Impressive launch, so far...Follow

My guess is the RMT are still mostly milling about the starter areas. Those are typically the people who would buy gil, new and broke. Overall though, definitely a strong launch. Had a few issues logging on to Balmung last night (well the data center itself), but once I got by that, the queue actually worked. Once you're in game, it seems to be pretty solid in terms of connection and not seeing too many people randomly get dc'd.

Most comical so far has definitely been the "Where's the DRK quest?" "Where's House Fortemps?!" and the sheer size of the maps, and people already complaining they're too big after everyone was complaining 2.0 maps were way too small.

Outside of the first half hour of launch, I haven't seen either of those at all.

That being said I didn't log off at all yesterday, so it might've been a thing after that point too.

When I consider what a typical MMO expansion launch looks like, this one has been fantastic.

Haven't been able to get into the aether datacenter for several hours.

*Stares at Thayos and casually impales him to a Ishgardian statue*


Ok, more seriously, for all the log-in errors on Balmung, the stability is actually much better than it was on Launch. Got to give them kudos thus far.

There are other such praises I wish to give, but not on this thread, and I want to give more time for people to get through content and digest it. Sides, I'm typically a fan, so It would be nice to see a praise thread started that isn't done by a fanboy.

I've been lucky with the Data center switch trick. Has worked just about every time now, and end up with a queue. Queue does work, but it doesn't count down properly, you'll stay at whatever number you started at until it just logs you in.

And there are more of them on Balmung than any other server, so I definitely want to avoid that!

That's why I avoid crowded places.

Idk, there's some pretty big oversights here and there though that could have easily been fixed.

For one, the conversion of tomes still lists Mythology to Soldiery, while using the values of Soldiery and Poetics. So idk, i dont wanna try out what it does. Probably just a text thing, but still.

There's others. Stuff people could have and should have noticed and/or checked before going live with it.

But yeah, it's pretty smooth outside of it.

Well, IMO, the "Early Access" is basically the same thing as a Public Beta.

With Betas, you need new characters, or character copies so that any big bugs or anything that slipped through don't mess anything up, otherwise you get a huge unfair lead on everybody else, etc, etc, etc.

But, by doing Early Access, they can do a sort of "Public Beta" to catch the itty-bitty little bugs that don't mean much, and they can stress-test any new hardware required for the expansion, areas, etc.

No wasted time, no temporary character copies, or any of that jazz necessary and it isn't unfair, as anybody could pre-order and get in, IIRC?

The problem with both this style of testing as well as their open beta test prior to ARR's launch was that they left themselves literally no window of time to correct any issues. The only real information they glean from tests like this is how the servers will react under stress. Still mostly pointless when you remember that they don't have time to make any adjustments even if they found issues.

Early access is just a way to make money. It's a play on people being compulsive and not wanting to start out behind the rest of the crowd. If they really cared about testing they'd have continuous test servers already setup and it would take place at least a few months prior to launch of major patches. 'Early access' would sort itself out because with the necessary testing, expansions and updates would be ready to launch sooner than they would be without testing.

Still not sure why Yoshi and co don't have this in place already, but if I had to guess I'd say expenses. For a company who stakes their fate on the success of a single product, they don't seem to want to invest what has become standard to other companies to ensure higher quality releases.

In this case Early Access is also a way to spread out the population.

Think about it. If there'd been no Early Access period, EVERYONE would be all over western highlands and sea of clouds on day 1. It'd be a zoo.

It's not intended as a beta. Like you said, they don't have time to fix anything if something's wrong. Their intention is that they found all the problems with internal testing. The issue with that of course is the difference between 50 people testing stuff and 500,000 people. It's not similar.

I have not seen any issues but I always end up in a que but it is small.
But honestly on our server I thought I would see allot more people and I have not. I thought my friends list would come alive and it didn't other than maybe 2 people.still about 75 percent of my friends list is not playing.

What is funny is SAT morning I did one of the new dungeons with a dark night fully geared and leveled too 53.. how is that even possible. Was a great run though with no deaths. I figured anyone that leveled that fast had to not learn his skills but he did really well...

But the dungeon still feels the same as the old ones...

I wont be able to do any main story now because Tes is out of town visiting her family and we do the main story together.


Edited, Jun 22nd 2015 11:20am by Nashred