You know it. They say “brief update.” This is probably in regards to how Battlegrounds got messed up yesterday. People were talking about server-wide rollback but the system message soon said that if you had lost experience/AA due to zoning into/out of BG, to petition and they would re-imburse experience. Here is one of the many posts in regards to the BG issue AA’s reset to 200 AA’s after leaving battlegrounds.
So it brings to mind that perhaps today’s patch is to try and solve more issues with Battlegrounds. This morning I got another system message about a “brief” update. Now maybe I don’t remember correctly, but I don’t remember there ever being these many patches and these long patches at that, with any other expansion. Patches sure, just seems like there appear to be quite a bit of bugs with the release of Sentinel’s Fate and BG.
That being said, I really like the new expansion and the new zones. It would be nice if the gnomes at Sony would consider crediting some of the subscription fee since one can’t play but yet one pays for playing, and there have been quite extensive patches lately. 1 hour turns into 2, 2 turns into 5 etc.
There is another patch today. The downtime started at 6 am PST and is estimated to 2 hours. Here is the link to the network status page.
Until next blog post,
Kanweienea Kreations
Do you forget to bookmark the EQ2 network status page? Do you search for “EQ2 network status”? Well in case you are looking for the link, here it is:
EQ2 network status
Servers were still locked when I checked just now.
Until next blog post,
Kanweienea Kreations
Here is what the network status page said:
US Scheduled Maintenance – 12/10/2009 1:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. This is a notification that all live EQ2 Servers will be coming down at 1:00 AM PST on 12/10/2009 for maintenance. The estimated downtime is expected to be 9 hours.
- SOE Operations team
Downtime scheduled – Downtime scheduled 12/10/2009 9:00 AM London Time / 12/10/2009 1:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. This is a notification that UK worlds will be updated at 9:00 AM London Time on the 12/10/2009. The estimated downtime will be 9 hours.
- SOE Operations team
Time to make some game inspired designs.
Until next blog post,
Kanweienea Kreations
Although it sucks when they have to bring the servers down, I understand that they have to sometimes. Today though, I have to give them kudos for actually having a big obvious post on the EQ2 players page. That is the first time I noticed that at least, and since it is a longer downtime, it is good that they made a post about it. Here is what they said:
Server Downtime – Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 1:00-10:00 AM PST -12/09/09. Beginning at 2:00 AM PST on Thursday, December 10, 2009, all SOE game servers will be offline for hardware maintenance. This includes all of our MMOs as well as TCGs. We expect the downtime to last around 4 hours. For the EQII servers this downtime will extend to 10am PST.
We need to hotfix in the morning to clear up some bugs and to turn on Frostfell. However we cannot hotfix immediately after the maintenance.
This downtime will be for all servers so that we can turn on Frostfell and the hotfixes at the same time for everyone. We realize that this will mean downtime during peak hours for some and we apologize for the inconvenience this presents. Thank you for your patience and we’ll update this thread with any new information.
We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.
Until next blog post,
Kanweienea Kreations
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