(08-25-2013, 01:30 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote: I can't even get to the point where it can tell me the world is full. Every time I login it tells me it can't locate the servers or some nonsense.

"Unable to update the Group NA/EU character list."

(08-25-2013, 01:33 PM)Aleister Wrote: Man.. They are pushing my last nerve here.. I bet a lot of us feel like that heh.

(08-25-2013, 01:33 PM)jheld Wrote: 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.  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.  

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.  Bringing down a server once is fine, bringing it down repeatedly for the same issue becomes problematic.  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.  Companies such as IGN, Gamespot, and others are playing right now as well and these problems will be reflected in their reviews.  

Even the legendary issues of Diablo 3 were corrected after a few hours of maintenance.  I would rather FFXIV be down for one large, six hour chunk than down 3-4 times at 1-2 hours each time.

(08-25-2013, 01:35 PM)C Wrote:

This made me laugh, .