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Is this the worst MMO launch of 2012?
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About half of that list is either a) simply not true/happening or b) only happening in isolated cases, not a widespread issue. Most of the other half of the list is a single issue, manifesting itself in different ways for different people, but all related to the same single server issue. That 1 issue being fixed = there goes the majority of the problems.
Diablo 3 failed in so many ways. Not only with the technical issues (error 37, AH issues, etc) but was just plain bad overall in omparison to what people expected from a Diablo game.. Blizzard just about came out and admitted that the game is bad, but that they are working on making it good (see the various articles/posts by their staff, including Jay).
LOL! Ditto! Maybe Anet should call up Blizzard and ask for some help
So you made an account just to troll GW2?
/laughs at you
Please do NOT ever play GW2, your kind taint it just like you did in the "Other MMOs".
FACT: You obviously have no concept of MMO releases. NONE have a perfect start and NONE ever will.
OPINION: Your post.
FACT: "Those with the most Opinions tend to have the fewest Facts."
Now shoo Troll, back under your Bridge.
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Now you'll have the trolls claiming the launch was so bad it took down MMORPG (and prolly the whole interwebz) too!
Actually the BWE (while having less people), should have technically been much worse. The game was not optimized at all, not to mention they gave out thousands of beta access keys. Essentially each BWE was a launch, but pre-optimization. And it handled it beautifully.
"designed to see how far your servers can be pushed before they start breaking"
So yeah, they are designed to break the servers. To push whatever it is they were testing to it's absolute limit. Unfortunately, even with many stress tests, it's difficult to replicate launch conditions (No MMO has a beautiful launch. It may have better than others, but there are always problems). You can test for the next year and still never be ready for launch. As soon as you flip that switch, it's basically hope and pray.
As for the stress tests, some ran beautifully, some ran horribly. We had no idea what they were testing. Obviously they didn't anticipate this many problems, which may or may not be terrible planning on their part (you can only plan so much, and the rest, as I said, is left to chance).
I'm not defending Anet, but I'm saying that MMOs are a different beast from other games. (going on your other post). You absolutely need an internet connection to play, and you play on a company's servers. Absolutely no amount of planning can prevent launch disasters. Something will always go wrong. When you've got hundreds of thousands of players (especially now that NA is waking up), and one of the most anticipated MMOs in recent years (arguably more anticipated than SWToR), it's very difficult for any infrastructure to withstand the might of the hundreds of thousands of players. Essentially what you have is a gigantic DoS attack on Anet. Even MMORPG.com is struggling, and it has only a fraction of GW2 userbase.
+2 the funniest part is all the people who are so "happy" to see GW2 having server issues... like some feel they "won" something. If i had to guess I'd say gw2 has more pre-purchases than swtor with less than half the servers... computers aren't magical things that are inpenetrable. You can tests something 100 times over and over with no issues and still have issues on the 101st time.. just how computers are anyone who works in the computer buisness knows you need patience.
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Case and point.
The point is.....I'm not so much upset that the servers are down.
It happens. I get it.
What bothers me is they happily took money for this for months so that we could have this time because we gave them money and more or less put our faith in them.
If they had made this stuff an added bonus. I'd be totally fine with this. But it's not. It was sold as a package deal.
Guess some didnt catch this thread less than 24 hours ago so I'll repost.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/361883
pay special attention to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsqUZkmO-zk because while I thought it was hilarious, it seems to fit the mood this morning.
RIP Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan and Paul Gray.
gw2 fans weren't the only ones flaming. haters were flaming too, and just because gw2 fans did it doesn't make it alright. the reverse is true as well. just because the haters were flaming doesn't make alright for the fans to flame. unfortunately at this point i'm basically shouting at a bloody firestorm.
Have you seen Blizzard's track record? And you want Blizzard's help? Should I remind you, WoW launch, pretty much every WoW expansion pack, Diablo 3.
I don't know how many other fans from other forums flamed GW2 for the past months either. It goes in all directions from everyone. In fact, if you look up at the heading it does say Guld Wars 2-General Discussion and look what is happening.
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And this nonsense is old, it's not helping and it's not funny.
Not to be rude also but if you PAY EXTRA for a service like headstart , the price difference between the 2 is more than enough for them to cover costs of servers and such things, the ammount of "omg GW2" funny ass defences coming out is cool to read to kill time.....its 2012 comparing this to vanilla WoW launch is stupid for many reasons but as far as i can remember there was no "headstart" for that either, no one paid for 3 days of acess prior to the official "launch".
This is not the only popular MMO to have ever launched...It is however the worst "headstart" ive ever seen..... Aion at launch time was super popular and the headstart was almost flawless, tera also had large numbers for headstart and had almost no issues im sure there were plenty more in the last 24 months, at the end of the day they had sale projections for a long time and they let everyone who paid for headstart down, defending this fact is silly
so is basing anythign much of a launch as these days so many games burn out 12 weeks from launch the actual launch seems pretty irrelevant, defenders of the realms put away your keyboards and accept the FACT that they didnt deliver what was paid for, your game still exists its lifespan hasnt changed by a poor launch just Anets rep got a little less shiny
Do you think Blizzards dev's are feeling sympathetic right now or having a right old luagh at Arenanet's expense?
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The game, company and publisher can face financial troubles and even failure despite not turning F2P.
Don't get me wrong, i think Anet will fix these problems eventually, and things will improve, but the future of the game is an uncertanty. The game can remove it's box and go full F2P, and, like i said, even if not, that doens't mean much.
Sure and I don't disagree with anyone who is not happy at the moment, hell I surely am not. But to expect the launch to be as smooth as a baby backside and start screeming accountability and all that because of a hiccup on opnening morning is where I take pause. You paid good money and are entitled to your feelings, I am just trying to point out that the mass hysteria seems a little misplaced all the while those that are foaming at the mouth to see the game fail are on cloud 9 and it's not really about the games delivery, more about the communities reaction. It's a very sad and gloomy around here.
RIP Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan and Paul Gray.
The post still stands whatever way you want to spin it.
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I can't believe it but I now really appreciate both the SWTOR and TSW launches/headstarts. It's not the end of the world...just gives me a new appreciation.
i know a 4 post guy does not have much credit on these forums......but he is kinda right imho...
i payed for head start and i have not been been ably login the game ONCE today.....so my 3 day headstart is hopefully still a 2 day headstart.....or in the worse case NO head start for me (alltough i payed for it upfront didnt i?)
No matter how much defend this....imho this PRE-launch is one of the worse in the last Months for me.......TERA worked as intended from DAY 1 (yeah you heard it right, the korean grinder has no issues what so even when i logged in at launchday), TSW had some login hickups but they where minor. D3 had a fiew days of connection problems but it was possible for ME to log into D3 on the first day tough.
So for me Anet isnt the best launch i have seen.......but i'll rant if i cant login b4 launch tough
hehe.
For now it's only one free day i wanted to game wasted and not the whole weekend (yet).
cmon Anet, you did stress test it didnt you?? loadbalancing anyone??
Francis is now, officially, the gamer I plan envisioning for every DOOOOOM post I read for the day.
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.
I think the WoW Devs are pissing in their pants right now. The reason for the rocky launch are the sheer numbers of people trying to connect.
"I am not in a server with Gankers...THEY ARE IN A SERVER WITH ME!!!"
Yeah. Same for me. Logged on created character at midnight EST - played until about 2am. Wanted to hop back in real quick and noticed connection issues. Funny how coming here was my first idea. And of course I see the posts.
Humorous to me. Things happen. Wont deter me from playing as I thoroughly enjoyed what I experienced yesterday.
All of you who are saying "ZOMG! Worst Launch EVAR! FAIL! I will never play this!" all I can say is.... good riddance.
Back to some toons while ANet straightens this out