Announcements: maintenance 4 or 6 hours?
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Aura_Familia,
Posted on: 2011-09-27 08:35 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Gunbunny
When the servers came down we got the red message telling us that it would take roughly 4 hours. The forums were telling us 6 hours downtime. It now (sadly) seems that the forum announcement was right.
It would make me a less unhappy bunny if the anouncements on the servers and the forums had the same information. Less confusing for everybody involved and giving proper information to those not checking out the forum. |
Only four hours for the server maintance.
The last two hours are taken up by the weekly, Monday chair jousting session.
Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.
The updater gives a 6 hour window
OK, even I'm starting to feel that this is WAY too much maintenance. We're getting half a workday's worth of maintenance every couple of days, and I'm finally starting to lose my patience with it.
Here's the thing - I have other things to do and other games to play. But if I can't play this one too many times in a row and instead keep having to play other ones... I start to not want to play it at all, because I fall out of the loop.
I sincerely hope that we stop getting "Issue Launch!!!" type maintenance windows every other day very, very soon, or this is going to turn really ugly, really fast.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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My suggestion is for them to do EVERYTHING on Patch day. (Tuesday) If it takes all day then fine, but then there is NO NEED for other maintenance on any other day, if you take 12 hours (or more) on Tuesday.|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
OK, even I'm starting to feel that this is WAY too much maintenance. We're getting half a workday's worth of maintenance every couple of days, and I'm finally starting to lose my patience with it.
Here's the thing - I have other things to do and other games to play. But if I can't play this one too many times in a row and instead keep having to play other ones... I start to not want to play it at all, because I fall out of the loop. I sincerely hope that we stop getting "Issue Launch!!!" type maintenance windows every other day very, very soon, or this is going to turn really ugly, really fast. |
If the servers crash later in the week that's obviously a different story.
I say this as someone who hasn't had ANY issues with how much maint has been going on.
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Is today the downtime day for Freedom launching for F2P? Or is that coming later still?
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Everyone please be patient, think about their track record, other updates were never this time consuming and usually went a lot smoother. The changes made recently were immense and probably a little overwhelming for them to deal with.
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Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
Only four hours for the server maintance.
The last two hours are taken up by the weekly, Monday chair jousting session. |
It's Tuesday...
@FloatingFatMan
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This is not a complaint about Downtime (I have done that in another thread). This is about confusing messages from our Dev's.
When you say X hours on the forum, you should also say X hours on the red admin text ingame and not Y hours. Especially when Y < X
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
It's Tuesday...
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Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.
When the servers came down we got the red message telling us that it would take roughly 4 hours. The forums were telling us 6 hours downtime. It now (sadly) seems that the forum announcement was right.
It would make me a less unhappy bunny if the anouncements on the servers and the forums had the same information. Less confusing for everybody involved and giving proper information to those not checking out the forum.