Last week I shared my initial disappointment with Lineage! My post was in Bulgarian, and I had no intention to continue the story, but… it seems I will have to.
The reason to write this is simple: After 5 days of trying, my “experience” with Lineage is the same – the server is only capable for “upgrading” my installation (which it does great), but after that I cannot connect to any server.
Today I decided to cancel my account, because I do not want to give money just hoping that I may be able to connect. And while cancelling the account, they asked me for comments.
I submitted my evaluation (which is greately low, as you can imagine), and I sent them this link.
So here I will explain what was my terrible experience with Lineage:
1. Installation: Huge download, but this may have its benefit. I was unable to see it, because I never did it into Lineage, but… anyway, 890MB is just huge download, right?
2. After this huge download (last week) I installed it and I found that Lineage still needs to download upgrades. The download was done in two passes, about 15000 files on the first pass, and another 11000 files on the second pass. That would not be a problem, if the speed was not pathetic. I had to wait more than a day to complete this download. I was pissed off, but again – I decided to wait and hoped that it will deserve the nerve and the effort.
3. After about 25 hours it was ready. I tried to register an account. Wooow! Database errors? WTF? No chance, I was not able to register for more than 4 hours. Again – I decided to wait and see – my hope was that maybe they will fix it later.
4. Success. About 10 hours later I was able to register my precious account!
5. Now let’s play! I entered all in my brand-new Lineage installation and…. Server is not available (or some kind of similar message). Shit! I was really pissed off, and I wrote my first very disappointed comment.
6. Five days later (today), the situation was the same. The only difference was that for these 5 days it upgraded another 64 files :). It seems these guys are working, but at least I cannot get any service from them.
So, guys, if you decide to read that – please do something! Fix your servers, hire someone, who can do it if you can’t! I try to connect not from some rear-end of the world, but from Europe. My ADSL is 2MBit line – I hope it should be sufficient for your great game.
I was really touched by the idea to try how it would be in the Lineage world. But that world was closed for me.
I am really sorry. You will not have me 🙁 !