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hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

1001 Arabian dicks posted:

good test run guys, real deal starts tomorrow, same time

So you're saying its not too late for you people to, you know, not play archage...

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Finndo
Dec 27, 2005

Title Text goes here.
Please, please find us another game to play.

1001 Arabian dicks
Sep 16, 2013

EVE ONLINE IS MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY BECAUSE IM A FRIENDLESS SEMILITERATE LOSER WHO WILL PEDANTICALLY DEMAND PROOF FOR BASIC THINGS LIKE GRAVITY OR THE EXISTENCE OF SELF. ASK ME ABOUT CHEATING AT TARKOV BECAUSE, WELL, SEE ABOVE

Finndo posted:

Please, please find us another game to play.

albion online, black desert online, elder scrolls online, pretty much any game with an 'online' at the end of it

Carmant
Nov 23, 2015


Treadmill? What's that? Is that some kind of cake?


Abroham Lincoln posted:

you went home on the release of 3.0 as the community manager because you are sick?! I'm popping steroids from the doctor so i can be here for the land grab. Nut up, quite literally and get back in the office, if i can sit here sick popping roids and antibiotics you can sit at a computer in the office. Unreal!!!

Sounds like you might have a problem

hey welcome to the show!
Jan 22, 2014

nobody loves me
Lol I never thought I would have the chance to witness another archeage meltdown in my lifetime!

:allears: merry Christmas you guys!

A Spider Covets
May 4, 2009


hey welcome to the show! posted:

Lol I never thought I would have the chance to witness another archeage meltdown in my lifetime!

:allears: merry Christmas you guys!

The forums have been amazing lol

merry Christmas to you too! While I was watching the poo poo show I played some Rimworld and my favorite colonist ate all the others. What a pleasant game for the season

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat
Acheage, the gift that keeps on giving. This truly is a Christmas miracle.

Shout out to you poor mentally ill bastards braving the bombed out ruins of this terrible game and community. Like the 3 reporters left in Kabul, long after funding ran dry and ratings fell off.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

A Spider Covets posted:

The forums have been amazing lol

merry Christmas to you too! While I was watching the poo poo show I played some Rimworld and my favorite colonist ate all the others. What a pleasant game for the season

I'm playing right now in an extreme desert. I think I found enough soil that we're done putting raiders into the freezer then the nutrient paste dispenser but even when the colonists are done with them I started with a warg and, well, gotta eat ya know? Why use up the scarce not-people meat I get on a pet?


...I'm still taking a kidney and lung from every one of them and I treasure my human leather comfy chair.

fake edit: Oh yeah, Archeage thread. Umm, Archeage is terrible and you're terrible people for playing it that's my story bye.

Meskhenet
Apr 26, 2010

Good to see aa has never had a successful launch day. One thing about trion, they really are consistent with their incompetence.

surfacelevelspeck
Oct 1, 2008

communism's sleepiest soldier

Alexander DeLarge posted:

If you're into ArcheAge, you should like Dark & Light assuming Snail doesn't gently caress up with the business model (they say buy2play with purchasable expansion packs like ESO). Supposedly coming before end of the year.

lol if you think anything Snail makes isn't going to be an obtuse buggy piece of poo poo with ungodly amounts of pay2win.

Age of Wushu had people literally spending thousands of dollars to use a single I Win ability.

EDIT: though if it ends up not being a giant piece of poo poo cash grab and has a combat system similar to AoW I'll give it a try, why the gently caress not

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Meskhenet posted:

Good to see aa has never had a successful launch day. One thing about trion, they really are consistent with their incompetence.

Anyone who still plays AA deserves everything they get from all of Trion's fuckups. They should have bailed long ago.

That people still play is a testament to sunk cost fallacy.

Abroham Lincoln
Sep 19, 2011

Note to self: This one's the good one



Carmant posted:

Sounds like you might have a problem

For Compensation, I request everyone that currently works on AA within Trion Worlds to be fired, I do not require a refund or anything else, simply the firing of every incompetent person that is currently working there. These 7 hours would no longer be wasted, because at least we accomplished something through this painful process.

Finndo
Dec 27, 2005

Title Text goes here.
In the midst of the meltdown last night, one brave Trino staffer had the courage to stand fast against the peasants with pitchforks:

Quote Originally Posted by TrionBrasse View Post
We are enacting moderation for those who violate forum rules, including suspensions for those who step way over the line, and a very few bans for egregious attacks on staff. Constructive criticism and discussion, on the other hand, is welcome. Brasse

http://forums.archeagegame.com/show...T-NA-Validation

All seems calm for now, thanks to a company of stalwart white knights, who charged into the fray and largely disbursed the rioters.

Evil_Greven
Feb 20, 2007

Whadda I got to,
whadda I got to do
to wake ya up?

To shake ya up,
to break the structure up!?

quote:

A message from our CEO, Scott Hartsman, on AA North America's update

From our CEO, Scott Hartsman:

Hi there -

I understand the frustration, believe me. After six months of prep work and testing in every place we could, no one including our Archeage teams had expected to need to pull a 30 hour shift to try to get ArcheAge North America Live up and running.

I can promise you that it's not a matter of competence, if anything, quite the opposite. While it might be hard to believe, it's their competence that'll get it up and running.

ArcheAge North America is the largest ArcheAge install globally in the amount of data it needs to deal with. Larger than any of the non-Trion installs by a massive amount, larger than Archeage EU by quite a lot. The software as delivered to us was able to handle the volume of data the other regions, it handled the test data on PTS, and handled EU with a last minute scalability assist from our engineers.

Since then, our engineers have spent the last day and a half working tirelessly with XLGAME's to improve it even further such that it can properly deal with the amount of data in the NA live service in a way that gets you your game up and stable the way it needs to be.

As a regional publisher, this is way outside of what we should typically be doing. But as a developer of other games ourselves, it's always all hands on deck, whatever we can do to make things work and get people in and playing, for our partners' games too.

Our teams are as frustrated as you are here - especially those that worked so hard, fixing all of the learnings from the last releases, to make things go smoothly - And they're not stopping until it's up and running. Really appreciate the patience.

-Scott

I'm sure this reassures the community, haha.

hey welcome to the show!
Jan 22, 2014

nobody loves me
"Don't worry guys, we're just as disappointed in ourselves as you are in us!"

- Scott Heartsman

1001 Arabian dicks
Sep 16, 2013

EVE ONLINE IS MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY BECAUSE IM A FRIENDLESS SEMILITERATE LOSER WHO WILL PEDANTICALLY DEMAND PROOF FOR BASIC THINGS LIKE GRAVITY OR THE EXISTENCE OF SELF. ASK ME ABOUT CHEATING AT TARKOV BECAUSE, WELL, SEE ABOVE
I just wanted to play fresh 3.0 but instead I got 6 hours of fun.

Sinvex
Feb 16, 2013
Which Faction for the fresh server? (Reckoning)

CompeAnansi
Feb 1, 2011

I respectfully decline
the invitation to join
your hallucination

Sinvex posted:

Which Faction for the fresh server? (Reckoning)

I'm doing east, but I'm not sure there is a consensus yet. Also, it's not clear that the server will ever be brought online... They are due to miss their most pessimistic estimate in ~15mins.

Sinvex
Feb 16, 2013
Thought the Goons were rolling out in force together on one or the other. By the way hows going Pirate work? KoS in all cities or are there pirate cities?

Sinvex fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Dec 11, 2016

A Spider Covets
May 4, 2009


Sinvex posted:

Thought the Goons were rolling out in force together on one or the other. By the way hows going Pirate work? KoS in all cities or are there pirate cities?

I don't think so, I think just a couple of us are playing and mostly just for kicks/nostalgia. I'm going to go east, Eonwe said he is going west.

Carmant
Nov 23, 2015


Treadmill? What's that? Is that some kind of cake?


Theres two fresh start servers now and everyone is pissed

Wonder Turbine
Sep 22, 2011



Carmant posted:

Theres two fresh start servers now and everyone is pissed

No redemption, only pain

hey welcome to the show!
Jan 22, 2014

nobody loves me
I'm going east as well. Also lol at more servers.

A Spider Covets
May 4, 2009


Carmant posted:

Theres two fresh start servers now and everyone is pissed

Have you ever been so mad that you started posting gay porn in a fit of rage

Because that'd what was happening earlier on the official forums lmao

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
on launch I dragged my buddy onto Aranzeb to play with goons instead of playing with his friends and then our guild imploded

its only karma that he drag me back into this stupid piece of poo poo game with the people he wants to play with

hey welcome to the show!
Jan 22, 2014

nobody loves me
This truly is the game we all deserve.

Eltoasto
Aug 26, 2002

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.



hey welcome to the show! posted:

This truly is the game we all deserve.

Indeed, queue time :toot:

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
i got stuck in a 2000 person queue and halcyona land all was gone, sorry buddy, i'm not sitting through dumb bullshit. this is as terrible as I imagined it would be

Carmant
Nov 23, 2015


Treadmill? What's that? Is that some kind of cake?


I got to level 5

CompeAnansi
Feb 1, 2011

I respectfully decline
the invitation to join
your hallucination

eonwe posted:

i got stuck in a 2000 person queue and halcyona land all was gone, sorry buddy, i'm not sitting through dumb bullshit. this is as terrible as I imagined it would be

After wasting the whole day, they managed to unfuck the servers as I was making dinner. I'm not going to wait through a 3000 person queue. Better luck next time Trion.

1001 Arabian dicks
Sep 16, 2013

EVE ONLINE IS MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY BECAUSE IM A FRIENDLESS SEMILITERATE LOSER WHO WILL PEDANTICALLY DEMAND PROOF FOR BASIC THINGS LIKE GRAVITY OR THE EXISTENCE OF SELF. ASK ME ABOUT CHEATING AT TARKOV BECAUSE, WELL, SEE ABOVE
bad news: sat at my pc for 32 hours waiting for launch

good news: i studied for finals the entire time so i'm probably gonna 4.0 everything

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
i just played battlefield all weekend until someone pinged me the servers were up

then I got in almost immediately to a 200 person queue, it booted me out, and I got into a 2000 person queue

i wait 10 minutes and dropped like 100 people and I closed the game

its the same trion experience I always remembered

Drakkus
May 14, 2002

yum~
so I logged in when the servers came up, rolled a character, then bought Patron. Then I logged out so the patron bonuses would apply, went to log back in, and got a 2000 person queue. I'm still waiting to get in.

this is just like I remembered

:buddy:

1001 Arabian dicks
Sep 16, 2013

EVE ONLINE IS MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY BECAUSE IM A FRIENDLESS SEMILITERATE LOSER WHO WILL PEDANTICALLY DEMAND PROOF FOR BASIC THINGS LIKE GRAVITY OR THE EXISTENCE OF SELF. ASK ME ABOUT CHEATING AT TARKOV BECAUSE, WELL, SEE ABOVE

Drakkus posted:

bought Patron

found the problem

PCOS Bill
May 12, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
I'm still playing Aranzeb, everything is great

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

1001 Arabian dicks posted:

I just wanted to play fresh 3.0 but instead I got 6 hours of fun.

tbf thats 6 hours more fun than you would have gotten if the servers worked

Usenet Magic-User
Jun 13, 2010
I didn't even know fresh start was a thing and glad of it. Had I known I would have wasted a day trying to play this game.

Fauxtool
Oct 21, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
you retards and the game deserve each other

DapperDraculaDeer
Aug 4, 2007

Shut up, Nick! You're not Twilight.

Byolante posted:

I played at 2.0 release then came back in 2.4 and spent an honest to go month working my way through a backlog of stuff everyone else had already done to death and wanted no part of to catch up to what everyone else was doing.

My experience with FFXIV was pretty similar. I played during 2.0 and resubbed for 3.0. All of the 3.0 content was gated behind something like 40+ hours of story quests. Often times the story quests consist of little more than talking to someone in one town then going to another town to talk to someone else and other really lovely fetch quests. It was made worse because very few people were doing that content. It was a tedious slog. Since I really enjoyed FFXIV I went ahead and got through it, but by the time I finished all that garbage I had absolutely lost all interest in the game. It was bad, really bad.

I think most of the people who defend the gated content system have been playing fairly consistently so they dont know just how detrimental it is for new and returning players to log in and have to slog through days of lovely fetch quests in order to reach a point where you can play with your friends. It is a really poorly designed system that is made worse for new players every time more content is added to the game. So much else of FFXIV is really well designed, I dont understand how the gated content has been allowed to get so bad.

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Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
I started FFXIV in about 2.45 and never had issues :shrug:

Just do poo poo at your own pace, there's a shitload of good content to go through. Yeah, the lovely fetch quests are lovely, but they also learned that and put them all into lovely sidequests you never have to touch since the first expansion, and they said they'll fix the 2.x storyline slog in the next expansion in June. Also, something about skipping to level 60 directly

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