@tufor-c
https://www.seaofthieves.com/status
The game will be unavailable due to necessary maintenance at these times:
Thursday 22nd March 9am – 12pm GMT
Saturday 24th March 9am – 12pm GMT
Tuesday 27th March 9am – 12pm GMT
@triheadedmonkey Yeah, I ve seen that.
The gamepass thing killed the scale, I'm pretty sure.
You can get a 14-Day free trial of the gamepass and that's what alot of people around the world did.
They should 've rented alot more servers and hardware for the launch time, since this decides wether your game will be skyrocketing or landing softly in the middle ranks.
Also pretty sad about the limited map size from the start, but yeah.
@tufor-c said in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
Hey fellow pirates,
just wanted to know if a Server Maintenance timeslot is equal to a total downtime, or did they just state that this window is for "fixing", meaning working on the problems?
I really took some days off from work JUST to play this and am a bit sad :(
Feel for you happens quite often at game launch...
Try Been in the Aus region, Rare just shafted the player base down under by taking down servers in prime time on all the upcoming dates below;( Thursday, Saturday and Monday_ nights:
"We also have some upcoming maintenance windows:
Thursday March 22nd, 9am–12pm GMT
Saturday March 24th, 9am–12pm GMT
Tuesday March 27th, 9am–12pm GMT"
Great Job!
I know it needs the odd patch or fix but its not unplayable... I'm all for making it more polished, given we seem to have Aussie servers (ping of 50ms), not sure why they cant roll out patches outside of peak hours?
Lets hope the next week isn't every second day down for Aus...
@tufor-c but you got Spaghet. Dont cry. Lol ik feels i was on my way to turn in 2 goksen chickens the matainence kicks in ;-;
@gg-theartofwar said in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
@tufor-c said in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
Hey fellow pirates,
just wanted to know if a Server Maintenance timeslot is equal to a total downtime, or did they just state that this window is for "fixing", meaning working on the problems?
I really took some days off from work JUST to play this and am a bit sad :(
Feel for you happens quite often at game launch...
Try Been in the Aus region, Rare just shafted the player base down under by taking down servers in prime time on all the upcoming dates below;( Thursday, Saturday and Monday_ nights:
"We also have some upcoming maintenance windows:
Thursday March 22nd, 9am–12pm GMT
Saturday March 24th, 9am–12pm GMT
Tuesday March 27th, 9am–12pm GMT"Great Job!
I know it needs the odd patch or fix but its not unplayable... I'm all for making it more polished, given we seem to have Aussie servers (ping of 50ms), not sure why they cant roll out patches outside of peak hours?
Lets hope the next week isn't every second day down for Aus...
I think the rest of the world forgets that Australia exists sometimes.
@tufor-c said in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
@triheadedmonkey Yeah, I ve seen that.
The gamepass thing killed the scale, I'm pretty sure.
You can get a 14-Day free trial of the gamepass and that's what alot of people around the world did.
They should 've rented alot more servers and hardware for the launch time, since this decides wether your game will be skyrocketing or landing softly in the middle ranks.
Also pretty sad about the limited map size from the start, but yeah.
I highly agree with game pass free trial b.s. If you can barely handle paying customers why would you give it away at launch. I honestly had less problems during the betas. Screw the game pass players give paying customers priority seeing as how we paid for a game that frequently tells you that server capacity is too high. Lame for a game that's been in development for 3+ yrs.
@crunchyotaku83 sagte in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
@tufor-c but you got Spaghet. Dont cry. Lol ik feels i was on my way to turn in 2 goksen chickens the matainence kicks in ;-;
WHO TOUCHE MA SEA OF THIEV!!!
@ninobrown666 sagte in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
@tufor-c said in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
@triheadedmonkey Yeah, I ve seen that.
The gamepass thing killed the scale, I'm pretty sure.
You can get a 14-Day free trial of the gamepass and that's what alot of people around the world did.
They should 've rented alot more servers and hardware for the launch time, since this decides wether your game will be skyrocketing or landing softly in the middle ranks.
Also pretty sad about the limited map size from the start, but yeah.I highly agree with game pass free trial b.s. If you can barely handle paying customers why would you give it away at launch. I honestly had less problems during the betas. Screw the game pass players give paying customers priority seeing as how we paid for a game that frequently tells you that server capacity is too high. Lame for a game that's been in development for 3+ yrs.
Exactly.
I am a disgrace myself (I had preordered SoT, but cancelled due to the gamepass trial) and decided to tryout this launch-time with the free-trial myself.
If it wasn't there, I would have paid the damn high price of 70 € BUT I would be sailing with my buddies now and have a good time.
@tufor-c
I can't believe that they set maintenance times to be in the middle of aus/nz prime time for EVERY SINGLE FIX.
Why not be decent and have some downtimes at different regions prime time? That way it isn't always us that get f**kd
@udeadcarrot12 sagte in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
@tufor-c wait its not the full map??
Ofc not, it's smaller r8 now (don't know exactly how much, but closed beta map was definately bigger).
Can't tell, when it's going to be the full map size.
@mcdoll sagte in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
@tufor-c
I can't believe that they set maintenance times to be in the middle of aus/nz prime time for EVERY SINGLE FIX.
Why not be decent and have some downtimes at different regions prime time? That way it isn't always us that get f**kd
Mate, I'm gettin fked here, cause I took days off my work and now I have to suffer YOUR primetime punishments too.
#SeaOfFeels
@tufor-c said in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
@udeadcarrot12 sagte in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
@tufor-c wait its not the full map??
Ofc not, it's smaller r8 now (don't know exactly how much, but closed beta map was definately bigger).
Can't tell, when it's going to be the full map size.
That's the full map
@ninobrown666 same, it would have helped if they didnt activate game pass play until 1 week after launch. they could have had more data and time to prep servers
@mcdoll i think its because the devs are in the UK so they are doing first thing in their office hours then i guess they have the afternoon of their working day to monitor? i feel for you, you have my sincere sympathy
@cosmicstrike sagte in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
i think the gamepass is a good deal, 14 days free, and then $10 a month , i bet after 6 months only a few hardcore fans will still be playing were as most will have moved on to what ever the new game hype is, and in 6 months i bet this game will be on sale for $30.
My plan exactly.
I get that it sucks for Aus/NZ but dont forget this is peoples working hours, theyve already been running 24/7 since launch. Plenty of USA based games perform maintenance right during peak in Europe but thats because its their working hours.
There will always be someone country getting screwed based on the location of the devs, that'll never change.
@mcdoll i am waiting like you, this maintenance thing is ridiculous for my point of view a company like yours should find a way not to impact for the whole day players experience, plus let’s clearly said that the communication is far from enough, you should have said something out loud! I like this game already but no way of playing offline so we could wait doing god knows what...
Sorry frustration but still not normal
@bradley972 have you ever played an mmo type game before? They need to fix things that are not working. If that means taking down servers to do it, well then thats what they need to do. Im sick of all these people crying about it. And to all the ppl complaining that the game is down in their primetime. well they are located in another time zone than you. Do you expect them to work in the night time just so you can play the game..i mean if they do not take the game during your primetime, then another timezone is taking a hit. Geez the me-generation really having a hard time understanding that there are more ppl in the world than just you guys.
@thedonolsen 🤦🏾♂️ Yeah you are so right! Thank you for opening our eyes!...but get sick in silence then
Or accept that other person may find this annoying!
And I understand what you’re saying by the way, just stay on topic don’t try to ask people if does this or that... it’s not relevant and none of your business,
Have a nice day
@thedonolsen Considering that we actually pay far more for the game than US or Euro customers here in NZ and Aus, I certainly do think that always having updates in our prime time is an insult.
If anything, they should stagger them, so that each update is done in a different timezone's prime time.
If they can stagger release, I'm sure they can stagger updates too.
And yeah, that'll make it so that someone does a night shift, but if you offer a "service" that is international (and remember, this is a game as a service) then you sure need to ensure that you have localised support and localised maintenance.
It's nothing about being part of a "me-generation" hell, I'm probably older than a fair few folk here.
It is about simple international business practices that are unacceptable in other industries, but commonplace in gaming.
And that's not cool.
Absolute madness. Taking the game offline on the Saturday of launch week?! Also, I appreciate there are differences in time zones and it’s hard to please everyone, but I scheduled my evening based off the published server down times. Now I’m finding that the original down times published two days ago don’t even correspond to the actual downtime’s and I won’t even be allowed on until late into the night. Evening ruined. And to reiterate, offline on the Saturday of launch week?! Come on, you can’t tell me this couldn’t have been scheduled in for a Friday.
@caestus said in Server Maintenance = Downtime?:
Absolute madness. Taking the game offline on the Saturday of launch week?! Also, I appreciate there are differences in time zones and it’s hard to please everyone, but I scheduled my evening based off the published server down times. Now I’m finding that the original down times published two days ago don’t even correspond to the actual downtime’s and I won’t even be allowed on until late into the night. Evening ruined. And to reiterate, offline on the Saturday of launch week?! Come on, you can’t tell me this couldn’t have been scheduled in for a Friday.
I have to agree. Who does maintenance at peak on first Saturday of launch week! Can only play a couple of hours a night because I work, come on early on Saturday to finally get some good hours in, and.....its down
Wish I could just quit my job and live off handouts and get 16 hours a day like some people!
