oh please SE let me my poor pitiful self play? You are an idiot, I PAID to play.

It would change nought, they borked the launch.

Rift.

I don't know if i'd consider the difficulties today a privilege, per se! Still, they're working on a valid solution, and considering the nature of the issue(s), i'm not sure it's something that could have been tested without this many people trying to play. A longer P4 might have helped mitigate this situation, but nothing that can be done about it now.

http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1141

Next?

Rift launch issues.

Again, since you don't seem to read. This is the 24th. This is Early Access. This is NOT launch. Launch is on the 27th. This is not beta. This is not some testing period. This is 'early access'.

And yes, they kept folks from completing quest lines. Were you there whining as hard as you are here?

Edited, Aug 24th 2013 5:55pm by darexius2010

Guys/girls... this is partially my fault, I am sorry. For reference: http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?forum=152&mid=137725841622417738#43

I'd tend to disagree. The issues they're having now are, as best I can tell from what's been communicated through squenix's official channels, issues of scalability not of actual bugs. It's difficult to scale a system for a code base that has never been scaled before to the levels you expect to see (based on preorder stats from retailers and such) and even harder to tell how various limitations at every layer - from the network and systems hardware to the operating systems running the servers to the server code base itself - may impact things. So you run betas and try to get some idea, and you run early access and try to get some idea, and you pay attention during the formal launch and try to get some idea, but at the end of the day you're never going to be omniscient enough to foresee every possible issue at every level.

At the end of the day, you aren't going to really get more data to help you make the necessary changes to provide a stable environment without simply moving forward and observing first-hand the impact that real world conditions have on your systems.

Im not going to be an apologist for SE like some. THEY said theyr were ready for launch. THEY said that these issues were fixed.

No, you're going to act like a spoiled little brat and throw a temper tantrum that your new toy isn't working even though you, likely, have a room full of other toys to occupy your time while your new toy gets fixed.

PS - Having realistic expectations is not being called an apologist. That'd be people that swear All The Bravest is the greatest game ever, and totally not overpriced to hell with microtransactions.

Edited, Aug 24th 2013 6:09pm by Pawkeshup

I give them the benefit of the doubt too, though my reason is that I work in QA and if anyone thinks for a second that the employees don't go into panic mode when a bug is found in their live game, they are nuts. It is in their best interests to fix game-breaking bugs, which is why i never fret if i don't hear a lightning quick response from devs when these things occur.

Edited, Aug 24th 2013 6:24pm by Llester