Re:Yikes (Score 5, Interesting)

The first evening went about as well as the first afternoon. It went nowhere. I picked up the game at about 10:15 am EST and proceeded home to wait for the servers to go live at 11. The sub servers were slammed and their little built in browser applet was a P.O.S. The forums were filled with posts to put the link in a regular browser so that you could go back and refresh but that didn't help other than to let you see two or three different screens rather than the same error screen over and over. Then everyone kept screaming Mozilla. Some folks had better luck with it but they were few and far between. Fast forward 9 hrs, 50 games of Counter-Strike, 2 hrs of Diablo II and 5 chapters in the new Harry Potter book and I finally was able to give them my credit card number, hooray :-(! I managed to get in two 20 minute sessions that basically consisted of me running around a huge city emoting "Where the hell do I go now?" Both of these sessions were on different servers and both were cut short due to disconnects. They say that they're going to give us yesterday free and not count it on our subscription. Should they even need to say this? I think not! The database problem that is causing the problems now might not have been forseen, but the subscription issue is just retarded. If I'm supposed to get a free month for buying the game, why can't I just use that? If I haven't forked over some loot for a subscription by the end of the 30 days, lock the damn acct! Either that or implement a presubscription page a month before the game comes out to eliminate the initial problem. Anyway, 24 hrs into the SWG experience and I have to say I'm having a lot more fun with C-S and D2.