Clearly, some whistleblower has notified the RSPCA about the conditions under which the server hamsters and mice are made to work and that organisation is now carrying out a snap inspection of the premises...which could take some time >:)
Honestly, I don't see the issue. It's maintenance. Which is probably much needed for all Cryptic games. People are always saying, I quote, " They never fix anything, this game is so laggy, " or my favorite, " The servers are ****. " So how about we all sit wherever we are patiently and quietly, with respect for the developers and tech teams while they work on the hardware we all love to complain so much about? Hmm? Or you can complain about them fixing things which is quite frankly stupid. Work takes time, not just for you. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
Maintenance is no problem. A problem is the lack of communication.
Good Lord these threads are the textbook definition of firstworldproblems. Quit crying because you only get to play your favorite game for two hours today instead of the 10 hours you wanted to play. Or, worst case scenario, you miss out on ONE FREAKING ENCHANTED KEY from your vip because you didn't get to play at all for ONE WHOLE DAY. Quit demanding cryptic compensate you somehow for your lost time in a FREE TO PLAY game. I'd hate to see how some of you would handle any real problems in life.
2 hour delays on maintenance, both times this was only announced on the launcher 5 minutes before the hour was up. If you're going to do maintenance then please stop f*cking around with the timings. If you need more time to get it right that's fine, but keep us in the loop please.
What exactly are you doing anyway? Did someone spill their coffee on the login server?
*EDIT Looking at some other users in UK who are in the same boat as me with regards to VIP. Seeing as it is a subscribed service, I should expect that no further delays be implemented for the sake decency. People in the UK go to work same as people in the US and seeing as peak times for UK users is exactly this maintenance schedule anyone who fails to claim VIP this day should receive 2x rewards for tomorrow.
Completely appreciate maintainance is essential, but when its scheduled to go on for so long - and it almost always seems to last longer than advised- pulling it it forward by an hour or two whould seem reasonable so that certain time zones dont lose an entire day. For those of us affected maybe a free lockbox key to make up for the one im missing out on through VIP today and some form of compensation to make up for the AD and seals I cant refine / earn?
I'm a coder so I know full well that they have cheap access to the messages that go out to the games when the servers are down. Having people just not be able to connect and not having a server down message on the front of your webpage is something you would expect in the late 90's when this stuff was new. Ultima online with it's twenty year old game is better than that so come on, really. Also saying it's too expensive to try it out on a server before you roll it out to all of them is a shallow attempt at deception. Even a crash machine that's nothing more than a laptop would work to test this stuff before you roll it out like a blanket. You can even offer a testing server where they wipe it every month and give you free stuff. No one would have much to complain about if next months update were to crash the server or make it hard to use to a backup can restore it. There are better ways that don't cost more but people would need to do work a little more often at work and restructure things so that this is the expectation. Regular effort at anything pays off big time in life. There is no magic shortcut in life friend
Issue with ArcGames download server. Neverwinter Preview Character Copy is now working, but the Neverwinter preview shard is not. PS4 is also still down.
Wow. Sure taking long time to get PS4 up. Any other game I play Compensate for lost gaming time with I game currency for taking longer than 1 hr down time. Bet y’all won’t smh. Killing the game for new players and just aggravating the ones been playing with this all day down time especially if they spent real money to play. Disappointing to say the least
> @lowjohn said: > So as galactic underwear would say what ya ninja nerfing this time > > "All Cryptic games" means this probably has nothing to do with Neverwinter, it's something about their data centre or infrastructure.
Yes and they would NEVER sneakers something in. PS4 is owed SOME THINK for this ridiculous delay...
And for the people wanting a free day of vip and other kinds of compensation for this , good luck lol you have a better chance at getting Kanye West to act humble
Now I wonder why companys like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Comcast, Verizon, etc etc etc do maintenance work in the middle of the night in designated maintenance windows?
Oh yeah. Because if they have an 8 hour service outage they're expected to have a goddam good reason for it. Not our IT guy sleeps in until 10am.
You do realize the world has different time zones? this maintenance affect some more than others, there is no perfect time for things like this because its always daytime somewhere
I would assume there is a different team of people that work on each platform, maybe I'm wrong but seems like it would be the best way to do it, if it is the case then it seems xbox and pc have the dream teams while ps4 is sitting over here with the effin scooby gang
> @n8hfx#3206 said: > Now I wonder why companys like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Comcast, Verizon, etc etc etc do maintenance work in the middle of the night in designated maintenance windows?
This is kind of a frivolous gripe for an MMO with international access, don't you think? It's always "the middle of the night" /somewhere/ - what you're really saying here is "why can't everything operate on my North American schedule, dammit?!"
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What exactly are you doing anyway? Did someone spill their coffee on the login server?
*EDIT
Looking at some other users in UK who are in the same boat as me with regards to VIP.
Seeing as it is a subscribed service, I should expect that no further delays be implemented for the sake decency. People in the UK go to work same as people in the US and seeing as peak times for UK users is exactly this maintenance schedule anyone who fails to claim VIP this day should receive 2x rewards for tomorrow.
> So as galactic underwear would say what ya ninja nerfing this time
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> "All Cryptic games" means this probably has nothing to do with Neverwinter, it's something about their data centre or infrastructure.
Yes and they would NEVER sneakers something in. PS4 is owed SOME THINK for this ridiculous delay...
You do realize the world has different time zones? this maintenance affect some more than others, there is no perfect time for things like this because its always daytime somewhere
> Now I wonder why companys like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Comcast, Verizon, etc etc etc do maintenance work in the middle of the night in designated maintenance windows?
This is kind of a frivolous gripe for an MMO with international access, don't you think? It's always "the middle of the night" /somewhere/ - what you're really saying here is "why can't everything operate on my North American schedule, dammit?!"