Weapon of Mass Disconnection

MonkeyShatter wrote: »

Hi everyone,

We are aware of this issue and a patch to address it is being worked on. Currently, there are plans to implement the fix as soon as we can. This means maintenance might be performed earlier than usual this week.

In the meantime, please refrain from using fixes from outside sources as they may be harmful to your computer or cause unexpected side effects.

I will provide more information as it becomes available.

b:victory

Nice, I hope it resets BHb:avoid

SkogDyr - Lost City wrote: »

Hey MonkeyShatter (or Genotypist),

Got a question for ya.

I know there is legal issues between Bejing and PWE but why can't PWE have a small dev group on staff for important issues like this? The turn-around time for gameplay issues is way too long in most cases. Even China has to see that have a small dev team here to fix issues ( then report back to China with their fixes) would go a long way to bridging the distrust between players and PWE. We see that PWE can change certain things with little to no turn-around time. (Duke Rose, +11/+12 Orbs, snowmen 2012...)

This is an honest question and I hope for a reply.... Thanks

Well, I cannot speak for why PWCN seems particularly bad at communicating with PWI, but it seems like they are under a classic scenario high power distance leadership. Which is actually more common in China than say the USA. With a high power distance, employees are less encouraged to take their own initiative. They should get permission from the boss first, and taking the initiative can been as more like trying to usurp authority. However, with this comes the caveat that boss should be watching after the employees and making sure they are doing what they need to do. Which you can read more about here in the peace corp manual if you are into that kind of thing.

This wouldn't be a big issue, if the devs or the boss would communicate effectively and in a more timely manner with PWI. Considering the culture clash, i'm sure that it could probably be really frustrating for Frankie and the staff. Who get accused of withholding information out of incompetence when its far more likely he is ill informed. If was really THAT incompetent as people make him out to be, he'd likely be fired. Considering the appeared locusts of control based off my observations (Frankie not knowing the guild bases status for months, Frankie not realizing the arena was broken and that the PWIC was already started, etc) and how slow fixes seem to come from China, I'm guessing that this is likely what is going on.

Now of course, all i have is observations. Second hand evidence, like how long a content update took so they could apply the patch to SP when they fully admitted they had a patch. Or the guild bases. Or even now when I got to play test the arena, and Frankie seemed to really not know the arenas had been broken and seemed honestly surprised when we askeed about the pwic. I could be completely wrong here but considering the way its being managed, this is likely the case. Though I don't think they'll ever to admit to it.

Hey SkogDyr,

Thank you for the question. Without getting too much into the technical details, it boils down to the need for a consistent build of all versions of Perfect World in order to provide the best experience to all Perfect World players around the world.

That is why it is important that our engineering and community teams are in constant communication, listening to player feedback when issues like these come up, and relaying that information so we can prioritize and address them in the most efficient way possible.

imnotwraith,

Please PM me with more details and I will look into it.

So,some idiot running around west crashing people b:bye

Yep, only 2 people on RT with R8R Sphere's.... Ohhh Vici knows all though b:chuckle

Knownase - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Yup, a new weapon for killing the market competition!

Sadly the truth, and nothing to prevent people from doing it after PWI "fixes" it. I'm just not gonna post how. Just like this fix shouldn't have been made public

MonkeyShatter wrote: »

Hey SkogDyr,

Thank you for the question. Without getting too much into the technical details, it boils down to the need for a consistent build of all versions of Perfect World in order to provide the best experience to all Perfect World players around the world.

That is why it is important that our engineering and community teams are in constant communication, listening to player feedback when issues like these come up, and relaying that information so we can prioritize and address them in the most efficient way possible.

>_> If your 'engineering and community teams' actually listened to player feedback, this game would be a lot different, and a lot better.

Be that as it may, I have TW tonight, and if someone crash-glitches my client (not running the patch), then I will not be logging back in to finish TW.

I'm going to be holding my money back until some things get fixed. This issue is more damaging than rubberbanding.

MonkeyShatter wrote: »

Hi everyone,

We are aware of this issue and a patch to address it is being worked on. Currently, there are plans to implement the fix as soon as we can. This means maintenance might be performed earlier than usual this week.

In the meantime, please refrain from using fixes from outside sources as they may be harmful to your computer or cause unexpected side effects.

I will provide more information as it becomes available.

b:victory

It's really sad though that some of us in the community are apparently more skilled at locating and actually resolving issues. Not to mention a hell of a lot faster. Hell I even posted, mailed off, and shared the information to fix the bug with the snowmen within hours of when I knew what the problem was, and fixing SP was changing four tags in the map data and then restarting the map. Both of those were 5 minute fixes that would have required no more than a quick map or server restart. Unfortunately they were never implemented, or took several months to implement. Which from the customer standpoint, is pretty freaking appalling.

Yes this issue, and several others that came with this last patch will take a bit longer. I do guarantee you that if I had 40 hours a week and was more familiar with the code, I would be a lot closer to rolling out new patch, and within a few months would have most of the aged game bugs resolved. I still can't believe it took them 3 years to fix the cleric buff. I had that resolved within a few hours on my private servers.

Hurrdurr - Lothranis wrote: »

ShyPsy (Ulquioraa) and Kiki right? Both in Vicious, yep.

Try some reading as to what was actually said. Since one of your members said they can only think of 2 people with R8R sphere's. Not everyone goes around saying, "Oh look at me." b:bye

my barb crashed 4 times in a row after patch full r8 recast dont know if its same bug "i never crashed like this"

MansVisa - Raging Tide wrote: »

Try some reading as to what was actually said. Since one of your members said they can only think of 2 people with R8R sphere's. Not everyone goes around saying, "Oh look at me." b:bye

my weapon is safe in bank tyvm,
sick of people asking me to dc west,
do i look like someone who'd do that?
b:bye go complain on RT forums, not here

IHazTehDumb - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I don't feel like I should have to download a user-edited file and risk getting banned just to be able to TW without worry. This is a problem that should have been fixed immediately by the company!

Things as they are nowdays , basically the player base has no choice but to start coming up with fixes of our own accord I see where their coming from .

MansVisa - Raging Tide wrote: »

I know you well enough to know you wouldn't do that. Try reading the whole conversation b:bye

ilu too b:chuckle