@sirbats sagte in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
I have to admit
I'm really upset by this. I actually planned tonight. Got friends together. And have been a pre order for ages.If the servers are full of people on game pass ahead of people who committed their money and trust in advance I'll be super p****d.
People who preorder are always the dumb ones.
Never Preorder! This is not just a meaningless phrase.
Know yall are p****d, but believe me, you don't WANT to be in it right now if they aren't fixing the bug with your loot. Right now you can turn in everything you want, and it all either disappears, or you have to log and jump in and HOPE to get most of it back. So I'd rather the servers stay down until they fix that, then to play the game and the one thing that is most important to the game doesn't work.
Glad to know that being a casual gamer who felt like showing his support to a developer for a game I had faith in makes me dumb.
Where do I send your medal for community spirit?
@jambi-bum said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
@meteoric-sand Not even sure why I'm going to reply b/c it won't matter, but I'm just going to list some other pc games that have had launch day server issues plus other server overload problems.
Diablo 3
Most WoW expansions
PUBG
Fortnite
The Division
LoL
Dota 2
Path of ExileSee the trend here? They're all some of the biggest games around and from some of the largest developers. It doesn't matter. Server issues are a scaling problem that will always happen because no matter how much you plan for it you can never account for how many players will try to join the game at the same time.
Sim City also wouldn't work for over a week when that was released because it had an online component. You couldn't even play the single player.
@myers230880 said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
@inebriatti said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
just released in certain countries today. the influx of players and down time was expected.
so if u buy a new car do you expect for it to not start ? just cause its a game it don't make it any different...
If there were a million cars congesting the roads around the car-dealership (or house, business, etc) then I wouldn't expect to be driving it anywhere fast. Traffic jams don't care how new your car is.
@cryrid terrible analogy and logic. that would be blaming SoT for internet traffic, which is not what is happening here. This is a bug in the game causing them to take it down. It is much closer to blaming the car company for a car that wont start than blaming it for a traffic jam. Your complacency is what allows such terrible service.
@myers230880 said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
@inebriatti said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
just released in certain countries today. the influx of players and down time was expected.
so if u buy a new car do you expect for it to not start ? just cause its a game it don't make it any different...
I mean as long as you ignore just about pretty much every multiplayer game ever having the same problem on launch day, yeah then the car comparison would be completely valid.
@alymon pretty much most of the wow expansions never had any issues as i remember....same goes for pubg as i remember i played from really early stages of early access
what gets me is people compare this game to the wow launch, wow was released in 2004. that was so long ago. the servers and technology are better compared to back then so that is not an excuse. all i know is we had too many scale test for this to be happening. hell, i bought 4 copies of this game for my family! i get home from work and i still cannot play after being up all night trying to log in on opening night hoping this got fixed. the weekend probably gonna be worse. i guess this game is really a thieves game. got me for for 250 dollars and cannot even play.
@nametwin said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
what gets me is people compare this game to the wow launch, wow was released in 2004. that was so long ago. the servers and technology are better compared to back then so that is not an excuse. all i know is we had too many scale test for this to be happening. hell, i bought 4 copies of this game for my family! i get home from work and i still cannot play after being up all night trying to log in on opening night hoping this got fixed. the weekend probably gonna be worse. i guess this game is really a thieves game. got me for for 250 dollars and cannot even play.
WoW releases are actually amazing now. As well as overwatch and other blizzard games. It's been years since a failure this bad from them, I'm surprised it's happening now with Rare/Microsoft.
@meteoric-sand said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
@alymon pretty much most of the wow expansions never had any issues as i remember....same goes for pubg as i remember i played from really early stages of early access
Sure. There are examples of online games not having issues at launch. I'm not excusing the issues. What I'm saying is that it's not uncommon for this to happen and people should have anticipated it. Rare had problems with server loads in the last stress test. It's really not surprising they have more on launch when many many more people are connecting.
@runninghalfling said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
Maybe it's a hotfix for the gold/reputation issue.
I sure hope that gold and rep is not what they are worried about. That doesn’t matter if you can’t actually play the game. The ones still playing are lucky and they do not need gold and rep
@alymon look plain simple things you actually know that you have to step up the server business since you catalog a game like this in the game pass at its release.... i mean it happens to be expected what will happen plainly and you have to take responsibility for it... like having a restaurant making a 90% offer and think hmmmm i wont need more staff i can make it like this....and when you offer a game at 70 euro price ahhh mannnn.... you really got to deliver .
@zyenu it actually released.pretty much still has a lot to fix but i dont remember them asking 70 euro for their game
@zalavaaris exactly my point, i also played wow since 2004, never have i bought a game and could not play it after work. what kind of server are they using over there, with the amount of money and promotion this game had, servers should not be an issue.
@meteoric-sand said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
@alymon look plain simple things you actually know that you have to step up the server business since you catalog a game like this in the game pass at its release.... i mean it happens to be expected what will happen plainly and you have to take responsibility for it... like having a restaurant making a 90% offer and think hmmmm i wont need more staff i can make it like this....and when you offer a game at 70 euro price ahhh mannnn.... you really got to deliver .
I think you are making assumptions that they didn't step up their servers. And you are assuming that server volume is the solution. Anyone who has worked with server architecture and software implementation will tell you that it's not always that simple and sometimes problems creep up under higher load that weren't caught before and now have to be diagnosed and a fix implemented.
Holy c**p. Is this the new generation of gamers? Oh no, we can't log in to an online game during the launch week. W*F DEVELOPERS WHY YOU SO BAD!?
Get over it. It happens. A scale test is nothing compared to the sheer quantity of people who will login when a game releases. Unexpected things happen when hundreds of thousands of people are all doing their own thing.
It will get fixed. Untwist the underwear, go outside, have a beer.
@ucfjake said in How long are the servers expected to be down.....:
At the very least, they should update the Xbox Live status page and provide an ETA. That way I'm not going to sit here and spam Lavenderbeard, or I can get the Xbox service text alert when it is back up and running.
Xbox does have an alert on the Live status page now you can sign up for an SMS or call when they claim it is resolved.
@zyenu Nah not true, it hit 1.0 and "launched" on pc at the end of 2017. Dunno its status on xbox though b/c I don't play it there.
@thewhoracle424 It did when it first came out. It was bad, What really gets to me is going to twitch and seeing streamer play and some of them are AFK. So servers aren't down they are just blocking people from joining them.
@alymon i am simply stating the fact that putting the game in the game pass catalog was a marketing job and no one anticipated and didnt take into consideration the amount of game passes bought today ... i mean its obvious that all of them were bought only for the sea of thieves
