133904-my-own-little-words-of-encouragement-and-berating-those-who-do-not-understand-patience

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Hey you. Yea, you. The one sitting there with his nose glued to his computer screen while he makes another useless forum post complaining about the state of the game. Yes you, right there, don't point at yourself like you have no clue who else I'd be referring to. Now that I have your attention, I want you to stop what you're doing. Remove those Phlanges from your keyboard. Stretch them out a bit. Take a deep breath. Let it out. Relax. Now, before you continue on with your rant that isn't really going to do anything except possibly make matters worse, I want to let you in on a few secrets.
 
Firstly. Do you pay any attention to the Developer Tracker? Yes, that. The little tab that sits right next to the forum tab at the top of the screen. The one that no one ever seems to pay attention to for some strange reason I've not manage to figure out. Click it. What do you see? Posts made my the developers, right? Well, use it. You're complaining that the developers aren't giving any updates in regards to your issue, the same issue that everyone else is having, the same issue that you seem to think makes you more important than every other player having the exact same issue. Problem is, the developers are responding. This thing keeps track of every single post a developer makes. So even though they're not responding directly to your own thread because there are a million other similar threads being made out there, the developers are responding. Looking at the Developer Tracker myself, they've been responding to players ever since the launch first happened all those hours ago. They have been letting us know what they're working on. They have been letting us know where their priorities lie. I don't think the DevTracker has stopped updating since launch early this morning. And its not just English, either. The developers are responding to posts for every language their game supports. So just because they don't take the time to respond personally to your post, does not mean they're not talking to the players. There's no point in creating a giant news post for everyone to see if they don't know when everything is going to be fixed, how its going to be fixed, or even what is creating the problems that everyone is experiencing at once!
 
 
Secondly. I imagine you're tired of hearing this, but this is a game launch. It does not matter if the game has been out for a year before going free-to-play or not. This is still a relaunch, with thousands and thousands of players trying to log into their two Megaservers at once-- and keep in mind that these Megaservers have not been filled to capacity (or even stressed the way they have been today), since first coming online. What is a Megaserver, you ask? Well contrary to popular belief, a Megaserver is not a single server. A Megaserver is multiple servers all working together to create dynamic worlds for players based on how many there are trying to connect to the game. Even if there are five servers working to form one Megaserver, even those five servers will eventually get filled to capacity on such a big day. Eventually the servers become too crowded, resulting in ability lag and whatever else as the servers try to process a never ending tide of information that would make a man's mind melt if he tried the same thing. And if the Megaserver is trying to process information coming from players already in the game, in addition to players trying to create characters, you get the character creation issue, with it just sitting there. And again, its a new launch day. There are very few games out there, especially MMOs, that work smooth as silk on launch with all those players trying to log in. Testing on Beta is one thing. Smaller crowd, not nearly as much information that needs processed. Opening the servers to several thousand players (and the numbers here are probably much higher) means that the servers simply can't keep up. And that's the simple fact of the matter.
 
 
I really, really feel that players should have at least 3 or 4 years of IT work (or similar) under their belts before they're actually entitled to complain over things. If you have no scope of how much work actually goes into this sort of thing, you have no right to complain about much of anything-- especially if you know that they will get this stuff fixed-- even if it does not happen soon enough to suit you.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Now, that being said. Carbine, really fantastic job. You guys were great during the original launch, you guys are going above and beyond now. Dedication like this is what has kept me coming back ever since Closed Beta, and will keep me coming back in the future. Your game could be completely lousy (which its not, by the way, far from it) and I'd still return again and again because you guys are so dedicated to everything about WildStar. Its not too often you see such devotion like that. Not in this day and age. I apologize that your encouragement section is so small compared to my berating section, but I don't really have the words to express how awesome you folk are. Just try not to beat yourselves up too much, and sorry for the long wall of text.  ;)  
			
				
	Edited September 30, 2015 by Memory Mirror	
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Hey you. Yea, you. The one sitting there with his nose glued to his computer screen while he makes another useless forum post complaining about people complaining. Yes you, right there, don't point at yourself like you have no clue who else I'd be referring to. Now that I have your attention, I want you to stop what you're doing. Remove those flanges from your keyboard. Stretch them out a bit. Take a deep breath and stick one up your ass. Let it out. Relax. Now, before you continue on with your white knight-ing that isn't really going to do anything except possibly make people think you are an *cupcake*, I want to let you in on a few secrets.
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Boy, you people really are a hostile bunch, ain't you? This is why I stay away from the forums. Too many people have self entitlement issues.  :wacko:
 
 
 
Either way, I stand by my statements. You guys are acting a ways outside your age group, and its demeaning to yourself and to the rest of the fantastic community.
			
				
	Edited September 30, 2015 by Memory Mirror	
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I hate to be THAT guy, but...
 
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			While I don't condone all the hostile posts..yours just seems brown nosy to me. You literally say that the game could be complete garbage and you'd still play it because..the staff try. I think that the staff realizes things are bad right now and don't expect to be told that they are doing everything fabulously.	
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While I don't condone all the hostile posts..yours just seems brown nosy to me. You literally say that the game could be complete garbage and you'd still play it because..the staff try. I think that the staff realizes things are bad right now and don't expect to be told that they are doing everything fabulously.
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It's kind of like if I tried to cook someone eggs for breakfast that they paid for and then they turned out burnt. Then I said at least I didn't burn down the kitchen look on the bright side. 
 
Not saying wild star is unplayable or doomed forever. But right now we paid for a product (a fair number of us anyways) that is unusable and frustrating. Characters are customized and not saved..the lag is extreme.. there are long queues and rewards are missing from some people's accounts. Wild star devs wanted the player base hyped and thirsty for the release of their product then failed to deliver it at the allotted time. I think it's understandable for people to be upset. Obviously.. I don't think screaming and swearing and stuff will fix things but..yeah..frustration brings out the worst in people.	
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I really, really feel that players should have at least 3 or 4 years of IT work (or similar) under their belts before they're actually entitled to complain over things. If you have no scope of how much work actually goes into this sort of thing, you have no right to complain about much of anything-- especially if you know that they will get this stuff fixed-- even if it does not happen soon enough to suit you.
 
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			The main issue OP is that you don't realize the whole white knight act is just as damaging as the whiner. The reality is the launch was pretty bad, most MMOs are, yes, but that doesn't mean people should just blindly accept it either. What games in general need is more even constructive criticism of games. You're trying to swing the pendulum too far the other way. BTW the whole 'if you haven't worked IT you can't complain" is invalid. This is a product we're spending either time or money on, this isn't a talent show we're judging. 	
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			If no MMO can launch itself effectively that's an indictment of the genre, not a defense of its members.	
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You would think they would at least have support for current high end GPU's...also this is not a launch.
 
Please stop saying so, its basically wildstar with a in game store and anyone can play now.	
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