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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Zarestal wrote: »
    HA, ya i was stuck there, but now.... "Disconected from Log In Server" PROGRESS! HUZZAH! *crys a little*
    Logg in screen is at last show server down

    That means progress, right? :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Well on the bright side. Things can only go up from here.... Sure in heck can't get worse...

    I guess we can only hope it doesn't turn into another Conan and Warhammer.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Cryptic just hurry up and send me the email asking "What's my name TRIBBLE?" I'll make sure to send the proper reply and we can get on with the game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    I must also point out that Cryptic didn't want to release the game until April or May of this year. ATARI is ordering the game to be released before it's ready because the executives want money. They would rather get their money now and release a bugged up POS game rather than letting the Cryptic dev team get everything working like it's suppose to.

    yes very true, that being said we should understand the fact that its still literly a work in progress. but then again what active MMO isnt? Everyone just be patient, for old WoW'rs like me, remember their launch? Were just spoliled by seasoned MMO's.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Well I guess it's off to bed...hopefully it's worjking in the morning.....To quote Deforest Kelly...The server's dead Jim!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Bah! I'm going to bed
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    djaric wrote:
    And now the servers are down. Hmmm MAYBE THEY GOT OUR MESSAGE! I hope. I agree with all these problems its turning into a headache. What im wondering is whats going to happen on launch day? We alll saw what happened during launch of headstart. Was a nightmare to try and log in. All i say is they better patch the critical problems or were going to see hell on launch day.

    Comments thoughts?

    I agree it will be hell on launch day to log-in if they dont fix it
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Ditto for me.... stuck on retriving charater
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    It would help if they'd actually acknowledge the situation but they haven't, they even removed the dev tracker redirect temporarily.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    [QUOTE=XA_Judicator ATARI is ordering the game to be released before it's ready because the executives want money. They would rather get their money now and release a bugged up POS game rather than letting the Cryptic dev team get everything working like it's suppose to.[/QUOTE]



    Wait, wait. Are you telling us that Corporate hotshots are more interested in getting their money than in releasing a quality product? I am shocked. <Sarcasmatron set to stun>
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Game has so much potential... and here we all sit unable to get past the login.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Col_Slade wrote:
    Server on the ground, server on the ground, Looking like a fool with your server on the ground.

    Say you don't happen to be the person on WoW Ghostlands who caps that in trade chat everyday are you?

    Also same thing. Was doing awsome mission with awsome drops and me and 2 friends got kicked at the exact same time.

    Just an idea Cryptic. If you need more time to figure things out or work on a patch why not reactivate some of your other games. say a free week for aion or Champions. Wouldn't hurt much while you figure this mess out. That or when this problem is fixed let the pre orders get their bonus items and such for pre ordering before the real launch.

    If all else fails give us an extra week of game time. I have a list of other ideas if you want it.

    Also *not sure* but your game is starting to eat a rather big amount of memory from what i see. 100-700mb a patch is a little extream. Eh Not to worried.

    Probally means you are trying.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    at least a GAME should be playable when its released. but to get stuck in login is just poor

    .maybe the next game will be released after the login screen is already finished, because customers can be satisfied with only watching this for a while...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    First off, I agree with everyone else that being stuck on this screen is annoying. But, everyone who expected no downtime or bugs during the headstart weekend has, at the very least, a minor mental deficiency. I agree that at this stage I cannot see how they can manage to get everything under wraps by the 2nd, however I am not paying for anything until then so there is no use complaining about it now. And, to all the posts complaining about the lack of a cancel button.. yeah it would be nice but if you really have that big of an issue with hitting the minimise button and waiting for the timeout that you need to rant about it, maybe whoever stole your blankie really needs to give it back.. =]
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    i cant even get that far lol i get to connecting to account database, wish they wud just let us know the server is is stuffed an not waste our time trying to get back in:mad::mad:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    anyone know the real number of ppl playing atm ? just a guess would be fine .
    cause if we have atm problem with lets say 100.000 ppl then i dont want to know what happends when the real start is going live
    i realy hope they get all fixed even too i feel still used as betaplayer but well thats the way of new onlinegames
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    From "Head start" to "Head ache". :eek:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    TheFiddler wrote: »
    First off, I agree with everyone else that being stuck on this screen is annoying. But, everyone who expected no downtime or bugs during the headstart weekend has, at the very least, a minor mental deficiency. I agree that at this stage I cannot see how they can manage to get everything under wraps by the 2nd, however I am not paying for anything until then so there is no use complaining about it now. And, to all the posts complaining about the lack of a cancel button.. yeah it would be nice but if you really have that big of an issue with hitting the minimise button and waiting for the timeout that you need to rant about it, maybe whoever stole your blankie really needs to give it back.. =]

    Couldn't have said it better myself.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    How can you defend this game? Its been one day... and they had three unannounced "maintenance" Spanning hours. You can help but be disappointed.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Logg in screen is at last show server down

    So what's a typical server outage last? 20 minutes? 30? 525,600?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    TheFiddler wrote: »
    First off, I agree with everyone else that being stuck on this screen is annoying. But, everyone who expected no downtime or bugs during the headstart weekend has, at the very least, a minor mental deficiency. I agree that at this stage I cannot see how they can manage to get everything under wraps by the 2nd, however I am not paying for anything until then so there is no use complaining about it now. And, to all the posts complaining about the lack of a cancel button.. yeah it would be nice but if you really have that big of an issue with hitting the minimise button and waiting for the timeout that you need to rant about it, maybe whoever stole your blankie really needs to give it back.. =]


    You are hereby promoted to CAPTAIN OBVIOUS..........
    We all know what you said.......just no one needed to say it.....
    I think most are speaking ideally here......and Capt. we have paid for it, it comes with the price of the game, part of the preorder incentive was to get in early.....their incentive, to get our money and an early idea of total sales.......(also obvious but since you insist.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    im just going to play mass effect :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Say you don't happen to be the person on WoW Ghostlands who caps that in trade chat everyday are you?

    Also same thing. Was doing awsome mission with awsome drops and me and 2 friends got kicked at the exact same time.

    Just an idea Cryptic. If you need more time to figure things out or work on a patch why not reactivate some of your other games. say a free week for aion or Champions. Wouldn't hurt much while you figure this mess out. That or when this problem is fixed let the pre orders get their bonus items and such for pre ordering before the real launch.

    If all else fails give us an extra week of game time. I have a list of other ideas if you want it.

    Also *not sure* but your game is starting to eat a rather big amount of memory from what i see. 100-700mb a patch is a little extream. Eh Not to worried.

    Probally means you are trying.

    preordeers only get items at launc damns nabits i forgot bouut that one lol here iwas stressing thati bought preorder wif imaginary items, im such dummy sumtimes:P:D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Have the servers been down longer then they been up? Seems that they have sadly....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Scott417 wrote:
    You are hereby promoted to CAPTAIN OBVIOUS..........
    We all know what you said.......just no one needed to say it.....
    I think most are speaking ideally here......and Capt. we have paid for it, it comes with the price of the game, part of the preorder incentive was to get in early.....their incentive, to get our money and an early idea of total sales.......(also obvious but since you insist.)

    What you said bout us *paying* for an incentive is ture. But remeber none of us would be *playing* til tommorow if they hand't willing givin us an extra 2 days. So sorry but I think the *real* complaining should begin tommorow at 10am pst of January31st ty
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    TheFiddler wrote: »
    First off, I agree with everyone else that being stuck on this screen is annoying. But, everyone who expected no downtime or bugs during the headstart weekend has, at the very least, a minor mental deficiency. I agree that at this stage I cannot see how they can manage to get everything under wraps by the 2nd, however I am not paying for anything until then so there is no use complaining about it now. And, to all the posts complaining about the lack of a cancel button.. yeah it would be nice but if you really have that big of an issue with hitting the minimise button and waiting for the timeout that you need to rant about it, maybe whoever stole your blankie really needs to give it back.. =]

    Yes yes, but it *IS* interesting, don't you think, that every MMO has this problem (including World of Warcraft). It makes me wonder something... either there is some algorithm out there for determining the amount of load upon a release date that is just WRONG, and someone needs to revise it... OR, every programmer working for a major company is overly optimistic... OR, every QA person is overly lazy... OR, every beta-tester is overtly un-stereotypical...

    It's confusing to me. This stuff happens all the time, yes we all expect it... The question I really have is, why don't the developers expect it? I can't imagine that stress testing a login server is too terribly difficult... but what the eff do I know. Maybe they bought a few crappy switches or routers or something, or their ISP did.. beh, I dunno. I don't understand why this happens because the only response I ever see is something like,

    "We are working diligently to solve the problem, and it will be up some time in the future."

    Which, really, doesn't tell me what the problem ever is, was, etc. BUT, it's not like cryptic doesn't have experience programming other MMOs... or am I missing something...

    What is causing this? =)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Scott417 wrote:
    You are hereby promoted to CAPTAIN OBVIOUS..........
    We all know what you said.......just no one needed to say it.....
    I think most are speaking ideally here......and Capt. we have paid for it, it comes with the price of the game, part of the preorder incentive was to get in early.....their incentive, to get our money and an early idea of total sales.......(also obvious but since you insist.)

    Well buddy, I hope you don't mind if I promote you to Captain Awesome. I know you love speaking for everybody, but when you say "we have paid for it", I'm a little confused in regards to the identity of this almighty "we" because by saying that, you assume we have all paid for it, however with EB games (who I preordered through) I don't have to pay for the game until the 8th of February. So, Capt. Awesome, Commander of the U.S.S SpeaksForEveryone, Please research before being a smartass.. =] ( A little smiley for you being so awesome)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    TheFiddler wrote: »
    Well buddy, I hope you don't mind if I promote you to Captain Awesome. I know you love speaking for everybody, but when you say "we have paid for it", I'm a little confused in regards to the identity of this almighty "we" because by saying that, you assume we have all paid for it, however with EB games (who I preordered through) I don't have to pay for the game until the 8th of February. So, Capt. Awesome, Commander of the U.S.S SpeaksForEveryone, Please research before being a smartass.. =] ( A little smiley for you being so awesome)

    Can I have a smiley too??? Can I???
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Oh, and a little side note, in addition to not having to pay for the game until the 8th of February, I have already received 3 of my preorder goodies (U.S.S Enterprise, Two Borg BO's). So far I'm feeling relatively well treated by the game seeing as it isn't released for another few days.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Issue most likely the server farm they have running the game can't handle the traffic that is being put on it. Adding more servers to the server farm to spread the load out might solve the issue. However I am not sure how they have things set up... it maybe the instance servers causing issues... who knows :P
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