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Fister Roboto posted:I don't think it's reasonable to expect a completely problem free first day of a popular MMO expansion, but it's also really loving stupid that they put in an instance bottleneck basically at the start of the MSQ, especially when the MSQ gates pretty much everything in the expansion. It's amazing to me because HW had two different quest chains at the start with two different solo instances in order to avoid this exact problem. It's like they did the exact opposite of learning a lesson. We've even got branching quest chains here too! Just that one of them doesn't have an instance when it easily could have. 
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Ainsley McTree posted:Either I have rose tinted glasses or heavensward's launch was so smooth it spoiled me but yeah this is pretty much the default mmo launch day expansion experience iirc heavensward and legion were both pretty good, as far as mmo launches go. this one's not gonna be fondly remembered. best to just sit back and crack open a cold steel with the boys
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If only there were some sort of technology in place to put people in an automated line to replace the line people are trying to make which isn't working.
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strong bird posted:No one should chill out. The game they paid for should work Or, maybe the game should work and people should chill out.
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I can't even bring myself to be mad unless these problems continue to exist on Tuesday. Then I think it is ok to be upset.
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Minrad posted:heavensward and legion were both pretty good, as far as mmo launches go. Greeted with a 999 queue to get in after last disconnect Maybe I'll play something else today
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everyone else please log out tia
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Trainmonk posted:It will, so chill out. It doesn't, so no.
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the annoying part is their complete silence about the situation, beyond "try again later", while the amount of people waiting there is enough to fill the instance for literal weeks.
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Guess I'll be grinding relics on Warframe instead tonight. Should get that Quanta Vandal, I missed it the last time around.
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Gamefly should be delivering Yakuza 0 today. yay
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this cuba libre was supposed to be for ala mhigo's liberation... now I'm just enjoying it as I fight Raubahn's wall.
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Bwahahahaha! It's like all my namedays have come at once!
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Varam posted:Foundation (well, The Pillars), at the line of merchants near the market board. It's all white-rarity, non-HQ stuff, but still quite an upgrade from the ilvl 200-210 gear most of my little FC is using. Between poetics and this gear, we're all rocking ilvl 258 or so! Hopefully the Duty Finder get stable enough for us to finish Sohr Khai this weekend. We failed it the first time (only the second dungeon we've ever failed, always going in blind!), but we were barely at the minimum ilvl.
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strong bird posted:It doesn't, so no. You won't, so no.
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Fister Roboto posted:I don't think it's reasonable to expect a completely problem free first day of a popular MMO expansion, but it's also really loving stupid that they put in an instance bottleneck basically at the start of the MSQ, especially when the MSQ gates pretty much everything in the expansion. It's amazing to me because HW had two different quest chains at the start with two different solo instances in order to avoid this exact problem. It's like they did the exact opposite of learning a lesson. I have massive WoW flashbacks. The first expansion had a single zone herding everyone through and it was a clusterfuck. They deliberately used two new zones in their next expansion and the one after that (even though in the latter, Cataclysm, one zone was a much less popular underwater zone). Then in the next expansion they forgot all about it, forced everyone through the same zone, which their servers couldn't handle. So everyone got stuck in the mandatory "take helicopter to fly to new expansion" pseudo-cutscene right in the beginning. And with everyone now joining the servers (Excalibur was "fine" when Americans were asleep  ) you can't even do any other content because most of it also relies on instance servers that are getting hammered, it's amazing. In the age of the  I expect load balancing to work better than in 2007, and I expect devs to know about and take into account the weaknesses of their infrastructure when designing the game and launching "early access", but here we are.
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I've done a couple dungeons with red mages and samurais as the DPS and they're SLAUGHTERING.
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That's perfect
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Are there any vendors around i180-200 I can use for leveling gld desynth?
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This one armed man gets thousand of hot catgirls lined up and basically, your loving retarded HOW?.... click here to find out A system error occurred during event movement.
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Minrad posted:so this is what yoshi meant when he said there would be server consequences for adding more inventory space 
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orcane posted:I have massive WoW flashbacks. The first expansion had a single zone herding everyone through and it was a clusterfuck. They deliberately used two new zones in their next expansion and the one after that (even though in the latter, Cataclysm, one zone was a much less popular underwater zone). Then in the next expansion they forgot all about it, forced everyone through the same zone, which their servers couldn't handle. So everyone got stuck in the mandatory "take helicopter to fly to new expansion" pseudo-cutscene right in the beginning. It's partly due to FFXIVs weird instancing system. The instances are not dynamic, but static. There are a limited number of slots for each fight, and once those are filled, everyone else will have to wait. We saw this happening back in 2.x as well, when everyone was running primals on their bonus window for relic lights. The fun part is the instance server is probably doing just fine, running on 20% load. Hundreds of empty garuda HM, coil, cape westwind instances, and a dozen instances for the MSQ that everyone is fighting over. Unless I'm talking out of my rear end here, but I think that's how the infrastructure is set up.
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strong bird posted:It doesn't, so no. There's a bunch of poo poo you could be doing while the MSQ bottleneck is sorted. Maybe try out one of those new fangled Jobs? Try out totally revamped PvP. I don't really find myself lacking for options as I shrug and wait for things to get unfucked.
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Is it just me, or is PLD suddenly a mage killer in frontlines? Holy spirit causing 2 seconds of silence is hilarious.
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super sweet best pal posted:Bwahahahaha! It's like all my namedays have come at once!
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Weissritter posted:Is it just me, or is PLD suddenly a mage killer in frontlines? Holy spirit causing 2 seconds of silence is hilarious. Yeah PLD's day of reckoning has come. I've gotten dunked by them a few times when I was playing summoner. RDM, on the other hand, is a murder machine. Yeah burst a dude with dualcast! Then jump onto the caster when your melee dps gets em low and unleash the redoublement and verflare to blow poo poo up. It lacks disables, but it's straight killer for target switching thanks to dualcast.
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Hah, I hadn't even thought about the implications of Dualcast in PvP. RDM's got to be an absolute burst machine.
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Minrad posted:Yeah PLD's day of reckoning has come. I've gotten dunked by them a few times when I was playing summoner. actually you'll find what happens is the rdm dies to me jumping on them twice and then LBing them it's Very Cool and Good
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Weissritter posted:Is it just me, or is PLD suddenly a mage killer in frontlines? Holy spirit causing 2 seconds of silence is hilarious. It's not just PLD. DRK has healing reduction on a combo, a silence, and a stun. Tanks are basically FuckHealersAndMages.exe
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A 50S RAYGUN posted:actually you'll find what happens is the rdm dies to me jumping on them twice and then LBing them are you a samurai, because samurai doesn't have to limit break to do limit break damage to my white mage 
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Man, who has a launcher that can't resume download on disconnection? And loses progress. Amazing. At least I'm not missing out on any progress in the MSQ.
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Ocatamai posted:Maybe releasing your hot new game on a Friday is not the best of ideas. Technically we're still in "early access" and not strictly "released," but, well, that's a technicality at best. And it's not like this is the first time SE has had trouble with an FFXIV early access period.
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Harrow posted:Technically we're still in "early access" and not strictly "released," but, well, that's a technicality at best. And it's not like this is the first time SE has had trouble with an FFXIV early access period. I've been watching player search on Exodus to see how many people are getting into the new zones and about 7 players per hour average. Which is to say that number currently stands at 59. Ocatamai fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Jun 16, 2017 |
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Harrow posted:Technically we're still in "early access" and not strictly "released," but, well, that's a technicality at best. And it's not like this is the first time SE has had trouble with an FFXIV early access period. Yeah, there was that one long period a couple years before 2.0 was released.
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DizzyBum posted:Yeah, there was that one long period a couple years before 2.0 was released. 
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drat, the code Amazon sent me was for some promotional items, and it's expired. Annoying. I guess I'll have to contact them again and see if I can still get a EA code sent my way. Edit: Nope, looks like they just directed me to the wrong website. I found the right link on the main FFXIV site and it worked. SettingSun fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jun 16, 2017 |
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super sweet best pal posted:Bwahahahaha! It's like all my namedays have come at once!
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