darthbored Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 How much money did they spend to make this game again? Are we running the servers on 1990 hardware? Shouldnt they be able to support loads more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain_b Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 How much money did they spend to make this game again? Are we running the servers on 1990 hardware? Shouldnt they be able to support loads more? I love it when people have no clue about network architectures or infrastructures run their mouth about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noobinator Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The point is not to cram as many people on day 1 as possible. And no, it's not just about server stability, but also making sure there are no huge game issues either. Plus, whether you believe it or not, a huge amount of people were invited today. As SR points out, more than many other MMOs on their launch day. Just be patient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthbored Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 You dont have to be an expert to realize what you can buy with a lot of money. I think any consumer, especially americans know what money can buy. Just sayin. With the low amount of population they let in, they must not have any confidence whatsoever in their hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zones Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The point is not to cram as many people on day 1 as possible. And no, it's not just about server stability, but also making sure there are no huge game issues either. Plus, whether you believe it or not, a huge amount of people were invited today. As SR points out, more than many other MMOs on their launch day. Just be patient. If this was true, then they would have let in a million people. Instead they didn't even make it past the first week. I can think of many other mmo's that launched at around 500-700k even an upwards of a million for a handful. I find this statement hard to believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarbeard Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 How much money did they spend to make this game again? Are we running the servers on 1990 hardware? Shouldnt they be able to support loads more? rockjaw's twitter said the new shipment of network hardware hasn't come in from newegg yet and unfortunately no one remembers getting the UPS tracking number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCheeseChuckles Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 You dont have to be an expert to realize what you can buy with a lot of money. I think any consumer, especially americans know what money can buy. Just sayin. With the low amount of population they let in, they must not have any confidence whatsoever in their hardware. Umm... There's is no good way to put this but eh... WEREN'T YOU LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE ABOVE ME? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noobinator Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I find this statement hard to believe. Meh, go read the Dev Tracker. Obviously I don't think that he's comparing today to big recent launches like Rift; of course 1 million people were not let in today. But it was a massive amount - you can tell that already from the server populations of the open servers. There will be new servers opening up every day. I'm not sure why people are so upset. Even if you're worried about securing names, guild names, or whatever, you probably can on newly opened servers each day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorbrand Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Why is everyone defending this launch? The OP is right! There is not reason they can only launch with such a small number of people across so many servers. This is a joke but they only care about the money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCheeseChuckles Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 If this was true, then they would have let in a million people. Instead they didn't even make it past the first week. I can think of many other mmo's that launched at around 500-700k even an upwards of a million for a handful. I find this statement hard to believe. You know that there is more players alone playing SWTOr now then it was on RIFT's launch day... And also the 21st - 23rd July when pre-order was first available the actual pre-orders almost went up in a 90 degree and after those days it slowly decended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnopsnosn Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Why is everyone defending this launch? The OP is right! There is not reason they can only launch with such a small number of people across so many servers. This is a joke but they only care about the money! Do you have any numbers to back this up? No? You only see the small server-population, but you have no clue how many invitations were sent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diskoran Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 You know that there is more players alone playing SWTOr now then it was on RIFT's launch day... And also the 21st - 23rd July when pre-order was first available the actual pre-orders almost went up in a 90 degree and after those days it slowly decended i call ******** on this remark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agomemnon Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 You know that there is more players alone playing SWTOr now then it was on RIFT's launch day... And also the 21st - 23rd July when pre-order was first available the actual pre-orders almost went up in a 90 degree and after those days it slowly decended In your dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanlan Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Do you have any numbers to back this up? No? You only see the small server-population, but you have no clue how many invitations were sent. small? You know you can see the server status right? http://www.swtor.com/server-status Look at how many are already full and high population. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCheeseChuckles Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 i call ******** on this remark. Then be my guest and call that on it... I have no reason to justify myself to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnopsnosn Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 small? You know you can see the server status right? http://www.swtor.com/server-status Look at how many are already full and high population. I said small because everybody is complaining about not enough people being on their servers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalidaa Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 small? You know you can see the server status right? http://www.swtor.com/server-status Look at how many are already full and high population. European Servers No Servers Available Euro server seems kinda full ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayletta Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 According to MMOdata... Rift maxed out at 600k subs. SWTOR has 940,000+ physical pre-orders plus all the digital ones (as far as I know those numbers havent been released). They could have easily reached 2.5-3 million preorders. That's a lot of people to cram onto servers in one day. Have some patience. This isn't about money, it's about creating a quality game play experience. I remember Wow on release day as well as several other MMOs who failed to provide a decent experience at launch. We don't really need to repeat those failures. If they crammed the servers full and they went down (anyone remember the first two weeks of Wow? Nope, cause the servers crashed every 15 minutes) then you would be on here crying about the crashes. They are trying to do this right. Stop moaning about not getting in on day one - I didn't either. If you were so dead set on being first, maybe you should've pre-ordered on 21July with the other hundred thousands of people who did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnopsnosn Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 According to MMOdata... Rift maxed out at 600k subs. SWTOR has 940,000+ physical pre-orders plus all the digital ones (as far as I know those numbers havent been released). They could have easily reached 2.5-3 million preorders. That's a lot of people to cram onto servers in one day. Have some patience. This isn't about money, it's about creating a quality game play experience. I remember Wow on release day as well as several other MMOs who failed to provide a decent experience at launch. We don't really need to repeat those failures. If they crammed the servers full and they went down (anyone remember the first two weeks of Wow? Nope, cause the servers crashed every 15 minutes) then you would be on here crying about the crashes. They are trying to do this right. Stop moaning about not getting in on day one - I didn't either. If you were so dead set on being first, maybe you should've pre-ordered on 21July with the other hundred thousands of people who did. Those numbers only included NA-retailers... No numbers on Europe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceblack Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 rockjaw's twitter said the new shipment of network hardware hasn't come in from newegg yet and unfortunately no one remembers getting the UPS tracking number. has to be the funniest thing i've seen on here today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meluna Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Greetings, everyone. We already have a discussion thread dedicated to talking about invite waves. If you'd like to share your thoughts, you'll find the discussion thread here: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=6488 We're going to close this thread and ask that this discussion continue in the existing thread, so we can keep the conversation a little better consolidated. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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