Broken Online Games at Launch

Vertigo

Did you show the Darkness what Light can do?
26 Jun 2022
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Have you encountered any? I have three major instances that stand out for me.

The first is Street Fighter V. It was impossible to actually get out of queue for the first 3 days. And when you did you didn’t stay in long. For something that was PvP driven at the time it sucked not being able to stay in a lobby. I’m a bit more forgiving of player queues after this experience.

The second … Fallout 76. First month was unstable. Not so much server issues as just bizarre shit and crashes. Anthem was similarly unstable but there was no reason to care until campaign was done.

The worst however and the very worst I have ever seen is the PS5 release for Outriders. For the entirety of its launch month it was pretty much impossible to log into servers on PS5 consoles. Wasn’t addressed for the entirety of its launch window and to this day is the most disastrous launch I’ve ever seen. Literally unplayable. It honestly should’ve been delisted.
 
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