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This, fo rme, is the worst experience of "trying" to play an MMO I have ever had.
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What do you suppose the actual percentage is? 10%, 20%, 50%? It is mostly like a very small percentage of the total player base. Let's suppose they have 500,000 players right (being conservative) and there's 1% with serious issues, that would be 5000 people which could really flood a support forum.
I recall once reading statistics on this back when WOW launched, and back then Blizzard said about 15% or so of the player base had issues with the game. No idea if in 10 years this might still be the case, but if so, that would be 75K players with issues of one sort or another.
Doesn't change the fact that for 85% of the players, there are minimal to no issues, so it is going to look like things are fine from their perspective.
It sucks to be on the wrong side of that percentage, but just something that has to be dealt with. No game will ever run 100% fine for everyone, too much variance between PC's of various users, which is why consoles have some advantages in this area, standardization.
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Yeah but did everyone? My point is if potential MMO launch problems make someone upset, they should skip launches.
...and back on planet Earth, 30 minute digital download, and playing with no issues at all, at full spec for the last two days. Nothing to see here move along.
This is nonsense. Since when forum join date has any bearing with how many MMOS the said individual has played prior to joining the forum? seriously it is if people are running out of material to insult OP for stating that he is having problem withe game. Such a nice community we going on here.
Jesus, you're embarrassing. You're the single biggest argument against playing this game going.
Welcome to MMORPG.com during the launch of a game?
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Well, the box version is always packed some time before it's shipped. Thus, any changes made afterwards must be downloaded. It can take quite a while especially at launch when they're patching as often as they are.
I agree, loading screens in ESO are terribly long. During beta I had to wait 15 mins before the character select popped up. Another 15 mins was used to wait for the world to load. It's just not okay. But that was in beta. Might be they fixed that, though, according to your post, that isn't the case?
I feel your pain man. I had pre-orderded it and tried to download it. I say try because I do not have the patience to dl it right now. I live in the woods and have a crummy 7 megs down cap. The whole game should have taken me a day max to download. It did not I was only getting 160 kbits per second download time (this is what someone with 1.5 megs down should be getting), which is 5 times slower than my cap.
I was looking at close to a week to DL the game 3 days before early access. I honestly cannot be tying up my internet for a week. I contacted customer service they said they are experiencing high volumes of downloads. Honestly I understood this and kind of knew this was coming.
Anyway to make a long story short I got my money back and will be repurchasing the game after launch when I might be able to actually download the game. I can't be mad at Zenimax though, after all it is my fault for waiting so long to download the game.
calm down please.
His issue IS A KNOWN ONE on the ESO forums. There are a lot of people who were forced to enter a credit card before their game time was activated, and then it charged them for the full month OR it started counting down their game time the instant they activated their account, even doing it right.
Bethesda has said it's their fault, so how about you stop lambasting the poor OP and have some compassion?
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/bestof/everything Lets look over the best of, lets see that the OPs problem is mentioned several times.
Yep before 09 I had never heard or played MMOs, clearly this website is the only reason any of us have ever joined an mmo launch.
Are you serious?
Played Ultima Online, DAOC, EQ. GW, WOW, RIFT, TERA, SWTOR and GW2. Not all from launch day, but a lot of them were, particularly the ones over the last 5 years or so (about when I got bored of WoW).
The ONLY reason Im on this forum and not the official forum is that I never got the invite mail to the official forum (another failure) and therefore can't post.
If you think that having a download sped of between 5 and 10 times slower than your natural broadband limit is normal on a game launch...it isn't. Its the first time I've ever seen that happen.
Thank you to the posters who made pleasant, useful comments. The rest of you are the reasons MMOs are so dumbed down from what they once were. I am sure when I do eventually login you will be the ones spamming global with racist, obscene filthand demanding you know...MOAR LOOT, easier progression...a new level cap cos you spent the last 3 months playing all day every day on account of your lack of social life and "oh no ...there no moar content". Sure some people might think you are funny for about 5 minutes...but sadly no one will actually still LIKE you.. Well done. Congratulations on being you.
Uhh that is not the OP"s problem.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
For the record, I bought ESO.
I had a lot of problems compared to other launches with the game.
The support was very prompt, and it completely ignored the text of my question and sent me forum letters.
Every
Single
Time.
Their support is horrendous.
Simply awful.
I had to figure out the problem via a 3rd party.
Did you read any of the posts?
They all mention the 30 day charge, and most of them contain people asking the LOGICAL follow up question. 'Why does my account show only 29 days remaining?'
Yep, it does, for many people.
Including me, want a screen shot?
From my account page
Game Time Remaining
You have 28 days of game time remaining.
Billing Date
You will be billed on May 4, 2014 for $14.99
The OP's problem is that he can't get the game to run on his PC.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
That would be one of his problems, he has more than one.
See Dis?
And Dist for the record, this is why I started trying to defend that particular part of the OP's complaint.
Because the OP was right at least about this part.
its a GoOd dAy to diE !!
IF he bought it at launch (yesterday) the free 2 days doesn't apply from my knowledge, it only applied to pre-orders. Still that is related to his issue, of not being able to log in and play, not the Zenimax charging players already issue. At least from what I've gathered here in this thread.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Is your Firewall alway's OFF? And is this the regular Win7 Firewall or another brand? Or perhaps you havn't even installed one? Personaly never switch of my Antivirus/Firewall, especially on my gaming rig regardless if the game requests it. So far never run into any problems except from some alpha/beta test in the past. where game systems aren't fully optimized yet.
When was the last time you did a full scan on that pc?
How much diskspace is on both your C: and other drives? Always make sure you have enough diskspace and of course maybe you do.
It's a shame you can't play right now. But it isn't a Win7 issue as I am using Win7. I am also from the EU but decided for the time being to play US. I did however hear more complaints from the EU version so not sure if it might be version related.
Good luck anyway's
I bought it two days ago.
Yet it started charging when the launch happened, I have a charge on my card and I have my 30 days counting down.
Just for the record.
AS for the OP's other complaint, I'm just ashamed of the community here again, lambasting this guy, rather than trying to provide help.
So what if his computer config is not proper for this game? Why does that make so many of my fellow forum posters over react and call him names?
Isn't this site about MMO fans helping fans and discussing things fans would like?
Why are we so rigid and rude?
My copy downloaded at 2.2 mb/s it was done in a very reasonable amount of time. My antivirus and firewall remained on throughout the process and I am playing the game very happily.
It sounds like you have a shitty computer. Your kind of problems stem from shitty stuff I'm sorry to say. A shitty connection, shitty hardware, shitty set up.
Sorry pal. If I were TESO customer service I would direct you to a PC building website and instruct you to drop the Dell
For clarity, my problems are as follows:
1) Game wont play once loaded.
2) Game took 18 hours to patch first time.
3) Game is now at 7% after 6 more hours downloading - the patch - not the full game
4) My Internet speed is ten times faster than the DL speed I am getting and it is ONLY this game where I have had that issue - even on launch days
5) Customer services suggestions have been, disable all antivirus, firewall and UAC. Ignoring the fact that I and many other people have this problem - type "elder scrolls online slow patch download" into google if you doubt me - and therefore the problem is unlikely to be at my end.
6) My free game time was - and still is - decreasing. The only thing that has changed is the early access FOR PEOPLE THAT HAD ACCESS TO EARLY ACCESS - I am not one of those people as I bought a disc copy of the game yesterday morning when it hit the shelves.
7) I have no invite t the official forums - something that is meant to be sent out automatically on account creation.
8) So I joined here - where I encountered problem number 8 - asshats who think that just randomly posting how stupid I am for having problems installing this game whilst at the same time gloating about how amazing they think the game is (despite not being in it but being here instead) is hilariously funny and what I was looking for from my original post. It wasn't - die in a fire.