It would be nice if they would actually let us know what the issue was and why they keep extending the maintenance.
It would but do you honestly believe they have the slightest clue? :P
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A huge long delay. cryptic we need updated communication.
Whats wrong with this game? A small patch taking forever and a day to deal with, and bugs i presume. Can we have answers please.
Yup, extended again, this time to 9:30 at night my time... So yeah, my entire gaming day gone with maintenance...
BUT of course nobody from Europe plays this game.... #sarcasm.
"If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".
Fifteen pages of "I hate this game", "Cryptic/PWE sucks", "These guys are stupid", "Why am *I* being inconvenienced by a company trying to fix the very bugs I whined and complained about yesterday?!?"... Fifteen full pages of it. Seriously, if your STO experience is so bad, why are you guys here?
guess you missed my first post thanking the devs...
You don't pay for access to the game. None of us do.
Your cable provider sends you free stuff because they have a CONTRACT with you to provide a consistent service. Cryptic/PWE have NO such contract with us, the players, and having spent money on in-game items doesn't give us special rights or priviliges.
Now 4:30? Why dont they just take the damn game down for the rest of the day then at this point for christ sake. The 1 day I actually want to play and feel like dealing with Delta Rising is the one they decide to tinker with it all day. Gawd,.
but if they are working on it and not TRIBBLE off, ok fine, good luck & no one likes a half baked cake
****e happens
I know, it's happening more in sto, and that sux too, but what are we going to do? The thing is the thing (meaning, we aren't in control) until ... whenever or something.
enjoy the time off
EDIT: and when it's up, it's going to be dodgy, so best take the night off (players, players take the night off, not devs/support, heh)
If your cable technician needed to come to your home several times in the last month and was repeatedly late, I'm sure you wouldn't find that acceptable. Then, he arrives two and a half hours late and only tells you it was because the warp core in his vehicle was giving him trouble, that would seem reasonable? Not in my world.
When my cable provider is late, they give you a discount on services. If it happens repeatedly, they give a larger discount. They certainly apologize.
Thing is, does your cable provider have in their Terms Of Service stating that they're not responsible for outages, both planned and unplanned, and will provide no compensation for such?
25. Interruption of Service
25.1 We reserve the right to interrupt the Service or any part thereof from time to time on a regularly scheduled basis or otherwise with or without prior notice in order to perform maintenance. You agree that we will not be liable for any interruption of the Service or any part thereof, delay or failure to perform resulting from any causes whatsoever.
25.2 You acknowledge that the Service or any part thereof may be interrupted for reasons beyond our control, and we cannot guarantee that you will be able to access the Service whenever you may wish to do so. We shall not be liable for any interruption of the Services, delay or failure to perform resulting from any causes whatsoever.
25.3 We have the right at any time with or without reason to change and/or eliminate any aspect(s) of the Service as we see fit in our sole discretion.
25.4 We are not obligated to refund all or any portion of any Account fee (if any), by reason of any interruption of the Service by reason of any of the circumstances described in paragraphs 25.1, 25.2.
My apologies then for assuming you were one of those that complain for the sake of complaining whenever there's any server downtime.
Well... in all fairness if it's not part of an announced maintenance I kinda do. And clearly if it's a maintenance that runs over I'm not quiet either LOL. I suppose I could be more restrained
Yup, extended again, this time to 9:30 at night my time... So yeah, my entire gaming day gone with maintenance...
BUT of course nobody from Europe plays this game.... #sarcasm.
Yup. It's us Europeans who suffer the most every maintenance as it's always during early evening. Cryptic says 'it's the quietest time'. Just makes me laugh when people complain when it's done at 8am in their country! Oh well, least I can have more tea and crumpets. ROFL!!
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It isn't 'maintenance', trendy keeps saying warp core checks. Maybe the network guys are too trapped in their RP world to actually get the hamster wheel rotating again. I sure would appreciate a little more professional updates that some RP fantasy explaining why I'm wasting my time doing other things than watching the launcher try to load the game.
THIS!^^^^
I find it insulting that they or whomever is hiding behind cutsie language like that, give us and yourselves honor by giving some at least partial honesty. "Your satisfaction is important to us and we want to give you the a decent update seeing is how we hadn't given you an update in about a month", "Things took longer than we expected while patching the servers so sorry to have to tell you there has been another delay, you'll be playing in shortly."
If STO staff were a lot more direct with their estimated server down times, there would be a lot less bellyaching.
If they just said, "We're gonna take the servers down for about 7 hours to do maintenance" then no harm no foul...I think where people get frustrated is the constant backpeddling and revising of downtime estimates.
In this case, it helps to err on the side of caution and tell people the server will be down for a long stretch of time...and then if maintenance is done earlier, it's seen as a good thing.
looks like eu players wont be doing a lot already past 8 pm in uk not much chance for us to get much play time in don't they think about other regions aswell
"Warpcore", might refer to server issues... actually, i would bet my pixel hat on it
Maintenance, is a need in any aspect of life....
your car, your TV, your house, even your body, needs maintenance here and there...
Imagine the amount of time youll be spending to go for checkups, if you got a new hip implant O.O
It is no different with interweb games.... This "operation" theyre performing today, seems to have run into some complications... Happens... even happens easier for a game than for a car, thanks to all the tihngs that can go wrong by simply placing the wrong "," on the wrong spot on the screen...
Compensation... Yeah, sounds reasonable, and it WOULD send a message from Cryptic, that theyre saying "Hey folks, something went south, so it took longer to make it work propperly..."
Indeed, nobody asks for huge amounts of compensation that would have a gameplay-altering impact. However, to look good, sending the entire playerbase, 100 Dil, would be a really welcomed handout, and also be of little, if any, practical use.
Plus, it never hurts to go into "public relations" with the players who play the game, in a positive way
Do i personally need compensation ?
Nope, not really.
Do others need compensation ?
Maybe, i dont really care LOL
Considering that this IS their forum, and the fact that the launcher directs us to this lovely place...This is absolutely the first place information should be posted.
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They are way to busy RPing for that. Maybe it's a sign as to who they do cater to?
THE problem of todays world, you pay and have nothing further to want .
now stfu and pay up
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I imagine failure today on the ship issue = Pink slips to programmers tomorrow.
It would but do you honestly believe they have the slightest clue? :P
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Oh well, might as well squeeze in a LOTR movie. Bye for now.
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I honestly can't believe they haven't put that thing in the c-store yet. So much $$$ to be made...
Whats wrong with this game? A small patch taking forever and a day to deal with, and bugs i presume. Can we have answers please.
BUT of course nobody from Europe plays this game.... #sarcasm.
"If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".
Because they have to keep their 'bait' to get peeps to their convention booth and livestreams. If you could buy it, you wouldn't need 'them'.
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
Wow...
Who knew nerfing snowballs would be so complicated.
A minute past is nothing to make this much fuzz over?
guess you missed my first post thanking the devs...
So based on that I will have just enough time to set DOFF and R&D missions running:mad:
Rant.....:P
That's certainly one way to interpret that.
AAUGH!
but if they are working on it and not TRIBBLE off, ok fine, good luck & no one likes a half baked cake
****e happens
I know, it's happening more in sto, and that sux too, but what are we going to do? The thing is the thing (meaning, we aren't in control) until ... whenever or something.
enjoy the time off
EDIT: and when it's up, it's going to be dodgy, so best take the night off (players, players take the night off, not devs/support, heh)
Thing is, does your cable provider have in their Terms Of Service stating that they're not responsible for outages, both planned and unplanned, and will provide no compensation for such?
Directly from their webpage
Well... in all fairness if it's not part of an announced maintenance I kinda do. And clearly if it's a maintenance that runs over I'm not quiet either LOL. I suppose I could be more restrained
Extended till 1:30 - aka 21:30 in Europe
Yup. It's us Europeans who suffer the most every maintenance as it's always during early evening. Cryptic says 'it's the quietest time'. Just makes me laugh when people complain when it's done at 8am in their country! Oh well, least I can have more tea and crumpets. ROFL!!
THIS!^^^^
I find it insulting that they or whomever is hiding behind cutsie language like that, give us and yourselves honor by giving some at least partial honesty. "Your satisfaction is important to us and we want to give you the a decent update seeing is how we hadn't given you an update in about a month", "Things took longer than we expected while patching the servers so sorry to have to tell you there has been another delay, you'll be playing in shortly."
If they just said, "We're gonna take the servers down for about 7 hours to do maintenance" then no harm no foul...I think where people get frustrated is the constant backpeddling and revising of downtime estimates.
In this case, it helps to err on the side of caution and tell people the server will be down for a long stretch of time...and then if maintenance is done earlier, it's seen as a good thing.
Maintenance, is a need in any aspect of life....
your car, your TV, your house, even your body, needs maintenance here and there...
Imagine the amount of time youll be spending to go for checkups, if you got a new hip implant O.O
It is no different with interweb games.... This "operation" theyre performing today, seems to have run into some complications... Happens... even happens easier for a game than for a car, thanks to all the tihngs that can go wrong by simply placing the wrong "," on the wrong spot on the screen...
Compensation... Yeah, sounds reasonable, and it WOULD send a message from Cryptic, that theyre saying "Hey folks, something went south, so it took longer to make it work propperly..."
Indeed, nobody asks for huge amounts of compensation that would have a gameplay-altering impact. However, to look good, sending the entire playerbase, 100 Dil, would be a really welcomed handout, and also be of little, if any, practical use.
Plus, it never hurts to go into "public relations" with the players who play the game, in a positive way
Do i personally need compensation ?
Nope, not really.
Do others need compensation ?
Maybe, i dont really care LOL
Just my two cents on the matter
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