Media sites SLAM ARR relaunch, call it a "disaster"Follow

"You'd think the company that sent out a press release back in July boasting its game had over a million beta registrations would have prepared for a similar number of actual players, instead of letting this bullsh*t happen."

I couldn't agree more.

http://kotaku.com/okay-yeah-final-fantasy-xivs-relaunch-is-a-disaster-1237985246

Edited, Sep 2nd 2013 10:10pm by Killua125

Edited, Sep 2nd 2013 10:10pm by Killua125

You pluralized "sites", so please link more than one.

I find it amusing how last week you were trashing kotaku as being a site that almost no one cares about, and now you are stealing quotes and articles from them. That's a pretty sad trolling attempt if you ask me. I guess it must just be because you can't come up with anything original of your own, so you have to take articles from somewhere else or complain about stuff that you saw on the beta forums, so you can pretend like it's "not just you" that feels this way.

So basically they felt they would only be marginally successful and planned accordingly. Did they not even believe in their own product? Why even bother with that mentality?

I think this massively successful franchise has been going on for almost 26 years now? Let's then look at their rough pre-order numbers, along with the fact that it's their JOB to plan for these things with a relative level of proficiency.

They have already had one go at launching this game in 2010 (which led to epic failure), and a long running MMO prior to that so they are not strangers to this business.



I agree with you on the word of mouth marketing, which is why this re-launch is terrible for them, regardless of the excuses/reasons.

Gee, could it possibly be the fact that 1.0 was the most colossal flop in SE history? No, that certainly wouldn't have anything to do with why the company wouldn't divert extra resources to the relaunch...

Yes, they grossly underestimated the number of people that would be playing. And yes, it really does stink that not everyone can get on currently. However, they are working feverishly to fix the situation, and have a 10 hour maintenance tomorrow to alleviate the issue. They are clearly trying to right the ship as quickly as they possibly can, and while I'm incredibly frustrated at not being able to login whenever I want, I'm also incredibly encourage by their responses and attempts to fix the issue. If you have any patience in you, I ask that you use it in this instance, and give them a chance to fix the problems.

Edited, Sep 2nd 2013 11:07pm by BartelX

I wasn't literally asking those questions they were just to illustrate the point. I understand "how" those things happen, it doesn't make them correct. Again, if the higher ups did not have faith in this then DON'T DO IT. Nothing cripples a company starting up by NOT giving them the adequate funding they needed and were promised, or even worse strangling them over time by just giving them enough capital to get to the next stop, so they can never plan or grow effectively and trip over their own feet like they are doing right now. Since you both seem to have business acumen, you should know these things happen ALL THE TIME.



I personally am being patient (the fact I will try to login for hours each day since Early Maintenance Access is a testament to patience with these guys hah), but we are allowed to discuss how things that affect us are being handled aren't we? That and some reasonable venting is all people are doing here.



Edited, Sep 2nd 2013 11:20pm by chovexani

Seems kind of stupid to rate a launch and ignore the actual game and focus on the fact that its too damn popular and difficult to get in.

Its certainly not a smooth launch. But the fact that the game is polished and bug free weighs heavy on the launch being a non-disaster.

MMOs that have actual disaster launches take years to recover...mostly due to the actual game being the mess...though some have log in issue and the game is a hot mess.

Compare this launch to AOC. AOC had connection issues, server crashes ect. It was a pain to get on. but also....ALSO...no content after level 20 (surprise) and there were just a whole host of bugs and issues in the game. Took the game a year and a half to get to a good state and by then few played.

This game on the other hand...had serious connection issues...once they fix that, and the fix is easy (unfortunately not instant though)...once they fix the capacity issue...the game itself is great. Most will have forgotten that it took an hour to connect to a server and focus on the actual game, which is good.

Forgive me though. I realize that for many of you this is your first mmorpg ever and this might seem like the end of the world....well I assume based on your attitude about this issue at least.

But moving forward. This is a common issue for mmos, especially good mmorpgs that people want to play. In the future, if this games launch made you angry. Do yourself a favor and give any new game you intend to buy a good week to marinate. Will save you that "end of the world is near" feeling that seems to be expressed in forums posts. Hey then you might get lucky and decide a game isn't worth buying...its win win.

If you are ok with possible issues, then you probably are not raging over the minor issues this game is having.

Media sites? You don't even have 2 sites. And he didn't exactly slam the relaunch. He said "From an unfinished mess that no one wanted to play to a highly-polished gem that nobody can access in just under three years. Way to relaunch, Square Enix," and went on to say that the login situation was frustrating because it's a good game people should be playing, not because the whole thing sucks, as per your opinion for the past half year.

So far reviewers have been positive about the game:

4.3 / 5 - Cheat Code
4 / 5 - Gameblog (french site)

Feel free - I stole it myself :-)

It sucks because anyone not familiar with that particular forum will see it as a bad thing. Anyone who has followed the game for more than 2 weeks will just LOL.



In regard to this "Over 1 million beta registrations": How many people here applied for the beta with more than 1 email address? How many people in all of the game do you think did the same thing? I myself used 3 different emails after I didn't get into phase 1. It's a twist on the numbers and I'm sure they knew it. They used it for marketing, then took a liberal chunk out of that number to estimate the true numbers. They obviously guessed wrong, but don't think they saw 1 million beta registrations and thought they could just budget for a lower amount, all willy-nilly.


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Edited, Sep 3rd 2013 1:27am by IKickYoDog

We posted the same thing at the same time

Trolling the official forums has been a past time of many people since they opened back in the days of FFXI. So was annoying Rog, but that's another story.