Just too much downtime
The EU servers just went down, several hours ahead of announced maintenance schedules. There has been a lot of extra downtime with every issue, but Freedom is proving to be the worst. This might be in the middle of the night in America, but its perfectly normal game time in the EU, and frankly loosing two game-days a week to maintenance (Tuesdays and most Thursdays) on top of the unscheduled maintenance... Its grating.
I realize some of the maintenance needs to be gird wide, but at least SOME of it should be possible to do at 4 am in the morning, EU time. Just as most of it is done at around 4am US time now. |
They have to work their downtime to affect as few people as possible whist not making it unworkable for their engineers. As much as it pains me to say it, it comes down to numbers; more US players means that we get the short end of the stick. As for some token US Primetime Downtime to make us "happy", if you think we complain about the downtime, the backlash they get when the US servers are down is in a whole other league...
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11am is hardly EU prime time either.
I imagine it's much worse for our oceanic players, but maybe they are so used to the abuse they just don't care anymore.
I think this time is about as good as it's likely to get.
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Yes it sucks that there's a lot of downtime lately. But COH is undergoing a Massive change, so a lot of maintenance is needed as they get ready for the influx of free players.
Best thing to do it grin and bear it. It's not going to be like this forever.
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I m an Aussie and I used to care about all the downtime until it encouraged me to play Baldur's Gate 2 again.
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I am in US and the downtime always seems to coincide with my prime play time (yes I keep odd hours.)
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Well at least they announced this one well in advance, and not hid the announcement away on Facebook, at 3am on the same day it was schedulded to happen.
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Well at least they announced this one well in advance, and not hid the announcement away on Facebook, at 3am on the same day it was schedulded to happen.
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The EU servers came back up after something like 25-30 minutes and now we're on to planned maintenance downtime. I don't think it was general moaning about the amount of planned downtime (though there's been a fair bit of late).
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Thanks Paragon studios for screwing my free morning game time AGAIN.
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I have two jobs so finding time to play with all these mantenainces makes me wonder why I pay for.
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Just wanna clarify something, this isn't downtime for maintenance, it's a publish of Freedom. Which to me means they are rolling out the red carpet for the freemies.
Double checking the server load and whether it can handle it or not along with other things. I hate the downtime as well though as it's during my playtime. But all this is needed to make it go smooth. I would rather deal with these downtimes then to have the servers crash during everyones primetime.
Though I sympathize with our friends in the more affected area for the timeslot.
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It would be nice to think they could do two batches... take down half the servers and leave the others up for at least scheduled maintenance.
Probably doable but the cost/benefit economics things won't work
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Grammar police! It's LOSING not Loosing! Big difference! So what if my scews are LOOSE because I'm LOSING sleep due to a teething baby!
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Now I don't know if that applies to the OP but it's something you just have to accept as a possibility and not go all 'grammar police' over.
Back on topic I don't think the 6 hours downtime for a publish is a problem, but the unexpected downtime prior was a little irksome.
It would be nice to think they could do two batches... take down half the servers and leave the others up for at least scheduled maintenance.
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I don't really think there's any call for comments like this, especially in a global game. One of the things you need to realise is that people who aren't native English speakers commonly make certain errors in word choice, one of which is "loose/lose" and another is "change/chance". This is something you see all the time in Europe and just live with, a quirk of learning the English language.
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I do agree that the unexpected downtime is a bummer. There has been a lot of downtime lately. I just hope that when they physically moved the servers recently that they took into account what happened to SOE recently. That power outage in San Diego had SOE crippled for a day and a half. No games, No forums, No websites....
Hopefully Paragon Studios fortified their servers and have em set up for whatever incident, including a ton of incoming freemies
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If there is another extended maintenance period this week, I think that I will begin to re-evaluate my loyalty to this game.
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If there is another extended maintenance period this week, I think that I will begin to re-evaluate my loyalty to this game.
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I'd rather they do it BEFORE the servers get to the point where they then need a week to fix them.
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The EU servers just went down, several hours ahead of announced maintenance schedules. There has been a lot of extra downtime with every issue, but Freedom is proving to be the worst. This might be in the middle of the night in America, but its perfectly normal game time in the EU, and frankly loosing two game-days a week to maintenance (Tuesdays and most Thursdays) on top of the unscheduled maintenance... Its grating.
I realize some of the maintenance needs to be gird wide, but at least SOME of it should be possible to do at 4 am in the morning, EU time. Just as most of it is done at around 4am US time now.