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Yeah, I am surprised to hear about the continued complaints because I've logged in twice tonight without issue. Once at 7:15 PM EST (prime time East Coast) just to see if I could (then I logged out), and again about 5 mins ago at 10:15 PM EST (7:15PM West Coast) which is basically smack in the middle of NA prime time. No issue logging in either time. You guys must be on the most crowded world or something. Or SE just hates you personally.

Edited, Sep 4th 2013 10:20pm by ChaChaJaJa

Bold added (my emphasis)

As a career software engineer, I am constantly confronted by situations where non-IT folks are baffled as to why some facet of their request is extremely challenging or complicated. Similarly, I see an equal number of situations where non-IT personnel are incredibly happy that what they thought was a complicated request was really a 5-minute change. The truth of the matter is, when you're coming from a position of relative ignorance (not derogatory, we're all ignorant to the details of SE's implementation), it's awfully difficult to tell what is hard and what isn't - and that's just coming from the technical viewpoint my career gives me.

Layer upon that the nuances of executive management, budget-time-resource constraints, feature prioritization, etc... and things get complicated pretty darn quick.

I just caution judging someones competence (or blatant incompetence) based on limited knowledge or expertise. You may be a genius in game development - I don't know - but even coming from my background I'm hesitant to completely throw SE under the bus since even though I code for a living, I know virtually zilch about what goes on behind those closed SE doors. Knowing what you don't know, so to speak.

The key things for us to watch for - continuous improvement and open communication - I feel that SE has done a pretty good job on, given the dynamics of a multinational launch. This, though, is much more subjective. To each his own.

I got a 90k once yesterday when I had queued up for multiple duties on my blm and swapped to level my lower level cnj. But, I got right back in with no wait time, first try. Duty finder, on the other hand, still takes just as long (45 minutes for Castrum Meridianum as DD) but after I played the mission I realize that I never want to run it again either While the 8 man party flew through it, all that two hours of nonstop experience lacking grind for 100 tomestones at the end felt like a reward letdown Oh well, just Ultima left and I can get onto some of this endgame (relic weapon )

Edited, Sep 5th 2013 8:56am by Valkayree

I managed to log in without even being in a queue at around 9:30 PM EDT (middle of prime time?) I even managed to log back in several times.

The down side: I was having to log back in due to problems with instancing. My friends and I tried several times to get into Sastasha. Each time, 2 of us would get in but the other two got disconnected with error 90k. The two of us that got d/c'ed kept getting error 10102 when we tried to log back in. This seemed to persist until the 2 members who got into the dungeon left it.

We hope that whatever the root problem is gets ironed out by tonight. It's nice that we can log in and do quests and level classes. But without being able to get into Sastasha, we're blocked on the main story line.