I'm lol'ing at some of these comments saying that the game is still terrible, even though I bet they didn't purchase it after their reactions in beta.
The sad thing is that you are probably right. It seems that the naysayers probably are not even playing the game; they just want to complain and could care less if they even have a point. Unfortunately this give the game a bad rap and scares off newcomers; in fact it almost scared me away, but after realizing the naysayers really had no point I gave the OB a try and was pleasantly surprised.
"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."-Guybrush Threepwood "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."-Hunter S. Thompson
You can always tell the new guy on the block huh.. best EVER MMO! BEST LAUCH EVER!.. yeah ok.. sure for you it is and thats great. There is not a billion people that want to play it.. they got to in open beta. Alot canceled there preorder. When you seen bugs in closed beta pass off on to open beta then to launch this says it all. All mmo's launch with bugs. This is just not one of the top 10 MMO's people want to play. Just watch how much they try to change in the next up coming patches.. look what they tried to do in open beta..
Aion hit server limits at launch, Aion now merging servers.
Doesn't take long for shallow games to fall where they belong.
Indeed. I'm sure the Aion team is simply heartbroken at being in the top three currently subscribed MMORPGs.
Do you play Aion at all? I know tons of active Aion subscribers just waiting to replace Aion with FFXIV, me being one of them. Aion's been dead for a long time and 2.0 didn't help one bit. Why do you think they merged servers, not to mention the mess it took for NCWest to actually succeed merging servers (our tools are limited haha).
Isn't Aion supposed to be a PvP(vE) game? Too bad 2.0 killed it. As things stand right now, the Abyss is dead (there goes the lore), rifts are dead (twinks nerf) and you can no longer PvP on your own as peeps will jump you faster than you can say jippy-kay-ey mofo!
You better learn to say GvP or Group vs Player, and learn it fast!
Then there's all the newly-added NPCs, courtesy of NCWest. You know, cause we, western players, apparently don't appreciate PvP so NCWest decided to turn Aion into carebear WoW mode. GG!
End result being, good luck visiting the other faction's Balaurea land on your own, unless you're a scout who can go full hide you won't last 5 full minutes.
On a side note, did you read douche bag himself, Lance Stites's, one year anniversary community letter? Peeps lol'd hard when it got posted, he going on about all these great events which we never saw lol.
I could go on all day long about Aion and how NCWest messed it up. Never witnesssed a dev/publisher tank a MMO that fast. Amazeballs.
Back to FFXIV, dunno about it being the best launch ever in MMO history. Mainly because there are not enough copies to go around, or that seem to be the case.
There are only 4 retailers listed on the official website, and it takes an effort to find the info.
Out of those 4 retailers, only 2 got CE in stock. Out of those 2, I'm still awaiting my copy of CE, even though I ordered it weeks ago and apparently it's (still) in stock (Play.com). Hopefully, I will recieve it sometime during next week.
I spoke with SE the other day and they could only apologize for not offering a digital / download only copy of FFXIV nor provide me with a list of european retailers other than the 4 retailers listed on the main site.
You can always tell the new guy on the block huh.. best EVER MMO! BEST LAUCH EVER!.. yeah ok.. sure for you it is and thats great. There is not a billion people that want to play it.. they got to in open beta. Alot canceled there preorder. When you seen bugs in closed beta pass off on to open beta then to launch this says it all. All mmo's launch with bugs. This is just not one of the top 10 MMO's people want to play. Just watch how much they try to change in the next up coming patches.. look what they tried to do in open beta..
Far more people signed up for pre-orders in the last weeks of September than cancelled. As of Sept. 18 the approximate number of pre-orders was around 200,000. That is a significant increase from August sales figures.
To my Suprise the game launched well no huge problems i have played 3 nights in a row since Release . They still havnt got the patcher right it still floods my bandwidth with uploads and doesnt download. But thats alright as i have got the fix that is on FFXIV core and i install the files myself after i download them and then let the launcher install to the direct directories..
If SE fixed thier torrent Download program to only ever upload at 30-45kbs and not go over this would fix the issue since all they are doing is using a torrent program that they have locked so you cant change any of the settings.!!!!
Enjoying the game and as long as you remember its a PS3 game they have ported for P.C everything else falls in place.
Sescribed for 6 month sescriptions cause it can only improve!!!!
Current games; Star treck online Rift Eve online Firefall
For the "Best MMORPG Launch in History", there seems to be multiple threads in just these forums about people having issues. I'd hate to see the actual forums.
When all is said and done, I don't think too many MMO's could beat LotRO's launch. It was quite smooth.
So far there are no problems whatsoever with registration, payment, login, character creation, crashes or lag. The game runs faster than the Open Beta, UI is about 10x faster, really snappy now.
Servers already hitting population limit and are expanded immediately within 10 minutes.
Cutscenes and scenery has been updated with additional effects and new scenes.
Hardware Mouse Cursor can be enabled.
Crafting has been improved.
Simply all major problems reported in OB have been addressed and fixed.
First Maintenance has been announced for Sep. 23, 2010 9:00 to 12:00 (PDT) in preparation for the weekend.
Crossing my fingers but so far i don't see anything bad happening.
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The sad thing is that you are probably right. It seems that the naysayers probably are not even playing the game; they just want to complain and could care less if they even have a point. Unfortunately this give the game a bad rap and scares off newcomers; in fact it almost scared me away, but after realizing the naysayers really had no point I gave the OB a try and was pleasantly surprised.
"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."-Guybrush Threepwood
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."-Hunter S. Thompson
Indeed. I'm sure the Aion team is simply heartbroken at being in the top three currently subscribed MMORPGs.
You can always tell the new guy on the block huh.. best EVER MMO! BEST LAUCH EVER!.. yeah ok.. sure for you it is and thats great. There is not a billion people that want to play it.. they got to in open beta. Alot canceled there preorder. When you seen bugs in closed beta pass off on to open beta then to launch this says it all. All mmo's launch with bugs. This is just not one of the top 10 MMO's people want to play. Just watch how much they try to change in the next up coming patches.. look what they tried to do in open beta..
Do you play Aion at all? I know tons of active Aion subscribers just waiting to replace Aion with FFXIV, me being one of them. Aion's been dead for a long time and 2.0 didn't help one bit. Why do you think they merged servers, not to mention the mess it took for NCWest to actually succeed merging servers (our tools are limited haha).
Isn't Aion supposed to be a PvP(vE) game? Too bad 2.0 killed it. As things stand right now, the Abyss is dead (there goes the lore), rifts are dead (twinks nerf) and you can no longer PvP on your own as peeps will jump you faster than you can say jippy-kay-ey mofo!
You better learn to say GvP or Group vs Player, and learn it fast!
Then there's all the newly-added NPCs, courtesy of NCWest. You know, cause we, western players, apparently don't appreciate PvP so NCWest decided to turn Aion into carebear WoW mode. GG!
End result being, good luck visiting the other faction's Balaurea land on your own, unless you're a scout who can go full hide you won't last 5 full minutes.
On a side note, did you read douche bag himself, Lance Stites's, one year anniversary community letter? Peeps lol'd hard when it got posted, he going on about all these great events which we never saw lol.
I could go on all day long about Aion and how NCWest messed it up. Never witnesssed a dev/publisher tank a MMO that fast. Amazeballs.
Back to FFXIV, dunno about it being the best launch ever in MMO history. Mainly because there are not enough copies to go around, or that seem to be the case.
There are only 4 retailers listed on the official website, and it takes an effort to find the info.
Out of those 4 retailers, only 2 got CE in stock. Out of those 2, I'm still awaiting my copy of CE, even though I ordered it weeks ago and apparently it's (still) in stock (Play.com). Hopefully, I will recieve it sometime during next week.
I spoke with SE the other day and they could only apologize for not offering a digital / download only copy of FFXIV nor provide me with a list of european retailers other than the 4 retailers listed on the main site.
Far more people signed up for pre-orders in the last weeks of September than cancelled. As of Sept. 18 the approximate number of pre-orders was around 200,000. That is a significant increase from August sales figures.
http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders.php?date=40440
To my Suprise the game launched well no huge problems i have played 3 nights in a row since Release . They still havnt got the patcher right it still floods my bandwidth with uploads and doesnt download. But thats alright as i have got the fix that is on FFXIV core and i install the files myself after i download them and then let the launcher install to the direct directories..
If SE fixed thier torrent Download program to only ever upload at 30-45kbs and not go over this would fix the issue since all they are doing is using a torrent program that they have locked so you cant change any of the settings.!!!!
Enjoying the game and as long as you remember its a PS3 game they have ported for P.C everything else falls in place.
Sescribed for 6 month sescriptions cause it can only improve!!!!
Current games;
Star treck online
Rift
Eve online
Firefall
Just wait for the real launch. When all the regular copies of the game ship out and all of the buddy keys become active. I smell smoke.
For the "Best MMORPG Launch in History", there seems to be multiple threads in just these forums about people having issues. I'd hate to see the actual forums.
When all is said and done, I don't think too many MMO's could beat LotRO's launch. It was quite smooth.
Oh lord. Im not going to say anything. Enjoy!
/rofl