If they were the makers of your life support machine, you'd be dead, not concerned.
I tire of the suggestion that I should go do something else. I think I bought the game to play it, not to find other shit to do. I could do that for free. And I do other shit. Why? Because there isn't a game to play.
I know you bought a car, but why don't you walk instead.
I know you got a new boat, but maybe swimming would be more fun.
People buy games with the expectation that they'll be able to play them. Worked fine before launch, fell on it's face the few days leading up to it.
It's not going to magically get better 2 months from now. In the last 9 days we have managed to see new snow and the reduction of lag. Of course then introduced a loading entities bug, client crash.
So far two 1.5gb patches, which because it's one big file, sometimes you get to repeat a few times before getting the file. Luckily I don't have a problem patching, but I have a kick ass internet connection. I get to then put the file up for my clan mates so they can get it.
Funny you tire of that. I tire of people acting like they bought a big company MMO knowing it's in it's release and expecting it to be without problems or downtime. I tire of poor consumers not doing their homework before spending their money.
I'm well aware that this game is not a life support machine, a boat or a car. Apples and oranges. I was just throwing some humor in and trying to bring things into perspective.
If you are underwhelmed by what they have done for the past nine days, then I think you are missing the beauty of this game. Or maybe your yet another arm-chair programmer. But that's conjecture.
I'm sorry schlock, But I've been around many launch both big and small and a couple smaller than this one. You've got some rose colored glasses on here, the lag at launch? that is not a common problem. How about the server being up for four hours in the state that it was last night? that's not common either.
You've got your fanboi on full throttle and you're welcome to drink that Kool-aid but don't preach that it's a common thing....
The balance issues, the lack of a cs team, the horrible ui,the lag spikes,problems with animals these are all issues that can be explained away by "indie" or "mmo" in general. My original concerns are a lack of professionalism and following standard norms and they have nothing to do with big or small.