DDO unavailable: Saturday March 30th

[Balvix]

Well gentlemen, I believe the wheels have fallen off our bus. Im going to check out the new season of POE. Gl in your holding pattern.

 

[Tscheuss]

This is why you DON'T TAMPER with TUMBLE!

 

[Mindos]

Sometimes your mouth writes checks your ssg has to cash.

 

[HoopleHead]

we're @ 30 pages and still not the slightest explanation as to what happened

 

[Foaly's_Pub]

We are continuing to work on issues at the data center preventing access to the game worlds. As soon as I know more I will let you know.

Got an ETA for us or are streamers gonna have to play a different game been streaming the Client failing to connect for 5.5 hours now.....

 

[Tscheuss]

Sometimes your mouth writes checks your ssg has to cash.

So no more updates until the deed is done. Jerry probably needs to get some sleep.

 

[Toede]

Don't know about anyone else but I couldn't care less why it happened. That doesn't really do me much good. I would just prefer it get fixed sooner rather than later.

This is the second major event that has impacted the ability to play the game for an extended period since I have returned, which hasn't been all that long. Yeah stuff happens but this is not normal by any stretch. Imagine if swtor, wow, or eso just randomly became unplayable for multiple days every few weeks. Their playerbases would flay them alive.

 

[CB_Avatar]

Well issues at the data center likely means a routing issue. If it were a server problem, then likely some parts of the architecture would be up and other things would be down. Anyway, that's my best guess as an IT person working on infrastructure.

 

[FireEater]

I got a good chunk into Talos 2. Successfully avoided touching grass anyway.
How many games do you have on backlog?

 

[Cordovan]

We are continuing to work overnight to address issues preventing the game services from being available. If something changes overnight we will let you know, otherwise we will be back in touch in the morning. As to the cause, we have significant hardware that is not able to communicate properly, and we've engaged technical operations folks all day and night here to work on it at the data center.

 

[Dandonk]

I do believe I read something about an ETA?

Or maybe it was η

 

[Xel]

It's time to get the demonic summoning circles, and goat sacrifices fired up.

 

[Dandonk]

It's time to get the demonic summoning circles, and goat sacrifices fired up.

I thought the accepted sacrifice was halflings? But sure, can do satyrs, too...

 

[cbhjr73]

We are continuing to work overnight to address issues preventing the game services from being available. If something changes overnight we will let you know, otherwise we will be back in touch in the morning. As to the cause, we have significant hardware that is not able to communicate properly, and we've engaged technical operations folks all day and night here to work on it at the data center.

Thank you!

 

[FireEater]

Easter Bunny blood sacrifice

 

[Shardrena]

Huh, guess there are a ton of people who lose their minds when DDO goes down, still. I went to switch servers yesterday morning (Saturday the 30th), saw the game wasn't loading, and when I checked server status I saw they were down. So... I went and did other stuff instead. Seeing that they are still down now, I'll go do others stuff again. Might go do some reading, or play some Monster Hunter World for a bit. An MMO being down is no cause for panic.

 

[Toede]

Nobody is panicking. Don't patronize people over a legitimate gripe. It's not the end of the world but it's also not nothing.

 

[Shardrena]

30 pages of panicky whining about the game being down would suggest otherwise?

*wanders off to continue binge watching X-Men The Animated Series*

 

[ReadyPlayer~1]

We are continuing to work overnight [snip]

Thanks, hope they got some decent Thai for you all. I've got a UDP joke might help, but I'm not sure you'd get it.

 

[zandoe]

Just a common case of Murphy's law.

Things that can get broken will get broken (and usually at worst possible times)

So no DDO for 2 - 4 days.