Just replying as I keep seeing a few statements around through my casual browsing, that I think require some clarification.
1. Release is not being pushed back. The extra two day "grace period" is a common MMO practice, where pre-order customers are given some extra time for their physical copies of the game to arrive with their game codes, so that their service isn't interrupted. Your 30 Days will start Tuesday, as of writing.
2. Servers are being throttled, Actively (I.E. on purpose). SE is currently keeping the population low, with very controlled increases. Now your first reaction may be to be furious as to why they would possibly do this, but most likely this is because they are still developing a fix for the issues, in this case optimizing server clusters. They won't take down the servers until they truly need to, and so they'd rather keep the servers up and alive for now, rather then let them crash, and once the patch is ready to be deployed, they'll start the process of shutting things down and getting to work.Â
3. They are actually working on stuff. Now this is just my personal observation, and not so much concerning this forum but in general; just because this problem keeps coming up, and just because Square may be a bit bad at communicating their progress, Does not mean they are sitting around twiddling their thumbs. I understand your anger and your frustration, but let me assure you from a developer's point of view they are not having margaritas on the beach. Release is an extremely stressful period for an MMO team, doubly so for such an overly hyped (and in-my-opinion extremely fun) game. Despite all of this downtime and bull, this is still pretty much par for the course as far as launches. Please be patient, and don't take your anger out on them. There are a lot of technical details to work out with stuff like this, and as was probably mentioned before, things usually don't break until they're hammered by the massive pre-launch/launch crowds.Â
Just my two-cents. Cheers mates.
-Riken
PS. I purposefully did not talk about the server caps or the horrendous login service, so do not claim I'm ignoring these issues. Fact is it's not a problem to solve overnight, and they definitely could've handled it better.
1. Release is not being pushed back. The extra two day "grace period" is a common MMO practice, where pre-order customers are given some extra time for their physical copies of the game to arrive with their game codes, so that their service isn't interrupted. Your 30 Days will start Tuesday, as of writing.
2. Servers are being throttled, Actively (I.E. on purpose). SE is currently keeping the population low, with very controlled increases. Now your first reaction may be to be furious as to why they would possibly do this, but most likely this is because they are still developing a fix for the issues, in this case optimizing server clusters. They won't take down the servers until they truly need to, and so they'd rather keep the servers up and alive for now, rather then let them crash, and once the patch is ready to be deployed, they'll start the process of shutting things down and getting to work.Â
3. They are actually working on stuff. Now this is just my personal observation, and not so much concerning this forum but in general; just because this problem keeps coming up, and just because Square may be a bit bad at communicating their progress, Does not mean they are sitting around twiddling their thumbs. I understand your anger and your frustration, but let me assure you from a developer's point of view they are not having margaritas on the beach. Release is an extremely stressful period for an MMO team, doubly so for such an overly hyped (and in-my-opinion extremely fun) game. Despite all of this downtime and bull, this is still pretty much par for the course as far as launches. Please be patient, and don't take your anger out on them. There are a lot of technical details to work out with stuff like this, and as was probably mentioned before, things usually don't break until they're hammered by the massive pre-launch/launch crowds.Â
Just my two-cents. Cheers mates.
-Riken
PS. I purposefully did not talk about the server caps or the horrendous login service, so do not claim I'm ignoring these issues. Fact is it's not a problem to solve overnight, and they definitely could've handled it better.
Riken Avadur
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