While some reactions are excessive… any company that markets a game as a multiplayer sandbox and runs official, perpetual servers needs to take some responsibility for the stability of those servers. And if people lose their hard-earned progress due entirely to the dev’s incompetence you can expect them to get upset.
It’s that simple.
When this new issue hit I’d just finished disassembling an entire base and was heading somewhere with an inventory full of T4 thralls/mats/etc. I disconnected and was unable to log in right after teleporting to the Sinkhole obelisk. So yeah, it was upsetting.
Luckily I’m a persistent MFer so I was able to spend 10 min logging in each time in order to take 10 steps before I’d get disconnected again at the next authentication cycle, and eventually got somewhere safe. Here’s hoping everyone else was able to recover their gear/corpse and log safely.
Pretty sure some hyperbole is being engaged in here. But I really do think it’s fair to register our collective displeasure at this incredibly poor level of customer service. Yes, I’ll be getting some RL things done which is not terrible but, like most of the adults who play this game and really only get into it on the weekends, I did have plans that are now scuttled. As did a fair few other players on my server. I have long said private modded servers are the only thing that makes this game worthwhile. But even that doesn’t help when, y’know, you can’t even get into the game.
if an online game doesn’t work nearly -every- WE when ppl want to play and there is -never- a prompt response i don’t think reactions are excessive. Seems Funcom realizes that the game changes lead to nothing so they boycott it for extra that they can shut it down soon.
That said, and for the future, I hope someone there at FC (a project manager or whatnots) runs a benefits/costs to check whether the extra step to log in is worth it or not. I get that it’s to prevent people from using pirated copies on private servers, but I really wonder how much money it made, vs. how much it cost from the outages and general loss of goodwill from players.
Now why does it NOT surprise me that this may be a Microsatan issue? I’m with @Topinambour on this one. And I will say it’s NOT worth it at all. After all the decision to use that evil company for anything you can avoid is not a sound one. Figure something else out FC. Because this is BS!
Will have to check. In legendary weapons collection before placed in dungeons. Yes looking like I am missing the wall to hang thralls from not sure what else.
And I just got in without a hitch. No idea if it’s just a matter of getting lucky or if someone out there is actually paying attention and got it fixed.
Hiiii While I have found a work around to crashes and fatal errors I have had for months. and I have nevber been affected by this it is not good for servers ESPECIALLY when everyone is in a bit of a dip as too new MASSIVE games just came out.