On massively it says that Rift has 1mln registerd players, if that means registerd for the head start no wonder they are having problems. Also ladies and gentleman I think we can assume that Rift will do fine in the future=)
Yea, according to the haters, the 1 million accounts figure was meaningless.
I feel a screenshot coming on, lol!
uh no.
1 million accounts which is based on every person who signed in since the start is meaningless to anyone who actually thinks about it.
Has nothing to do with the succes of the game or how good it is.
Those 1 million accounts carry quite a few people who tried the game thinking it was one thing and they were dissapointed with the game. There are plenty of people in those 1 million account who despise the game.
so is that really a good thing?
One million box sales is good, one million subs is good. One million people who were intrigued by some info that spans quite a bit of time, in a period where there are more and more mmo players, means that the game's initial information was intriguing.
That's pretty much it.
I'm not a hater, I preordered a while ago, played the beta events and will play for a while and I can confidently say that those numbers aren't making me giddy because of what they actually mean.
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It's opening day and there are queues. That's pretty standard for a situation where you have this many people trying to log on at the same time.
We are in the process of opening more servers. Please keep checking here on the forums and Facebook/Twitter for the latest news.
Thank you for your patience. We are working to accommodate you all as quickly as we can. We are as anxious to get you into Telara as you are to get there!
The starting zone is instanced, they should not have made just 2 PVP English servers in the EU, it going to be about 10pm before I can play by the looks of it.
Exactly. Why only 2? English servers are always the most populated.
On massively it says that Rift has 1mln registerd players, if that means registerd for the head start no wonder they are having problems. Also ladies and gentleman I think we can assume that Rift will do fine in the future=)
On massively it says that Rift has 1mln registerd players, if that means registerd for the head start no wonder they are having problems. Also ladies and gentleman I think we can assume that Rift will do fine in the future=)
Yea, according to the haters, the 1 million accounts figure was meaningless.
I feel a screenshot coming on, lol!
uh no.
1 million accounts which is based on every person who signed in since the start is meaningless to anyone who actually thinks about it.
Has nothing to do with the succes of the game or how good it is.
Those 1 million accounts carry quite a few people who tried the game thinking it was one thing and they were dissapointed with the game. There are plenty of people in those 1 million account who despise the game.
so is that really a good thing?
One million box sales is good, one million subs is good. One million people who were intrigued by some info that spans quite a bit of time, in a period where there are more and more mmo players, means that the game's initial information was intriguing.
That's pretty much it.
Point missed entirely.
Nevermind, carry on.
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i got my name reserved on a PvE server just in case, no way in hell am i waiting 3 hours to reserve my name on a PvP server atm. im on lunch break. i hope to catch a new PvP server after work hopefully.
It's opening day and there are queues. That's pretty standard for a situation where you have this many people trying to log on at the same time.
We are in the process of opening more servers. Please keep checking here on the forums and Facebook/Twitter for the latest news.
Thank you for your patience. We are working to accommodate you all as quickly as we can. We are as anxious to get you into Telara as you are to get there!
Cindy Bowens
Community Lead
Rift
Well I don't know that opening more servers is the right answer in my opinion. All thats going to do is end up splintering the community if the retention rate of subs is not that good after the 30 day free period.
On massively it says that Rift has 1mln registerd players, if that means registerd for the head start no wonder they are having problems. Also ladies and gentleman I think we can assume that Rift will do fine in the future=)
Couldn't agree more except RIFT doesn't have the immense amount of flaws that plagued WAR that the players in BETAs told them about but never listened.
On massively it says that Rift has 1mln registerd players, if that means registerd for the head start no wonder they are having problems. Also ladies and gentleman I think we can assume that Rift will do fine in the future=)
Couldn't agree more except RIFT doesn't have the immense amount of flaws that plagued WAR that the players in BETAs told them about but never listened.
I don't understand how people cannot think like this. They see "Oh another WoW clone lol going to fail like AoC and WAR". You know what WAR and AoC didn't copy that was most important? The polish. Rift did.
It's opening day and there are queues. That's pretty standard for a situation where you have this many people trying to log on at the same time.
We are in the process of opening more servers. Please keep checking here on the forums and Facebook/Twitter for the latest news.
Thank you for your patience. We are working to accommodate you all as quickly as we can. We are as anxious to get you into Telara as you are to get there!
Cindy Bowens
Community Lead
Rift
Well I don't know that opening more servers is the right answer in my opinion. All thats going to do is end up splintering the community if the retention rate of subs is not that good after the 30 day free period.
I'm pretty sure they already have threshold numbers on what their servers can hold and how much they need to spread the population.
It's opening day and there are queues. That's pretty standard for a situation where you have this many people trying to log on at the same time.
We are in the process of opening more servers. Please keep checking here on the forums and Facebook/Twitter for the latest news.
Thank you for your patience. We are working to accommodate you all as quickly as we can. We are as anxious to get you into Telara as you are to get there!
Cindy Bowens
Community Lead
Rift
Well I don't know that opening more servers is the right answer in my opinion. All thats going to do is end up splintering the community if the retention rate of subs is not that good after the 30 day free period.
Seriously, we wait until the bottleneck clears out. Don't pull a WAR and have 30 servers with 1k on each. It'll clear out.
It's opening day and there are queues. That's pretty standard for a situation where you have this many people trying to log on at the same time.
We are in the process of opening more servers. Please keep checking here on the forums and Facebook/Twitter for the latest news.
Thank you for your patience. We are working to accommodate you all as quickly as we can. We are as anxious to get you into Telara as you are to get there!
Cindy Bowens
Community Lead
Rift
Well I don't know that opening more servers is the right answer in my opinion. All thats going to do is end up splintering the community if the retention rate of subs is not that good after the 30 day free period.
I'm pretty sure they already have threshold numbers on what their servers can hold and how much they need to spread the population.
I guess that's true, also I guess server tranfers and migration wouldn't be an unheard of thing either.
It's opening day and there are queues. That's pretty standard for a situation where you have this many people trying to log on at the same time.
We are in the process of opening more servers. Please keep checking here on the forums and Facebook/Twitter for the latest news.
Thank you for your patience. We are working to accommodate you all as quickly as we can. We are as anxious to get you into Telara as you are to get there!
Cindy Bowens
Community Lead
Rift
Well I don't know that opening more servers is the right answer in my opinion. All thats going to do is end up splintering the community if the retention rate of subs is not that good after the 30 day free period.
Seriously, we wait until the bottleneck clears out. Don't pull a WAR and have 30 servers with 1k on each. It'll clear out.
To me after playing the betas and the open beta its obvious that this is no WAR and it will do better. Hell I remember getting WAR and not playing it cause of the annoying little bugs. I paid for something and didnt play it ffs. Also Trion has shown time and again that they make a real effort to improve things as fast as they can...thats not something the WAR devs did, I dont even think they ever understood what people wanted from the game.
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uh no.
1 million accounts which is based on every person who signed in since the start is meaningless to anyone who actually thinks about it.
Has nothing to do with the succes of the game or how good it is.
Those 1 million accounts carry quite a few people who tried the game thinking it was one thing and they were dissapointed with the game. There are plenty of people in those 1 million account who despise the game.
so is that really a good thing?
One million box sales is good, one million subs is good. One million people who were intrigued by some info that spans quite a bit of time, in a period where there are more and more mmo players, means that the game's initial information was intriguing.
That's pretty much it.
I'm not a hater, I preordered a while ago, played the beta events and will play for a while and I can confidently say that those numbers aren't making me giddy because of what they actually mean.
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Fast response
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?86555-Opening-Day-Queues
Like that but in Europe would be nice
http://www.videogamer.com/pc/warhammer_online_age_of_reckoning/news/warhammer_online_sales_reach_1_2_million.html
And we all know how 'well' that went.
Eleanor Rigby.
Point missed entirely.
Nevermind, carry on.
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Since we've all are going to wait for a while, here's the release patch notes:
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?86184-Beta-to-Head-Start-Patch-Notes-2-24-11&p=1294780#post1294780
Nice another PvP server Bloodiron, 559 in que
i got my name reserved on a PvE server just in case, no way in hell am i waiting 3 hours to reserve my name on a PvP server atm. im on lunch break. i hope to catch a new PvP server after work hopefully.
Well I don't know that opening more servers is the right answer in my opinion. All thats going to do is end up splintering the community if the retention rate of subs is not that good after the 30 day free period.
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Couldn't agree more except RIFT doesn't have the immense amount of flaws that plagued WAR that the players in BETAs told them about but never listened.
I don't understand how people cannot think like this. They see "Oh another WoW clone lol going to fail like AoC and WAR". You know what WAR and AoC didn't copy that was most important? The polish. Rift did.
He who keeps his cool best wins.
I'm pretty sure they already have threshold numbers on what their servers can hold and how much they need to spread the population.
Been watching Twitter, they are actually bringing new servers online fairly quickly...
I'm still 138 in que, about an hour estimated wait...
Someone stole my freaking name and the servers hadnt even been up 1 minute. IMMAD
I will hunt you down.
130 in Queue
53 Minutes Estimated time
Hahaha. I don't have anything else to do but wait...wait...
edit: it jumped to 23 in queue ><
Seriously, we wait until the bottleneck clears out. Don't pull a WAR and have 30 servers with 1k on each. It'll clear out.
I got up for a drink and 5 minuters later the queue dropped from 411/1.5 hours to 250 and 11 minutes. Yay!
Edit: 250 not 205 ..oh well.
Mine just went from 10 hours to 57 minutes, so guess they are just bottlenecking people on purpose.
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Will be interesting for those that grab names with a random appearance when they go back to design the actual toon and have it sniped, eh?
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
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Those que times are definately not correct. Mine was just at 12 hours and now it is at 1 and half hours... I am behind like 1800 other ppl atm.
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I guess that's true, also I guess server tranfers and migration wouldn't be an unheard of thing either.
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new genre?
P2Q!
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The head start does not count against the 30 days. Nobody is paying to queue.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
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To me after playing the betas and the open beta its obvious that this is no WAR and it will do better. Hell I remember getting WAR and not playing it cause of the annoying little bugs. I paid for something and didnt play it ffs. Also Trion has shown time and again that they make a real effort to improve things as fast as they can...thats not something the WAR devs did, I dont even think they ever understood what people wanted from the game.