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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
I said other than Rift, I didn't say it was better.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
LOTRO, Rift, SWTOR were pretty much flawless, even GW2 with its share of issues (trading post) vast majority of people could still play without trouble (minus few that had connectivity issues)
Considering pretty much all issues from beta are here, with few added extras - thumbs down for ESO im afraid.
Miracle patch (as fanbois preached) didnt land (as expected).
Having fun who cares.
/yeah being a little facetious
You clearly haven't been at Gw2's launch. And just fyi, what ESO is having now is just a fraction of a launch. Launch is in 2 days actually.
Playing: FFXIV, DnL, and World of Warships
Waiting on: Ashes of Creation
If thats all you played then what happens at that level of the game shouldn't concern you one bit.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
What concerns me is my own choice. It just astounds me when ZoS came out and said it would take such long time to get to 50 and then BAM 50 in one day. No need to get rude over it.
Playing: FFXIV, DnL, and World of Warships
Waiting on: Ashes of Creation
I'm not sure how stating a fact is rude to you, but I'm sorry if you feel that way.
I have played about 23 hours and I'm just now at level 12. I am playing the game as a player, not a level cap achiever. If you want to use what others have done as a meter or guage to the games content, you have to look at the entire picture. Take into account all of the players, not just the highlights.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
As far as the security concern goes, this likely isn't as big an issue as you actually think it is. Generally there are related database tables which hold your user and character information separately. So, the thing is, that these tables generally don't contain redundant data, so your user is usually linked to your character with a unique ID. That's all. Yesterday the 3-day headstarters came online, so my guess is that they had to do some updates to these tables. It's entirely possible that 1) they merged 3-day headstart account details with the live data and mucked something up, maybe rolled it back. It's probably more likely that, 2) they tried to re-index (re-number) these tables and something went horribly wrong. Either that or they just tried to do it while people were in-game (which would just be silly).
Either way, I don't think this would compromise your personal information. In order to access your account you still need to authenticate your user. If someone got an email about someone using their account and they weren't using it, then it could be someone literally accessing their account because they use god passwords, or the same database-related issues could affect that, if the databases synced and the systems realized that someone was actually logged into the wrong account.
It's a big boo-boo, but characters can be recovered without much difficulty (unless they just took all your stuff and sold it or something). Personal info likely isn't an issue, though, it's probably people with weak passwords or people who don't realize that they've already been hacked in 10 other games.
As for the other issues, people levelling in 24 hours is nothing new. Old news. Happens with every game. "Real" people will probably take weeks to get through this.
Server overflows, yeah, hated it! It's sort of expected, though, since 3-day headstarters came on yesterday. Shoot, the first couple days of the 5-day head start were crowded enough. Haven't seen a queue yet, though....... IDK, maybe that's the problem, lol. Last night I crashed out twice in a half hour period. Looking forward to Launch. That should be scary
I haven't seen any duping happening yet, but I'm assuming if it's a problem then ban hammer will be incoming.
Crazkanuk
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See, people do think! good post. You Sir are a drama stomper!
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
What do you mean which game next? Strawman much?
Instead of deflecting why not focus on THIS game and the increasing number of SERIOUS issued that are manifesting themselves?
OMG someone else who has a basic understanding of how these databases generally work and how it isnt a huge deal like people are making it out to be.
Most of the people freaking out over it have likely never even seen, let alone done any work in a database for a game (or any other system for that matter).
Most systems are setup to where I could go into the database delete your character, recreate a new character in its place with a new name, new class, new level, load your inventory with items of my choosing, teleport your character to where I want it to be upon your next login, etc (Yes... I have done this to people before as a prank lol. It can be very entertaining watching them freak out about it) all without ever having to see or touch anything to do with your actual account information, just a character name is plenty.
People like you are turning things which are NOT serious issues into the apocalypse.
Most of the issues are very minor (some quest bugs which an usually be worked around, people figuring out how to power level OMG say it isnt so!). The biggest issue at the moment, is what they are working on fixing RIGHT NOW, and it isnt even as big of an issue as you are making it out to be. Only a few pixels are at risk, and only temporarily. Nothing more.
FFS you kids act like this has been going on for weeks and nothing is being done about it. It happened for what, a couple of hours, and they jumped right on it. Do you seem them just bringing the server back up and ignoring it and saying "Oh well, we will fix it eventually". No.
what does it matter? as if these issues will not get cleared up and fixed in due time?
you want to rage about them and that's fine, you are at the correct forum for that sort of thing.
but don't expect everyone to push the panic button, a lot of us have seen this before in a lot of different games.
some of my favorite games have had far worse launches than this, this is nothing new for me.
all that said, it's not pleasant to not be bale to log in and play when you want to.
hopefully this gets resolved soon.
I consider broken phasing, paid access unable to log in, rife duping and account security breaches that may or may not include personal information to be VERY serious indeed.
All of this capped with the poor levels of customer service that so many are reporting SHOULD have alarm bells ringing
Yes, Zeni will never fix launch issues that happen on every launch of a mmo, you shouldn't buy it because you can't wait later.
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a large amount of these bugs have been apart of the game for multiple months. they have been constantly reported during beta, and are still not fixed.
This is what people do. They use semantics to fuel an argument that doesn't exist. One calls it a security risk and another calls it a misscommunitcation. Seriously? You have nothing better to do? There is nothing here to argue, stop trying to start one. Can't stand people like this. You knew what that poster meant.
Actually, it likely is a communication error between the login server and the character data base. Still, thats a security risk because it means theres a back door somewhere that would allow a person to cause the game to associate their login information with someone else's @name.
Anyways, Zeni indirectly admitted to the problem
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Except for the one complaint that people are receiving bans and don't understand why. This would explain why. This needs to be addressed ASAP. You guys who suggest burying heads in sand could get burned pretty badly. Many launch issues can be ignored and people bitching in forums may or may not be taken seriously. However, I don't think this is one of those issues that can be brushed aside and ignored. Even if there is a full recovery, Players have lost something they paid for....Early access. But the damage can affect them for months. as players end up on hundreds, maybe thousands of ignore lists, socialization issues will persist long after ZM fixes what's wrong.
Then simply don't play and go to a forum of your choice that has a game you like. Praise that game and all will be fine for you. Denouncing a title after it has only been out a couple days is hardly fair to anyone.
Your comments are default by nature. Go back to any new release titles forums and they all have issues. There are always people painting images of a nuclear cloud and the total destruction of a game because of problems. These issues will get repaired, new ones will occur, and the cycle will repeat. The game will be just fine.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.