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vamank
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I was a subscriber before F2P. Once F2P went live I cancelled. This is the first time I have ever seen such a wait to get in game. So I became frustrated and just renewed my subscription to go GOLD again.
Before I renewed I was 24512 out of 24585. Seconds after I renewed, I was 3 out of 24209.
That's a huge difference. I smell a conspiracy....
Before I renewed I was 24512 out of 24585. Seconds after I renewed, I was 3 out of 24209.
That's a huge difference. I smell a conspiracy....
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What conspiracy?
Thye clearly state that GOld and LTS get prefferential queuing. You'll get bumped up to the from section of the line.
It's like a fast pass at an amusement park.
I'm not subscribing to a broken game.
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Then you Sir can wait.
I have never seen a queue before and now bam there is not only one but a massively huge one. I spent all day trying to log in, until I finally became frustrated and shelled out the cash. I understand that there are a lot of people trying to get on but this is nuts.
Either way I was thinking about going gold for a month or two to get full bank and inventory slots for all my new characters. Its cheaper then just buying the slots bit by bit.
Based on where I was before gold and there after, there was over 20,000 silver players waiting. This magical queue seems to be a great way to motivate people to subscribe.
It is only slightly broken and the devs are working on it.
I have had only slight wait times to log in over the past two days.
As the old American Express ads stated... "Membership has it's privileges"
... a gaming rig and high speed internet doesn't hurt either
I'd be willing to bet that Cryptic believes that anyone who shells out $200-$300 to become a LTS will more likely spend even more cash over the long run verses a free to play individual who has no such large monetary investment / commitment, hence the "front of the line" treatment.
As for your situation, I agree that Cryptic either underestimated the log-in demand, or simply did not have the funds to provide sufficient "bandwidth".
Branflakes has posted that they are aware and hopefully you will be able to get in soon.
Best of luck and keep the faith.
Six hours later... no update que is bigger yes, you will be in "soon" lmao
I disagree....
Cryptic's uses all these new members to convince Perfect World to invest in more servers/bandwidth for the game...
So everyone wins!
Why? Getting priority login is clearly listed as one of the things you get with a gold membership. It's no secret.
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You should call the police. I had no idea cryptic was visiting peoples houses and forcing them to do stuff.
Cryptic is not EA or Blizzard. Dan Stahl has stated that Cryptic takes a very conservative position when spending money. This is why this game is still around even with its previous difficulties.
My only hope is that this conservative approach does not hurt the game in the long run... i.e. yours and many others log-in woes.
And we liked it!
Ever stayed at a hotel, ever traveled, or even some fancy restaurant, participated in any service providing entity?
You WILL SEE status and membership has its perks.
And you bought currency / items not membership.
Come now; is Delta Airlines negligent or lacking in foresight whenever they oversell a given flight? Of course not; they know from experience that a given percentage of paid passengers simply won't show up. Delta and PWE both manage their resources in order to sustain a given anticipated load. From PWE's perspective, today (and this weekend) is a unusual situation that will mean unusually high load. Sure, there are some means to mitigate that, but building a ton of network and server capacity that will rarely if ever get used isn't a very wise method.
Ridiculous. You don't build out data or communications infrastructure to cope with the maximum *possible*load. You build it to support the anticipated *routine* load, plus a percentage beyond that. To build infrastructure to support *every customer you have at once* would be wasteful of resources. Even your phone company doesn't have enough lines -- landline and cell combined -- for everyone in your area to make a phone call at once. Is your phone company TRIBBLE you by doing that? I think not.
Look, I've been a top-level frequent flyer on several US airlines, and a paid sub or LTS for this game amounts to the same thing. If you want priority treatment, pony up for a paid sub or an LTS. By the same token, if a snowstorm prevents two people from flying out of Boston in the middle of the winter, someone's who's a Platinum Medallion on Delta and who was booked in First Class is going to get on a plane way ahead of someone who scored a cheap coach ticket on Priceline.
No disrespect intended, but that's simply the way business works.
If neverwinter gets released and STO doesnt go down then i may reconsider, but until then paying for downtime is not high on my list of priorities and the company needs to prove it can dependantly provide a service that I will pay for. So far the proof is they cannot provide 99.9% uptime withoutcounting regular server maintanence and patch schedules. Anyone who subscribes right now is either stupid, a fool, or has more expendable cash than the recession has left me with.
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I wouldnt be surprised to know subs went up this month just so people could get that priority login, I wouldnt call it conspiracy, its just business.
It will influence my future investments in PWE/Cryptic titles though.
People who have subscribed quite rightly are put at the front of the que. If you dont like this, then you have the option to subscribe as well, nobody is stopping you.
Uphill both ways in hip deep snow with no shoes I'll bet.
Did you have to beat off wolves with your keyboard and trap wild game with your wired mouse?
What a company says and what a company does is two completely different things. And saying something along the lines of, "Well, at least they're not *place company here*," doesn't make the company in question any better. We shouldn't accept bad business practices from one company merely because there are companies out there that are worse.
Whether or not they're conservative with their money is also not really a consideration in this case, because if they can't afford to provide their product then they shouldn't try to sell it to us. If you can't afford servers to provide an online service then you don't collect money from people, promise them that service and then don't deliver on that service.
When did this sort of thing become acceptable? When did we, as consumers, decide that we deserve this sort of treatment from the businesses we give our money to? When did we become so addicted to this sort of treatment that we began to defend those who exploit us, throw our money at them and beg for more?
You don't need to walk through the premier lounge to get to your flight. You DO have to log in to access *anything* you've purchased in-game.
Oh I can read fine, and you cant wriggle out of it that easily. Either something was being forced or is wasnt.
The simple fact is that cryptic is not and likely will never be in position to force anyone to do anything.
I would also assume there are others that are in the same boat. Now I agree with you if all the person is doing is being a whiner then tell them to take a long walk off a short pier into deep water. So again, I will reiterate The post I made earlier in a server wait thread, I ask the Devs to please add more server space to handle all the players it is only to their and the players benefit. Have fun and good hunting.
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Well you have just defeated your own argument. You can still access whatever you have purchased, but if you dont have a sub, you will have to wait.
So does an airport 'force' you to wait in line, when other people chose to pay to get ahead faster?
Does a theme park 'force' you to wait in line, when other people pay a bit more to get ahead in the que?
Where is all this 'forcing' comming from?
Nobody is 'forcing' you to do anything, you have the same option to subscribe as everybody else dont you?
Or is somebody 'forcing' you not to?