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Is this the worst MMO launch of 2012?
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It depends on where the server is, not where you are.
Most of my American friends playing in America are playing. My American friends (and myself) who play in Europe because it works better for our schedules are not playing. Instead we're waiting to play. And definitely not crying about it. We're all kind of old and life has given us richer perspectives so a minor bump in the road isn't going to make a difference. I mean, let's face it, we have had, collectively, bad romances, bad marriages, custody battles, had at least one bankruptcy, family deaths, pet deaths, business collapses, a few robberies, computers shorting-out and catching on fire, multiple job losses and the whole host of things that go wrong in adult life.
In a guild that was active in GW1 for six years confirming that we're solid fans and gamers and have played MMOs (including GW1) (at least on-and-off) for long periods of time... And having weathered all that...
What's losing a day or two really going to mean? We might not get 'the name.' Crap, except SWTOR, I NEVER got even one 'the name' and if I went back, I would lose all of those 'the names' I did get.
From experience delays in getting failures fixed has actually less to do with technology, but rather the general incompetence of IT support teams. I’ve lost count of the number of delays against recovery, which have been down to some server "expert" insisting its a network and firewall issue. Only for it to turn out they couldn't be bothered to reboot a server, or run diagnostics on applications.
Unless there’s corruption, recoveries aren’t generally that complicated. Buck passing resulting in teams having to prove its not their area is what usually causes the most delay.
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Ye shall be smited by the angelic fanbois!
So you are saying it is going to get worse on the 28th? Is this is a beta test for launch on the 28th?
yeah and before that games were getting shredded by fans of whatever game is coming out next. the flames aren't unique to gw2, dude. hell, they aren't even unique to mmos. everyone rips on everyone else. have done forever. people are absurdly territorial about crap like this. doesn't make it alright though.
i just think that it's a bit unfair to say that gw2 fans are satan incarnate/deserve this crap. no one deserves this. unfortunately the slavering hordes probably won't agree with me.
also it's not really a screw up. it's just launch.
You sir are bringing a level headed comment ripe with common sense to a hatefest feeding frenzy. Careful.
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I'd say this is the worst headstart I ever saw in August of 2012!
I mean I got home from my nightshift at work, logged in and played for an hour. Then I went to bed and slept like a baby.
Woke up, had a great breakfast and a coffee on the balcony. Came here for alot of laughs and a dose of ever declining hope for mankind when I read peoples whine. Looked outside, saw the sun and took my dog for a walk. A great day so far. Prolly gonna start a chilli on the stove for dinner.
It's called life, get one.
Only those with a complete lack of common sense expected everything to go smooth with absolutely no server issues or bugs. The game itself is amazing, that wont change because of a few hours of downtime or a few bugs. Ive worked in IT for about a decade, and Ive been there through launches of lots of different things for some big companies. Even bringing up internal systems for a few hundred employees or a few thousand customers to use, you run into unexpected problems not only with that system itself, but impact on other systems that they tie to as well. Launching something like an MMO for millions of players is never ever going to go perfect, it doesnt matter who is working on it or how much time & money they put into it. People are acting like the games been down for days/weeks and theyre not working on it or something.
Fortunately, there are plenty of other titles with an excess of used server blades available for resale.
They won't have to scramble to buy servers when there's no hardware even available to purchase, like Blizzard did in 2004.
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.
could be but if an issue does come up and you have to swap out hardware, rebuild a database, transfer a backup ect ect these things take time
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Well considering that GW2 had 9 million WoW players trying to login, it's no surprise that the servers went down. Even WoW never had 9 million players logging in all at once.
Consider this a great victory for MMOs everywhere... GW2 has indeed surpassed the mighty giant in new players! LOL, I love to see this, it proves that the game is indeed VERY popular not mere HYPE, but indeed POPULAR!
If a game doesn't crash at launch or headstart, it means they overestimated the user base... clearly even ArenaNet had no idea this many people would be logging on. The numbers must be staggering... over 9 billion!
lol. I was in EGA. I can't remember it being classified as a 'failed launch.' It was routine praised as a successful launch. Though there were the expect queues do to the 'new game rush.'
I'd like to see proof that it was, by a significant majority, actually considered a failed launch. Failed game, yeah that's obvious. But the launch was very good.
Please just uninstall the game . . .
My bet is them opening more servers to appease the masses, and then when things settle down they will have to start closing and consolidating servers.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Yep.
But...but...it's so refreshing and innovative...RIGHT?
What is this life you speak of? What level is it available? Do I have to raid for it?
Highlighted the relevant part in yellow. NO ONE payed more for head start. They just paid the same amount in advance.
They advertised the headstart as a bonus for prepurchasing the game, so i feel this does mean it is a really bad launch. I bet i was not the only one who put time aside to play it and could not.
Since i enjoy SWTOR and feel i can play both, it amuses me how the GW2 fanboys would come to the SWTOR forums and talk about how bad that game was at launch.
To all the people saying this is not launch well lets see what happens when even more people start to want to play.......
You seem to be confusing bad games vs technical issues.
Most people put down other games for being bad in various ways. Not "OMG that game had X hours of server downtime on launch". GW2 is still a better game than most of whats been coming out for years. Technical issues can be fixed. Horrible game design cant be, without completely reinventing the game into something else.
I sure hope you are wrong Amjo. Arenanet hasn't shown the tendency toward making quick fixes for short term gain (at the expense of the long term) so far, I'd be surprised if they did now . . . I suppose it depends on how bad it gets. My bet is rather that they find a way to increase the number of overflow servers.
Some players can make it feel as if it is much worse than it actually is because they start whining at volume 9/10 right from the start. But the reality is probably not so serious that it requires a bad decision.