Started back at 2:30 est at 15180 out of 15189, now at 559 out of 24606. and as I near my time to finally get into the game a thought occurred to me, I can not remember what character I'm on now.....
Cancel the login and make sure you're on the right toon? :P
Okay... That does it for me... I'm done as a F2P player! I'm sick of these frakkin ridiculous log-in queues! I'm totally sick of not being able to play when I want to play!
So.... I'm renewing my gold membership tomorrow! So there! Muwhahahaha! :P
>be driving
>going around 50, with traffic steady but thick
>car rides my tail, swerve passes me giving me a dirty look
>I keep going and pull next to him at redlight
>greenlight
>guy burns rubber whilst I continue on
>stop at next redlight next to him
happens all the time, just relax. we all have to stop at red lights
You do realize that you aren't the only person that plays this game right? There are tens of thousands of players and each one of them wants to get on and see the new LoR stuff as soon as possible.
And every single one of those customers who has a gold membership gets moved to the head of the queue.
Snarky comments like this one don't help. I've been queued up for well over two hours and can't get in. The same thing happened to me yesterday for over an hour. The problem is getting worse, not better. It's perfectly reasonable, and not self-centered, to be concerned and want answers.
If the folks at Cryptic/STO weren't prepared then they shouldn't have executed the massive update/reconfig until they were sure they had the server space to handle it.
Beyond that, I've been playing this game for only a couple of weeks, but I've been playing it every day. The game has gone down for "maintenance" at least once every day in that time. Usually in 3 hour blocks of time. This is entirely contrary to the company's assertion that they perform maintenance once per week.
I really enjoy the game, and I love the update. But if they don't improve the downtime issues and this maddening hours-long access queue, there's no way I'm upgrading to a paid membership.
Russ
P.S. When someone asks a legitimate question or makes a legitimate observation and you make snarky comments just for the sake of doing it, that makes you a "troll". And internet trolls are the lowest form of pond scum in the universe. Remember people, there are no stupid questions - just dumbass douches who spew their idiotic opinions on you when you weren't even talking to them.
Yeah the Queue isn't moving very fast. They basically redesigned the entire game from what I saw yesterday. With so many changes it will take a while to work out all the bugs. This Queue thing is bad though, people will just give up and go play a different game. The worst thing your game can do is make people log off and go play another game so I hope the STO team gets this sorted fast.
If the wait is still there in a few days I will likely just stop trying to log in and move on with my gaming life.
You know I think Cryptic have run out of excuses now. Ok it's understandable when a game for the first time isn't prepared for insane server loads and thousands logging on, however this isn't the first time with Cryptic. They should have realised now based on past experience that the servers need improving, one per game at least.
Sticking with the the whole "People will give up eventually and server will quiet down soon" isn't the right approach. You'd think they want to lose money, because by putting money towards their servers might mean the difference between returning players staying or leaving. If I was a returning player experiencing this, I don't think I'd stick around.
This is a little ridiculous... a login queue, which I have never encountered before, of 24000?? In the middle of the day on a Wednesday!? Seriously....
I would say you need more servers or the ability to add more players... Or is this a F2P tactic?
Don't think it's the tactic - I've been reading the thread a bit and it seems to me that the money spenders are also exepriencing troubles with login...
Nevertheless it is extremly frustrating - I've been downloading the patch for the last week, more or less successfully (I'm on a 0,5 Mbit connection only, mind you), and after it finally was there I was stuck in the queue for 5 hours now. TRIBBLE it, going to bed.
yes you are right cryptic should go and f*** themselves,but trust me they will get fu**ed. That expansion did cost time and money and yes 80 to 90 % of the players who got attracted by that expansion will be lost forever so will be for some time some older players who sit the next 2 weeks out and they definitely lost a lot of people who were consideiring the life time membership. Overall they will lose money and heads will roll. Just hope they publish the name of the fired people so that no one ever hires them.
By the way 23115 out of 25676 after i waited two hours to get in i got a server disconnect. Guess the server stability update works as intented
you may be right with this, heads will indeed roll.
this is so bad for business right now.
I would like to add a side note, if you are in game and not doing anything please log out, even 1 person leaving the game could speed the queue up for us 25,000 waiting to get in game.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
{UFP} Diplomatic Corps Foreign Officer, Romulan Imperial Guard Officer
This is just ridiculous. Queues keep getting longer and longer. People - Gold and Silver alike - spend enough money on this game. If people are not able to play you annoy them. This does not entice people to upgrade their accounts. Get some extra servers in your farm already...
You will notice that the higher number is just getting higher, while your number is getting lower, which means that you're getting closer to getting into the game. So it's not getting longer where you're concerned, it's just getting longer for those that come after you.
I've been que'd for almost 5 hours. I was 12859/20678 then i checked and i was 56/25986 and got all excited i was finally gonna get to play.......then it went back up to 3056/26345 . I'm no expert but aren't you suposed to be getting closer to login than farther?
I've been that guy saying be patient, but honestly i'm about to rage a bit.
that is a excellent example of LTSers getting 'preimum' spaces in the queue. Non-LTSers wait hours LTSer logs in and waits ten mins.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
{UFP} Diplomatic Corps Foreign Officer, Romulan Imperial Guard Officer
All they have to do to fix is the que is to get get more servers and it does not take all day to do it. I think they don't care and right now there no attempting to fix it
actually a bit of a shame thinking of the potential customers who have come to or come back to the game to check out the expansion only to not even be able to login. they will probably just walk away.
Honestly, I'm not too bothered about the queue, as it shows that there is huge interest in the game and the Star Trek IP as a whole - no doubt Into Darkness has pushed up the number of people willing to give the game a try.
I remeber the Content Drought (of, what, two years ago?) under Atari and how the game came so close to being shutdown. The fact that people want to play the game isn't a bad thing; it's quite the contrary. Cryptic will get the problems under control, they just need a little time - like most other modern MMO makers.
Wohoo, your queue position is 24682 out of 24784. Ok, 10mins of tv and back to see the progress... 23870 out of 24254.
I guess my DOF's didnt wanna work overnight.
ZzzzZzzzZ, over and out... 22723 out of 25202. Nite all (Its 11pm here), back to try again in 18hrs.
I just dropped que....i got bumped from 16k-24k up to 20k-25k... Only day off this week, and I feel like i'm being prison sexed....have a good day all.
welcome to mmo gaming
maybe Im wrong but I bet the biggest complainers here don't even give PWE a penny
Im not a premium suber but I think they are the ones that should be pissed off.
I'm an F2Per. My post expressed nothing other than genuine, if extreme, surprise.
Didn't read any of the other posts here, though. :P
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Well I suppose tonight I'm not going to play, even after I spent a lot of ??? for a Legacy Pack.
Now I'm queued at 20.000+.
PWE needs really to start up some machines.
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Cancel the login and make sure you're on the right toon? :P
So.... I'm renewing my gold membership tomorrow! So there! Muwhahahaha! :P
>going around 50, with traffic steady but thick
>car rides my tail, swerve passes me giving me a dirty look
>I keep going and pull next to him at redlight
>greenlight
>guy burns rubber whilst I continue on
>stop at next redlight next to him
happens all the time, just relax. we all have to stop at red lights
Itsa twwaappp.
Snarky comments like this one don't help. I've been queued up for well over two hours and can't get in. The same thing happened to me yesterday for over an hour. The problem is getting worse, not better. It's perfectly reasonable, and not self-centered, to be concerned and want answers.
If the folks at Cryptic/STO weren't prepared then they shouldn't have executed the massive update/reconfig until they were sure they had the server space to handle it.
Beyond that, I've been playing this game for only a couple of weeks, but I've been playing it every day. The game has gone down for "maintenance" at least once every day in that time. Usually in 3 hour blocks of time. This is entirely contrary to the company's assertion that they perform maintenance once per week.
I really enjoy the game, and I love the update. But if they don't improve the downtime issues and this maddening hours-long access queue, there's no way I'm upgrading to a paid membership.
Russ
P.S. When someone asks a legitimate question or makes a legitimate observation and you make snarky comments just for the sake of doing it, that makes you a "troll". And internet trolls are the lowest form of pond scum in the universe. Remember people, there are no stupid questions - just dumbass douches who spew their idiotic opinions on you when you weren't even talking to them.
If the wait is still there in a few days I will likely just stop trying to log in and move on with my gaming life.
Sticking with the the whole "People will give up eventually and server will quiet down soon" isn't the right approach. You'd think they want to lose money, because by putting money towards their servers might mean the difference between returning players staying or leaving. If I was a returning player experiencing this, I don't think I'd stick around.
Don't think it's the tactic - I've been reading the thread a bit and it seems to me that the money spenders are also exepriencing troubles with login...
Nevertheless it is extremly frustrating - I've been downloading the patch for the last week, more or less successfully (I'm on a 0,5 Mbit connection only, mind you), and after it finally was there I was stuck in the queue for 5 hours now. TRIBBLE it, going to bed.
you may be right with this, heads will indeed roll.
this is so bad for business right now.
{UFP} Diplomatic Corps Foreign Officer, Romulan Imperial Guard Officer
Me playing UT2k4 (red guy) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz0DnP7wXnU
waiting queu 24K...
Lol guess again.
Later trekkies, i got better things to do.
that is a excellent example of LTSers getting 'preimum' spaces in the queue. Non-LTSers wait hours LTSer logs in and waits ten mins.
{UFP} Diplomatic Corps Foreign Officer, Romulan Imperial Guard Officer
Just tried to get into the game and was sitting at 24,670 lol thought i would add my ten pence worth.....Lucass24
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.:D
Already making decisions on what other game to play tonight
Hopefully they will get there things together quick...
I remeber the Content Drought (of, what, two years ago?) under Atari and how the game came so close to being shutdown. The fact that people want to play the game isn't a bad thing; it's quite the contrary. Cryptic will get the problems under control, they just need a little time - like most other modern MMO makers.
ZzzzZzzzZ, over and out... 22723 out of 25202. Nite all (Its 11pm here), back to try again in 18hrs.
At this rate its going to be a loonngggg time before I buy a D'D Refit.
You want our money cryptic, you gotta let us play.
I'm an F2Per. My post expressed nothing other than genuine, if extreme, surprise.
Didn't read any of the other posts here, though. :P
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Yea the queue is shorter for you.
{UFP} Diplomatic Corps Foreign Officer, Romulan Imperial Guard Officer
Now I'm queued at 20.000+.
PWE needs really to start up some machines.