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Is this the worst MMO launch of 2012?
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I have patience so it isnt a big deal but lets not kid ourselves. Headstart is the new launch these days .... and with less people.
The Prophets of Doom verbiage sounds almost identical, in fact.
Every day's a tempest in a teapot, here at mmorpg.com.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
Yeah it is. Of course, there haven't been that many launches, but that's besides the point.
As for this not being launch or "all MMOs have problems", whatever makes you feel better, even though the first is just marketing and the second is just not true when it comes to this issue, plenty of headstarts went fine. Besides, they could have known the number of users they were dealing with, that's the point of the prepurchase and registration. They were still stress testing only a few days ago. Still they were not prepared.
More importantly however, it's the first broken promise. Now I will agree that to a certain extent you'll run into those with every game, but they promised big and their fanboys made everything even bigger. Those are the things that decide a game's future, we'll see how well they do on the other ones, but it's not a great start.
Not hard to conceive my friend, I'm just presenting a logical sensible reason, not an answer to something I am not in charge of. If you want to be upset with how things are that is fine, it bothers me none.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Don;t worry, I am sure ANet will give us free months too, just like Blizz did.
Server down for 3 hours on first day of highly anticipated game...
MMORPG says: WORST MMO LAUNCH EVA????
"As you read these words, a release is seven days or less away or has just happened within the last seven days those are now the only two states youll find the world of Tyria."...Guild Wars 2
Really? I paid for the game. Didn't know they had a separate price they listed early access. Last time I thought if you just bought the game before release, early access is a benefit.
LMAO!!! You know what, I'm tired, didn't get much sleep, and I'm kind of grouchy. That last sentenced perked me right up!
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
I see what you did there...
Unless, of course, you were serious. In which case, I bonk thee over thine head.
I give it F2P in 3 months TOPS, ohh wait LOL Nm
maybe thats why they can't afford server support , no sub fee , I see the devs now " Hey jim , how about ordering these servers? " Na those are too exspensive, remember we are dealing with F2P Players after all " Ahh yeah sorry I forgot, we'll order 5 $100 buck servers that should get their panties in a twist " .
LOL Sorry guys I had too bad joke I know :P
major kudos for trying to instill some sense of perspective in this little flame war. too bad no one will listen. (also major kudos for extremely apt use of the princess bride.)
This is a question of accountability. And this community isn't going to make it better. By not holding ANET accountable, We are making it OK for the next company to come along and take a squat in our Corn Flakes and then try to charge us for the added content.
Well it has only been down for a couple of hours on it's initial day. I wouldn't go as far as saying I am owed something because of it. Some people are making it sound worse than it is. If the game is down all day I can see this level of animosity, but I fail to understand why so many are claiming they are owed compensation already. GW2 has been live less than 10 hours and a couple of them have been down. I fail to see the need for mass panic on the scale we are seeing.
RIP Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan and Paul Gray.
Oh man.... I'm amazed on how many people that neither purchased, nor played the game at all gathered infos here and there from single threads, put them together and jumped right into the hating so they can some excitement in their lifes.
Seriously guys, if you didn't play then do us all a favor and keep your "ha has" and other comments for you or go find a new hobby or put the time into the game you are playing instead of coming here to show us proof of a "failed launch" among other ridicoulos statements you are spreading only to poison others peoples excitement.
As about issues:
- they gave us 3 hours prior to the headstart while the counter were still going so it was obvious that in these 3 hours they will keep working on the game (which they did since I had to download 2 patches).
- I already created 5 characters, my main is level 6, I played pve and world vs world vs world and had only 2 disconnects in between because they dropped the server to work on it.
That all on the jade quarry server which was the one of the two servers that had the heaviest load to carry.
Should I add I'm from EU and had barely any lag at all on this US server?
Created my guild aswell and added the first 7-8 people.
Played from the 3 hours prior to headstart which was 6am for me till 3pm with only 3-4 disconnections in overall.
Stopped after cause I needed a pause.
My HoM worked perfectly btw.
If someone doesnt have their portal stone you can get it from the charr npc at the hooligan route that is a kama merchant (need to click on his second bag and you'll get it for zero coins).
After you use the stone you will end up in your main hall in which all terrestrial pets you unlocked from GW1 can be charmed.
If you go to the back side you will see the pool of wisdom from EotN and the underwater pets in it.
There is Kirmes the historian (his ghost) that has all the weapons, armors and mini pets you unlocked.
The PvE ones are skins you can apply on any of your weapons (needs to be same type of course) while the pvp ones are for level 80 characters.
Gonna login later again so see you in game.
I thought the actual "Launch" went pretty smooth, got in right away at midnight, made my character, played till about 5 am with no problems at all, no lag, no downtime. It's too be expected with any launch guys, biggest hyped MMO in years, even more hyped than SWTOR was.
You have to consider I, like many others, more than you think, chose to not play the BWE's in order to experience the game fresh at launch, so there was an even bigger load than the BWE's.
I was quite happy with the performance on my lower end video card, no lag, no fps issues or overheating, quite impressed and looks like this is my new home until Planetside 2!
Yeah, and have you seen the lag on mmorpg.com this morning? They don't even have the excuse of it being a launch... What is their excuse?
As for GW2... If they don't shape up I foresee this game totally going F2P within the year.
How many hits per hour do you suppose this generates for our favorite MMO site?
You can just feeeeel the net bogged down, even before you hit "post".
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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THAT... is so true!!!
Just kidding Tard... you are often a voice of (snarky) reason!
(and that is meant as a compliment!)
Case and point.
RIP Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan and Paul Gray.
Yeah but does it pay for better server support? Because if it does ohhh boy we may have to work something out LOL
+1
"I am not in a server with Gankers...THEY ARE IN A SERVER WITH ME!!!"
Its known as... Poetic Justice.
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WHOA That right there sir is copy righted!!!! I already used that a page back ,.... or was it two? LOL