Server Maintenance (3/30/17)

Brigby

Hi Everyone,

We will be performing server maintenance tomorrow morning. This will last approximately 30 minutes. Please see the details below:

Start: 03/30/17 at 10:30am EST / 2:30pm UTC / 7:30am PST / 7:30am Phoenix
End: 03/30/17 at 11:00am EST / 3:00pm UTC / 8:00am PST / 8:00am Phoenix

Thanks for understanding!

THEMAGICkMAN

Why?

(Adding extra characters to get over limit)

AngelForge

THEMAGICkMAN wrote:

Why?

(Adding extra characters to get over limit)

"You may play as much as you want, but not know as much as you want."

(Rephrased saying)

Muche

I'm quite happy I managed to start the last match of the NoP event (which is technically still ongoing) before the maintenance started. Not sure if the win was indeed registered on the server, or only on the client.

shteev

And you scheduled this just before the end of NoP... why?

Tilwin90

It is not clear to me if server maintenance presumes an actual release of a new version or any fixes, or it's simply maintenance done at the level of the server (cleanup, restarts, etc.) without affecting the application or back-end logic in any way. Would like to know this information.
Thanks!

JopeX37

shteev wrote:

And you scheduled this just before the end of NoP... why?

Because reasons and such forth.

DumasAG

Brigby wrote:

Hi Everyone,

We will be performing server maintenance tomorrow morning. This will last approximately 30 minutes. Please see the details below:

Start: 03/30/17 at 10:30am EST / 2:30pm UTC / 7:30am PST / 7:30am Phoenix
End: 03/30/17 at 11:00am EST / 3:00pm UTC / 8:00am PST / 8:00am Phoenix

Thanks for understanding!

Is there a particular reason you included EST, MT, and PST while leaving out Central (CT)? Just seems weirdly exclusionary (also, you can just put Eastern, no need to put the rest).

Tilwin90 wrote:

It is not clear to me if server maintenance presumes an actual release of a new version or any fixes, or it's simply maintenance done at the level of the server (cleanup, restarts, etc.) without affecting the application or back-end logic in any way. Would like to know this information.

Also, it would appear there was no update, just general maintenance.

Brigby

Hi Everyone. This was just general maintenance, and there was no new version nor fixes.

We are most likely going to post the Pre-Release Notes beginning of next week once everything is starting to get finalized and set-in-stone.

DSidey

Brigby wrote:

We are most likely going to post the Pre-Release Notes beginning of next week once everything is starting to get finalized and set-in-stone.

Pre-release? How long have the majority of us(at least on this forum) been waiting for the devs to listen to us about the obvious greed behind many of the recent changes?

I'm done with this game. I don't want to be, but I am. Not my time or my dime.

Infested

Pre-release is just away of saying they expect a patch next week and the notes are there to let us see if there are any big problems before they let it go live.

My ask is that we be given them in a less fluffy PR way and have a more straightforward list of notes.

madwren

Brigby wrote:

Hi Everyone. This was just general maintenance, and there was no new version nor fixes.

We are most likely going to post the Pre-Release Notes beginning of next week once everything is starting to get finalized and set-in-stone.

Hey Brigby,

I don't know if the team realizes that we just switched our clocks to Daylight Savings Time in the US.

Events used to end at 7:00 am. Now, because we've moved the clocks an hour forward, they end at 8:00 am.

Therefore, if you scheduled the maintenance at 7:30 am, previously that was 30 minutes after the event ends. No conflict.

However, NOW, 7:30am is actually 30 minutes BEFORE the event ends, which means a lot of people got interrupted by maintenance while the event was still running, and it wound up costing them points/nodes.

babar3355

One thing I have learned is to expect the absolute worst.

If they say "free gold" they mean you get to keep half of what you currently have... for free!

If they say more cards, they mean more of the same cards over and over.. less total cards and less cards you don't already have.

If they say they will communicate with the community more, they mean they will leave early and laugh about how hard they are trolling their player base over a round of beers at the community pub.

naphomci

DSidey wrote:

Brigby wrote:

We are most likely going to post the Pre-Release Notes beginning of next week once everything is starting to get finalized and set-in-stone.

Pre-release? How long have the majority of us(at least on this forum) been waiting for the devs to listen to us about the obvious greed behind many of the recent changes?

I'm done with this game. I don't want to be, but I am. Not my time or my dime.

If you're a glass is half full type, this could be a patch to revert/fix many of the changes that the players have complained about.

If you're a glass half empty type, it will be the introduction of new events that cost 50 jewels to enter with 10 basic boosters as prizes. Oh, and all packs will cost 25 more.

Matthew

madwren wrote:

Events used to end at 7:00 am. Now, because we've moved the clocks an hour forward, they end at 8:00 am.

God, it must be nice living on the West coast...

It's 5 a.m. here in the East. Luckily for me, I have to get up that early anyway to get ready for work.

gruntface

madwren wrote:

Brigby wrote:

Hi Everyone. This was just general maintenance, and there was no new version nor fixes.

We are most likely going to post the Pre-Release Notes beginning of next week once everything is starting to get finalized and set-in-stone.

Hey Brigby,

I don't know if the team realizes that we just switched our clocks to Daylight Savings Time in the US.

Events used to end at 7:00 am. Now, because we've moved the clocks an hour forward, they end at 8:00 am.

Therefore, if you scheduled the maintenance at 7:30 am, previously that was 30 minutes after the event ends. No conflict.

However, NOW, 7:30am is actually 30 minutes BEFORE the event ends, which means a lot of people got interrupted by maintenance while the event was still running, and it wound up costing them points/nodes.

I've moved past the opinion that this is down to pure ignorance and moved onto the assumption this is willfully malicious at this point. At every turn, in every way, there seems to be a twist of the knife, some salt in the wound, to make our playing experience just that little bit less pleasant. I can't WAIT to see what they have for us next