'Relatively Smooth Launch' or 'Cryptic are Geniuses'
Posted: April 26, 2004, 2:06 pm
Ok so, yeah, it took an hour to get on Sunday morning, and yeah the login server still tells me I'm already logged in when I'm looking at... the login page... ><
But I have to say, once logged on, I had zero lag, zero bugs, zero problems. I know Drolgin had some latency issues, but I think those corrected themselves later in the day.
I have to say that this seems to me to be one of the best launches I've witnessed, and the truly genius thing is, it's not even the real launch. The real launch happens in two days time. On a weekday. When Cryptic can count on users logging in sporadically due to it being a weekday. Not only that, by selling the preorder CDs, they were able to get an idea for how many people would be playing.
Given the amount of people in beta, I'm thinking there's not going to be a huge influx of people on Wednesday, because most of the people that wanted to play got themselves a preorder CD.
At any rate, I think this is the smoothest launch I have yet to see, and I had a lot of fun all day yesterday.
But I have to say, once logged on, I had zero lag, zero bugs, zero problems. I know Drolgin had some latency issues, but I think those corrected themselves later in the day.
I have to say that this seems to me to be one of the best launches I've witnessed, and the truly genius thing is, it's not even the real launch. The real launch happens in two days time. On a weekday. When Cryptic can count on users logging in sporadically due to it being a weekday. Not only that, by selling the preorder CDs, they were able to get an idea for how many people would be playing.
Given the amount of people in beta, I'm thinking there's not going to be a huge influx of people on Wednesday, because most of the people that wanted to play got themselves a preorder CD.
At any rate, I think this is the smoothest launch I have yet to see, and I had a lot of fun all day yesterday.