What happened during the last part of Open Beta when Cryptic said they were ordering more servers? This is like a hotel banquet hall serving a Mother's Day all you can eat brunch and running out of food not once but twice in the same day. They should have ordered twice as many servers to handle the load that was required for Open Beta but also to anticipate a huge Opening Day.
Well at least the que wait time isn't that long. By the time I finished the original post and switched back to STO I was in. I was 519 of 625 so I guess it took maybe a minute. I thought 519 would take forever.
Well at least the que wait time isn't that long. By the time I finished the original post and switched back to STO I was in. I was 519 of 625 so I guess it took maybe a minute. I thought 519 would take forever.
That just means that that many people CRASHED, bumping you up in lline to log on next, so you to can play for 5 minutes, crash, and restart the que.
I am so amused by you whiners. Seriously, you are making my day!!!
Ah, in a thread with several responses, you need to be specific as to who your are calling a whiner. If are referring to me, then you are dead wrong. I am simply voicing my opinion. Since Live Launch is in two days there are some cause for concern. I am not willing to pay a monthly fee for a game if I'll be forced into long wait times in a que to login. Maybe for the moment I have all day to play but once I go back to work I won't and don't want to be paying for something that may or may not let me play. If you read my thread completely I did mention that I was not in the que for very long and I was playing for at least 2 hours. Thus I am not unhappy per se but am concerned for the lack of strategic planning on Cryptics part. Its not like they are a newbie gaming company. Things like this shoulld have been planned for in advance by a company with such experience.
Login queues are preferable to total server crashes. I'm still amazed that people are crying about things like login queues when the running joke for the first 18 months of WoW's life was that it was more like World of Crashcraft, since the servers were down more than they were up.
So yes, you are whining over nothing, since the game literally two weeks into the wild and Cryptic is just on schedule compared to other MMO launches.
So yes, you are whining over nothing, since the game literally two weeks into the wild and Cryptic is just on schedule compared to other MMO launches.
Again I am not whining but stating a matter of opinion. I don't expect to rent a car and then be told I have to wait because there are 516 people in line to use it before me. I've never played WOW or any other MMO at Launch so I do not know how other MMO's launched. All I know from a software developers point of view is that a login que (with terribly long wait times) is inexcuseable. A veteran MMO company like Crytic should have forseen such server loads and should have had the servers necessary on hand already. Cryptic is not a start up company trying to iron out the wrinkles in there business plan. They are a seasoned company and should have a solid template of a Project Plan for rolling out MMO's.
Again I am not whining but stating a matter of opinion. I don't expect to rent a car and then be told I have to wait because there are 516 people in line to use it before me. I've never played WOW or any other MMO at Launch so I do not know how other MMO's launched. All I know from a software developers point of view is that a login que (with terribly long wait times) is inexcuseable. A veteran MMO company like Crytic should have forseen such server loads and should have had the servers necessary on hand already. Cryptic is not a start up company trying to iron out the wrinkles in there business plan. They are a seasoned company and should have a solid template of a Project Plan for rolling out MMO's.
It's no point debating with some of the rabid fanbois on these forums. Just don't bother.
Even if Cryptic would switch off the servers for a week, these relegious fans would still sacrifice their own mother on an Altar and praise the almighty Cryptic.
Login queues are preferable to total server crashes. I'm still amazed that people are crying about things like login queues when the running joke for the first 18 months of WoW's life was that it was more like World of Crashcraft, since the servers were down more than they were up.
So yes, you are whining over nothing, since the game literally two weeks into the wild and Cryptic is just on schedule compared to other MMO launches.
Have to agree with some of the other ppl on here, the wait times are disgusting, and as mentioned before, Cryptic aren't new comers to this realm , and they are making Star Trek for crying out loud, they had to realise the demand??!
so yeh, i won't be paying for this game until I can see some decent server stats
GOOD SIDE:
Yes, the game is GOOD. Really good. GFX are nice, it captures the essence of Trek pretty well and it's fun to play for a casual player...
BAD SIDE:
...when you can play it. How many casual players - the stated core audience - are going to put up with half-hour or even five minute queues to play? Or the repeated disconnects? Or the general appearance of being unstable under load?
I get - on an average day when I haven't called in sick (which, I genuinely am today... thank the Great Bird Of The Galaxy for winter flu) - maybe an hour to play games, during "peak" hours, if I'm lucky. Given the EU peaktime load last night, I might get 20 to 30 minutes of that as actual playing time if things hold together.
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That just means that that many people CRASHED, bumping you up in lline to log on next, so you to can play for 5 minutes, crash, and restart the que.
Not neccesary. If you replace the word login with something like lunchline the sentence works. So its a login ... In Que.
Once I was in I was in for quite sometime until they took the server down. Must have been just over 2 hours.
Ah, in a thread with several responses, you need to be specific as to who your are calling a whiner. If are referring to me, then you are dead wrong. I am simply voicing my opinion. Since Live Launch is in two days there are some cause for concern. I am not willing to pay a monthly fee for a game if I'll be forced into long wait times in a que to login. Maybe for the moment I have all day to play but once I go back to work I won't and don't want to be paying for something that may or may not let me play. If you read my thread completely I did mention that I was not in the que for very long and I was playing for at least 2 hours. Thus I am not unhappy per se but am concerned for the lack of strategic planning on Cryptics part. Its not like they are a newbie gaming company. Things like this shoulld have been planned for in advance by a company with such experience.
So yes, you are whining over nothing, since the game literally two weeks into the wild and Cryptic is just on schedule compared to other MMO launches.
Again I am not whining but stating a matter of opinion. I don't expect to rent a car and then be told I have to wait because there are 516 people in line to use it before me. I've never played WOW or any other MMO at Launch so I do not know how other MMO's launched. All I know from a software developers point of view is that a login que (with terribly long wait times) is inexcuseable. A veteran MMO company like Crytic should have forseen such server loads and should have had the servers necessary on hand already. Cryptic is not a start up company trying to iron out the wrinkles in there business plan. They are a seasoned company and should have a solid template of a Project Plan for rolling out MMO's.
It's no point debating with some of the rabid fanbois on these forums. Just don't bother.
Even if Cryptic would switch off the servers for a week, these relegious fans would still sacrifice their own mother on an Altar and praise the almighty Cryptic.
Jer
Have to agree with some of the other ppl on here, the wait times are disgusting, and as mentioned before, Cryptic aren't new comers to this realm , and they are making Star Trek for crying out loud, they had to realise the demand??!
so yeh, i won't be paying for this game until I can see some decent server stats
GOOD SIDE:
Yes, the game is GOOD. Really good. GFX are nice, it captures the essence of Trek pretty well and it's fun to play for a casual player...
BAD SIDE:
...when you can play it. How many casual players - the stated core audience - are going to put up with half-hour or even five minute queues to play? Or the repeated disconnects? Or the general appearance of being unstable under load?
I get - on an average day when I haven't called in sick (which, I genuinely am today... thank the Great Bird Of The Galaxy for winter flu) - maybe an hour to play games, during "peak" hours, if I'm lucky. Given the EU peaktime load last night, I might get 20 to 30 minutes of that as actual playing time if things hold together.