Originally posted by RPGTag

"Launch sucks.

Every launch ever in the history of ever has sucked. The range of suck varies- from memory dumps to random hair color changes to entire servers biting the dust, repeatedly,  for the first two weeks. I’m going to hit the highlights of launch, to better prepare the uninitiated into this time honored tradition.

Fact of Launch One: There will be bugs.

In engineering (and many other pursuits), there’s this thing called Murphy’s Law. In short, if it can go wrong, it will. In launch, this will often be taken a step further in that, if by going wrong it will cause several other things to go wrong, it will go wrong much sooner.

There are many reasons for this. Some of it is simply no amount of stress testing will truely prepare the servers for the masses. Others include faulty codes no one in beta caught, or exploits found that no one could foresee. Server crashes, disappearing items, falling into walls, getting stuck, memory dumps- all of it you should expect for at least two weeks, if not a little longer for all the kinks to be worked out. Normally, these will not be too disruptive to gameplay, hotfixes and relogging aside.

So, if you don’t think you can handle it, wait a couple of weeks before beginning play. The game will be running a lot smoother by then.

Fact of Launch Two: Mister Zippy and Mister Derp

One of the most common complaints for new MMOs is that there is a ‘lack of content’. This phrase is often bandied about as a result of two distinct but often intermingled mindsets: Mister Zippy and Mister Derp.

Mister Zippy is one of those gamers. Mister Zippy, in a traditional MMO, hits level cap within a few days of launch. Mister Zippy most often ignores the side quests, the hidden objects, the lore, the achievements, the collectibles games, and maybe even the PvP or PvE aspect to grind to cap. And then, Mister Zippy will be the first to cry foul because he is ‘omgsobored’. He will complain of a lack of content, pointing his finger at Funcom and huffing from the exertion laced with too much caffiene.

Mister Derp is a relative of Mister Zippy. Though he does not move quite so fast as his wayward cousin, Mister Derp also complains of a lack of content.However, this is due to his comparing the game in its infancy to older, better established games. Yes, like World of Warcraft. Chances are, Mister Derp has either forgotten the small amount of content WoW had at launch, or (more likely) was not in on the ground level of the game, so Mister Derp expects a brand new MMO to have the same content as an MMO that has been in development for years.

Now, before we bemoan and decry the exasperating antics of Mister Zippy and Mister Derp, let us pause to admit that, though they have stupid reasons for it, they ARE correct that there is a lack of content.

That’s right. There’s not going to be enough to do.

Most games do not start to have ‘enough to do’ until at least a year after launch. As RPer’s, we can counter this with our own stories and a little tavern RP.

If this does not sit well with you, you may want to wait until they start to do expansions/ content, which is often about a year.

Fact of Launch Three: Customer Service Baiting

Launch is a chaotic time, and if you think you’re frustrated you should be in the game’s customer service. So, let me lay down a law right here, right now."

I agree with what you say here. You explain very well why most mmo have a very bad Launch. Even WoW who had the title of King of MMO for a long time. Had the worse launch in the mmo history to this very date.

Mistake post.

 

Sound like a GW2 fan boy tring to stop us from buy the game.

I got a good laugh when I saw GW2 did not even make the list. I figured it was more hype then what it truely is. This list from people who actully played it and did not like it shows that. Yeah TSW got second place on the Top MMO list. Nice now I truelly can not wait for the game. :)

While I will agrea Blizzard has pretty much killed WoW. Rift is nothing like WoW. The game is so different. It a hybrid of the best and some of the worse mmo ever. Mixxed together and baked to perfection. The game is really solid. Unlike some other mmo that are coming out this year which is tring to rip of some other games and having massive stabilty issues. Rift still improving. Beta tester here and already the change the game alot from beta 1 to now. The game feels really good. Looks great and plays well. So far this is my mmo choose of 2011.

Will agrea. I tried many times tring to play the game. It always crash on character creation. Glad I did not preorder it. Game looks like it going to fail.

This game looks so good.

At first I thought the game was great. With the lack of classes made me very happy and excited. It when I found out the game was very limited on the pvp. ((it has a small pvp duel like setting nothing really impreassive.)) Which I blame to the fact you can not turn your hereo into a Villain. The badly made PQ they ripped off of WAR. It hard to understander stand what gear I can wear. I end up getting items that will only replace items that are better in the gear. Over all the game feels very cheap and well play the beta love it hate it. I do not see this game doing so well.

While WAR maybe second to way it still hold it ground nicly. For a new game it very well made. Sure it not perfect or new finish. The game if fun and I would have to say not a flop. There are many thing the game needs but at less we have 22 class now.  While the Knight of the blazing sun need a massive nerf.  

Fury was bad very bad. It had some good spots. One of my favorite was the unlimited specs you person could be. I hate how most mmo set you as a class and you can not expand past that. Sad it had far more problems then it got.  Level one getting killed by level 10.  Relied to much on stun locking. Only weakings with no skill Stun lock.  It was heavy on lag and choopyness. Was to much on armor, weapon and broken skill.  Three type of battle only please if you going be only pvp you need alot more then 3.   Alot of bug more bugs then all the mmo put together.  Very weak on gameplay.

Fury was jsut a bomb shell waiting to drop good thing it will not recover.