I wish I could share you guys point of view (It's still beta, etc etc....).
Maybe I'm just unlucky, but I've only had a chance to play this game one time since I've downloaded it. Every other time I tried to login there was something wrong with the servers.(Probably like 6 other times I've tried)
This is supposed to be a beta for a reason, folks. Server software has to be tested too. Don't fret too much, these things should start happening less and less often as time goes on.
It's the venom on this game's forums during server down times that's convinced me to play. People angry because they just want to hurry up and get back in to play, that's awesome.
A little definition for all the rage-kids out there.
Beta = testing, to make sure the product runs, plays, works, smoothly.
Open Beta = same as above, but with a larger audience.
Neither of these are stress-testing - which is when you open the doors to the masses and calculate how much server bandwidth you are going to need.
[edit: my point about Beta is that it is a marketing gimmick to get everyone signed up and playing. Making you think you are special, or getting into something 'early'. When in reality, the more people who install the game, the more people will eventually give them some $$$'s. Marketing. Try googling that one some time]
Perfect World are taking the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>, you can spend your money on this game and you get 0% reliability of servers being up. No mention of Server Status for Neverwinter on their official site. The launcher and log-in screens tell you absolutely nothing accurate about server status. But a free-to-play game non-the-less. Simplistic combat, essentially a 3rd person hack'n'slash, with dated graphics, glitchy animations, poor static combat trying to be dynamic. Next to no strategy whatsoever, dodge this, block that, is about all there is to it.
Only thing they've done right in my humble opinion is the Professions. But that's only because I haven't found where they stole the idea from yet. Playing it safe with another WoW-style clone. An open world too much to ask for? Lol.
Anyways, it was fun. Level 31 now after a day of playing. Good luck and enjoy the 'ride'.
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nibbnibbMember, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 0Arc User
edited May 2013
When I say "Server!", you say "Down!"...
"SERVER!"
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twodollarMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian UsersPosts: 15Arc User
This is supposed to be a beta for a reason, folks. Server software has to be tested too. Don't fret too much, these things should start happening less and less often as time goes on.
Do you play any other PWE games by chance? Cause i play 4 others at the moment and guess what still happens on a regular basis lol
Again you people need to look up the definition of beta. A beta has nothing to do with the fact that you can spend cash for the game or not. Heck Farmville has been in beta for years now lol. Beta is a phase of production learn your words.
^THIS^
Spending money on unfinished product doesn't make it finished and try to look at it that way: Companies mark products betas to warn you and it is only your choice to play it or not.
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oceanoftearsMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian UsersPosts: 5Arc User
This is supposed to be a beta for a reason, folks. Server software has to be tested too. Don't fret too much, these things should start happening less and less often as time goes on.
You do realise it's not a beta thing if the servers are down for 2 other games which share the servers, right? It has absolutely nothing to do with beta.
Hey super awesome game and I know its Beta and I know you have maintainance. Please don't take this as a compleint I love everything so far (digging foundry best feature ever from here on every one else is copying Neverwinter) but could you please make a server (shard) status page. This would help me out so I don't have to keep loading the game to see whats up. I know this is a "back burner" issue but I think alot of people would really enjoy the feature.
Wish I could have made a new thread with this post but for some reason I can't make posts, only reply to em.
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erebus2075Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero UsersPosts: 0Arc User
This is supposed to be a beta for a reason, folks. Server software has to be tested too. Don't fret too much, these things should start happening less and less often as time goes on.
its not a fcking beta when you charge money for transaction in the game you stupid monkybutt....
get it into your ******* head! its something so fcking simple even <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> critters would go "duhh ofcouse its not beta"....
when that is said i expect wierd downtime when new mmo's comes out, it sucks but its expected and have always been ever since ultimate online was released ^^
and that is ok to have these issue's would love more info from the company on est though
Been down for over an hour now, Twitter is full of vague communication with words like theoretically, ideally, shortly, no concrete announcement, etc etc. At least they're responding I guess.
Ideally very soon, but can't say for sure just yet!
Hey super awesome game and I know its Beta and I know you have maintainance. Please don't take this as a compleint I love everything so far (digging foundry best feature ever from here on every one else is copying Neverwinter) but could you please make a server (shard) status page. This would help me out so I don't have to keep loading the game to see whats up. I know this is a "back burner" issue but I think alot of people would really enjoy the feature.
Wish I could have made a new thread with this post but for some reason I can't make posts, only reply to em.
The site they run is the place for server updates. Or it should be if there were any damned sense in companies these days.
They can't use the website, for some insipid reason, the website is hosted in the same racks that the game servers are. That's why it's so slow right now, it's probably on fail-over to the emergency 486 apache server in the basement.
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m3k829Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian UsersPosts: 2Arc User
edited May 2013
I'm off to go play some bball neverwinter guys l2getseperateservers for this game.
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yenrug70Member, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 12Arc User
edited May 2013
So.... what happens to celestial coins if you can't log in because the servers are down during the time you can actually play? Kinda <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> if you end up losing them because of something that's beyond your control.
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darkangel66699Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian UsersPosts: 9Arc User
edited May 2013
I hate the term Beta these days. It's a word companies use as a scapegoat for when things go wrong. Games these days will stay in "Open Beta" For months even up to a year. If your game needs to stay in open beta for a year, it's not ready to be "Open Beta". Stop calling it a beta people, it's a soft launch. A launch that apparently happened to soon.
My only problem is that the past few times it crashed on my end, I log back in to find that my character was killed through no fault of my own. That part gets me upset because then I have to use one of my injury kits.
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calaminthaMember, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 0Arc User
This is supposed to be a beta for a reason, folks. Server software has to be tested too. Don't fret too much, these things should start happening less and less often as time goes on.
Please stop using that excuse. Champions Online and Star Trek Online are down too and they are definitely not in "beta". This is not a NW issue. It's an issue with Cryptic's servers.
Beta for F2P companies is not really "beta" Its just a way for them to point at it and say "its beta" and thatway take away any responsability on their part. Its a common thing to do in the F2P market
So.... what happens to celestial coins if you can't log in because the servers are down during the time you can actually play? Kinda <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> if you end up losing them because of something that's beyond your control.
They go poof. Why shouldn't they?
Be happy that ANY praying refreshes the timer.
What sucks is every time the server is down the forums are almost unusable. Wonder if they are all sharing the same infrastructure.
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yeseneskerMember, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 1Arc User
edited May 2013
its up now
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amdarkwolfMember, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 0Arc User
edited May 2013
It's a beta, expect **** like this...
... and for those who keep complaining about them 'taking your money' ... Did they go into your bank account and withdraw the money? No. you gave it to them knowing it's a 'BETA' - quit complaining.
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clortbagsMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian UsersPosts: 0Arc User
edited May 2013
How many minutes/hours/days is this scheduled maintenance scheduled to last for, should I just check back tomorrow or something?
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Maybe I'm just unlucky, but I've only had a chance to play this game one time since I've downloaded it. Every other time I tried to login there was something wrong with the servers.(Probably like 6 other times I've tried)
The site they run is the place for server updates. Or it should be if there were any damned sense in companies these days.
Server Down? Go to My Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/gifmike
The Beauty of Neverwinter Online Part 1
Beta = testing, to make sure the product runs, plays, works, smoothly.
Open Beta = same as above, but with a larger audience.
Neither of these are stress-testing - which is when you open the doors to the masses and calculate how much server bandwidth you are going to need.
[edit: my point about Beta is that it is a marketing gimmick to get everyone signed up and playing. Making you think you are special, or getting into something 'early'. When in reality, the more people who install the game, the more people will eventually give them some $$$'s. Marketing. Try googling that one some time]
Perfect World are taking the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>, you can spend your money on this game and you get 0% reliability of servers being up. No mention of Server Status for Neverwinter on their official site. The launcher and log-in screens tell you absolutely nothing accurate about server status. But a free-to-play game non-the-less. Simplistic combat, essentially a 3rd person hack'n'slash, with dated graphics, glitchy animations, poor static combat trying to be dynamic. Next to no strategy whatsoever, dodge this, block that, is about all there is to it.
Only thing they've done right in my humble opinion is the Professions. But that's only because I haven't found where they stole the idea from yet. Playing it safe with another WoW-style clone. An open world too much to ask for? Lol.
Anyways, it was fun. Level 31 now after a day of playing. Good luck and enjoy the 'ride'.
"SERVER!"
Do you play any other PWE games by chance? Cause i play 4 others at the moment and guess what still happens on a regular basis lol
^THIS^
Spending money on unfinished product doesn't make it finished and try to look at it that way: Companies mark products betas to warn you and it is only your choice to play it or not.
LOL Victor... I'd say just stupid, actually 100% sure
You do realise it's not a beta thing if the servers are down for 2 other games which share the servers, right? It has absolutely nothing to do with beta.
that being said, it's a launch. stuff happens. off to find an update on the facebook page apparently
Sure, I have something better to do: playing Neverwinter... oh, wait, guess I don't have something better to do after all.
Wish I could have made a new thread with this post but for some reason I can't make posts, only reply to em.
its not a fcking beta when you charge money for transaction in the game you stupid monkybutt....
get it into your ******* head! its something so fcking simple even <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> critters would go "duhh ofcouse its not beta"....
when that is said i expect wierd downtime when new mmo's comes out, it sucks but its expected and have always been ever since ultimate online was released ^^
and that is ok to have these issue's would love more info from the company on est though
but again ITS NOT A FCKING BETA !! .. morons..
Wish I could have made a new thread with this post but for some reason I can't make posts, only reply to em.
They can't use the website, for some insipid reason, the website is hosted in the same racks that the game servers are. That's why it's so slow right now, it's probably on fail-over to the emergency 486 apache server in the basement.
Please stop using that excuse. Champions Online and Star Trek Online are down too and they are definitely not in "beta". This is not a NW issue. It's an issue with Cryptic's servers.
Be happy that ANY praying refreshes the timer.
... and for those who keep complaining about them 'taking your money' ... Did they go into your bank account and withdraw the money? No. you gave it to them knowing it's a 'BETA' - quit complaining.