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Posted on: 2011-11-10 05:22 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Gray_walker
Smart *** comments are the reason I don't post very often. Let me explain a couple of things, I'm a 60 year old retired man so the opinions of people I think of as children don't really matter a lot to me. I've been here as long as any of you whether I've been posting or not and my opinions and concerns are as valid as anyone here's. If you wish to impress someone with your wit go play with your peers and go mock someone else kid. Oh yeah, save the get off my lawn comments too.
This game is basically my hobby and it upsets me when I can't play. I'm well aware of the maintenence schedule and all of the stated caveats about downtime. It doesn't lessen the impact it has on me and if I wish to vent about it I will. |
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Originally Posted by Gray_walker
I'm a 60 year old retired man so the opinions of people I think of as children don't really matter a lot to me.
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Originally Posted by Gray_walker
My opinions and concerns are as valid as anyone here's.
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Furthermore, engaging in self-centred brow-beating of random people with blanket statements like that neither accomplishes anything nor demonstrates actual maturity, for a definition of "maturity" that does not equal "chronological age." You call people "children," yet your behaviour in this thread has been the most childish of all. You throw a tantrum that the servers are not up, reject realistic explanations for why they may be down and proceed to insult your fellow posters.
Six times the behaviour of a ten-year-old does not inspire respect in people half your age like I am. It inspires us to roll our eyes.
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So the servers are down. Show some maturity and deal with it. If you come here looking for sympathy, then do the sensible thing and show some sympathy of your own. That way, people who don't like downtime (like me) would be much more inclined to side with you, as opposed to feeling patronised because we're not old enough to matter.
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And you wouldn't have gotten anything if you hadn't indulged in one of the world's oldest malicious arguments: The self-fulfilling prophecy. If you insult people, then "predicting" they're going to lash back at you is not a prophecy. If your own actions make your prediction come true, then it's not the poor results you should lament, but rather what you did to cause them.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I agree with the original poster. Why should I continue to subscribe if there is this much downtime?
This is a terrible trend the last two months, and frankly I am starting to weigh my options.
I think this is the new incarnate branches. Am I wrong? I figured this publish was the new Alpha, etc. Could it be that and MORE? I hope so.
Global Name: Denver Nugget
Playing since i3 on 8 servers
Oooo look another thread about people complaining about something AND threats to quit.
I love threads like these it makes me warm and happy inside, sorta like when I kick kittens around and punch children.
Keep up the good work! 
lmao
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Oh look someone that hasn't been paying attention the last three months with the immense amount of downtime.
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Originally Posted by The_Larker
Oooo look another thread about people complaining about something AND threats to quit.
I love threads like these it makes me warm and happy inside, sorta like when I kick kittens around and punch children. Keep up the good work! lmao |
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I would ask if you're joking but I know from your previous posts you aren't. Trend??? Gee.. in the past month or slightly more there have been almost no emergency fixes and downtimes have gotten back to normal. Is this 6 hour downtime sudden? Yup.. but guess what? It is par for the course with ANY MMO. You want to leave that's your choice.. but have fun hopping from game to game every 2 months because you will never ever get away from unexepcted downtime. Besides, for the majority of the playerbase this is done during a workday period to impact the least amount of players- just grow up and deal with it.
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Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
I agree with the original poster. Why should I continue to subscribe if there is this much downtime?
This is a terrible trend the last two months, and frankly I am starting to weigh my options. |
"Well, there's going to be some light music and a short note of apology saying, 'The universe ended last week, we're really sorry, we don't know what you're doing here, didn't you get the message?'"- Steve Moffat
There has been a lot of downtime, BUT I am not complaining. There is SO MUCH new content I can barely keep up. I will take the downtime to keep the game new and fresh.
LOVING IT!
Global Name: Denver Nugget
Playing since i3 on 8 servers
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So cancel your sub. It's not like it means anything since you'll still be able to play the game. The only difference is that you'll have less access to content and you won't get any free points to use in the store, so you'll be spending some if not more of your money on Paragon points. The company gets your money one way or the other.
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Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
I agree with the original poster. Why should I continue to subscribe if there is this much downtime?
This is a terrible trend the last two months, and frankly I am starting to weigh my options. |
Well considering I work a full time job AND go to school at night I do not have the luxury to sit around all day on my *** and ***** and whine about the game and/or play it.
On weekends I get to play maybe a couple hours if I am lucky, I live in the real world, not some MMO. So getting bent out of shape about downtime and complaining about it on a forum of fellow players is stupid. Complain to the devs, because, frankly the only thing your doing is making a laughing stock out of yourself with threats to quit.
OR keep on complaining because seriously your giving me a good laugh.
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If the Devs decided to COMPLETELY RELAUNCH the game with a new player subscription/payment format every two months then yes, I might be willing to agree with you that there has been a SLIGHT increase to the standard amount of downtime this game experiences. But since we've only seen this kind of thing happen once in 7.5 years I'm willing to cut them just a tiny bit of slack.|
Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
I agree with the original poster. Why should I continue to subscribe if there is this much downtime?
This is a terrible trend the last two months, and frankly I am starting to weigh my options. |
Your lack of historical perspective on this is disturbing...
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Apart from the month that shall not be named, since freedom launched the downtime has started to go back to normal levels.
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Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
I agree with the original poster. Why should I continue to subscribe if there is this much downtime?
This is a terrible trend the last two months, and frankly I am starting to weigh my options. |
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Originally Posted by Lothic
Your lack of historical perspective on this is disturbing...
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I think you get a dollar off at the bowling alley.
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Originally Posted by Aneko
Not even a Senior discount?
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Originally Posted by Gray_walker
Smart *** comments are the reason I don't post very often. Let me explain a couple of things, I'm a 60 year old retired man so the opinions of people I think of as children don't really matter a lot to me.
I've been here as long as any of you whether I've been posting or not and my opinions and concerns are as valid as anyone here's. If you wish to impress someone with your wit go play with your peers and go mock someone else kid. Oh yeah, save the get off my lawn comments too. This game is basically my hobby and it upsets me when I can't play. I'm well aware of the maintenence schedule and all of the stated caveats about downtime. It doesn't lessen the impact it has on me and if I wish to vent about it I will. |
Err...I refuse to tell my age because I don't look like, or feel my age, but I am old enough that there is no way you can consider me a child.
Just because we are , gulp, "old" farts does not mean we no longer have to be polite. We can be more open with what we say as we have been there, done that, but, these youngsters probably know far more than us in certain things...I think it might have been our generation that was terrified to turn on one of those new fangled computers for fear it would explode or something silly like that
Anyways, telling people you don't care about their opinions seems...like something Lord Recluse would do
It is a perfectly fine thing to vent though. Cole knows I am not happy with the downtime either...but I cooked a wonderful breakfast, washed a ton of mismatched socks, and am now sitting at the computer about to read up on the Incarnate system since it seems we are finally to get a solo path
Hugs.
Lisa.
So don't wait for heroes, do it yourself
You've got the power
winners are losers
who got up and gave it just one more try
***Dennis DeYoung
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To be fair, this is during prime time for the european players so they probably could've started it a couple hours earlier.
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Originally Posted by Benchpresser
I would ask if you're joking but I know from your previous posts you aren't. Trend??? Gee.. in the past month or slightly more there have been almost no emergency fixes and downtimes have gotten back to normal. Is this 6 hour downtime sudden? Yup.. but guess what? It is par for the course with ANY MMO. You want to leave that's your choice.. but have fun hopping from game to game every 2 months because you will never ever get away from unexepcted downtime. Besides, for the majority of the playerbase this is done during a workday period to impact the least amount of players- just grow up and deal with it.
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Originally Posted by Shubbie
Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.
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Originally Posted by McCharraigin
Err...I refuse to tell my age because I don't look like, or feel my age, but I am old enough that there is no way you can consider me a child.
Just because we are , gulp, "old" farts does not mean we no longer have to be polite. We can be more open with what we say as we have been there, done that, but, these youngsters probably know far more than us in certain things...I think it might have been our generation that was terrified to turn on one of those new fangled computers for fear it would explode or something silly like that Anyways, telling people you don't care about their opinions seems...like something Lord Recluse would do It is a perfectly fine thing to vent though. Cole knows I am not happy with the downtime either...but I cooked a wonderful breakfast, washed a ton of mismatched socks, and am now sitting at the computer about to read up on the Incarnate system since it seems we are finally to get a solo path Hugs. Lisa. |
<crosses fingers and hopes Lisa will send me a wonderful breakfast.>
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
So cancel your sub. It's not like it means anything since you'll still be able to play the game. The only difference is that you'll have less access to content and you won't get any free points to use in the store, so you'll be spending some if not more of your money on Paragon points. The company gets your money one way or the other.
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Our players from the Middle East (mostly active duty military that have computer/internet access) and Asian/Aussie players could make the same argument.|
Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague
To be fair, this is during prime time for the european players so they probably could've started it a couple hours earlier.
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Whatever time they choose is going to impact someones prime time playing hours.
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Originally Posted by shaggy5
There has been a lot of downtime, BUT I am not complaining. There is SO MUCH new content I can barely keep up. I will take the downtime to keep the game new and fresh.
LOVING IT! |
I may not be happy when I want to play and can't because of downtime, but, the new stuff added makes up for that.
Balance in everything.
Hmm..can you imagine how boring a perfect world would be????
If it were not for the bad times, we would never be able to savor, or even recognize, the good times in our lives...
So, downtimes are good for our souls
Lisa.
Lisa.
So don't wait for heroes, do it yourself
You've got the power
winners are losers
who got up and gave it just one more try
***Dennis DeYoung
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Agreed and valid point- the EU players have been hit disproportionate to the rest of us when Freedom launched. |
Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague
To be fair, this is during prime time for the european players so they probably could've started it a couple hours earlier.
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However- I hate to sound territorial but this is North American company and the majority of their players are NA as well- a company needs to judge service disruptions to affect the least amount of users, which PS has done. Since it's a 6 hour downtime I'm guessing it's back-end server issues they are resolving, and with that you need to factor in Vendor support hours as well... It's easier/cheaper to have IBM on support standby during the NA workday than afterhours, which usually incurs a bigger charge in money or service banked hours. It's unfortunate for EU players but it's simple business sense.
Mainly I just wish the other poster would stop using every chance to whine and beg for more Paragon Points- it's amusing at times but it's starting to sound like the Forum equivilent of "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
"Well, there's going to be some light music and a short note of apology saying, 'The universe ended last week, we're really sorry, we don't know what you're doing here, didn't you get the message?'"- Steve Moffat
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If this level of downtime is causing you to consider your options, I think you had a foot out the door to start with.
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Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
I agree with the original poster. Why should I continue to subscribe if there is this much downtime?
This is a terrible trend the last two months, and frankly I am starting to weigh my options. |
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I prefer to look at these downtimes as if I'm waiting to open a present. So instead of getting frustrated I'm impatiently waiting to play with my new toys.|
Originally Posted by McCharraigin
/this.
I may not be happy when I want to play and can't because of downtime, but, the new stuff added makes up for that. Balance in everything. Hmm..can you imagine how boring a perfect world would be???? If it were not for the bad times, we would never be able to savor, or even recognize, the good times in our lives... So, downtimes are good for our souls Lisa. Lisa. |
I'll save the irritation for when the servers are back up and I learn all I got was socks.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I'll save the irritation for when the servers are back up and I learn all I got was socks.
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This game is basically my hobby and it upsets me when I can't play. I'm well aware of the maintenence schedule and all of the stated caveats about downtime. It doesn't lessen the impact it has on me and if I wish to vent about it I will.
Grow the hell up. It's seriously pathetic. Age does not equal maturity, as you just so adequately proved. You have the right to vent, and we have the equal right to tell you that you're leaving growing up a tad late.