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I sqeaked through because I didn't hammer it. I tried, I got the error, I came here and saw others were getting the error, I tried again, got the error again, went and fixed a snack, and came back and got in on the third try. Go on, hate me. And I got in around the 10th try for my room mate's copy. I did cross stitch for her christmas present in between her tries.

I didn't spam it three times in succession! I waited in between tries! I didn't even get my expansion until stupid late last night because my boyfriend had my car >_>;; So I spent all day leveling another job in the jungles instead of complaining about not being able to go pick up my expansion.

Wow, I actually managed to register.

Good thing I didn't take your "great advice" and continue to do what I had done the past two days.

Looks like spamming Retry actually works.

I just finished also. Maybe something got fixed?

Why do you think the registration issue is actually going to be fixed? Seriously, what has SE done this week to make you think they'll fix it, other than let attrition fix the issue?

if I were SE I'd hire the windower team as consultants to develop official UI improvements

Because that's how luck works.

That isn't a queue, thats 100 simultaneous connections supported.

Sure, why not? If you have a small chance of connecting for each attempt made, then the more attempts you make, the better your chances. Besides, on the PS2 at least each attempt took about five minutes before it'd let me try again. If it's different on Xbox or PC I don't know.

That doesn't mean I recommend that you spend twelve straight hours banging the retry button. That would be bad for your mental health. I'm pretty sure doing so will give you the most chances to register, though.

The way I did it was to spam it two or three times in a row, then do something else for a bit, and repeat. Both of the times I finally connected were in the middle of a spamming session. That probably doesn't really mean anything, except that taking breaks in itself won't improve your chances of registering.

Also, you can't return opened software. You'll have an easier time squeezing that thirty bucks out of SE itself. Which also won't happen.

Yer screwed.

Well I tryed to take it back, no go. But I was gonna get a bifferent game to play. So I was gonna pass on it yes, because this is now redundant (spelling).
It's the point that SE cant do anything right, and the player base always has to live with BS like this. I payed my 30 bucks to play a game not wait 2-4 days to play it.

and the 12 hours was coming back and hitting the retry once every 10-15 mins while do other things. No way in hell am I gonna sit here and do that lol.

The reg thing just adds insult when i still get stuck at whitegate npcs. Though SE could have got another server up for reg that they turn around and use in the future for new expanions or thier new MMO. Its not like it will go to waste investing in that. I'll enjoy the chacne at lvling low lvl jobs till the conjestion goes down. I had a feeling when it got pushed back this was going to happen, I hate it when im right.

SE dropped the ball, and they appear to be doing nothing to fix that.

I work at a webhosting company. So i am farmiliar with sudden influxes of traffic when one of our clients gets a spot on a TV show, newspaper, radio.. ect..

Common sense tells them that they are going to get more traffic. Hell, they can even figure out how many people will see the add and project how many hits they will have... (keep in mind, most if not all our clients are complete idiots)

They still realize they need to talk to us and go over the numbers, move to a VPS, dedicated, or cluster.

SE knows how many players they have. They also know that this is a holiday in the US. Anyone with a brain could tell you that people would plan to play the expansion with the time off. They even knew that the PC version would be delayed and cause a train wreck... but it looks like they did nothing to get ready for it.

Well, my registration finally went through, so no more complaining.

But this was a FUBAR move on SE's behalf. After running this game for so many years... they really should know better.

I dunno, running with the whole 3-5 minutes to register thing, way back when SE said the PC/PS2 split is about 50/50, with the majority of PS2 in Japan while the PC is NA (and elsewhere). Since then, the 360 version's come, so let's just say the split's now 2:2:1 PC:PS2:360. When the expansion went live, I don't remember reading about registration problems until the PC version finally hit the shelves. Let's be generous and assume 100k people got in between the PS2 and 360 crowd before this point (because let's face it, people want in first to exploit everyone else).

This leaves 125,000 PS2, 75,000 360, then the 200,000 PC in just throwing BS numbers around for the Wed/Thur reg times. There are 1440 minutes in a day, which means at 3-5m per registration, 288-480 individuals should've registered. Of course, this assumes only one person can go at a time which would be insanely stupid. Let's say 25 can go at once. 7200-12000 in a 24 hour period seems more like what's going on when you compare the collective cries of *********** I've been spamming!" and "Yay, got in!" Though, as I type this, those numbers should be about 10300-18000.

So, we've got a lot of users to go, don't we? Oops doesn't even really begin to cover it. Especially when this issue never surfaced with the registration of CoP or ToAU. I had a lovely little 5:30am-10:15pm shift for work yesterday, so I didn't really get to spam. Tried a few times when I got home, went and watched a movie, tried a few more before I went to bed, then woke up about an hour and did some clicking between reading. Still not in. Still annoyed. Though, I still have to go to work again in about a half hour so I'll have 6 hours of everyone else getting the chance to at least try and get in, but the numbers will still be staggeringly depressing when I get home.

I'd like to be playing what I bought on my day off tomorrow, but it's not seeming likely. Frankly, spamming retry's got **** to do with the issue when you realize 2 other expansions came and went. There's something else we're simply not being informed of and being left to speculate over, and that's just the easiest scapegoat.