Still wont completely fix the issue at hand, why? Because the gateway is still messed up - gateway pretty much is only down when some servers are down.
Uhm, no offense, but it was known BEFORE the event started that it would end when the game went live. ALSO, it did have a thing in game that told of the end. hit your "L" key and look at the calendar.
Also, don't forget - it doesn't have to upscale (the skirmish)......they could also downscale the character to level x and the stats would be downscaled to average values of that level.
See what I bolded? What the heck do you expect? It's a brand-freaking-new game pretty much. All new MMOs start out with little content and bugs - it's to be expected. I guess WoW kiddies got spoiled with new "xpacs" not having any bugs, but WoW is polished. When it first started it had tons of bugs and little content.
Uhm....it was running today too, 12AM = start of a new day. Since the company resides in Pacific time, there was a good 7 hours of it running on the 20th. It was known long before the event started that it would end when Gauntlgrym was live, and guess what? Gauntlgrym is going live.
I know it's bad to assume - but I think that would be a bad idea. They likely had multiple shards to curb in game lag and queue times to log in. With a major patch and the fact it's adding content, it's going to draw quite a lot of people back because they want to try out the new content. If PWE/Cryptic were smart, they…
Neverwinter @NeverwinterGame 2m Hey everyone - we've deployed a new version of the launcher to solve the slow patching issues. Please restart your launcher to update it! Getting 700KB/s now, Thank you Cryptic.