Third day in a row for me logging off work into an unannounced maintenance. I get that the game is global and EU has issues that need addressing, however do this issues warrant the take down of all the rest of the servers?
As others have said, they haven’t given a reason that indicates an emergency maintenance was required. Unless there is an exploit or issue they arent telling us about, there is nothing that required bringing down NA/SA servers without 24 hours + notice
To be honest, yesterday was the worst one. They displayed they could patch the issue to different regions at different times, yet still chose to take down America West during Aussie prime time and a still reasonably active west coast time.
I get that it is newly released and they are struggling with the EU demand, but the problem is AGS has already shown extreme incompetence with New World so its alarming we have 3 days of emergency maintenance that may not actually be an emergency.
Not to fight you on this but I have been playing MMORPG games for over 20 years and never have I ever dealt with this…WoW for example picked one day a week that is it to update and everyone knew it…
Like I clearly stated: It all just depends on what type of player that you are. Someone, somewhere, is just no going to be happy. They cant worry about pleasing everyone and worry about players gaming schedule. That is what the devs have to just shove in the back of their mind, and just focus on the task they have at hand. Like every other human being that actively participates in the workforce and gets a day off, the devs have a life too, dont fall short as a human being and forget that. Really.
Ive spend more time in queue than in game… There was literaly one day when i was playing from 6am-13pm those are my hrs. But devs had chosen to not inform US about anythink. I would weld a fuckin mini rig and make some money,but naaaaaaah better say nothing,everyone like surprises and wasting their time
to be fair most games don’t have the best of launch when there is a large amount of traffic. I know the year is 2022, however one must remember that with the advancement of tech there is also new issues and problems we must overcome. If tech evolved at the rate it has without any issues I believe we’d be on Mars by now.
Just keep in mind, that just because we paid for a founders pack, or bought something on the cash shop one does not gain a piece of the company. If Smilegate has public trading you can invest and effect the changes you wish that way, not through demands and in game store purchase.
It is a free to play game and AGS nor Smilegate owes anyone anything, period. Even those who have spent thousands of dollars, you did agree to their ToS.
in my world these are emergancy hotfixes outside of a set weekly/month scheduled maintenance cycle. These guys in the last few days are patching a patch to patch a patch and redoing hotfixes on the fly geez. poeple would get fired here for that.
Agreed. If players cant handle a little downtime to get patched-updated-fixes, they should just give up on PC gaming. Valheim-New World- Final Fantasy-PUBG-Fortnite- (and just about every other big name game takeoff the past 5 years or more) ALL started out this exact same way. So, there you have it. Its not just a handful of game that do it like many are forgetting (or started playing well after launch and never experienced.)
I don’t mind the patching and to be honest, the game runs perfectly for me without any issues yet. I just don’t get to play much other than in the evenings and that’s when the servers go down. Would be nice to stagger the down times to give each region a break at least until they create local regional servers.
All jokes aside, it does indeed suck. However to use an example, if we have an internal issue we do not disclose all the details to our customers. I’d have to think that is common practice, and honestly see no issue with it.
Its ok and im sure going forward that lost ark will also have set days for maintenance. Its judt with things being so unstable right now they’d rather fix things quickly.
like I said… some people don’t mind getting fucked in the ass… and will say… thank you sir, may I have another…
the excuse of “this is just amazon, get used to it” is exactly what I said above…
people who think like this need to have higher standards for themselves, and hold companies accountable… we have become ENTIRELY too complacent for incompetence over the years…
Yes! THAT right there, I totally 100% agree with (an actually said in my post) They need to incorporate an IN ADVANCE (24 hrs at least) Incoming Scheduled Maintenance message at the log in screen and one that runs at the bottom (as a constant reminder) for players. This Tweeting and a flash across the game screen (while most are in battles) and dont know was that part of the game that they missed or a downtime warning that these guys threw up periodically in gameplay that gives like 1-2 hours of a short flashing notice. I actually slammed them a Tweet yesterday about these crappy notices and their lack of utilizing such a simple reminder.
