The Official Downtime's A' Comin' Thread

[jorricane]

i diden say cred or victory points reward.
i said veteran point.
cus thats somting every person who pays to play ao get.

ya sorry i misread your desire, sorry getting quite sleepy.....ya vet points are a good idea and it wont cost FC all that projected money.

But really, if your cable service is out for 2 days, you don't get charged for it (as long as you still have the repair receipt, found out the hard way >.<). Phone lines down for a day? In the US at least you can't legally be charged for it. Same for any other utility or luxury service that has a time-based fee. You don't get it, you don't get charged for it. I know FC won't credit any time to us, I'm not that stupid. And I know that this upgrade is costing cash partially generated DURING the downtime by our membership fees, and I really appreciate that FC is putting more of a commitment into this admittedly aging game. Still, since I'm not flaming about the extra 12 hours, I gotta whine about something to let off steam ;p

$15 / Month = .50 / Day

.50 / Day * 10000 Account (Rough estimate based on a year ago FC released that they had 45000 Accounts, so I'm sure its higher) = $5000

$5000 * 1.5 Days of downtime (if they come back up in 12 hours) = $7500

Someone wanna give that cash like FunCom is getting free of charge?

i don't think its even close to 45k pay accounts, I think the number 45000 includes froob accounts as well. the latest released numbers state approximately 12,000 subscriptions (quote from MMO Games Magazine and http://www.mmogchart.com/) (some1 from FC please correct my if I'm wrong on that...)

edit: and I think its safe to assume that none of the billboard advertisers are paying for ads during the downtime. but then, they prolly have an army of lawyers ready to protest if they do get charged.

Once again tho, I appreciate the continuing effort FC is putting into AO.

[Xxneverdiexx]

Well,those 48hours are past now still no servers up...

Sigh...

[vapor357]

check the offcial post, hardware probs....12 more hours

[Gaveup]

WTB proper explanation not, "oh my the hamsters still napping please wait 12 hours." You are a company we in essence are your shareholders now explain this massive delay.

Bump.. this is on topic right? ^^

[Xxneverdiexx]

Official post? wheres that post
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[Nex7]

Bump.. this is on topic right? ^^

Seconded.

All we want is a little more transparency. Especially since some of us (as you can see from the other closed thread) know what we're talking about and can't come up with a single valid reason for the initial downtime to have been 48 hours to begin with, much less now 12 more.

[ukn0wme]

will the 60 hour be aded as an extra to our subscription time? 1 month = 30 day ... - downtimes for maintanance , that's ok... but now is 3 days lost of playing, raiding ... and we will not get that time back like nothing happened?

hope is in topic

[Eekaspider]

check the offcial post, hardware probs....12 more hours

That's typo. They meant HARDCORE probs.

[Xxneverdiexx]

Anyone know where they told 12 more hours? is that a secret topic somewhere?

[Scarlet134]

1) FC will never learn that by giving more information they could curb the frustration and hence a lot of the 'OMFGWTF' posts they only have to go and close ..... and

2) Us AO addicts will never learn 1)

Back to chewing through my desk in frustration then!

[Scarlet134]

Anyone know where they told 12 more hours? is that a secret topic somewhere?

http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=502931

[Xxneverdiexx]

Well F-C have never ever managed to keep a deadline so it did not come as a surprise...

[Horrified]

so why isn't there any DECENT EXEPLENATION about whats goin on?
i assume that in a couple of hours u'll close this thread like u did to the other one and open a new one

WTF is all these 12 hours about?
Simply explain WHAT PROBLEM HAPPEND THAT MADE THE STUPID 12 MORE HOURS!

[Peekiri]

so why isn't there any DECENT EXEPLENATION about whats goin on?
i assume that in a couple of hours u'll close this thread like u did to the other one and open a new one

WTF is all these 12 hours about?
Simply explain WHAT PROBLEM HAPPEND THAT MADE THE STUPID 12 MORE HOURS!

Doesn't take a smart person to figure out that when you swap out the whole infrastructure network,servers,power,etc that something can go wrong..

[challer]

Anger leads to to the dark side..

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[Damona]

But on the upside, I hear the dark side has cookies!

[ukn0wme]

so why isn't there any DECENT EXEPLENATION about whats goin on?
i assume that in a couple of hours u'll close this thread like u did to the other one and open a new one

WTF is all these 12 hours about?
Simply explain WHAT PROBLEM HAPPEND THAT MADE THE STUPID 12 MORE HOURS!

http://www.viscotland.org.uk/textima.../TV/xfiles.jpg
the truth is out there

[challer]

You cant eat cookies when you're angry.. you'd end up spilling your milk and getting crumbs all over your sofa.. >.>

[Horrified]

Then u simply Estimate time of hours of downtime + Couple more hours if somethin went wrong?

Like the downtime should be 24 hours.. and 24 hours for checkup and to know everything is working good
This is what should be happening

but not after 48 hours u come and say "A PROBLEM HAPPEND.. GIVE US 12 MORE HOURS"


Why not simply stay from the beginning 3 days down time .. for server changes & checkup the whole thing




BUT no.. This is Funcom.. "GOD BLESS THEM"
48 hours to move to new server and run the system all over again..
and JUST 20 mins befor the estimated downtimes is over.. "There's been some unforseen problems with the hardware infrastructure. We're estimating another 12 hours of downtime"

These problems showed up in the last 20 mins!? Although u had 48 hours to move server & check it up like the first post what said.. "Everything is going on okay and we are on time.."

[Verta]

More likely they got to work at 8.30, had their coffee and a chat in the office, got to checking the emails at 8.45 - woopsy.
The server team emailed them last night that the whole thing has gone fubar, and it will take them another week to fix it