Just as an addendum, I don't think this happens with every MMO launch; Old Republic didn't experience any major connectivity or downtime when it came out. Â I think Guild Wars 2 was fairly stable as well.
It's a popular 'defense' to say that every MMO experiences outages on release day, but in my experience that was primarily a WoW thing and due in no small part to a far bigger population. Â
I'm not saying that they're not 'justified' in experiencing some problems, but I think in their case with prior working knowledge of what an MMO release takes (FFXI and FFXIV before ARR) they have less of an excuse. Â Bringing down a server once is fine, bringing it down repeatedly for the same issue becomes problematic. Â This stage is critical for Square-Enix to prove that they've learned the mistakes of the past and corrected for them, even more so because there will be a subscription involved. Â Companies such as IGN, Gamespot, and others are playing right now as well and these problems will be reflected in their reviews. Â
Even the legendary issues of Diablo 3 were corrected after a few hours of maintenance. Â I would rather FFXIV be down for one large, six hour chunk than down 3-4 times at 1-2 hours each time.
It's a popular 'defense' to say that every MMO experiences outages on release day, but in my experience that was primarily a WoW thing and due in no small part to a far bigger population. Â
I'm not saying that they're not 'justified' in experiencing some problems, but I think in their case with prior working knowledge of what an MMO release takes (FFXI and FFXIV before ARR) they have less of an excuse. Â Bringing down a server once is fine, bringing it down repeatedly for the same issue becomes problematic. Â This stage is critical for Square-Enix to prove that they've learned the mistakes of the past and corrected for them, even more so because there will be a subscription involved. Â Companies such as IGN, Gamespot, and others are playing right now as well and these problems will be reflected in their reviews. Â
Even the legendary issues of Diablo 3 were corrected after a few hours of maintenance. Â I would rather FFXIV be down for one large, six hour chunk than down 3-4 times at 1-2 hours each time.
