FeelsBadMan

[Airowird]

@Pfolus

@Airowird

As a dev, what was the biggest launch user-base you ever had and how many people did you have in beta before it? Because for that argument to work, you need to have had similar experiences in the past to elevate your argument above others.

I litterally have hundreds of thousand people impacted if i make a booboo cause i work for a vital operation for my state. But yeah, i must not know what i am talking about.

And my work can impact millions, because I work on supply chains of multinationals. But that isn’t an answer to the go-live question, now is it? I mean, it would be relevant if a WoW patch broke the servers (which btw still happens on expansion launches, with MILLIONS of customers and years of experience) but again, we’re talking about an initial launch.

Them breaking API just show that they did not even crash tested properly before launch. It is not server issue, it is litteral code that went bad so i suspect that they did not stress test enough.

They did do several stress tests prior to launch. Yes, that was apparently not enough. I assume they expected a lot of kickstarter/EA buyers to not log in straight away today, that’s a psychological parameter, more than a technical one.
We are also only <6h after launch and as far as I’m hearing from friends, the servers are already improving. If I could guarantee a somewhat stable environment within 8h of project launch to my boss, he’ld be handing me sacks of money to handle every single project in our company.

[Airowird]

@ledutchoven311

The point is that he was aware of the state the game was in when he paid for it, yet complains when the (free to him) upgrade isn’t to his liking.

I bought the game with the expectation it would go live and have functioning multiplayer. You regularly just give money to companies knowing their products will never be finished?

YM Steam Wishlist contains more EA games than finished because I do not. I give money when I think the current product is worth it and I think there is a high probability it will improve in the future, but never do I take that for a certainty. Sometimes you regret it, sometimes you don’t. I probably regret the D4 sticker price more than Wolcen, because atleast that one was a good concept executed badly. D4 is just turning over my pockets to Wall Street alpha bros.

[AlmightyRockwood]

Zerkley: “Food is a finished product.”
Also Zerkley: “A game with no online mode on day one is a finished product.”