stress testing and still having problems is a true thing, however...
this ****storm of an expansion event is
well let's just say it's poorly executed.
Quite similar to Tribble bugs, tribble bugs are pointed out, devs say thanks, players say np, tribble bug almost always ends up in holodeck.
Idk, I don't think I've seen quality control this bad since that last final fantasy mmo inital release. The whole staff there was "reshuffled" and the game was remade from scratch. Now it isn't so bad , heads just need to roll. Nothing personal, just business.
Bad? I haven't seen an expansion come up that fast, nor that stable, or require as little stability-mending downtime. And i used to pay for WoW. For like, 5 years. Every expansion day was a connection nightmare.
Entertained right now.. has anyone else other then myself thought to login the perfect world site and do the surveys while they wait. Its free ZEN... just a thought
Boldly going where most men and Ferengi have gone before...come here Leeta!
what the hell never seen any game on the net where u have to queue just to play...... 21281 in the queue only for it to disconnect after about 20 min of play time to get back in the queue and wait about 3 hrs or more ....really have messed up here
Wow the one day i get off and i cant play STO 25000 out of 25000
Normally i dont say anything...but come on cryptic you should have know after your big update lots of people would want to play..either you need more servers or have STO on there own ones
3 hours of waiting..walked the dog X2 and done my food shop...still waiting!!
this is got to be the worst idea i ever seen sto implament. you basiclly have to weight a good hour before you can play the game in the login queue while the system bottle necks people into the game. is there server really that lowsy that you have to resort to such a pout system? i seen dozen of people in our fleet and others just walk away from the game and say the hell with it. reaaly you all sould of planed for this allong time ago to serve this amount of custemers in a more efective maner so people just dont lose intrest ingame because it takes a rediculace long time to log in.
I promise you. If I have to go through this que everytime I log in, I will quit. I am not alone! I WOULD RATHER HAVE LAG IN THE GAME THAN HAVE TO WAIT 6 HOURS TO LOG ON! THIS IS NOT TEMPORARY! FACE IT! YOU HAVE 20K-50K PPL ON MOST OF THE TIME! THIS IS RIDICULOUS! BEEN W8ING 1 HOUR AND STILL 15K OUT OF 23K. FIRST YOU BOG DOWN MY INTERNET WITH HOURS OF GLITCHY PATCHES, THEN THIS! I HATE YOU!
Well, after about 4 and a half hours of waiting, my chores are done and since I am still in queue (and not British, from a Douglas Adams joke) I am giving up and changing the channel.
SWTOR has enough server space that I can play without a so-called "short" wait.
EDIT: Well, after this post, I actually was logged in finally. However, my frustration level is so high at the moment that I only did some minor mail maintenance (another peeving issue) before logging out. Next stop, SWTOR, where a lot of others are going.
22,757 back in Q for the 3rd time as i get house chores done and watch TV and do laundry and im running out of things todo come on fix this or its gonna confuse the heck out of my wife when she comes home and EVERYTHING is done
no guys you think my request may seem petty but i also know there are millions of players so requesting a common item for mass gifting to me doesnt seem unreasonable for compensation. this is very inconvient and its not our fault its theres and i think requesting a gift is not unreasonble.
I understand that the ques means the game is full and a lot of people are playing which is a great thing but I think its time to get new servers or buy more being 22k in line is pretty ridiculous. I love the game but those ques are too high! That's my 2 cents now... what to do while i wait for game to let me in hmm...:P
Entertained right now.. has anyone else other then myself thought to login the perfect world site and do the surveys while they wait. Its free ZEN... just a thought
yes. but got rejected three times. Bll**** has to be carefully selected. :-)
I left the queue going and after 94 minutes I'm still only up to 4000. Its a shame that all modern releases nowadays under estimate the stress put on log in servers on release day. I understand costs have to be kept to a minimum but I cant imagine how much lost revenue they will have from those of us unable to log in and play.
I bought the Starter pack and haven't been able to try the content yet, I'm happy to come back in a day or two when things are hopefully resolved by the company however as someone who was tempted with the LTS last night, I now have no interest in purchasing a subscription which means that I still have to queue. I'll keep that money for something else.
Not meant to be a moan, just a perspective from a casual gamer who just, well wants to game and not queue.
However its good to see that a game that I thought was dying before PWE stepped in is going so strong
dont hold your breath.....PW (parent company to cryptic) is all about revinue (chinese company) they do little if anything to better the product yet constantly churn out better rated ships so players are forced to buy them to compete.
just look at all the games perfect world runs all pay to win asian garbage
Some LTS/Golds think that silvers should be completely kicked from the server when a LTS/Gold is trying to log on.
Ignoring that the "free" players have likely sunk money into the game too via the cash store, in some cases well over the price of a full charge LTS membership, just spread out over a year instead of in a lump sum.
wait..hatred against free players?! I thought this was STO not TOR
well...guess they're mad since they have to wait in line with the rest of us
a lot of people say they werent prepared for the mass influx of people logging in when LoR went live,lag,lag and lag,most people can deal with lag if they can get into the game,to prove they were prepared they even made a nice little lcars login queue screen,before it was just a basic text which very rarely popped up,lol they even spent time coding an lcars screen,anyway i dont know much about servers and their capacity,but this is the first time ive seen full servers in an MMO,and even an MMO which has been slated as a failure since launch
Because this isn't 2005, and people don't expect problems like 'server queues' to happen anymore. In fact, this is probably the first time I've seen an MMO with one in at least 3 or 4 years.
As paying customers they're also entitled to complain, and while some may overdo it, I'd say it's better than watching a good chunk of the playerbase start charging back their purchases and/or quitting the game entirely if this keeps up for much longer. Not to say that -will- happen, but if PW/Cryptic doesn't handle this situation properly, it very well could damage STO in an irreversible way.
Guild Wars 2. In maps with big events going on, you'll get shunted to an overflow server where the event likely isn't happening.
Similar, not the same, but still godfracking annoying.
For some weeks STO has problems and you launch Neverwinter on the same server cluster.
Result: More Problems
Then you launch STO LoR.
Result: More Problems and angry customers
And the best: while we wait in 20k+ queues Neverwinter runs without problems.
Why? Nobody cares about Neverwinter. Shut it down and fix STO!
That fail was foreseeable...
If you launch events / games / addons without the server resources it is no wonder.
The time has come you have to invest in new servers. tho old have not enougth capacity.
Do it or do it not and in some month the capacity will be enougth, cause the users will run away.
It has already startet. Just TODAY and just in my fleet 3 Players quit the game and will not come back!
Ha ha ha, and I thought the recent server problems with Battlefield 3 were bad. I'm off there now to vent some frustration...
Not really surprised there are server issues, but the sheer amount of time you are expected to queue is rather staggering. Hope this gets sorted soon. Godspeed Cryptic, hope you get this sorted soon.
What's funny for me, as a subber gold member. Both times I logged on and actually got thrown into the queue (2 other times it didn't even put me in the queue and I got in) it put me in the 1st and 3rd spots (Which was in front of 26k). So yeah, haven't had issues as a gold member with it yet. :P
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Bad? I haven't seen an expansion come up that fast, nor that stable, or require as little stability-mending downtime. And i used to pay for WoW. For like, 5 years. Every expansion day was a connection nightmare.
Welcome to the club. Down to 4444 now. Will play something else for some weeks until everything calms down again.
Normally i dont say anything...but come on cryptic you should have know after your big update lots of people would want to play..either you need more servers or have STO on there own ones
3 hours of waiting..walked the dog X2 and done my food shop...still waiting!!
:eek:
Let's not get crazy about this!!
Be reasonable, mon!!!
Seriously there's this big bright thing outside that burns the skin and hurts the eyes when you look at it!!!
RIP KDF and PvP 2014-07-17 Season 9.5 - Death by Dev
SWTOR has enough server space that I can play without a so-called "short" wait.
EDIT: Well, after this post, I actually was logged in finally. However, my frustration level is so high at the moment that I only did some minor mail maintenance (another peeving issue) before logging out. Next stop, SWTOR, where a lot of others are going.
yes. but got rejected three times. Bll**** has to be carefully selected. :-)
dont hold your breath.....PW (parent company to cryptic) is all about revinue (chinese company) they do little if anything to better the product yet constantly churn out better rated ships so players are forced to buy them to compete.
just look at all the games perfect world runs all pay to win asian garbage
wait..hatred against free players?! I thought this was STO not TOR
well...guess they're mad since they have to wait in line with the rest of us
Guild Wars 2. In maps with big events going on, you'll get shunted to an overflow server where the event likely isn't happening.
Similar, not the same, but still godfracking annoying.
For some weeks STO has problems and you launch Neverwinter on the same server cluster.
Result: More Problems
Then you launch STO LoR.
Result: More Problems and angry customers
And the best: while we wait in 20k+ queues Neverwinter runs without problems.
Why? Nobody cares about Neverwinter. Shut it down and fix STO!
That fail was foreseeable...
If you launch events / games / addons without the server resources it is no wonder.
The time has come you have to invest in new servers. tho old have not enougth capacity.
Do it or do it not and in some month the capacity will be enougth, cause the users will run away.
It has already startet. Just TODAY and just in my fleet 3 Players quit the game and will not come back!
Not really surprised there are server issues, but the sheer amount of time you are expected to queue is rather staggering. Hope this gets sorted soon. Godspeed Cryptic, hope you get this sorted soon.
Ya I just missed out on the big ones.. still working thru a list of the small ones though. I like that in everyone though I'm from Beverly Hills lmao
I had seen queues before, in another universe, but never this bad.
They're saying they are trying to resolve an issue, but I logged in just fine early today so here's the issue: BAD PLANNING!
a) New Movie out, stirs the interest for new players
b) New content, stirs the interest for old players
c) Not enough servers
Someone should loose his or her job over this.
Now I'm not going to stick around for a few hours, to get a chance to get in.
Here's an idea: Send us emails when it's possible to log in the game.
Now 20926 out of 22266!
Ridiculous!