this was the same thing that happened to tribble during the open beta. but did Cryptic not get the hint?
Nope they did not. the ironic thing is i was ingame, then the damn thing crashed. way to go Cryptic. not only do your servers lack the capacity to handle the loads of people trying play.
Im only 20,179 of 25,410 and i been waiting for half hour already.
Thanks PWE and cryptic. for F***ing every player around. Gold and silver alike.
I'm not complaining, s**t happens, have seen stuff like this many times in other games. FTP or not.
But there's something I don't understand: is this a RANDOM issue, caused by who-knows-what and probably never happening again once the problem is found and solved
OR
it's just the way it's going to be from now on, at least until the hype wears off (or I go gold again)?
Im like #29900 out of like #25000. every time the number of max players goes up my number goes down. i have had no problem logging in until i updated to the new romulus thing. please explain!!!
Wow Cryptic/PWE if you're trying to endear loyal customers into playing a game, making them wait for literal hours in a queue of over 25000 isn't going to do it. some folks prefer to pay as they go and after that long a wait many might rather just take their attention and money elsewhere.
hehehe i love it im ~25000 from logging in... no wait for lifers or gold... i see what u did there... from a business point of view, great technique to get subscribers guys... here's a good, free, idea for you (Perfect World) to take advantage of this which is put a little button to buy a subscription right under the queue... id be quick about it because this traffic goes away in a few days...
Wow Cryptic/PWE if you're trying to endear loyal customers into playing a game, making them wait for literal hours in a queue of over 25000 isn't going to do it. some folks prefer to pay as they go and after that long a wait many might rather just take their attention and money elsewhere.
They are endearing themselves to loyal customers, gold people are getting right in :P
Honestly, I know that's not going to happen. I have been trying to log on for over an hour and I have lost my place in the queue twice due to being DC'd, restarting my place in the queue. I hope that this queue thing is fixed. OR, get NW off the same server so that there is more space for STO and the new expansion and the demand of its players. Another Server might not be such a bad idea.
Oh I know that they've got a PR team, its just idiots like you who think you're special enough to get a response. Everybody's complaining on these forums and those who aren't are stuck in the queue with everyone else.
Thanks for the english lesson complete with definitions, though. I'm sure that'll show em!
Well considering I wasn't eh OP I really wasn't expecting an answer of any kind. You're one of those people that leaps before you look aren't you?
5577 out of 25227 now I have been waiting for a few hours (playing other games)
Who here thinks I will get disconnected before the timer runs out (already happened once)
I do... that happened to me as well causing me to have to wait an additional hour minutes to get to the point that took me 30 minutes of waiting took... now looking at nearing the 3 hour mark for my total wait.
I too found his reassurance a bit vague. Doing everything they can, could mean doing nothing at all if they have nothing they can do. A post telling us more details would be nice. Nothing exact though because if they say it will be fixed tomorrow and it's not then people will freak out in the forums.
They could say "We are installing new hardware to deal with this increase." Or they could say "We have developers working to expand the amount of players the servers can hold without compromising lag."
Instead they said simply "Trust us."
If we trusted you we wouldn't be trolling these forums while in the back of our minds we would rather be playing the game.
I'm going to go buy a WoW card and assuming i've had my share of WoW after a couple months, this game should finally have it's bugs ironed out.
Congratulations Cryptic, you just made Blizzard some money!
I have an idea........ maybe you people should should find another server "Never Winter" rather then sharing servers with STO. Single most stupid idea i have every seen in my life!!!! LEARN HOW TO MANAGE YOUR COMPANY!!!!!
WTF I just waited 2hours, went from 19k out of 25k, beamed into esd and BAM dc'ed relogged and was put back into the queue at 25109....... SOOOOO glad I didn't buy the LTS earlier today because I will never give this company any of my money nor will I be playing. A year of my time and effort down the tubes SO LONG CRAPTIC!!!!
this queue is ridiculous. 26k people in queue. there is NO WAY IN HELL that 26000 people decided to join at once.
here's a suggestion:
if there are any LTS players waiting in queue and there are silver players online, kick the silvers to make way for the LTS. I'm a silver player and I think this is fair. as for the silver players, the more money you've spent on the in-game store should determine your queue priority.
I invite anyone to find a problem with this solution
Just curious and unwilling to test it at the moment but what happens when you create a new character? Do you get hit with the queue before or after character creation? If it's after, I would find that extremely frustrating after all that anticipatory activity.
Haha so I vaguely heard something about a new expansion for this game and figured I would check it out again - I didn't realise the expansion came out yesterday until I tried to log in and got stuck in a queue 25000 people deep
Well considering I wasn't eh OP I really wasn't expecting an answer of any kind. You're one of those people that leaps before you look aren't you?
I don't really care one way or another mate. You went ahead and called me dense, I called you an idiot. We get it: there's a queue. It's long. The fact that everybody and their dog is complaining about it doesn't do anything. My whole point was yeah, there are people who deal with this stuff but they're not going to waste their time responding to every thread about the queue. That's why there is an announcement thingy in the first place.
I have an idea........ maybe you people should should find another server "Never Winter" rather then sharing servers with STO. Single most stupid idea i have every seen in my life!!!! LEARN HOW TO MANAGE YOUR COMPANY!!!!!
Well they are from Cali so not the brightest rocks in the rock pile. They will end up losing a ton of customers with these long TRIBBLE wait times.
Lifer here, not impressed at the queues, not impressed at having to re-queue if I want to change to an alt (what sort of stupid system is that? (WoW called, they want to teach you about server load balancing), not impressed at all the downtime.
Overall, not impressed.
Boo frickin' hoo, I bet you keep playing anyway don't ya. =P
Been waiting for just about 2 hours... I'm NOW 845 out of 2,899 in the queue!! This is not a good way to keep people playing the game and spending money on the game!! Fix this soon!
I'm actually MOVING BACKWARDS in the waiting que.I went from 6038 of 6276 to 5352 0f 6349.:eek:
The queue is moving but slowly. And hell I am 20200 in line so I will trade you!
This queue things is a little out of hand. I know they were wanting to keep some stress off their servers and give people a new reason to go gold or life member but come on. 25000 people in queue now? I think they need a bit more capacity.
i know heres a queue and we all want to play but some of you please chill..
yes it is only a game .. it may be a game thats more addictive than crack but still .. there are alot out there like you who like to play and they are waiting aswell..
sadly i cannot queue as having the game on for more than 2 hours overheats my pc so i will ahve to sit back and do things i've been meaning to get round to in RL lol
edit: bwt i meant those yelling that they need to sort it out and such .. there are queues in just about all good games online
If they don't get more servers running they are going to lose a lot of people. It is not even primetime and they have queues larger than last night. What the hell is going to happen when its primetime.
God forbid you get a bug and crash there goes your playtime for the day. This is unacceptable for any company.
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Nearly 26000 people i the queue.
this was the same thing that happened to tribble during the open beta. but did Cryptic not get the hint?
Nope they did not. the ironic thing is i was ingame, then the damn thing crashed. way to go Cryptic. not only do your servers lack the capacity to handle the loads of people trying play.
Im only 20,179 of 25,410 and i been waiting for half hour already.
Thanks PWE and cryptic. for F***ing every player around. Gold and silver alike.
Nice to know your useless
I'm not complaining, s**t happens, have seen stuff like this many times in other games. FTP or not.
But there's something I don't understand: is this a RANDOM issue, caused by who-knows-what and probably never happening again once the problem is found and solved
it's just the way it's going to be from now on, at least until the hype wears off (or I go gold again)?
Who here thinks I will get disconnected before the timer runs out (already happened once)
They are endearing themselves to loyal customers, gold people are getting right in :P
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Well considering I wasn't eh OP I really wasn't expecting an answer of any kind. You're one of those people that leaps before you look aren't you?
I do... that happened to me as well causing me to have to wait an additional hour minutes to get to the point that took me 30 minutes of waiting took... now looking at nearing the 3 hour mark for my total wait.
They could say "We are installing new hardware to deal with this increase." Or they could say "We have developers working to expand the amount of players the servers can hold without compromising lag."
Instead they said simply "Trust us."
If we trusted you we wouldn't be trolling these forums while in the back of our minds we would rather be playing the game.
I'm going to go buy a WoW card and assuming i've had my share of WoW after a couple months, this game should finally have it's bugs ironed out.
Congratulations Cryptic, you just made Blizzard some money!
Apparently, this isn't the first time they've done this. Looks like they're repeating an error they made 3 years ago (before this game went F2P).
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=93658
I can hear the flames from here and it's making me moist....
here's a suggestion:
if there are any LTS players waiting in queue and there are silver players online, kick the silvers to make way for the LTS. I'm a silver player and I think this is fair. as for the silver players, the more money you've spent on the in-game store should determine your queue priority.
I invite anyone to find a problem with this solution
Hahaha, maybe I'll come back in a week.
Or, maybe not...
I don't really care one way or another mate. You went ahead and called me dense, I called you an idiot. We get it: there's a queue. It's long. The fact that everybody and their dog is complaining about it doesn't do anything. My whole point was yeah, there are people who deal with this stuff but they're not going to waste their time responding to every thread about the queue. That's why there is an announcement thingy in the first place.
Well they are from Cali so not the brightest rocks in the rock pile. They will end up losing a ton of customers with these long TRIBBLE wait times.
:eek:
Boo frickin' hoo, I bet you keep playing anyway don't ya. =P
The queue is moving but slowly. And hell I am 20200 in line so I will trade you!
This queue things is a little out of hand. I know they were wanting to keep some stress off their servers and give people a new reason to go gold or life member but come on. 25000 people in queue now? I think they need a bit more capacity.
yes it is only a game .. it may be a game thats more addictive than crack but still .. there are alot out there like you who like to play and they are waiting aswell..
sadly i cannot queue as having the game on for more than 2 hours overheats my pc
edit: bwt i meant those yelling that they need to sort it out and such .. there are queues in just about all good games online
God forbid you get a bug and crash there goes your playtime for the day. This is unacceptable for any company.