Surprise Maintenance (lets call it a publish)
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cybermitheral,
Posted on: 2011-10-11 04:15 in Oceanic Lounge
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OK this almost made me choke on my coffee | And now, ... A Walk in the Black Forest ... |
I just watched that episode last night (Goodies - goody goody yum yum).
Just thought of a good VG name - "The Saucy Gibbon"
As much as I understand that with all the changes (i21) there were bugs and they want them fixed ASAP it is getting to the point that it is affecting us too much.
Logic and understanding becomes less and less tolerable as we become more and more affected.
Its understandable but also getting to be a smack in the face. While Oceania may be a small fish in the big pond we are still members of the community and are heavily affected due to the timezones.
Dear City of whatever,
please publish as many times as you see fit whenever you find huge problems that need addressing, I am patient, I have a better understanding of these things and I'm expecting things to go haywire especially with all of the big changes being made and new powersets being introduced. That's just how things are going to work. One minute things are fine the next you get all kinds of bug reports with all kinds of not-so-easy-to-fix things that nobody could have possibly foreseen...
but anyway I'm in the minority here so eh...
Ignoring anyone is a mistake. You might miss something viral to your cause.
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This is definitely true. I've invited a few friends to come around and have a look, and the frequent intrusive downtimes were a major reason none of them have wanted to stay. It's worth noting that The Other Game (hated by all right-minded CoH subscribers, because god forbid you enjoy two games) has largely eliminated maintenance downtimes. People are often not prepared to tolerate them when alternative games don't have that handicap.
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Originally Posted by Part_Troll
I can't tell my friends 'hey, come play CoH, you might like it, it's free', when it GOES DOWN ALL THE DAMN TIME in the evenings.
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Excepting that the last two weeks they've published on a Wednesday instead of a Tuesday, they have said so up front; Thursdays are scheduled maintenance day, Tuesdays are patch publishing day - they don't always use those windows, but they're there.
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Originally Posted by Part_Troll
Publish, ok, publish on a TUESDAY, not a WEDNESDAY. Like you did LAST week, and then Thursday was MAINTENANCE, again. If you're going to publish EVER FRACKING TUESDAY then SAY SO UP FRONT.
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How can this game spend so much maintenance time and still be so laggy? Not to mention age old bugs that's still never been fixed. Eg diamagtic incarnate, base raids, scrapper KM in pvp etc
Far out.
They just WILL NOT STOP. Every week, most weeknights, zorched because they want to take the servers down. Yes yes, the Stockholm Syndrome Apologists can have their say 'oh, they NEED to do this maintenance, it's for your own good', et f'n cetera.
Publish, ok, publish on a TUESDAY, not a WEDNESDAY. Like you did LAST week, and then Thursday was MAINTENANCE, again. If you're going to publish EVER FRACKING TUESDAY then SAY SO UP FRONT.
And what's with this THREE HOUR chunks, and six, and FOURTEEN hours, huge swathes of downtime.
I can't tell my friends 'hey, come play CoH, you might like it, it's free', when it GOES DOWN ALL THE DAMN TIME in the evenings.
Thank goodness Daylight Savings hit here, so now the normal downtime window is 10pm local. And when the US ceases daylight saving, that will move to 11pm local, but I'm sure NCSOFT/PARAGON and their Apprentice Elves will adjust accordingly and have MONDAY and WEDNESDAYS as 'backup maintenance days' with every second friday being a 'power outage in the data centre due to casual friday getting out of control!'. or something.
Just leave the *&^%$#@ servers alone for a month, eh?
And now, ... A Walk in the Black Forest ...
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