Morkatog Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 These waves of invites have got to be one of the worst marketing stunts I've ever seen in a major MMORPG's launch. There were more servers up during the beta then there are now. Did 3/4 of them melt down? I can't imagine that a launch such as this was what the developers had wanted for their player base. Do they have to run new cables all of a sudden to install new servers to cope with a potential amount of players which could already have been calculated based on the amount of pre-order sales? Also, the disposition towards owners of the Collector Editions is cheap at best. The amount of CE's available one could pre-order online (and thus have the key sent home) in Europe was definately not sufficient to meet the demand. This left people searching for potentially quite a long time. I've looked in two countries myself (admited I was there on a holiday, but still..). Eventually it took me until early september to actually find a collector's edition, even though I've looked around since the day they were for sale. In my opinion people who wanted to spend less effort or money on the version they got (or eventually settled for less) shouldn't lead to all of them should be rewarded over those who actually invest more time and money on getting the best edition available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasherUK Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Yea because letting a few million people log in at once would definately not crash the servers. Like it has done in just about every other big MMO launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Untalented Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I'm just really pissed because I ordered the day of, but didn't enter my code until September, and didn't get an invite today and all my friends did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousz Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 'Launch' is on Dec 20th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lionhearth Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Yea because letting a few million people log in at once would definately not crash the servers. Like it has done in just about every other big MMO launch. Hate to break it to you, but what does SWTOR have planned for next tuesdays maintenance? You'll have a few million people logging in at once then. WoW has 11 million players. How do they let millions of people in at once every tuesday morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zqube Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Yea because letting a few million people log in at once would definately not crash the servers. Like it has done in just about every other big MMO launch. Not to sound like whining, but Rift had no problems at launch and that was a pretty big launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStoner Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 'Launch' is on Dec 20th. You might want to look up launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zootzoot Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I don't get these threads. Anyone following this game for a while knew about the early access and when the game was available for pre-order. All the info was plastered on this site for everyone to see. If people had pre-ordered the first day you would be in right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morkatog Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) Currently there are give or take 50 EU servers up for whatever region you're at. A fair estimate, based on the amount of pre-launch guilds, beta experience, etc. is a capacity of +- 5 - 7.5k players per server. I fail to see how a maximum capacity of 350k (less at launch time) of which only a fraction has been invited actually compares to 'millions', especially considering a server stress test has been done at the beta three weeks ago. edit: zootzoot, you do realize they've changed the facts considering the amount of early-access days in advance you can start, right? they were by no means streamlined when it was first anounced, and thus when people starting hunting for their editions. Edited December 13, 2011 by Morkatog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitterbai Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) WoW has 11 million players. Nope. Edited December 13, 2011 by Pitterbai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metsuro Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 'Launch' is on Dec 20th. Launch is when the general public gets access to the servers. IE. Today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themacr Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I have yet to see the 1st "omg the lag is unplayable" post on this forums... So they ARE doing a good job so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktunes Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Not to sound like whining, but Rift had no problems at launch and that was a pretty big launch. I am a Rift player and they had tons of problems their first 5 days with the constant servers going down to patch something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themacr Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Launch is when the general public gets access to the servers. IE. Today. we are not the general public. Go to a store, buy the game, create an acocunt and login. If that works for you. then we have launched Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chomag Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Not to sound like whining, but Rift had no problems at launch and that was a pretty big launch. Rift was far from 2 mil players at launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_Rieser Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Next week's maintenance won't be so bad. What Bioware is trying to avoid is a traffic jam in the origin worlds. By next week most of us will have moved on to later words spreading out the load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morkatog Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 If the small amount of players that got in now compared to the amount that will be playing in 2 weeks time would be causing lag, I would be very worried.. so I wouldn't speak of a 'good job' in that regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazikeen Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I'm just really pissed because I ordered the day of, but didn't enter my code until September, and didn't get an invite today and all my friends did. Your own fault man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgeredMushroom Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 we are not the general public. Go to a store, buy the game, create an acocunt and login. If that works for you. then we have launched Anyone can still "pre-order" the game and get in, so yes, we are the general public. You are not special. You are falling for marketing speak. This is launch day. Saying otherwise is intellectually dishonest and will not win you brownie points with BioWare or EA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OBLCDiomedes Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Hate to break it to you, but what does SWTOR have planned for next tuesdays maintenance? You'll have a few million people logging in at once then. WoW has 11 million players. How do they let millions of people in at once every tuesday morning? ... Blizzard has a direct link to AT&T's backbone. They have high performance monster like blade servers. They gross at least 3 billion a year. Big difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lopp Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Launch is when the general public gets access to the servers. IE. Today. Negative...The game is 'live' it will 'launch' on the 20th..this is early access for those of us who payed for the game early...hence 'early access'...and if you/me had payed for a CE, we would prob be in right now...he who pays da most, plays da most.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todaz Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) There number are already at over 3 million, Wow took years to get 10 million. They can't let everyone in all at once. Server won't be able to handle the huge number like DC online. Only thing that could of been better. Is sending out a email telling US when our early access day is. Instead of making us wait. Edited December 13, 2011 by Todaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasherUK Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Hate to break it to you, but what does SWTOR have planned for next tuesdays maintenance? You'll have a few million people logging in at once then. WoW has 11 million players. How do they let millions of people in at once every tuesday morning? Wow does not have 11 million players, they lost a few million this year. Also most of those were always in Asia, not US/EU. Then there is the fact that wow servers go down over-night when not many are playing. If they go down in the day then they often do have login problems when people try to get back in. Also don't you remember what happened at cataclysm launch? They told everyone to relog to access the new content, then the login servers went down for hours and the queues were 2-3 hours long for a couple of weeks after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sainnt Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 These waves of invites have got to be one of the worst marketing stunts I've ever seen in a major MMORPG's launch. There were more servers up during the beta then there are now. Did 3/4 of them melt down? I can't imagine that a launch such as this was what the developers had wanted for their player base. Do they have to run new cables all of a sudden to install new servers to cope with a potential amount of players which could already have been calculated based on the amount of pre-order sales? Also, the disposition towards owners of the Collector Editions is cheap at best. The amount of CE's available one could pre-order online (and thus have the key sent home) in Europe was definately not sufficient to meet the demand. This left people searching for potentially quite a long time. I've looked in two countries myself (admited I was there on a holiday, but still..). Eventually it took me until early september to actually find a collector's edition, even though I've looked around since the day they were for sale. In my opinion people who wanted to spend less effort or money on the version they got (or eventually settled for less) shouldn't lead to all of them should be rewarded over those who actually invest more time and money on getting the best edition available. you are well spoken, but it seems you have no idea whats going on and why things are the way they are so ill let you keep speculating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beranzen Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Launch is when the general public gets access to the servers. IE. Today. No. It isn't. Launch is when the game is available for purchase at retail outlets. This is not the 20th, so this is NOT the launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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