After a whole day online play is still pretty much unplayable. Whether it’s being stuck on connecting to login or trying to load into the gardens sitting there for 10 or more minutes thinking am i actually loading into the zone or am i going to get an error.
While this sucks and can plague most online games, the LE team did not take the proper steps in order to alleviate these problems before hand. After announcing over a million copies sold they should have implemented steps to ensure a better launch. Beyond shocked that they did not do a stress test before launch. Stress tests for online games is like “testing games 101.” Immediately there should have been a que system in place from the get go so the servers wouldnt be clogged.
So now the team has said in the meantime play offline play. Which is what i have been doing, but there is a problem with that. At least for me anyways. I want to play online, like thats where i want to sink my time in. So when i play offline after about an hour or so i get bored because i think whats the point in offline when i want to be online. Now it would be different if we could transfer our toons over to online, but we cant. So really these toons are just there to keep me occupied until online actually works.
But in that lies my problem. Offline play with these toons being ultimately pointless is kind of killing my itch to play LE. I was super pumped to play yesterday. Got online within a few minutes of release, got my toon to like level 10, decided to log off and eat something, and then could never touch that toon again. So after the other few hours of randomly trying a rogue to level 20, then a primalist to level 15, its killing my drive because i know these toons are pointless and ill have to relevel them back up for online.
My point being is game launches are important for the casual players. Because if it doesnt improve within a day or so the overall community will lose interest and move to different games. We are already seeing streamers(not the hardcore arpg players) playing other games aread. Not a good sign.