Media sites begin bashing ARR launchFollow

Exactly If the game was bad I would just cancel my preorder but that might happen anyway,... I just want to play. Now it is official release and I still can not play,,,

Edited, Aug 26th 2013 7:19pm by Nashred

Well they did not fix Tes's account either,,, I don't know what to do I don't want to waste 140 bucks on 2 games. I might cancel mine since is is the download version and keep Tesee's for a bit because it is the collectors addition in a box so I could always sell it if need be.

The First Amendment gives them that right. However, it also potentially puts them on SE's **** list.

I really wish people cared about what media sites said so there'd be no queue to log in anymore. That'd be wonderful.

On the other hand, I haven't had to attempt to log into Hyperion for more than 20 minutes at most, and that was during peak yesterday. In fact, it took me a grand total of 8 minutes at 8:10 EST to log back in after a FATE disconnected me. From the sounds of it, most people are getting in if they keep at it. The only people having problems are the ones who log in once or twice and quit. Most part, anyway, I'm sure there's a small few people who just can't get in spamming the damned thing.

Judging from the posts here, I'd imagine most of the people quitting after a couple attempts are spamming the boards here instead. My gut instinct tells me that if they put that posting time to trying to get in, they'd have far less to complain about. Not ideal of a system and worth complaint, sure, but you tend to forget about it once you play the game like everyone who is playing the game has.

If I had to guess, I'd put the amount of people unable to get in at all around 5%, with probably 20% total having some difficulty. Which is probably why you see the same small few posting about problems, well, small relative to the overall population. But, who knows for sure?

I tried off an on from seven hours before I managed to actually get in. No, I wasn't sitting at my computer for seven hours straight hitting the play button, but I then again, I shouldn't need to. SE is very aware of how many people bought the game, they should have had a very good idea of how many people were going to be playing. The fact that they weren't ready for it just tells me that they either didn't care to put in the money to be ready for it, or they were too incompetent to get ready on time. Either way, they failed, and anyone defending them needs take a long hard look at why exactly they feel it's alright for a company that sold them a product to fail to deliver that product.

Heck, they even mentioned that "Beta" wasnt actually Beta, but that we should more view it as a free trial to play the game.

There's nothing going to be changed to the game anymore, and there never was going to be, from P3. All they did was add some minor graphics tweeks and supports during P4. So the game was pretty much "released" already by the time P4's open "beta" arived.

So as for the "it's not Launch yet" argument that's pretty much shattered, not to mention that the 27th has come and the issues still remain just as badly... :/

If I bought a copy of say, Microsoft Word, and once I started using it they told me I might have to wait an hour for it to boot up, then if I tried to save my work and log off, it wouldn't actually save my documents, but, they said "hey, don't worry, we're working on it" . . . I'd take it back, and buy a competitor's software.

SE knew when the launch date was, well in advance, and could have held a longer and earlier beta to make sure things worked smoothly, but chose not to. All the sycophants claiming it isn't SE's fault are just totally wrong. I was in the beta - it worked great for me, luckily, but I had friends that weren't so lucky. None of my friends/family will now buy the game, and since I mostly game with them, we'll all go somewhere else. Does that make me cruel or a troll? No, it means I expect to pay for something that works. SE cut corners, chose not to test their servers adequately and then chose to open too few, despite seeing the rabid interest in beta and preorder. This in a day and age where MMOs are moving to better tech, like ESO, where it is all one mega server. Last year's tech and a total failure of testing. Add in horrible communication and customer service and many many customers are just going to go elsewhere.

Locking the servers was another bad move. For example, had my friends and I decided to play, I live in Japan, they live in the U.S., so we need a server where people speak English so they can play, but where people are online when I play. There was one server that fit that bill - it was locked for character creation within about 2 minutes of early access. What is SE's response to the many complaints about locked servers? Basically, "too bad".

Yes, the media is bashing this game - rightfully so. The game I think is very pretty, not particularly unique, but decently fun. The infrastructure, communication and customer support, however, are dreadful - the worst I've ever seen in a pay to play MMO. This is bad even if it was free to play, really.

Early access is like watching a band do sound check before the show, or a team warming up before a game.