It’s my favorite genre so I picked up the $20 early access on PS5 only to be met with a ridiculous queue at around noon on a Tuesday. What? Are only like 5 people allowed online at once?
This is ridiculous.
Update: my controller turned off after waiting in queue for 15mins which disconnected me completely. What?? Back to FFXIV I guess.
FFXIV is life, just give in to it.
I’ve put about 5 days played into FFXIV. I got in Heavensward and I’m beginning to feel burnout. Idk I’ve enjoyed it but combat sequences are so few and far between in the MSQ. I just run from npc to npc all day. Feels more like a visual novel than a MMO.
haha genuinely, i feel the same about FFXIV and i’m not even as into MMOs as you. I tried to get into it, got about 60% through the ARR MSQ, and then lost interest. That base game is still ROUGH, or at least it was when i played.
But you said ffxiv is life! Now I’m confused, scared, and slightly aroused?
Break it up with the daily dungeons/raids. Also, ARR is the longest slog to ever have slogged - they cut it down significantly already and it’s still a massive slog.
Take a break, return for the actually good expansions later. It will still be there.
Funny you’d bring FFXIV up, I guess you haven’t been around for EW’s release? :D
It’s “mostly negative” on steam - seems nobody can play it. So … just give it a few weeks and try again, if you can even remember to by then lol
First time trying a new game at launch?
Pro-tip: plann for queues and crashes for the first day at least.
Pro-tip #2: maybe read or watch a review before buying. That game looks terribad and reviews aren’t particularly good.
It’s unfortunate that your expectation is that a game won’t work at launch rather than us being able to control our own servers or whatnot.
Yeah it is unfortunate. But “hope for the best, expect the worst” serves me well in life and is particularly apt when it comes to video game launches.
I played the beta and I really enjoyed it. Anyway not very helpful pro tips.
Yeah it’s my very first time.
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Pro-tip: this isn’t a queue because the game is wildly popular, it’s a queue because of under-provisioning and poorly designed services that can’t handle a normal load.
World of War Warcraft is also unplayable at noon on Tuesdays. It’s an uncommon enough time that the servers might be down for maintenance. They could do a better job explaining that if that’s the case, but it’s early access.
It isn’t early access if anyone can buy it and they’re charging money for it, it’s a released product.
They just released the minimum viable product even though the actual devs probably told them not to.
The challenge is to find the way into the game?
I played the beta and was wholly disappointed by the gameplay. I’d refund if you’re able.
I tried. Sony said no because I downloaded it. What amazing customer service.
If a product doesn’t work, you should be able to refund it. I don’t know what country you‘re in but in a lot of them they can’t get away with this. If you google „refund unplayable game“ you should see a couple people giving advice. Good luck.
I was able to get it refunded with a one time exception over the phone! Woohoo! Lesson learned.
Good job! Can you please elaborate for me and the others how you did it? What did you say specifically?
I told them the servers barely functioned. He said they’d refund me as a one time exception because I was level 2 with PlayStation stars.
Thanks a lot! :) glad it worked out for you in the end.
Damn, that sucks :(
Just got in and tried it. Feels very cheap. Like a free to play mobile game. YIKES.
Yeah I didn’t even make it out of the tutorial. It felt very cheap for the amount of advertising this thing has gotten
I was able to refund it finally over the phone. Plays like a free to play mobile title. Awful.
So your saying I should t stop playing final fantasy 16 or refund my armor core to try it out? :)
Correct.
I’m actually pretty salty about this. I paid for early access knowing there’d be bugs and unfinished content, but I didn’t think a week after launch I still wouldn’t even be able to play it.
Refund it. Corpos only look at financial statements anyway
I would, but two of my buddies also bought it with the idea that we’d play together and they’re happy to ride it out. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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It’s called waiTfinder
Boom.
Approximate wait time: 00I’ve been sitting here since 000. This is getting ridiculous.
Honestly the game is fantastic once you’re in. Devs have been working 9am-midnight even 3am since last Tuesday (Aug15).
It’s not a hardware issue. It’s their software. I’ve been closely following their discord. Should have a fix soon and allow for unlimited scalability.
The game isn’t fantastic at all once you’re in. It feels like a cheap mobile title. It’s horrible.
