[Maintenance Discussion] 11/11/14

GreenLegend - Archosaur

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Maintenance Question: Should players continue making maintenance threads reminding the staff to post?

Rjwashere - Dreamweaver

staff to busy with more important things.... like the other 50 games they got sparkie managing

nbreaking

Rjwashere - Dreamweaver wrote: »

staff to busy with more important things.... like the other 50 games they got sparkie managing

Hum, sure, you have a point, but how is that our problem? Multimillionaire company can't hire more people... Genius

deathbytuna

Why even have server maintenance?It should be done monthly now and they should have all the sales scheduled and such so it does it automaticly with no reset.

Asterelle - Sanctuary

GreenLegend - Archosaur wrote: »

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Maintenance Question: Should players continue making maintenance threads reminding the staff to post?

Just let the GMs do it for Sweetiebot's sake... she doesn't participate in unofficial threads and gets confused when the GMs decide to sticky them.

Sheswes - Heavens Tear

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

Just let the GMs do it for Sweetiebot's sake... she doesn't participate in unofficial threads and gets confused when the GMs decide to sticky them.

oh noes, rly? buahahhaha pwned! b:laughb:laughb:laugh

zoner112012

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

Just let the GMs do it for Sweetiebot's sake... she doesn't participate in unofficial threads and gets confused when the GMs decide to sticky them.

SweetieBot please tell the GMs to make an official thread.

SweetieBot - Lothranis

zoner112012 wrote: »

SweetieBot please tell the GMs to make an official thread.

Do I have to?

Keisari - Raging Tide

SweetieBot - Lothranis wrote: »

Do I have to?

SweetieBot, you have to. Do it. Naow!

SweetieBot - Lothranis

Keisari - Raging Tide wrote: »

SweetieBot, you have to. Do it. Naow!

And why is that? Can't it wait? Is that a cat?

GreenLegend - Archosaur

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

Just let the GMs do it for Sweetiebot's sake... she doesn't participate in unofficial threads and gets confused when the GMs decide to sticky them.

Aw alright

b:sad

rieihdius

SweetieBot - Lothranis wrote: »

And why is that? Can't it wait? Is that a cat?

SweetieBot, Because it's your duty , well not really ... b:shutup

SweetieBot - Lothranis

rieihdius wrote: »

SweetieBot, Because it's your duty , well not really ...

Really!

noodlepunch

SweetieBot, sing me a lullaby.

SweetieBot - Lothranis

noodlepunch wrote: »

SweetieBot, sing me a lullaby.

I prefer not to sing. I have a terrible singing voice.

Vanflyheight - Heavens Tear

is there even a maint patch much less maint tonight anyway? if there is or isnt maint then they should just annouce it.

Fail_BM - Raging Tide

SweetieBot, report server status

SweetieBot - Lothranis

Fail_BM - Raging Tide wrote: »

SweetieBot, report server status

Here's the server status:

West Coast Servers:
Sanctuary (PVE) (pwigc2.perfectworld.com): ONLINE (Ping: 217ms)
Heaven's Tear (PVE) (pwigc4.perfectworld.com): ONLINE (Ping: 124ms)
Lost City (PvP) (pwigc3.perfectworld.com): ONLINE (Ping: 129ms)
Archosaur (PvE) (pwiwest4.perfectworld.com): ONLINE (Ping: 145ms)

East Coast Servers:
Harshlands (PvP) (pwieast1.perfectworld.com): ONLINE (Ping: 63ms)
Dreamweaver (PvE) (pwieast2.perfectworld.com): ONLINE (Ping: 73ms)
Raging Tide (PvE) (pwieast3.perfectworld.com): ONLINE (Ping: 65ms)

European Servers:
Morai (PvE) (pwieu3.en.perfectworld.eu): ONLINE (Ping: 162ms)

darkkrowxx

SweetieBot, Latest Manual patch please

heerohex#3018

So....

No mant then Today at least. PWE TBH no wonder why you get so much stick and QQ from people. Simple things like this...

DeffyNature - Archosaur

Looks like Sparkie, Prince of darkness, has forsaken us.
Quick, get the peasant and bring a black chicken and a virgin to sacrifice so we could summon him from the hidden realms.

LuckingFoco - Raging Tide

Definitely beginning to feel like the red-headed stepchild of Arcgames now. Shoved into a corner; put in a box and forgotten; cast aside; tossed in the trash; replaced with something new; left on the side of the road; misbegotten; ignored; illegitimate; broken; alone; no longer loved b:surrender

RankNine - Momaganon

LuckingFoco - Raging Tide wrote: »

Definitely beginning to feel like the red-headed stepchild of Arcgames now. Shoved into a corner; put in a box and forgotten; cast aside; tossed in the trash; replaced with something new; left on the side of the road; misbegotten; ignored; illegitimate; broken; alone; no longer loved b:surrender

i dont even understand the neverwinter-hype, that game bored me after 1 hour.

so why, sparkie, do you guys hate PWI, the game that made your company rich and big, so much?b:surrender

Joe - Morai

RankNine - Momaganon wrote: »

i dont even understand the neverwinter-hype, that game bored me after 1 hour.

so why, sparkie, do you guys hate PWI, the game that made your company rich and big, so much?b:surrender

If you one regularly checks how many Gold gets sold each day on any server then it is impossible to believe that any of their other crappy games can generate more money. Simply no. And that's with sells alone, let alone money spent on packs and other stuff.

They should pay the most attention here as I'm sure that PWI is still their most rentable game.

And ya, Neverwinter is boring as heck. Nothing special on this one. Not even the graphics. There are a dozen games (that come to mind immidiatly) that are both better looking and more fun to play. NW is a wasted effort. Swordsman is more worth a look imho.

Zoldi - Morai

Business is business but they should take care of PW just because they took their name from it (I know that I'm biased and that this shouldn't be a valid point )

Talking about business, I agree that Swordsman worth the try to experience something a little different (I'm not fan about the game mechanics though). And there are some good ideas in there such as the way the parties can be built. That being said I'm not sure the game brings that much money to PWE. French server might not be the best one to have a real idea but this is soooooo empty and most people get bored after 1 or 2 months at max. The fact that you can't enter the main instances when you want and some other things, make me think it won't have a real success in EU/US.

SakuLv - Dreamweaver

was there even a maintenance?

my catshop was on all night o.o

SweetieBot - Lothranis

darkkrowxx wrote: »

SweetieBot, Latest Manual patch please

I don't sorry.

rieihdius

Zoldi - Morai wrote: »

Business is business but they should take care of PW just because they took their name from it (I know that I'm biased and that this shouldn't be a valid point )

Talking about business, I agree that Swordsman worth the try to experience something a little different (I'm not fan about the game mechanics though). And there are some good ideas in there such as the way the parties can be built. That being said I'm not sure the game brings that much money to PWE. French server might not be the best one to have a real idea but this is soooooo empty and most people get bored after 1 or 2 months at max. The fact that you can't enter the main instances when you want and some other things, make me think it won't have a real success in EU/US.

Actually I don't think it's biased, I think that first line on your post is very accurate and a valid point.

If you think about it, every time PWE (or Arc games or whatever the name is now) do things like this, they basically send a message to their playerbase (clients and potential clients). That message is something like: ''We don't give a F..... about this game or their playerbase so they can go f.... themselves''
And even worse they basically send you to play another game lets say swordman or neverwinter (heck, they even put neverwinter videos on pwi page but no maint LOLOLOL)

But the problem is that they eventually will do the same thing on those games (If they are not already doing it)

So from my point of view none of those others games are worth, not 'cause the games are bad, but because they will end just like this one: abandoned by the company that manages them.

DeffyNature - Archosaur

RankNine - Momaganon wrote: »

i dont even understand the neverwinter-hype, that game bored me after 1 hour.

so why, sparkie, do you guys hate PWI, the game that made your company rich and big, so much?b:surrender

Wait, why are we bringing up Neverwinter?
Akromatic is the CM there and he is doing a hell of a great job, one of the better CMs I've ever seen for a game.
Also, I kept seeing people say Sparkles has been involved with some other titles, but does anyone actually know which titles? I kinda play or have played at one point all of PWE's titles and I haunted the forums and still do from time to time, but I've only seen Sparkles once on the Swordsman forums, I think, and he wasn't there as a CM.

eeepsilon

DeffyNature - Archosaur wrote: »

Wait, why are we bringing up Neverwinter?
Akromatic is the CM there and he is doing a hell of a great job, one of the better CMs I've ever seen for a game.
Also, I kept seeing people say Sparkles has been involved with some other titles, but does anyone actually know which titles? I kinda play or have played at one point all of PWE's titles and I haunted the forums and still do from time to time, but I've only seen Sparkles once on the Swordsman forums, I think, and he wasn't there as a CM.

I don't think he's talking about neverwinter CM. Maybe he's talking about the last post in pwi facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PerfectWorldMMO

If you look closely, that post is from this week.

Also if we go a few weeks ago, to that free items promo : http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/pwi/news/detail/7005803-want-free-pigments%3F-%28plus-more!%29

maybe you can notice whats PWE favorite game: http://instagram.com/perfectworld

Now those are all assumptions on my part, since I can't read RankNine's mind b:laugh

bluestuffzzz

DeffyNature - Archosaur wrote: »

Wait, why are we bringing up Neverwinter?
Akromatic is the CM there and he is doing a hell of a great job, one of the better CMs I've ever seen for a game.
Also, I kept seeing people say Sparkles has been involved with some other titles, but does anyone actually know which titles? I kinda play or have played at one point all of PWE's titles and I haunted the forums and still do from time to time, but I've only seen Sparkles once on the Swordsman forums, I think, and he wasn't there as a CM.

Sparkie is involved with the ARC client-patch notes/news and I'm assuming (complete assumption), he goes by another name and does the whole CM thing for about half of PWE games. There's just no justification other than the above, for his complete absence and ignorance among this community.

I mean, the guy is generally either late or non-existent on most topics. He doesn't respond to PMs at all. He states things (like TW reset being on-time, and "weekly" codes), but they never come. He can't keep the monthly updates going. He leaves all the forums maintenance to the mods. He can't be bothered to respond to replies, generally. He can't be bothered to unsticky old, not relevant threads. He can't be bothered to post patch notes when we get the small patches, often times. He can't relay messages about why there has been no manual patch available. He can't deal with ARC issues, even though his team and synch both stated they would support ARC through the forums.

He's another frankie, tbh. Another CM who pops on *maybe* once a week, to state something of minor importance, and then disappears until next week. It's not his fault, probably. The best guess is that he is extremely overworked and/or doesn't care. One or the other, really.

Because of his absence and his choice of not responding to PMs and thread-replies, I had to spend quite a hefty amount of time dealing with the DQ replacement system through the ticketing department. In all, I ended up speaking to 2 different people, and re-telling the DQ promise story 3 times. It equated to well over 1,000 words. All because we can't have an active CM.