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Here's what a truly BAD launch looks like

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Here's what a truly BAD launch looks like

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MercArcher
12.13.2011 , 06:14 PM | #91
I think you misspelled this one OP.
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Munx
12.13.2011 , 06:14 PM | #92
Quote: Originally Posted by Kashaan View Post
Better than a 3 day queue.
3 day queue vs 3 hour queue, no brainer.

How ever I can't say Swtor is the worst launch ever.

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes has that honor...

Swtor is pretty far up there though..

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DSPD
12.13.2011 , 06:15 PM | #93
I tried to stick with it but your wall of text crit'd me before the 2nd paragraph. Sorry dude.

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Kabloosh
12.13.2011 , 06:15 PM | #94
Quote: Originally Posted by Gamjee View Post
No that sounds like a regular MMO launch. One where mostly everyone is in the same situation.
Everyone must suffer equally as much as me me me ME ME ME MEEEEE!

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Tsumedai
12.13.2011 , 06:15 PM | #95
Quote: Originally Posted by Klawm View Post
The things that suck are the fact that when you get in isn't reported, and that the time between people getting is so long. I preordered somewhere stupid like November, so I don't expect to get in any time soon. But what bugs me is that I don't know when I can get in.
Believe me, I'd love to know when I'll be getting in. But launching an MMO isn't like flipping a switch. It's a dynamic process; what happens tomorrow is dependent on what happened today. It's just not that predictable.

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rlhaas
12.13.2011 , 06:16 PM | #96
Quote: Originally Posted by Alyxa View Post
You're allowed to download the game client starting the day before launch. It takes you the better part of a day because everyone and their grandmother and their dog are all trying to get the game installed before launch.

You finally get the game installed and fired up. You log in. You're #785 in a queue. It takes 3 hours to get into the game.

You get into the game, but the server lag is freaking terrible. Like you can't even move. You get disconnected.

You have to log in again, but LUCKILY you don't have to wait in queue again. You get into the game, but then the server crashes.

2 hours later you get an update on the game launcher from an hour ago saying that they'll have an update in 30 minutes. Ho hum. Servers down. For forever. Wasted Pizza Hutt and Full Throttles. Never really know *** happened.

When the servers do finally come back up (the next morning), you get in and everything seems good. Except there are 20 people sitting on a quest giver, making him unclickable. And then you have to go fight over mob spawns against 20 other people. Then you get to the part of the quest where you kill "the big guy" and you're stuck waiting to get your quest kill of ONE MOB, while you're getting ganked, and that stupid warrior's charge tagged the mob before you could get off a moonfire.

You finally get your quest kill and you have to go digging through a stack of players AGAIN to turn in your quest.

And then you get a game announcement saying that they're doing a server rollback.

So an hour later after they finally get the servers back up when it should have taken 15 minutes, you have to deal with 20 people camping the same mob YOU ALREADY KILLED while you're getting ganked and that stupid warrior's charge tagged the mob before you could get off a moonfire, and then you have to go digging through a stack of players again AGAIN to turn in your quest AGAIN.

So...

Am I a little frustrated that other people are playing the game that I'm DYING to play? Yes.

Am I frustrated that BW apparently decided to call it a day early and stop sending out waves for 16 and a half hours? Yes.

Could they have done this some other, better, way? Probably.

But "the worst launch ever"? I'm sorry, but no. BW made it known from DAY ONE that not everyone was getting into the game on day one of early access. And if it means that I don't have to sit for four hours in a queue so the servers can crash before I have to fight 50 people for the same respawns so they can rollback the servers and I have to do it all over again, then... Okay.
But did you get to play? Okay then.

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Tsumedai
12.13.2011 , 06:16 PM | #97
Quote: Originally Posted by klaarzaken View Post
Pfff why do all females whine and whine and whine
Only when you're around.

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Munx
12.13.2011 , 06:16 PM | #98
Quote: Originally Posted by Kabloosh View Post
Everyone must suffer equally as much as me me me ME ME ME MEEEEE!
people call us impatient, yet apperntly everyone else is allergic to 3 hour queues? the hypocrism is strong in this community, yes it is.

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Gizban
12.13.2011 , 06:17 PM | #99
Quote: Originally Posted by Darkmack View Post
@OP

Trust me those writhing in pain over not getting into day 1 hardly have the attention span to read your post.

For what it's worth though I agree fully, too bad they can't see it this way.
What he said.

I particularly liked the 'writhing in pain' part.

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mufutiz
12.13.2011 , 06:17 PM | #100
what you write about is just a different kind of bad launch.

One where everybody is on equal footing, where most people are able to get at least their 2nd and 3rd picks of names, one where most people might not be able to play on launch day - but that is exactly the same it is now.

You can easily see this being EA's doing though. Just like the CE only vendor.

Bioware employees are mostly gamers themselves at heart so it is no surprise they thought staggered launch was a bad idea. EA has the final word though and they are not gamers at all. Just some suits.