Aaargggghhhhhh

[Lisabethy]

Downtime again with no warning ????? I was in the middle of a rare combine tradeskilling ...... Seriously Sony - STOP DOING THIS CRAP.

[Elorah]

Granted, it was not announced in game, but the <a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/network_status.vm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Network Status</a> had it listed hours ago....  *shrugs* Just one of those days... I hope that you did well on your combine, at least if you didnt, then you now get the rare back  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[NightLo]

Hmm...you think they would have included today's maintenance/update/whatever in yesterday's 8-hour downtime.  Multi-task, multi-task, multi-task.  <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Screengu]

To whoever makes the decision to turn the servers off without an ingame warning, may you die a painful death.

[Rann]

they must of hired some of the SWG devs i bet

[Nerocon]

gah, some of us don't use eq2 players.. I refuse to pay extra for something that should be free. Why is this info only posted on eq2 players just like the 9hr outage the other day. Should not at very least be posted on the eq2 forums as well?

[Anderdale]

So how long are the servers expected to be down?

[Elorah]

<cite>Nerocon wrote:</cite><blockquote>gah, some of us don't use eq2 players.. I refuse to pay extra for something that should be free. Why is this info only posted on eq2 players just like the 9hr outage the other day. Should not at very least be posted on the eq2 forums as well?</blockquote>That is free...  You do not pay extra for the network status page...

[Pul]

DamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDa mnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamn[Removed for Content]!My toon after this downtime is LVL 1  at the queen colony!!T__TWhat the ...???

[Elorah]

<cite>Anderdale wrote:</cite><blockquote>So how long are the servers expected to be down?</blockquote>Network status page said one hour the last time I looked...

[Lordrex]

<cite>NightLoch wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hmm...you think they would have included today's maintenance/update/whatever in yesterday's 8-hour downtime.  Multi-task, multi-task, multi-task.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote><p>Yeah , agree 100% ..</p><p>Players had planned on not having play time yesterday,, should have done this then.</p><p>But it like Taxes and Gas Prices,,Nothing you can do about it. Well you could quit payin taxes and goto jail. quit buying gas and walk, or stop </p><p>playing this game but whats the fun in all that?</p>

[Rann]

1 hour and you dont need to pay eq2players for network status

[Elorah]

<cite>Pulce wrote:</cite><blockquote>DamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDa mnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamnDamn[I cannot control my vocabulary]!My toon after this downtime is LVL 1  at the queen colony!!T__TWhat the ...???</blockquote>Lol.   dont even attempt to log in while they are still down.  all sorts of uglies happen to your character...  When they go back up all should be well <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Pul]

Ah, another thing. The downtime was scheduled at 7.00 AM PST. Now is 6.20 PST <.<'

[Nerocon]

well yeah for the network status page.. but why start using something that has limited features when the same info is elsewhere (or should be) so your saying I should use eq2 players for network status, then use station for everything else..  no thanks, why cant I get all important info in one easy location?

[Jrral]

Sorry, wrong day. But yes, unexpected downtime happens. Servers crash, problems happen, and it doesn't always give Sony any warning either.

[MistrOrnge]

No warning at all.  Very nice.  Was up in City of Mist so guaranteed group death.  Gotta love that.And no I don't read Network Status.  Why should you have to if they give out warnings.Overall not real happy.

[Nerocon]

<cite>Pulce wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ah, another thing. The downtime was scheduled at 7.00 AM PST. Now is 6.20 PST <.<'</blockquote>hehe, did someone forget daylight savings?  it is currently 7:17 am PST

[Pul]

<cite>Elorah wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>Lol.   dont even attempt to log in while they are still down.  all sorts of uglies happen to your character...  When they go back up all should be well <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />       </blockquote> Hope Never Dies =)

[Elorah]

<cite>Pulce wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ah, another thing. The downtime was scheduled at 7.00 AM PST. Now is 6.20 PST <.<'</blockquote><span class="NewsSelectionHeaders"><b>Scheduled Downtime Updated</b> - 03/13/2008 at 7:00 AM PDT</span> <span class="fieldValue">All EQ2 US servers will be brought down on 03/13/2008 at 7:00 AM PDT.The estimated down time will be 1 hours.- SOE Operations teamPDT...   we moved up an hour this past weekend </span><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/47941865eb7bbc2a777305b46cc059a2.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Pul]

<cite>Elorah wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite><span class="NewsSelectionHeaders"><b>Scheduled Downtime Updated</b> - 03/13/2008 at 7:00 AM PDT</span> <span class="fieldValue">All EQ2 US servers will be brought down on 03/13/2008 at 7:00 AM PDT.The estimated down time will be 1 hours.- SOE Operations teamPDT...   we moved up an hour this past weekend </span><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/47941865eb7bbc2a777305b46cc059a2.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote>Uooops <.<'

[The_Green_Dragon]

[Removed for Content]. I'm just glade it isn't just me. I just payed for the full game two days ago & I get a entire free year out of it. I don't get how they can make money that way. But this happens too often as I just got done with the trial of WOW & this started to take place as sever, after servers went down. Maybe it's me. But when the servers come back up, the fay & flying carpets better be able to free fly?

[nennest]

Just an hour get some icecream or some cookies *nods*

[Elorah]

Lol..  I have been playing this game for ages....  It used to be a LOT worse then it is now...  They miss a few once and a while and everyone pounces...  does it stink when this happens...  yep, you betcha.  But SOE are people too...  and as well all know...  we make mistakes...There are worse things out there that could happen....If you dont wish to use the network status page, then by all means, don't.  The page is there to help people and to warn when downtime occurs.  If you don't read it, then how can you come to the forums to complain about it when they dont give the in game announcement?  The info is there for a reason....  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Anderdale]

<cite>nennest wrote:</cite><blockquote>Just an hour get some icecream or some cookies *nods*</blockquote>I DONT HAVE ICECREAM. what the hell am i suppose to do??!!?

[Nerocon]

<cite>The_Green_Dragon wrote:</cite><blockquote>[Removed for Content]. I'm just glade it isn't just me. I just payed for the full game two days ago & I get a entire free year out of it. I don't get how they can make money that way. But this happens too often as I just got done with the trial of WOW & this started to take place as sever, after servers went down. Maybe it's me. But when the servers come back up, the fay & flying carpets better be able to free fly?</blockquote>The Fay and carpets do not free fly.. its not a bug

[Elorah]

<cite>Pulce wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Elorah wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite><span class="NewsSelectionHeaders"><b>Scheduled Downtime Updated</b> - 03/13/2008 at 7:00 AM PDT</span> <span class="fieldValue">All EQ2 US servers will be brought down on 03/13/2008 at 7:00 AM PDT.The estimated down time will be 1 hours.- SOE Operations teamPDT...   we moved up an hour this past weekend </span><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/47941865eb7bbc2a777305b46cc059a2.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote>Uooops <.<' </blockquote>Lol...   not everyone in the world moved ahead yet though.  My family in Europe is still in savings time...

[nennest]

candy ? cookies ? cereals ? maybe popcorn ?

[Pul]

<cite>nennest wrote:</cite><blockquote>Just an hour get some icecream or some cookies *nods*</blockquote>/quote Nennest

[Irulana]

So, they can't be bothered to ring the warning bell when it's likely to affect 100% of players currently online in some way but the bell always rings if a butterfly flaps it's wings and slightly moves a card in Legends of Norrath, oh dear me, I'll ge my coat <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/e78feac27fa924c4d0ad6cf5819f3554.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="25" height="25" />

[Anderdale]

<cite>nennest wrote:</cite><blockquote>candy ? cookies ? cereals ? maybe popcorn ?</blockquote>No food at all. I do have a Sprite though! man do i love sprite. Lemon and Lime make that flavor.. tasty. yep ...  sure is tasty

[Aziasia]

<p>Just one more case of $oe ignoring something that annoys the paying customer to no end and could be easily fixed. If a bank, coffee shop, dry cleaner etc.. ignored their customers the way Sony does us, they would be out of business. /shrug I guess i'll just never understand how you can run a business that way.</p>

[Elorah]

<cite>nennest wrote:</cite><blockquote>candy ? cookies ? cereals ? maybe popcorn ?</blockquote>MMMMM.   Candy candy....  *runs around looking for that Easter bunny*

[Nerocon]

<cite>Elorah wrote:</cite><blockquote>Lol..  I have been playing this game for ages....  It used to be a LOT worse then it is now...  They miss a few once and a while and everyone pounces...  does it stink when this happens...  yep, you betcha.  But SOE are people too...  and as well all know...  we make mistakes...There are worse things out there that could happen....If you dont wish to use the network status page, then by all means, don't.  The page is there to help people and to warn when downtime occurs.  If you don't read it, then how can you come to the forums to complain about it when they dont give the in game announcement?  The info is there for a reason....  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote>I am just saying, I don't use eq2 players at all, important info should not be in just a single location when you operate so many information sources. I am just glad it wasent server crash as I thought at first. Downtime is fine because it only makes our play better, but I was in the dark.

[Nerocon]

Hell, I did not even know they posted server/network info on eq2players, I just assumed it was just for char information

[Elorah]

<cite>Aziasia wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Just one more case of $oe ignoring something that annoys the paying customer to no end and could be easily fixed. If a bank, coffee shop, dry cleaner etc.. ignored their customers the way Sony does us, they would be out of business. /shrug I guess i'll just never understand how you can run a business that way.</p></blockquote>Hmm.  Funny that you should mention that.  I once worked at a bank that would CLOSE for an hour at lunch every day.  It was the only way for the workers to get a lunch.  We were only a few and on Payday, we would be so swamped for hours until we closed....Yet, they were the busiest branch of that bank in the area...  never closed down...other then at off hours and lunch of course *giggles*

[Elorah]

<cite>Nerocon wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hell, I did not even know they posted server/network info on eq2players, I just assumed it was just for char information</blockquote>hehe.  now you know.  Book,mark it and take a quick peek before logging in....  you say that Important stuff like this should not only be marked in one area....I thin that there are a lot more important things then a games downtime of 1 hour...like finding that EASTER BUNNY!!!  *keeps looking for her chocolate*

[Irulana]

<p>No one truely minds that there is a downtime, what most people seem to be mifffed at is the lack of IN-GAME warning and lets face it, coming into work, turning on your monitor, setting a standard reminder message advising everyone to find a safe location to log out isn't exactly brain surgery now is it?</p><p>Come on SOE Peeps, get some stronger coffee, wake up and remember that the little things make a big difference.</p>

[Holyheck]

Passes out the Kleenex and wonders where the Cheese is to go with the Whine I mean its an hour we can live I would think or do some need to attend the new game addiction AA meetings? It will be up soon and things will be back to the norm at least you have a game to play so be happy!!<img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Nerocon]

That was fast.. servers are up....  wewt

[The_Green_Dragon]

<cite>Nerocon wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>The_Green_Dragon wrote:</cite><blockquote>[Removed for Content]. I'm just glade it isn't just me. I just payed for the full game two days ago & I get a entire free year out of it. I don't get how they can make money that way. But this happens too often as I just got done with the trial of WOW & this started to take place as sever, after servers went down. Maybe it's me. But when the servers come back up, the fay & flying carpets better be able to free fly?</blockquote>The Fay and carpets do not free fly.. its not a bug</blockquote>O, it's a bug alright. See not all bugs are limited to software programming & hardware failure. But also more often to  lacking ethics & honor...

[Lisabethy]

Nice. And they rolled us back now that the servers are up.

[Shadowtzer]

<p>I have no issues with the downtimes. I imagine there are problems that need to be fixed. But I just wish they would get both places that show server status in sync. I logged in this morning without reading the forums first or checking the status on the players page but instead checking it on the update thingie on the log in screen and it said all servers are up. So I log in thinking nothing of it and get a message that the client's version does not match the server's....blah blah blah. So I freak thinking ok what happened now? Thankfully I see now that its not just me lol. </p><p>OMG what to do with one's self for one whole hour???? Peruse the forums for interesting tidbits? Search the Internet for random things that I have been meaning to look up? Read and reply to my emails? Walk down memory lane on YouTube? Make some more coffee? Help Elorah find the Easter Bunny? The possibilities are endless lol. </p>

[Rqron]

<cite>Elorah wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Nerocon wrote:</cite><blockquote>gah, some of us don't use eq2 players.. I refuse to pay extra for something that should be free. Why is this info only posted on eq2 players just like the 9hr outage the other day. Should not at very least be posted on the eq2 forums as well?</blockquote>That is free...  You do not pay extra for the network status page...</blockquote>Correct, the network status page access is free and it IS the main means of communication for this type of interruptions.. Just because someone does not feel like checking it or may even thinks it is too much work does not give that person the right to complain. Any halfway serious player will check the site for a network downtime BEFORE playing the game. Moreover, NO serious player will EVER do anything critical at 7am PT as that is the established server downtime...and just because the downtimes have become a little less frequent then they used to be does not mean the time frame will and is not used to reset the servers. It used to be a common occurrence 5-6 days a week at 7am PT the servers came down period. I.M.H.O. and as I know many seasoned players feel the same....nothing has changed and nobody in his right mind who is even a bit serious playing this game will plan anything critical at that time. Even if there is NO announcement of server down time/J.C.