ironblades Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 agreed. it's not about impatience for me, it's the manner in which it's been done. I'm very happy they decided to be nice and let people in 2 days earlier, but the manner in which it's being done it quite cruel. 5 waves yesterday (the 5th "bonus" an attempt to keep a revolt from occurring) only stopping at around 2:30 or so CST (3:30 EST).... what kind of work ethic is that? I'm just completely shocked by it all and had assumed they worked 9-5 jobs at least, and that in this business, they'd be having a 24/7 staff for their "Big Launch".... I don't know who's running the show there, but yesterday must've taught them something if they're letting in "bigger" waves (then again, hard to corroborate that without statistical evidence). Alas, we all play the waiting game (except those who would troll for the purpose of seeing people cry). Honestly BW, you should temp ban people who come on here bragging about getting in and being already lvl 19, or what have you, for that will lead to some serious problems within the community forums (and they're definitely violating your guidelines for the forums). Start Moderating. QFT, it's the lack of info thats the killer here, makes people sad in the pants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harayuki Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) Well, in my opinion I'd love to get into SWTOR as soon as possible, though I don't mind at all waiting. I'll have it regardless by Monday and next week I'll have about four to five days off of work to be able to sit and play lol Edited December 14, 2011 by Harayuki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyaka Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Does no one get why the launch is staggered? It's to move people out of the starter areas, among other reasons. That's the goal. People need time to level and move on so that others can come in. It's not a mystery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMeister Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Yeah, sticking to the plan, rather than taking a massive risk and risking server failure, is such a bad idea. I mean, the people that can play most certainly wouldn't be upset that the servers crashed due to that. If you played at all during the Beta tests, they were stress testing it plenty.... they should know by now the acceptable algorithms.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobitor Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Completely agree OP. Disgusting Bioware, absolutely disgusting. lol Dec 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stejo Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 Fact: The majority of the preorders have not been given access yetFact: The forum is choke full of complaints about the speed of giving accessFact: A good portion of the players who preordered are pissed offFact: No roadplan announced on when are the last ones expected to get inJoke: The EGA is progressing smoothly A launch fails when the players can't play the game. Doesn't matter if they can't play because there's not enough servers, the servers crashed or they're not opening them up. All that matters is the bottom line. Failing because of unforeseen circumstances is one thing. Here we're talking about premeditated failure, that's a whole new level of fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harayuki Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Does no one get why the launch is staggered? It's to move people out of the starter areas, among other reasons. That's the goal. People need time to level and move on so that others can come in. It's not a mystery. Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eNcFireWraith Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I think their wallets are feeling pretty damn good about the whole experience honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KommissarK Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 If you played at all during the Beta tests, they were stress testing it plenty.... they should know by now the acceptable algorithms.... Yes, and their goal is a smooth, seamless launch. They're making conservative estimates, and things are working well (in game). The point is, no reason to change the plan. That puts things off balance. And being off balance is when you fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetalink Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 You would rather 30k players trying to kill the same whomp rat in the starting area ? yes i would......i wouldnt have done a stagger i would have done what trion did.....because honestly ill be happy just to reserve my names and log out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zardord Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Seeing your forums like that? 2nd day of your early launch and not a single thread talking about the actual game? Just countless pissed off players making thousands upon thousands of posts complaining about your EGA system? Somewhere in the back of your head the notion that it might have been a bad idea all along started to form yet or are you THAT thick? So the millions of us who are NOT complaining count less in your book then your tally, is that how it works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonySith Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Fact: The majority of the preorders have not been given access yet Fact: The forum is choke full of complaints about the speed of giving access Fact: A good portion of the players who preordered are pissed off Fact: No roadplan announced on when are the last ones expected to get in Joke: The EGA is progressing smoothly A launch fails when the players can't play the game. Doesn't matter if they can't play because there's not enough servers, the servers crashed or they're not opening them up. All that matters is the bottom line. Failing because of unforeseen circumstances is one thing. Here we're talking about premeditated failure, that's a whole new level of fail. /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damolawler Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 They did completely and totally overestimate the maturity level of the player base. Judging by the rude smart-arse replies to the OP. This is definately the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bearbc Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 "A launch fails when the players can't play the game. Doesn't matter if they can't play because there's not enough servers, the servers crashed or they're not opening them up. All that matters is the bottom line." A lil info might help here this is early access not the launch, launch is the 20th. Please tell us exactly how many of us are pissed about this and just how few are actually getting in game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taffelost Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 haha exactly.....I just got my email for the first wave today but I am at WORK earning a LIVING. Passing the time trolling the forums a bit and laughing at all the whiners. Is this dude for real? He's at work earning a LIVING, surfing the interwebs and trolling the forums instead of doing whatever his employer is paying him for. Oh the humanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonySith Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Is this dude for real? He's at work earning a LIVING, surfing the interwebs and trolling the forums instead of doing whatever his employer is paying him for. Oh the humanity with smartphones these days that is almost anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTotoro Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Fact: The majority of the preorders have not been given access yet Fact: The forum is choke full of complaints about the speed of giving access Fact: A good portion of the players who preordered are pissed off Fact: No roadplan announced on when are the last ones expected to get in Joke: The EGA is progressing smoothly 1. True 2. True 3. Really? You have actual hard numbers about this and not just vocal forum members (propably a minority at that)? I know that i'm not pissed off as everything is going the way they said it would. 4. I think the last ones were to get in 19:th of december. With the 2 day headstart it might have been moved. 5. Has there been problems with the actual EGA? All i see is forum rage but it seems the EGA itself is going smoothly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stejo Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 "A launch fails when the players can't play the game. Doesn't matter if they can't play because there's not enough servers, the servers crashed or they're not opening them up. All that matters is the bottom line." A lil info might help here this is early access not the launch, launch is the 20th. Please tell us exactly how many of us are pissed about this and just how few are actually getting in game? Sure thing. Going by the known numbers, yesterday about 10% of the preorders got in. So 90% weren't in as of an hour ago. Those 90% are about 2 million ppl give or take? If 25% are unhappy while the other 75% is completely happy and on valium, you got about half a million pissed off players. Acceptable loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonySith Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 1. True 2. True 3. Really? You have actual hard numbers about this and not just vocal forum members (propably a minority at that)? I know that i'm not pissed off as everything is going the way they said it would. 4. I think the last ones were to get in 19:th of december. With the 2 day headstart it might have been moved. 5. Has there been problems with the actual EGA? All i see is forum rage but it seems the EGA itself is going smoothly. not going smoothly for me. I am still level 0 and angry at Bioware. When I do finally get in i expect it to continue the smoothness past launch or else this whole EGA was a failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShotByBothSides Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 It's not even to the actual head-start date yet and you people are whining like 12-year old girls. Pull up your man panties and go outside, talk to a girl, eat a pretzel, it's just a video game.e. My 12 year daughter is incapable of whining as well as these so called young men. 12 year old girls have now been made redundant when it comes to prize whining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damolawler Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I think most players are well aware that not everyone was going to get early access right away. I pre-ordered in October. I don't expect to get in before Friday, anything earlier will be a bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReij Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Seeing your forums like that? 2nd day of your early launch and not a single thread talking about the actual game? Just countless pissed off players making thousands upon thousands of posts complaining about your EGA system? Somewhere in the back of your head the notion that it might have been a bad idea all along started to form yet or are you THAT thick? I'm pretty sure they're too busy stacking their gold bars to worry about your silly argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arturo_bandini Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Seeing your forums like that? 2nd day of your early launch and not a single thread talking about the actual game? Just countless pissed off players making thousands upon thousands of posts complaining about your EGA system? Somewhere in the back of your head the notion that it might have been a bad idea all along started to form yet or are you THAT thick? I'm sure they now think that it was a horrible idea to launch the forums before everybody had been granted access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackrJakz Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 It's not even to the actual head-start date yet and you people are whining like 12-year old girls. Pull up your man panties and go outside, talk to a girl, eat a pretzel, it's just a video game.e. Lol... eat a pretzel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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