Since Thursday, when the EUW region was introduced there has been no improvements in EUC.
Queues are still high (I am in 12,4K waiting queue on Kadan, at the moment of righting).
Game instances are unplayable:
*Party matching times out
*Guardian dungeons take 5-10 attempts to enter if you try matchmaking, and once you do, the game is lagging
*Chaos instances take 3-5 attempts to enter, and once you do, every time you progress a stage, you are frozen for a few seconds
Store is working like a light switch, on and off all the time, causing crystalline Aura issues for some users.
Obviously, the current new EUW region policy of no transfers is not working. I had already warned you in another post that this will not work, and other players had too.
So, my question is simple? Do you AGS have other plans to fix the current issues, or that was it?
Paraphrasing Morpheus from the Matrix movie: “Welcome to the New World”.
i have done at least 200 attempts to join guardian… 1and a half hour now i have been trying… its just like they want us to quit the fcking game
so that only the whales that have payed big money will stay.
There isn’t a policy of no transfers - there is the inability to do transfers. Fortuantely the issues are due to overpopulation so the situation will fix itself over time. Take a break for few months and when you return it will be all good.
I mean… the issue is we want this to be our game because we fell in love with it during early access… in 3 months time i expect i’ll be heavily invested into something else, something MORE stable.
Unless of course, they fix these issues imminently.
That would be 100 euro expensive few months. Why would I let the paid for crystaline aura run out? And I do not want to fall behind in the game… Me backing out because the publisher cannot solve their technical issues, is not a solution to a problem… All IT issues have workaround and solutions (trust me I am talking from experience)… The question is do they dare pay these costs?
They paid the cost by introducing EU-West region. Don’t expect anything else.
Every player has to choose for themselves now: 1) Move to EU-West, 2) Take a break, 3) Quit entirely, 4) Wait few months in broken game until the population decreases while other players do 1) 2) 3).
8 days later and no answer from AGS… I told you the EU West region would be a fiasco the way you implemented it… You might as well wipe it out completely, since it is useless and offered no real solution to the actual issues on EU Central.
So I will ask again… Any other plans to solve EU central issues?
If you read their statement, then you’d know that there are no plans to solve the EUC issues, as they are simply not a “solvable” issue for them due to how the game is designed. I guess at this point they just hope for enough players to quit in order for those issues to go away.
On a positive note, I have to say that matchmaking and the shop have been a lot better the past few days. Even on saturday evening with 900k+ players the queues, while still being slow, worked most of the time (my guess would be 80-90%). So at least that is a bit better now. Sadly, still not in the state we’d want it to, however it will not get there without more players quitting.
From your experience you should know that due to NFT bros and bitcoin server farms that just like graphic cards the expensive workarounds you are referring to are virtually impossible to come by. FFXIV spoke at length about it after the launch of Endwalker.
Not sure about the shop and instance queues. Yesterday for example with 800K players, most instances were failing (e.g. chaos, abysal), and the shop was inaccessible in many cases.
Them waiting for players to quit, just shows the level of incompetence. There are many technical solutions they could implement, for example create an npc in starting town that will level your char to lvl 50 autocomplete main story line quests, give gear etc… You got the spirit. Then the power passes could be used on alts.
The problem is that they will not spend any money on such solutions, for whatever reasons.
In the meanwhile, the crystalline aura time is ticking…
Well yesterday as well it was working perfectly fine all day long for me, just getting delays in button clicking and an occasional fail from time to time at prime time.
Also your technical solutions are not really solutions. Don’t forget that AGS is only the publisher and thus has barely and rights to modify the game or implement your suggestions. That is something that smilegate would have to do.
Easier is just to copy what they have on RU version… where skips to lvl 50 can be bough by gold even on fresh new account without any roaster on the server
There is confussion here on what is a publisher and what is a developer.
Your workaround is basically an abusable system and would also need to be done by developers (Which is Smilegate). Meaning SG will have to start working on at least 2 different versions of the game as this NPC wouldn’t be needed in KR or RU.
And I highly doubt SG would let AGS get their hands on their IP to have them code the stuff
I guess you are in NA and not in EU, this is why it was working for you
Well, I bought the game from AGS, they should fix it, and by fix it I mean, pay SG for the development of the solution (this is where the costs refers to). I think SG also wanted to have a happy player base, and I would expect them to be open to such solutions…
I play on EUC - ASTA, so no it is still working for me here.
Also I think they are already trying to find solutions with Smilegate, however as someone who comes from an IT company, I can tell you it is not something that is done overnight and if multiple companies are involved, even agreeing to a solution can take weeks if not months.
