Mistakes happen, it's down we can't do anything about it move on and play something else.
It is interesting though. They tried very hard to avoid "issues" with the launch. They said themselves they only get one shot at this. Staggering access, guild placement, extended Queues to disribute population but in the end what gamers hate the most is "not playing". "Extended" planned Maintenence, crashed servers or lag so bad you can't move, in all cases customers can't play and that is what they were trying to avoid. To have put so much effort into getting thier servers to the point where they were smooth and didn't crash but then to have CC registration (of all things) and and scheduled maintenence be the points of failure must be beyond frustrating for them.
Certianly no one that frequents this site will quit because of it (despite claims to the contrary) but to casual timmy who logged into a hour long queue on the 20th, the inablity to register his CC a few days after and now "extended" downtime 2 days after Christmas on one of his vacation days, this certianly doesn't qualify as a flawless consumer experience.
Fortunatly for Bioware, the game itself completely rocks and will be hugely successful dispite the launch issues.
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Mistakes happen, it's down we can't do anything about it move on and play something else.
It is interesting though. They tried very hard to avoid "issues" with the launch. They said themselves they only get one shot at this. Staggering access, guild placement, extended Queues to disribute population but in the end what gamers hate the most is "not playing". "Extended" planned Maintenence, crashed servers or lag so bad you can't move, in all cases customers can't play and that is what they were trying to avoid. To have put so much effort into getting thier servers to the point where they were smooth and didn't crash but then to have CC registration (of all things) and and scheduled maintenence be the points of failure must be beyond frustrating for them.
Certianly no one that frequents this site will quit because of it (despite claims to the contrary) but to casual timmy who logged into a hour long queue on the 20th, the inablity to register his CC a few days after and now "extended" downtime 2 days after Christmas on one of his vacation days, this certianly doesn't qualify as a flawless consumer experience.
Fortunatly for Bioware, the game itself completely rocks and will be hugely successful dispite the launch issues.