10:56cst Woot! , I'm the early bird. Got the patcher starting to load and hauling at 278kbs... not bad, 14MB download...AoC Here I Come!!
10:58cst oopss... Little dissapointed, immediately another patch content file loading follows... another 14MB. NP, the adreneline is flowing, I can wait it out
11:02cst and another 14.1MB patch loading....starting to get sleepy.... and tired of listening to silence. /plays Say by John Mayer
11:03cst another unable to connect to authenication error message...I cry alittle inside
11:04cst another extended downtime message, this time extended till 5am GMT....or midnight cst.... I cry a little more
11:14cst the wait continues...till midnight at least
12:02 Still cannot get in.... About a gallon coffee in me and I am trying to stick it out.
12:03 Another extended downtime message...This time another hour.... 6GMT, or 1:00 am central time. My heart begins to sink as I nervously look for something to kick /emote Looks for the dog
12:38am After cleaning up the blood /giggles I found myself looking for stuff to clean(which my wife was not too happy about waking up in the middle of the night with the vacuum going). I don't know, don't ask... Still awaiting that hour hand to hit 1:00am. If there's another delay, I might have to mow my grass to stay awake..
12:49am Well message says servers are back up...so I eagerly log in....and another authenication error message and something about passwords are case sensitive. I change password like 4 times and continue to get error messages... Think I'll simply pass out here on my laptop ...zzzzzzz
6:43am I was awakened with a stranger jumping on my back and saying "Giddy Up" daddy. After about 5 minutes on playing horse...being the horse, and being degraded and being payed back from God for the years of being an jerk to other people I try to log in
6:57am I'm in... and I get started on my epic journey to waste more of my life in another MMO. The initial screen I was seeing showed no body, no environment, simply white and clipping errors.... ahhh I miss launch dates. With some issues resolved, I begin my adventure into the world of AoC. Finally, I can play.
7:45 It's off to work I go....
If you tied me to a pole and wouldn't let me go untill I graded this release, I'd give it a "D" so far. It's release day and I am in... but the lack of communication, the misleading of release time, the misinformation concerning the early release access, and the complete lack of responses from the developers... I'm being nice when I give it a "D". I hope this is cleaned up down the road.
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