What is the worst MMORPG service experienced?

[Scorba]

To take our minds of our US cousins enjoying a pretty flawless launch of a mass Beta whilst we experience the exact opposite, anyone want to regurgitate some of those classic cock ups in service from MMORPG companies so we can put GOA's laughable 'service' in context?.

[pez]

I wasn't there but Legends speaks of Anarchy Online being particularly bad.

[Draylor]

With examples from GOA? It wouldnt help much.

By comparison others struggle to compete.

[Benedictine]

I was there for AO and it was bad - that was gameplay issues too though. I remember trying to run through the city and taking 30 mintues to get between 2 close locs.

I have a feeling this could be very close.

[Andyredbeard]

Age of Conan by Funcom is the worst launch I have experienced. I think EA was delayed only one day, so that wasn't so bad. However there were so many players, including me, who had severe problems with the buggy game client. I mean, several crashes every night weren't particularly amusing. To try and find a solution I spent a lot of time in the technical support forum, and out of all the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of threads in there I only ever saw 4 responses from Funcom. Needles to say I gave up and cancelled my account after 1½ month :P. In short, their lack of customer support was what made me leave.

[pez]

Originally Posted by Andyredbeard

Age of Conan by Funcom is the worst launch I have experienced. I think EA was delayed only one day, so that wasn't so bad. However there were so many players, including me, who had severe problems with the buggy game client. I mean, several crashes every night weren't particularly amusing. To try and find a solution I spent a lot of time in the technical support forum, and out of all the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of threads in there I only ever saw 4 responses from Funcom. Needles to say I gave up and cancelled my account after 1½ month :P. In short, their lack of customer support was what made me leave.

AoC worked perfectly for me from open beta through to launch. Every thing worked to a high enough degree and their timetable was kept to.

Pity it just wasn't a great game and didn't contain half the content promised.

[Andyredbeard]

Originally Posted by pez

AoC worked perfectly for me from open beta through to launch. Every thing worked to a high enough degree and their timetable was kept to.

Pity it just wasn't a great game and didn't contain half the content promised.

Well, yes, it worked fine for me as well... until I got out of Tortage. Then the torture began :P.

[Tauron753]

Well, obviously there's bound to be problems, but WOW's launch was flawless, except for the obvious parts, the 500000 europeans going on their site at the same time, but hey, that's inevitable, GOA screwed up in so many other ways, as in.. Not updating us, telling us lies, putting some POPULATION CAP ON SERVERS? >_>

I'm crying, so I'm gonna play AOC with my buddy-account for a while.

[Dudds]

Originally Posted by pez

Pity it just wasn't a great game and didn't contain half the content promised.

Didn't have half the content, bugs had not been fixed, quests that didn't work, no community support, grinders who leveled faster than expected were accused to botting and had items+money stripped...

Blizzard - Servers goes up - Que for 2 hours - Play for 20 mins - Start to get vendor lag - Servers Go Down, repeat for the rest of the week. What's more their idea of balancing the classes is to look at which class whines the most, buff them, and then hit everyone else with a big nerf stick.

LOTRO I didn't play so I don't know but I heard similar complaints.

Can't say I know many other MMO's that have had similar sized launches to this so it's hardly fair to compare them. I know it's been far from fulfilling today and I too have been pulling my hair out, mainly because I've spent to much time sat staring at a cog wheel, but I can't say I found any other OB starts anymore rewarding. However I would have liked to be able to patch while we waited for the authintification servers to come online. Without validating my key it would seem this isn't possible.

Don't know if this puts the situation in context but TBH I expected this, not because it's GoA, but because I have yet to see a flawless launch on this scale.

[pez]

It depends what you classify as a successful launch. A lot of what you mention are what i would consider to be just gameplay issues.

IMO a Successful launch delivers a stable client and stable servers, on time and in a playable condition. The game might be shit still but thats a separate issue.

[Xahl]

Something like:
''We are opening the server tomorrow''
After month (yes a MONTH) or so None usefull/new updates from the staff. only VERY little improment on the site.

Luv u Blizzard <3..... NOT!

[mrbandersnatch]

Last time I had a beta experience as bad as this was some tiny Russian MMORPG M***** something. I think it was basically 5 guys in an office and THEY managed to fix the log in process faster than GOA :/

[Andyredbeard]

Originally Posted by mrbandersnatch

Last time I had a beta experience as bad as this was some tiny Russian MMORPG M***** something. I think it was basically 5 guys in an office and THEY managed to fix the log in process faster than GOA :/

Well, you know, in Motherland Russia the servers log in on YOU!

(Edit: Sorry, that didn't make much sense. But I had a chance at one of those Russia quotes and I took it! Ok!?)

[Motowntheta]

Originally Posted by Dudds

LOTRO I didn't play so I don't know but I heard similar complaints.

Apart from some SLI and DX Issues, I've had no problems at all with LOTRO, it was great and for me so was DDO, but then I assume the volume of users was less and the company doing it bigger.

[mrbandersnatch]

Originally Posted by Andyredbeard

Well, you know, in Motherland Russia the servers log in on YOU!

(Edit: Sorry, that didn't make much sense. But I had a chance at one of those Russia quotes and I took it! Ok!?)

hehehe Shouldnt that be "In Russia, registration servers register YOU"