100% agree… well said. This is a mostly solved problem these days.
Only if you’re autorunning or holding W for 25 minutes non-stop. When was the last time anyone playing the game actually did that?
An hour ago…
2000 is fine. The world is too small to sustain more.
The problem is that they’re locking empty servers.
autorunning for 25 minutes without doing anything else? Really?
I picked a low pop server and even went out of my way to find out where any streamer is going to avoid them. I picked the most obscure named server that has seemingly no name appeal (Ydalir). It’s like some Idiot streamer moved to it or something because it went from no queue since its conception (not too long ago ) to 500+ queues over the past two days. Looks like I’m gonna have to move again.
I have a hard time with they were taken by suprise. Someone had to know how many copies they sold before launch. I wonder if they made most of the sales on release day?
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They told PC Gamer in an interview that the amount of sales in the day or so before launch was much more than they anticipated.
Then how about a refund when people ask for it.
Ditto. Some posters are acting like they can’t leave their keyboards for one minute without being thrown in a que. It’s ridiculous.
@OP, Have a smoke. Make a sandwich. Take a dump. You’ll be fine. Just don’t leave the game running for a hours at a time when you aren’t playing. If you are, you deserve to be penalized for it. End of story.
If it takes you more than 15 min to pull a cig then you are doin it wrong. When I smoked I had 15 min to get from the 3rd floor office down to the smoke area, kill a cig, get back up and get logged back in and I did it 4 times a day along with all the other smokers there.
You’re wrong and you’re taking the side of a trillion dollar corporation over fellow paying consumers.
This is a technical issue and bad design on their part, they need to do better. Support your fellow players.
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Dude me too… I rarely leave reviews but I feel this warrants a 1 star for execution and plan to write mine on steam today. If you’re taking your $40 to go buy a game, there’s a million out there that don’t require you to sit for hours and hours putting wear and tear on your PC just waiting in line and then the moment the baby starts crying or you gotta go take care of something real quick, you get kicked back out to wait 3 hours again. Or maybe you just crash because the game isn’t 100% stable yet and boom - your night of gaming is ruined.
People say, “oh but this is normal for mmos” like this is an excuse. The bar for mmos is already so low and this is more of an indictment on Amazon that with 20+ years of mmo launch experience to look at, years of their own development, and their own testing via beta, they still came up short. Not a little short, not a moderate amount short, but a big whopping massive amount short of their needed capacity.
People say just wait a week and play obviously don’t understand how mmos work. All your friends and your company will be way higher level and unable to group with you. Your company is relying on you to contribute to early territory claims to keep competitive with the other companies and factions. It’s a really really frustrating experience if I can be honest and a real disappointment.
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Again and again seems to me like a shortcoming of Amazon, not the players. You can defend AGS as much as you want, but please do that while you sit in the queue, unable to play the game you paid for.
I repeat myself, Amazon had a lot of scuffed launches to learn from, and they did exactly the same thing as any other game. It’s time to take the feedback and criticism from players. And this is mine.
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Read the discussion. It’s 25 minutes, not hours :). In an MMO. That’s the problem.
“Surprised by the interest”?
In the beginning there were 8 German Servers, yesterday there were 51 !. All were full or nearly full and most of them had Ques of 1.000 - 3.000. That isnt “suprised” - someone thas grossly fucked up some calculation. How the hell they thought that 16.000 Slots would be enoung for whole Germany? At the moment we have for Ger 100.000 Slots and yesterday at 09:00 PM around 50.000 people were sitting in the ques. The preorders were insane, the amount of people playing the beta were insane and they provided 8 !!! Servers? thats not “surprised” thats just stupid. I Changed my server 3 times and startet again from the beginning. But they addad 3-5 Servers any 6-12h, so the people didnt split evenly to all the new server, the players in the ques were moving to the next new servers. So players started there, relogged and were in a que. So they deleted the char and went to the next newes server. next relog same problem. Again Ques angan 3-5 Servers popped up and again the playes need to delete, lose thair progress and start all over again - or sit in ques for 3h - what most working people cant do. If i finish working at 7 PM and start the game i can play at 10 PM to 10:30 PM.
And yeah, if i go for a smoke, eat something or take a dump i will run into a wall! Yesterday i played 4h with a big UI bug because i didnt dare to restart the game - what a joke.
And Yes smoking 2 zigarrets and taking a dump can easily take 20 min.
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Amazon have had a much more successful launch than anticipated (sales I’m talking about). To be fair they have lashed on a lot more servers.
I’m not agreeing with the whole transfer to a low population server solution though. The server I selected on launch day was low pop at that time and now its stuffed. Going to another low pop server could end up the same, particularly if entire companies(guilds) organise to transfer over.
There are a lot of things about this launch that are the players fault. AFK timer avoidance is just one of the reasons. Another is more of a recent issue I feel, the anti preorder phase everyone is jumping on. Preorders have a few benefits for game companies, other than early income, one is to see the level of interest in games, and that’s especially important to MMORPGs to know how many servers they need to look into at launch. If only 50k people place a reservation on a game, the company may feel servers for quadruple that would be fitting to launch. When the fact that 50k people preordered, and they planned on 200k players, and it ends up being 600k, then really it’s not the companies fault they didn’t have enough servers for the players, it’s the players not showing the interest they really had in the game before launch.
This entire beta how people were talking, and how little you heard about this game (at least how little I heard) before launch, I wasn’t expecting this many players to play. I’m even seeing news clippings of this game, and I wasn’t expecting any of that either.
I don’t see that many players exploiting the AFK mitigation system. I mean it there are 2-3 at my in there’s the possibility there are 2-3 at the other inns. That doesn’t account for the 400 to 14,000 long queue’s. It’s even more frustrating when you been waiting in a queue for 1 hour and you time out and have to start all over again. Those are separate but related issues that Amazon Gaming needs to fix since the players base can’t do a darned thing about them.
sad thing is they want to ban people who try to stay in game afk meanwhile BDO rewards you for being afk in game… seems like they really need to take after BDO on everything server related… game play is a different story but if we could freely swap servers to play with friends we would never have had this issue