*UPDATED* from twitter "We're still working on deploying the database improvements"

[Drothen]

Tweets in order:

"We're doing some last minute database upgrades to try help handle the overwhelming amount of Exiles getting ready to LOGIN to Path of Exile 2. We're trying to get this done ASAP, but it may cause a short delay in the servers going live."

"We're still working on deploying the database improvements and will keep you updated as soon as we know more. The moment we can provide a precise timeline we will. Thank you very much for your patience."

"We've deployed the new database configuration and are working on getting everything back up and running. Our current time estimates should have access opening within the next half hour. Thanks again for your support, we'll continue to provide updates as they come."

“Another update, we've found a last minute crash that would have affected a majority of users that we have now fixed and is being deployed, once that's out we will be doing our final checks then opening access. If there are any further updates we will let you know immediately, once again thank you very much for your patience, we're almost there!“

“We've run into a configuration problem and need to restart the realm. Please bear with us while we address the problem.“

[Pleatherface]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Brenno:

- Sell early access
- Set date and time for global release
- "Make database improvements" at the same time as the promised release date and not before
- $$$$

It's called early access for a reason and happens every single mmo launch. welcome to the internet lol

[Weruat]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dab_Masterson:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Weruat:

No amount of stress testing preps for actual launch day and considering how much the redemption on Early Access spiked closer to release, it's hard to gauge how much the back end can take. The game will be playable soon enough, gotta learn some patience

They didn't have to stress test to have raw data on sales numbers. They knew what they were getting into. Please don't be an apologist.

You say this as if the bulk of purchases happened weeks ago, but I'm sure a large majority happened within the last 3 days. There's only so much they can do and that sort of thing is common with games prepping for a large launch. I'm not an apologist, I'm just not impatient and I can understand that it's unrealistic to expect the game to launch perfectly.

[[:-:]]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dab_Masterson:

They didn't have to stress test to have raw data on sales numbers. They knew what they were getting into. Please don't be an apologist.

You don't have a job, do you, lol?

[Alpenhörnchen]

lol. So much crying. Reflects the society these days pretty good. Snowflakes everywhere.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Alpenhörnchen:

lol. So much crying. Reflects the society these days pretty good. Snowflakes everywhere.

I think you mean "people with mid-level expectations of being able to do something they paid to do".

In which case you'd sound like you were right......

[aprilmoon]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Alpenhörnchen:

lol. So much crying. Reflects the society these days pretty good. Snowflakes everywhere.

Imagine you bought tickets to cinema. Movie should start at 6pm. You go there, and they tell you. Due to some config changes we will delay the start of the movie by 30 minutes. 3 hours later you still sit in cinema. To be honest it would be better if they just said: "Upsie we f*cked, lets move this whole thing to 7th. The same launch hours".

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Bacon Overlord®:

Oprindeligt skrevet af aprilmoon:

I am just wondering what is going on. This is not their 1st rodeo and PoE1 is very much alive and kicking. Did something in how client works changed between the games that they have such issues?

The game wasn't ready... the things they are stating they are "fixing" (and still managing to break further) are things they should have picked up on during beta testing.

You must be new. This is the beta test. It's a year of early access till the game is fully released.

[scritchy]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Bacon Overlord®:

The game wasn't ready... the things they are stating they are "fixing" (and still managing to break further) are things they should have picked up on during beta testing.

You want them to test with 1M players during beta?

They are testing it before release, that testing phase is called early access.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Oprindeligt skrevet af GRVTSFat Bastard:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Bacon Overlord®:

The game wasn't ready... the things they are stating they are "fixing" (and still managing to break further) are things they should have picked up on during beta testing.

You must be new. This is the beta test. It's a year of early access till the game is fully released.

This is not the beta test... this is Early Release. A PAID early release at that...

That's not "beta" at all. That's when you put your mostly-complete game on Steam and get input from players on its growth and direction.

People aren't paying to be beta testers.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Oprindeligt skrevet af scritchy:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Bacon Overlord®:

The game wasn't ready... the things they are stating they are "fixing" (and still managing to break further) are things they should have picked up on during beta testing.

You want them to test with 1M players during beta?

They are testing it before release, that testing phase is called early access.

Stop and think for a second... how do OTHER games not have these issues at launch?

They use what's called a "server load" test.

But, even then some of the issues they are experiencing are with the game itself and why they've taken the server down TWICE already.

It simply wasn't ready.

[Kickz]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Drothen:

Tweets in order:

.....“

I have no issue with launch issues, beein used to them but its always great to get updates.

Thank you so much for sharing that here for us who don't use social media.
Much appreciated.

[Inos Sarum]

up

[Inos Sarum]

7503 in queue

[Weruat]

Oprindeligt skrevet af aprilmoon:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Alpenhörnchen:

lol. So much crying. Reflects the society these days pretty good. Snowflakes everywhere.

Imagine you bought tickets to cinema. Movie should start at 6pm. You go there, and they tell you. Due to some config changes we will delay the start of the movie by 30 minutes. 3 hours later you still sit in cinema. To be honest it would be better if they just said: "Upsie we f*cked, lets move this whole thing to 7th. The same launch hours".

This still would have happened. Moving the date doesn't help them prepare more. It's just a lot of people and an insane amount of server data required and it's hard to properly gauge how much. On that note, right now Queue's are back up.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Bacon Overlord®:

Oprindeligt skrevet af GRVTSFat Bastard:

You must be new. This is the beta test. It's a year of early access till the game is fully released.

This is not the beta test... this is Early Release. A PAID early release at that...

That's not "beta" at all. That's when you put your mostly-complete game on Steam and get input from players on its growth and direction.

People aren't paying to be beta testers.

It is a beta. Regardless of what you think we are testing the game for them. We're even stress testing the servers for them right now, but sure we can pretend that we aren't beta testers.