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Is this the worst MMO launch of 2012?
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Nobody paid "extra" for headstart. You paid the same price as you would should you have bought it after the 28th. That price set in the digital store is the price set for the next few months. It's not any special price for "beta". You could have purchased the box and gotten it for cheaper.
Aion wasn't as "popular" as GW2. And last time I checked, Aion also had it's fair share of launch problems. And Tera had already been released in Asia for a while when it launched in the US. So it wasn't a world wide release like GW2 is. Every MMO has problems at launch. No MMO can anticipate how many players are going to try and get in at launch. And yes, headstart is launch.
Agreed. Its kind of entertaining how so many people have absolutely no understanding whatsoever how anything in the tech world works. They just know stuff works, or doesnt work, but have no idea how it works or how many thousands of tiny little things can bring even an internal network to its knees. Its much much worse for things that are open to the public. They think theres some magical "Fix Everything" button that can be pushed rather than millions/billions of lines of coding to sort through, multiple databases, hardware that can crap out at any time through no fault of their own, etc.
Think you guys need to RELAX abit, holy shit it's a game boohoo I can't play ....right now who f**ken cares, play when it's back up, thats what I'm going to do. The game isn't going anywhere literaly ,complaining left right and center isn't going to get it up faster.
P.S Actualy I do find the F2P in three months funny , because I can't tell you how many times that is brought up in every other game , but somehow somewhere GW2 is untouchable when it comes to the snarky remarks, and you know what , it's a JOKE lighten the hell up LOL it's already F2P imagine if it wasn't ohhh shit.
Lauches in the past 4 years have been decent Aion, Rift, SW:TOR, STO, CO, Darkfall with none of them having to take down the servers for multiple hours thus making this the worst of the bunch so far, because of this people are going to annoyed aren't they?
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Calling a headstart not a launch is stupid.
It's a launch.
And people saying every mmo launches poorly are wrong too. Rift had an awesome launch.
Rift
I can't wait to see Francis do a rage video on Login Wars 2. x3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2szTEHgqZXY <- The SWTOR launch rage.
-Azure Prower
http://www.youtube.com/AzurePrower
you know what's not helping? any of this. any of the 5000 threads that have started up about the server problems. any of the flame wars raging on this site. none of this is helping. you could go stick bananas in your ears and do a jig and it would help as much. so yeah. get off your high horse, man.
oh also, it is kinda funny. yeah.
Exacly , but you can use that argument in other game forums as well, however, I don't see post like that only here. Either way GW2 is a fantastic game , and I played fine most of my night level 11 already. Woot.
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.
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.
Sure....And I agree with everything you said.
I'm not trying to form a lynch mob because I can't log into my game. As I said, I am patient about that. And also, I have all the faith in the world that ANET is not sitting around on a SAT morning popping donut holes and coffee laughing their ARSES off at the MMORPG posts. No, I can imagine the S^&T storm going on over there.
I am trying to make a point that we as the consumer have to stop defending companies where they do not deserve it. And people still need to realize every time some company fails to deliver what they charge money for, and get a free pass, that's a green light for the next guy to come along and repeat it.
Sadly his respons to some feedback on his video also fits here. I can't tell if the guy is mentally handicapped, or a prophet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I81Kr_y0bA&feature=relmfu
RIP Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan and Paul Gray.
For the past 2 years or so that ihave been member of these forums i have seen almost every new release been ripped to shreds by GW2 fans. Not saying that others didn't flame GW2 but when one vists game forums for games like Tera, Swtor, Rift., TSW .and every other popular MMO forums you see a pattern you can not ignore.
Yes haters in general were flaming these MMOS too but GW2 fans made special effort to stand out by making constant comparisons with GW2 every single time.
That is why you would see even a bigger backlash becaue fans for all these games have been waiting for Anet to screw up so that they can have their last laugh.
Bite Me
Every fan of every launch uses this excuse when their game has problems and GW2 is having multiple problems thus the emotional outpouring. This was the game that was going to change the face of the MMO world and players cannot even play the game that they have paid for so I think people have every reason to bitch as much as they want.
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Well they made some progress. Can log into GW1 again and the GW2 account page is back up.
They also tweeted they were still working on the problem a few min ago.
Well your getting what you paid for.
Did you not know there are downtimes during mmo launches? First timer?
always the same.
The joke is old. It's not funny anymore.
Aion had major server consolidations that folks complained about. No one will ever be happy. I for one would rather wait a few days and let things settle down rather than having to do the "choose a new server" routine.
Bringing up Tera does not help your discussion point at all, since for one it didn't have the numbers, and two it is a niche game.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
actualy ...it is LOL
After 18 years of Mo's and headstarts and failed first day launches i just don't bother that much anymore ,and as this is B2P don't give a monkeys really and only brought it for the Beta access though the in game band is nice to have.
Really sad thing shitbin OP threads like this will garner loads of posts,I despair for people and there way of thinking at times
I can finally see my HOM (the webpage, not inside Guild Wars 2 :P)
Block the trolls, don't answer them, so we can remove the garbage from these forums
I agree. But I'm being pedantic. This is pre-launch. Lets see how well they do on the 28th.
Doesn't excuse the network failure of today, but the way I honestly see it is proof to how popular the game is... and thats just with pre-order people. Imagine how crazy the 28th will be.
ANet I hope you guys can pull it off. Keep thrusters at maximum... and give it everything she's got ;-)
I think we need to stop these HeadStart events that Companies gives to us. And also we need all the MMO companies to post that Disconnects and Server shut downs will be happening every hour until the Server is back up and will be taken down once again when problems occurs. We also need all the companies to write in BIG BOLD LETTERS that explains that every single launch will have an Service windown of 48 hours to ensure everyone gets to log in without issues.
Then we also need them to Put up Video Blogs or Streams to show tell us in person that Pre-Purchases and Pre-Orders will not get any benefits for doing them, you get to start exactly at the same time as everyone else.
Is this what everyone on these threads hoping for????
Because I don't !, I got Pre-purchase because I know I will like this game, I got in this morning and I still do like this game. I am happy that I get to register my character names, I am happy that I was able to finally experience GW2 on my own schedule without the need to rush during BWE. I am happy that Pre-purchasers gets to choose their home servers first before everyone else, that including the Pre-order people and before the official launch date.
Will the removal of Pre-purchase bonuses really gonna satisfy you all that much?
Life is a Maze, so make sure you bring your GPS incase you get lost in it.
you know what's not helping? any of this. any of the 5000 threads that have started up about the server problems. any of the flame wars raging on this site. none of this is helping. you could go stick bananas in your ears and do a jig and it would help as much. so yeah. get off your high horse, man. oh also, it is kinda funny. yeah.
Dude, the joke is old. No, it's not funny anymore.
actualy ...it is LOL
Well then, it should be easy enough to cut n paste it into your Window's screen saver. Then you can set the timer for 1 minute and you can sit there and stare at your blank computer screen all day and laugh your arses off.