early access

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

nah you get "advanced access" keklmao, you can't make this up! xD

[FreshMint]

I don't understand the joke but yeah the early access is a bit weird when you consider that in the end it's just a weird earlier release with the tagline of 'the servers may suffer during this time!'.

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

Originally posted by FreshMint:

I don't understand the joke but yeah the early access is a bit weird when you consider that in the end it's just a weird earlier release with the tagline of 'the servers may suffer during this time!'.

if you go to the store page it says "advanced access" it's just funny to me.

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

Originally posted by Baja:

I don't get the point of early access with multiplayer games. Servers usually get swamped with traffic and it becomes a hassle just to log in.

well it's better that the server becomes congested a few days earlier

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by Baja:

I don't get the point of early access with multiplayer games. Servers usually get swamped with traffic and it becomes a hassle just to log in.

The point is so not the entire player base logs in the second the expansion is officially out.

[Sunny]

Originally posted by TerunagaTV:

if you go to the store page it says "advanced access" it's just funny to me.

Can you explain what's funny about it?

Cos it sounds like you think it's funny that 'early access' and 'advanced access' both exist and are different things, but I am failing to see any humor in that so I must be missing something.

Originally posted by Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥):

The point is so not the entire player base logs in the second the expansion is officially out.

Yup. Stagger the rush.

[Scarsick]

Originally posted by Sunny:

Originally posted by TerunagaTV:

if you go to the store page it says "advanced access" it's just funny to me.

Can you explain what's funny about it?

Cos it sounds like you think it's funny that 'early access' and 'advanced access' both exist and are different things, but I am failing to see any humor in that so I must be missing something.

You're not missing anything. I get why they use "advanced" instead of "early" because early access became a synonym for beta and they don't want people to think we're beta testing the expansion before release.

Why this is funny only OP knows.

[Sunny]

Originally posted by Scarsick:

Why this is funny only OP knows.

Yeah, that's why I was asking.

Thought maybe the word for 'advanced' was funny in French or something. Like queue. Did you know they say 'tag' instead for roulettes in FR instead of queue? I did not know that until today. Cos queue apparently sounds like a word for male genitalia in French lol.

[FreshMint]

Originally posted by owlBear:

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The point of paid early access is to make money out of nothing, hence why even singleplayers do this predatory nonce. It's just a fortunate happenstance that it staggers a multiplayer playerbase, sometimes.

I'm pretty pro-FFXIV, but it's not benevolence, it's business.

(Fortunately early access in FFXIV expansions does not cost extra like a lot of other games love to do)

[Shield]

Originally posted by FreshMint:

Originally posted by owlBear:

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The point of paid early access is to make money out of nothing, hence why even singleplayers do this predatory nonce. It's just a fortunate happenstance that it staggers a multiplayer playerbase, sometimes.

I'm pretty pro-FFXIV, but it's not benevolence, it's business.

(Fortunately early access in FFXIV expansions does not cost extra like a lot of other games love to do)

Yeah, I forgot that really important detail and embarrassed myself with a whole shpiel about it. Lol, mb

[hagare]

Originally posted by Scarsick:

Originally posted by Sunny:

Can you explain what's funny about it?

Cos it sounds like you think it's funny that 'early access' and 'advanced access' both exist and are different things, but I am failing to see any humor in that so I must be missing something.

You're not missing anything. I get why they use "advanced" instead of "early" because early access became a synonym for beta and they don't want people to think we're beta testing the expansion before release.

Why this is funny only OP knows.

we're not beta testers. We're stress testers xD

[Scarsick]

Originally posted by Baja:

Is it really early access if you can't log in? I remember not being able to log in for entirety of Endwalker's early access period along with the first two weeks after release. Hope it isn't as crowded this time around.

That was during covid, the game was at its peak in popularity, it even surpassed WoW for a while back then. Games like this always have issues when release new expansions, but they really underestimated how many people would be playing EW on release. They also couldn't get more servers because there weren't servers available to buy. They even suspended sales for a while and made a live apologizing.

I don't think it's gonna happen this time. The game is not as hyped as it was back then, and they're probably learned from that experience anyway.

[Alternity]

Endwalker launch was especially painful because of the error 2002.

[FreshMint]

From recent interviews released today at the very least it sounds like they're more confident about server load this time.

[Veotax]

I can't imagine that we'll get connection trouble as bad as with Endwalker. The devs have apparently done a ton of work on the servers and net code to improve things, plus added new servers.

One of the big issues with EW was that it landed during the lockdown, and they literally couldn't get new hardware with the shortages. Plus the massive demand around that time was completely unexpected. Would 't be surprised if we don't hit EW player numbers for this launch.

[Raansu]

Originally posted by Baja:

I don't get the point of early access with multiplayer games. Servers usually get swamped with traffic and it becomes a hassle just to log in.

It's just to encourage pre-orders. That's it.

It has a slight benefit of spreading out logins, but I'd call that benefit miniscule.