Comments on: Lessons From WAR’s Launch

By: Grimjakk

Grimjakk — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:53:27 +0000

Y’know… I’m remembering a game called… let’s see… what was it? Ah. Everquest. A server called Fenin Ro. A lesson that was learned about anouncing server names TOO early.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:45:58 +0000

My server’s queue time has been steadily climbing since launch >.< was consistently 250 at primetime last week, 250-300 over the weekend, up to 350+ last night (including over 300 at 1 am)… ugh.

Transfers, please.

By: Ferrel

Ferrel — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:26:57 +0000

Great points Ryan.

These are things that all developers should learn and plan to do immediately. The launch was smooth but those little amenities would go a long way.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:11:00 +0000

^ should have made it clear that I was quoting Draegan with the first line.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:41:03 +0000

How is it a bad decision? I might not of worked as much as they hoped but it isnâ€™t bad. Giving people options is never BAD.

Spending time on a “solution” which had little to no chance of working is a bad decision.

The game is fine. I’m enjoying it on my Chosen. It’s not superlative but it is one of the better games to come out in recent years and I’ll be playing for a while at least. Some of Mythic’s decision-making has been a mite silly though.

By: Nerrollus

Nerrollus — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:55:37 +0000

All sounds resonable to me. Especially the part about the preorder keys. I know several people that got bit because of it.

Personally I never preorder games or purchase right away… I’ve been burned so many times because of bad launches, that I always wait a week or two after the release of a game before I purchase and get it. With WAR I waited a week and talked to a couple friends to see how it was doing before I bought it.

I still have bad dreams of Anarchy Onlines release … lol

By: Mythilt

Mythilt — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:31:05 +0000

One other thing should be added to all launches…..A spam filter option. Not just /ignore, but something like what was implemented on EQ2.

By: Nybling

Nybling — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:29:21 +0000

Gonna shill for Mythic here for a moment.

You know, people could have also rerolled after the first two days indicated some servers were going to be nuts. CoW did it. It’s not like you had a lot of time invested in a new character and losing so much work. 2 days? Really? The fault here lies more with the idiocy of players than it does with Mythic. Mythic gave people an option. Players chose to stay and are now whining. Well GG. Obviously any server with guilds like HA, Carnage, Old TImers Guild, etc are going to have a lot of active players. It makes Volkmar appealing as a player.

But is it truly worth waiting in line?

Absolutely not, and people who did not do it only have themselves to blame.

By: Garthilk

Garthilk — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:18:16 +0000

I told Mythic pretty much nearly everyone one of these things months ago in my intereactions. Unfortunately, well… the results are obvious.

By: Draegan

Draegan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:33:22 +0000

How is it a bad decision? I might not of worked as much as they hoped but it isn’t bad. Giving people options is never BAD.