Virtue down again

This is the fourth time in three days that Virtue is reported as being down.

This is really getting unacceptable; and your maintenance team had planned to move to once a week maintenance periods? Yeah, RIIIIIGHT.

Server-wide mapservings and lag spikes keep cropping up, according to various global channels, help, and broadcast. Zones crash with alarming frequency. Two Hamidon raids have had to be cancelled this week. Right now, Grandville is completely inaccessible. Can't imagine what GR is going to do to the poor servers.

and... down again today

Virtue just went down a minute ago, according to my husband. u.u

Yuuuuuuuup

Blargh.. and here i wanted to get some leveling done on few of my lowbies, but thanks to the the server going kaboosh, i guess i need to do something else.

Don't we pay to /play/ the game? So if we're not actually getting to play because the server is always crashing, then personally we should get some sort of compensation for it, otherwise we're paying for a service we're not receiving. Just my thoughts. Or we can just find a game that is actually stable whose devs are more concerned with making sure the game runs like it should than finding and killing exploits and such and leaving huge stability issues as a result. Once again, just my opinion. Not that I condone the use of exploits, but it seems the devs put that too high on the priority list over game stability, and we all suffer for it as a result. At least to most of my experiences that has been the case. I mean one of the more recent exploit "fixes" broke the game badly for a lot of players, and it just keeps happening. Maybe stability should be higher on the priority list and exploit "fixes" moved down a bit. Yes, the devs should indeed try to eliminate exploits when they can, but isn't keeping the game playable and enjoyable for the people who /pay/ their salaries by buying their product what should be the first and most important priority? Some may agree with my point, and some may not. And I'm not saying this crash is over an exploit "fix", but those seem to be the highest priority to the devs these days over keeping a steady and stable game for the players to enjoy. So chime in. Roast me, agree with me, debate with me, do whatever you will, but I'd like to hear some feedback from other people about these issues.

One good thing about it being down is now i can at least stop getting the copy & paste responses from the tech department claiming its "my hardware, settings, or connection".
Get to work monkeys!

At least you guys get responses...I message the Dev's and get no responses ever

NCsoft owes you nothing for problems with the servers. It's in the EULA and TOS you agreed to. That said, people seem to think that they're sitting around purposely letting Servers crash and stay down just to annoy the player base...and I'm pretty sure that's not true. So rather than complain and they demand free stuff, accept that things happen, and that they're working to fix it because, you know, leaving the server down is just soooooo good for their Customer Service, right?

Seriously, when your car breaks down or a hurricane interrupts power, do you start complaining and demanding compensation from the dealer or the utility?

I get a server stable enough to run more than two missions before the mapserver disconnects and flat out boots start up for the night, and I'll be happier. I get some sort of official response indicating they're at least closing in onisolating, if not correcting, the problem, and I'll be even happier. I get some sort of pacifier prize for my personal preference being to use the one part that's malfunctioning, while the other 90ish% of the service is still available, I'll be suprised. If they want to give virtue a "sorry about that folks" prize, I'd say make is something more... mundane? like open the ski chalet for a week or something like that.

Everyone needs to calm down. They are working on it. They learned the hard way that they can't say anything about how long it will take because of people calling them lazy if the problem takes longer than they said.

And it's down again today? I can log on other servers fine except for Virtue...

Something is not playing nice with only some systems. It would be easy to find if it was everyone, but it's not. Most of the time I don't have any trouble. Sometimes I get lag issues. I'm not going freak out on NCSoft over it because I know they are trying to figure out what is going on. They would have fixed it already if it was something easy.

Me and my brother have been getting plenty of lag and rubberbanding, often times the data only comes in and not out (I cant move or do anything, but can see everything everyone else is doing). All of the issues happen simultaneously to both of us. We live in Europe though, so we're used to it happening.
My guess is increased internet traffic due to summer.