What bothers me about this beta weekend is that they got thousands of people downloading 20-30 gigs worth of data. Waiting upwards of a week for more info. And they let them in Saturday at 10AM and it ends Sunday at midnight. That's not even 48 hours of opportunity to login for all your time invested up to this point.

I mean Ive been in the beta for awhile, and that pisses me off. I have friends who I had to convince to get in and they didn't even give them the holiday and the weekend to mess around. Gave them a day and a half at best if there are no problems....and they are going to take the servers down (probably wipe the temp servers) so that means you have repeat yourself the next time they give you 36 hours to try to login.

And the game prior to this massive influx of people has been having huge lag spikes, whether it's due to code or server issues. I hate to see my friends just flat out waste their time for a bunch of downloading/sign-up/lag/other problems the chance to play won't even make up for. And both of them are star wars fans.

jacobvandy wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 21:47:

Teddy wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 21:40:

jacobvandy wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 18:15:
Lol, forget having a late start date, I've heard about some people waiting 6-8 hours in a queue before getting on a server.

And they didn't go to a different server because...?

If they insisted on playing on a server that had a huge wait time, that's really their own fault. Right now for example, there are only 3 servers with queues, the rest are all instant.

Ah, I found the story about it, has a screenshot of all the queues being 3-8 hours. Must have been a peak time: PC Gamer

Bizarre. I logged off and on a few times over the course of the day and my server screen never looked anything like that. That said, note that some of the servers say German, perhaps the EU servers were worse off than the NA ones.

Teddy wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 21:40:

jacobvandy wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 18:15:
Lol, forget having a late start date, I've heard about some people waiting 6-8 hours in a queue before getting on a server.

And they didn't go to a different server because...?

If they insisted on playing on a server that had a huge wait time, that's really their own fault. Right now for example, there are only 3 servers with queues, the rest are all instant.

Ah, I found the story about it, has a screenshot of all the queues being 3-8 hours. Must have been a peak time: PC Gamer

jacobvandy wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 18:15:
Lol, forget having a late start date, I've heard about some people waiting 6-8 hours in a queue before getting on a server.

And they didn't go to a different server because...?

If they insisted on playing on a server that had a huge wait time, that's really their own fault. Right now for example, there are only 3 servers with queues, the rest are all instant.

jacobvandy wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 18:15:
Lol, forget having a late start date, I've heard about some people waiting 6-8 hours in a queue before getting on a server.

Gotta stress test those queues : )

nin,
Never been a big SW fan(atic), but there is something about the 'whoosh' of a light saber : )

I meant to add that I would try sorc instead of ass this time, but I do like that they play somewhat like enhance shammies.

-Alamar

Lol, forget having a late start date, I've heard about some people waiting 6-8 hours in a queue before getting on a server.

eunichron wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 17:11:
Was all excited to see that I got a beta, but it was only for the stress test this weekend, starting Saturday at 10AM... thanks BioWare.

Yeah I got the same deal, and of course I was part of the group that got screwed over on the 11/11/11 weekend where nothing was working properly at all.

This class needs a nerf big time. Sages/Sorcerers are by far the most powerful class.

The only class that can come close to matching it endgame is the Powertech.

eunichron wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 17:11:
Was all excited to see that I got a beta, but it was only for the stress test this weekend, starting Saturday at 10AM... thanks BioWare.

Yeah, me too. Some people don't even get in till Sunday. What a boneheaded move. Talk about how not to win over people.

Consular... consular? That's the boring version of the Sith Inquisitor right? : )

I played a Sith Inq Ass (Tank/dps) on my 5 day weekend a month or so back... Had a lot of fun, and want to see where the story goes. I've never been a 'have to be a unique class' kind of guy, but I am a little concerned about the potential over population of Inq's at launch.

After years of WOW, I was never a fan of melee DPS, but I've enjoyed the Jedi so far. And yeah, I worry about the same thing with Jedi. That zone is going to be ROUGH during the first month due to sheer numbers. My original plan was to play force based characters in the beta and them come back to them last, for that very reason. But now I'm having to rethink things.

As far as the sith, I want to save something for the retail product.

nin wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 17:22:
Sounds like a lot more people get to start tomorrow (myself included) than got to start this morning. They're trying to simulate their early launch.

Consular looks fun, especially shadow (have a coworker playing one and he says it's great).

I took a Knight and went Sentinel, and had a blast. Will pick back up there tomorrow.

Consular... consular? That's the boring version of the Sith Inquisitor right? : )

I played a Sith Inq Ass (Tank/dps) on my 5 day weekend a month or so back... Had a lot of fun, and want to see where the story goes. I've never been a 'have to be a unique class' kind of guy, but I am a little concerned about the potential over population of Inq's at launch.

-Alamar

Sounds like a lot more people get to start tomorrow (myself included) than got to start this morning. They're trying to simulate their early launch.

Consular looks fun, especially shadow (have a coworker playing one and he says it's great).

I took a Knight and went Sentinel, and had a blast. Will pick back up there tomorrow.

Was all excited to see that I got a beta, but it was only for the stress test this weekend, starting Saturday at 10AM... thanks BioWare.