Servers go boom

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Of course no admins post about it. Where's the communication at devs.
  • scottee
    scottee Posts: 1,610 Chairperson of the Boards
    delita007 wrote:
    I don't know much about the inner workings of servers, but it's midnight so I doubt anyone is actively working on it. Unless they make like wolverine and do some self true healing I doubt they get back up in time to finish thor pvp.

    I'm pretty sure this is why they keep the end times they do. The events tonight end at 9 and 10 pm on the west coast, meaning they probably have people working when events end. If European players got their wishes of different end times, the servers could stay down for 4-5 hours before anyone was able to fix it, instead of less than an hour. (though this current outage is one of the longest I can remember.)
  • yogi_
    yogi_ Posts: 1,236 Chairperson of the Boards
    Are any of the team even awake now?

    Or at work?

    Doubt it... it's late.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Really?

    First they make 2 events close to each other
    Then they are completely incompatible with European time, so I woke up 4 in the morning
    The program stopped working twice so I needed to buy health packs to compensate the shity bugs of this program
    And when I thought I could play... BOOM

    Now we'll have a lame mail with 10 ISO maybe. And if we complain two much they will get our attention elsewhere by nerfing any cool character.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Yeah D3 really doesn't care as long as they get our money because they know we're slaves to this game.

    I really need to re-evaluate my life because staying in the top 10 for the Deadpool event was misery and it made me question what I'm doing with my life.

    So thanks Deadpool, I was stressing and using even super scrub characters just to get a cover... christ. icon_redface.gif
  • pmorcs
    pmorcs Posts: 126 Tile Toppler
    http://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=112707
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Someone got notified when the servers went down. Someone's working in it. That's how these things go. But if the servers come back before start of business tomorrow, don't expect any communication other than "looks fine!"
  • Pwuz_
    Pwuz_ Posts: 1,214 Chairperson of the Boards
    scottee wrote:
    (though this current outage is one of the longest I can remember.)

    I seem to recall the servers being down an entire morning a few months ago. Though D3 did hand out a bunch of Iso & HP for that debacle.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    scottee wrote:
    delita007 wrote:
    I don't know much about the inner workings of servers, but it's midnight so I doubt anyone is actively working on it. Unless they make like wolverine and do some self true healing I doubt they get back up in time to finish thor pvp.

    I'm pretty sure this is why they keep the end times they do. The events tonight end at 9 and 10 pm on the west coast, meaning they probably have people working when events end. If European players got their wishes of different end times, the servers could stay down for 4-5 hours before anyone was able to fix it, instead of less than an hour. (though this current outage is one of the longest I can remember.)
    I'm pretty sure these guys are located in Boston though, so that's midnight end times.

    Either way I'm sure they've got people working on it. They run a 24/7 service they have to have 24/7 support. Plus, historically, event ends have been when they've had the most server trouble so they should have at least been aware of the possibility tonight.
  • scottee
    scottee Posts: 1,610 Chairperson of the Boards
    heyhellowhatsnew wrote:
    Yeah D3 really doesn't care as long as they get our money because they know we're slaves to this game.

    I really need to re-evaluate my life because staying in the top 10 for the Deadpool event was misery and it made me question what I'm doing with my life.

    So thanks Deadpool, I was stressing and using even super scrub characters just to get a cover... christ. icon_redface.gif

    lol, if MPQ or anything other game is affecting your life, you should probably reevaluate regardless of this event and placement.

    Seriously, do anyone saying a game is messing up your sleep patterns, or ruining your relationships with your significant others, please stop playing like that. It's just a game. It's not worth risking real life stuff over.

    Figure out how much you can comfortably play, and stick to that.
  • Ducky
    Ducky Posts: 2,255 Community Moderator
    I wonder if they will extend the season again like they did with season 1 due to the server outage. I really hope not!
  • scottee
    scottee Posts: 1,610 Chairperson of the Boards
    adamLmpq wrote:
    scottee wrote:
    delita007 wrote:
    I don't know much about the inner workings of servers, but it's midnight so I doubt anyone is actively working on it. Unless they make like wolverine and do some self true healing I doubt they get back up in time to finish thor pvp.

    I'm pretty sure this is why they keep the end times they do. The events tonight end at 9 and 10 pm on the west coast, meaning they probably have people working when events end. If European players got their wishes of different end times, the servers could stay down for 4-5 hours before anyone was able to fix it, instead of less than an hour. (though this current outage is one of the longest I can remember.)
    I'm pretty sure these guys are located in Boston though, so that's midnight end times.

    Either way I'm sure they've got people working on it. They run a 24/7 service they have to have 24/7 support. Plus, historically, event ends have been when they've had the most server trouble so they should have at least been aware of the possibility tonight.

    I can never remember which team is on the west coast, and which on the east. This is certainly possible.
  • Adventfire
    Adventfire Posts: 76 Match Maker
    MikeyMan wrote:
    D3 is just gonna sweep this under the rug.

    There's no room left after all the previous sweeping.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    GhostWolfe wrote:
    Someone got notified when the servers went down. Someone's working in it. That's how these things go. But if the servers come back before start of business tomorrow, don't expect any communication other than "looks fine!"

    I remember a time when I had faith in businesses, people and companies too.

    Those were the days.
  • MunitionsFrenzy
    MunitionsFrenzy Posts: 102 Tile Toppler
    Apocalypse sr wrote:
    Of course no admins post about it. Where's the communication at devs.
    Oh man, why aren't they online posting apologies when it's only midni--

    Oh.
  • trat73
    trat73 Posts: 79 Match Maker
    The Stoneheart Group was behind this!
  • abmoraz
    abmoraz Posts: 713 Critical Contributor
    adamLmpq wrote:
    djzerogx wrote:
    GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER ADMINS PLEASE TURN ON F**KING SERVERS THANK YOU. icon_evil.gificon_mad.gificon_evil.gificon_mad.gif
    Good. Use your aggressive feelings. Let the hate flow through you!

    I can just picture the one guy left on the overnight shift at D3 sitting there watching the server reboot...

    "Ok... just press the power button. Ok, going through the POST... loading GRUB... Fedora is loading.... OH SHI(err...) TINYKITTY! Stupid fsck**! I don't care if the disks haven't been checked in over 180 days! We're at the end of an event with another coming soon. Oh man... are the moids on the boards gonna be tinykittied at all the stuff they're gonna wake up to tomorrow. Guess I'll go have a beer since it is gonna take at least 90 minutes to do the disk check on the RAID array before the OS can even boot up."

    *end scene*

    **for the non linux/unix/bsd/server people, "fsck" is a command that analyzes hard disks and makes sure they aren't dying, not an attempt by me bypass the swearing rules.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    scottee wrote:
    heyhellowhatsnew wrote:
    Yeah D3 really doesn't care as long as they get our money because they know we're slaves to this game.

    I really need to re-evaluate my life because staying in the top 10 for the Deadpool event was misery and it made me question what I'm doing with my life.

    So thanks Deadpool, I was stressing and using even super scrub characters just to get a cover... christ. icon_redface.gif

    lol, if MPQ or anything other game is affecting your life, you should probably reevaluate regardless of this event and placement.

    Seriously, do anyone saying a game is messing up your sleep patterns, or ruining your relationships with your significant others, please stop playing like that. It's just a game. It's not worth risking real life stuff over.

    Figure out how much you can comfortably play, and stick to that.

    It's not affecting my rl relationships with my SO and my sleep patterns are weird anyway because I have multiple sclerosis... it's just when a PvE event like this with a new character comes i'm like OH MY GOD I MUST GET IT BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING PVE EVENTS WILL REQUIRE THIS CHARACTER.
  • Art Flash
    Art Flash Posts: 47
    What is frustrating is we were told by the developers that they wanted to improve their communication in general only a couple weeks ago. While it is late, and I'm not expecting some sort of quick fix at this hour I do think just having someone from D3 wake up, sit up in bed, and text a tweet through the MPQ twitter feed (which seems to be nothing but tournament announcements and recent Deadpool advertisements still) to let us know there's a server problem and that they'll get an ETA on the issue shortly is more than reasonable for us to ask I think, especially since this occurred at a scheduled event closing, which I would imagine they monitor to some extent.

    It's only been just under an hour at this point, so things are hardly dire, but here's D3's opportunity to show it's really trying to improve its community management skills. I just hope they don't squander the moment.
  • abmoraz
    abmoraz Posts: 713 Critical Contributor
    scottee wrote:
    adamLmpq wrote:
    scottee wrote:
    delita007 wrote:
    I don't know much about the inner workings of servers, but it's midnight so I doubt anyone is actively working on it. Unless they make like wolverine and do some self true healing I doubt they get back up in time to finish thor pvp.

    I'm pretty sure this is why they keep the end times they do. The events tonight end at 9 and 10 pm on the west coast, meaning they probably have people working when events end. If European players got their wishes of different end times, the servers could stay down for 4-5 hours before anyone was able to fix it, instead of less than an hour. (though this current outage is one of the longest I can remember.)
    I'm pretty sure these guys are located in Boston though, so that's midnight end times.

    Either way I'm sure they've got people working on it. They run a 24/7 service they have to have 24/7 support. Plus, historically, event ends have been when they've had the most server trouble so they should have at least been aware of the possibility tonight.

    I can never remember which team is on the west coast, and which on the east. This is certainly possible.

    Demiurge started in Pittsburgh. Not sure if they are still there. Even if they are, no gurantee that's where the servers are. I'd bet dollars to dimes that they use some sort of rackspace or cloud hosting for this.

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