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The whole thing is rather depressing.

I preordered back on May 23rd, still no E-mails at all to tell me to register, no E-mail saying my CE has shipped as some others have gotten. A bit more communication would be nice so we can at least be reassured that we will in fact at least be able to play at launch even if we end up missing out on EA.

Still getting Error Three. I'm not panicing...yet.

I just decided to buy from the PlayStation store and like magic I am in.

I said this all along they should have had it running since May/June so it is a slow feed and not everyone going crazy at once. This problem might have happened back in June and right now people would be nothing but excited. Instead they wait 4 days before **** happens and each day makes people panic a little more.

Why sure there is! I see it all the time.

Development team took too long to build the code? Can't go over schedule, just skip testing to meet the deadline!

Is the project over budget due to mis-management of resources? Skip testing to save loads of money! (not really)

Oh and dont worry about testing Bubba's code, it always works anyway!

Theres many more but those are the usual suspects I've seen. Software companies just dont take quality seriously anymore..

I wish I knew for sure lol... I have been trying to register since yesterday morning.

Mine looks like that too even though I was still getting an Error 3 at 6am this morning. I swear Final Fantasy players never sleep.

Hope that means it took. I'm getting ready to say **** it.

I don't even think it's a "this would be hard" issue. Whether they implement the process in June or August it's the same amount of work. Potentially less work if they get it done early and don't have to pay their people more and burn them out working extra hours during crunch time.

It just seems like they don't think of Murphy's law, or consider the customer when planning things out.

Even if the process had worked perfectly, they've had people confused and mildly stressed about entering (and not misplacing) their pre order codes for months, instead of confidently awaiting launch knowing they'd get their early access and virtual swag.

Yea I got the same thing NA but EU site for my profile. Also I have it for PS3 but it says PC which I heard from ever other PS3 player saying the same thing.

I agree that the way Square is handling this is iffy.

At the same time I know that technology does not always cooperate with what you want it to do so problems are bound to come up, and especially when they had no clue that the player base would be so massive. But they've been doing this long enough to be able to be better prepared for something like this. As for the codes, I ordered my game directly from Square so I received a code in my confirmation email, but considering the problems with the registration page I haven't been able to do anything with it. Now I'm playing a waiting game.

I agreed and your are right this is nothing new to them. Its like a computer security company being hacked really.
My fear is this game is going to be launched with all these problems because without the revenue from the sales of FFXIV they cant fix them. This will hurt the game long term by loosing customers. If they turn the servers on this weekend and it is the same all hell is going to break loose. There are only limited mmo players and really SE cant afford mistakes like this or the bad publicity like they had last week. I just hope the real problem is there are way more players than they expected but that can also be a bdad thing because now they put a bad taste in way more players mouths.

I am just worried because I have been on FFXI for so long and if FFXIV fails it will take SE right under with it this time. It may be a great game this time but it could fail because of other reasons, allot of good games fail.


Edited, Aug 21st 2013 10:23am by Nashred

Edited, Aug 21st 2013 10:24am by Nashred

Related to all this: early access on the 24th. So far so good. But does anyone know a time? 24th of August, 0:00 in Japan?