DDO unavailable: Saturday March 30th

[JustHavingFunBro]

SSG is not working on the servers; they are preparing their defense against the animal cruelty lawsuit regarding all the suspicious gerbil deaths in their data center from server power outages.

By gerbils do you mean underpaid and undereducated offshore contractors?

 

[RedPiety]

All game servers going down simultaneously, and the login launcher being unable to even access the initial login, suggests it's not an issue stemming from the game update but rather a problem with the hardware of the login servers or an issue with the data center itself.

And login servers and database servers are often shared in older systems.

I was doing SAGA like a monkey collecting cards until a few hours before the servers went down.
Plus, the time the servers went down this time was just before the daily backup started.

If there's a rollback, I'll cry.

honestly i just tr'd a toon to lv 9 I think an figured out a messed up a feat, so yeah I would not mind a free restart

 

[Dunspartacus]

Dang servers dead when I go to work, servers dead when I get back. Guess I'll have to try this "healthy 8 hours of sleep" thing my doctor keeps telling me will help.

 

[tsotate]

If there's a rollback, I'll cry.

Pretty much same. I spent way too many tedious hours farming planar shards for a large bag yesterday.

 

[RedPiety]

Dang servers dead when I go to work, servers dead when I get back. Guess I'll have to try this "healthy 8 hours of sleep" thing my doctor keeps telling me will help.

fitbit says i get 5-7 and mostly fair sleep

 

[The Narc]

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.

Now for dessert with the family?

 

[Silverfox]

I mean there was that one time they upgraded/migrated servers and the game ended up being down for weeks. We're not quite at that point...yet.

Weeks LOL. Almost 4 days. I just love the forums lots of useful information.

https://massivelyop.com/2019/03/09/lotro-and-ddo-come-back-online-and-go-down-again/

 

[Greenshoe]

Dont investigate! fix it!

You don't think they need to investigate first in order to fix it?

 

[Jummby]

Well tbf some people have acquired experience from their careers that they can make an educated guess on the problem, and Cordovan did say it was related to "issues with the data center," but no one can claim to 100% know what the main problem is with the restricted information provided.

You don't think they need to investigate first in order to fix it?

Can't they just ask all the experts on the forums.what the issue is?

 

[Xel]

How much money does a day of downtime cost a company like SSG?

 

[Randomdude1223]

Can't they just ask all the experts on the forums.what the issue is?

People are just speculating on what could be the issue no one has claimed to be able to fix. I am not sure why you're being cantankerous.

 

[Foaly's_Pub]

Can't they just ask all the experts on the forums.what the issue is?

cause just like how every windows pc is its own environment (different hardware, anti virus, installed software, firewall settings, profile settings etc.) as well as you have different OS's (when it comes to servers there are as many set up's as there are linux distro's and you also can include window server OS and there are even some other custom OS solutions) so basically it comes down to what is running on the rack and the hardware.

all techies can do is make educated guessed based on what can happen based on the information given. If the techies were given the error logs you could bet your next gold/raid item they could find it in a matter of a few min to an hour or 2, cause if nothing else when techies get in a room stuff gets done as they will split up the load.

that's what we did on the Vault project for archiving and cleaning up what used to be "TheTrove" ttrpg site we scraped everything then like 5-9 of us worked on trimming the fat and when we got possible leads on missing folders we would add it to the project mega folder and others would do what they needed.

 

[JustHavingFunBro]

Weeks LOL. Almost 4 days. I just love the forums lots of useful information.

https://massivelyop.com/2019/03/09/lotro-and-ddo-come-back-online-and-go-down-again/

And surely this was due to moving the dang servers! Not some out of nowhere outage. I've been playing a DDO a year and MMOs since 2000. Its amazing how many people are acting like this is just totally normal, and not a sign of the SSG times.

 

[PURPLETIMB]

As midnight eastern time approaches and still no news I'm starting to dread we may not be playing again until Monday...

 

[Myosin]

Boy when I saw the servers were down right about before noon I didn't expect they'd be down all weekend. I mean, I'm used to DDO becoming entirely broke at a moment's notice but it sure highlights how I need to find some other game that I get comparable grinding pleasure out of. Maybe I should give Fallout 4 another go - I still haven't technically beat it and I can get all zenned out for a long time building settlements.

 

[lorddutiful]

I am truly regretting spending the hundreds I did in the last week. I am too trusting. Still love the game. I just have a very bad feeling about this.

 

[JustHavingFunBro]

As midnight eastern time approaches and still no news I'm starting to dread we may not be playing again until Monday...

No doubt in my mind we won't play until someone from the US is able to work on this issue. The "we" they have been referring to is no doubt off-shores.

 

[Foaly's_Pub]

Boy when I saw the servers were down right about before noon I didn't expect they'd be down all weekend. I mean, I'm used to DDO becoming entirely broke at a moment's notice but it sure highlights how I need to find some other game that I get comparable grinding pleasure out of. Maybe I should give Fallout 4 another go - I still haven't technically beat it and I can get all zenned out for a long time building settlements.

well one thing I noticed last night during stream was the server lagging out like no tomarrow and I was getting hit from nowhere by champs while not even within range (died to something no clue what cause it wasn't even on screen or any were near my soul stone) while I was falling and I had jumped off like 5 seconds before I died

 

[Myosin]

I am truly regretting spending the hundreds I did in the last week. I am too trusting. Still love the game. I just have a very bad feeling about this.

I stopped playing in like 2014 for several years cause of paranoia that DDO was on its last leg held together with duct tape and chewing gum. These kind of "oh the entire game is down? we'll get it up in a few days" events aren't anything new.

 

[imhoteprises]

We are investigating!

It may be some backfire from the impulsive decision to change the tumble I mean after all this is just as spontaneous. You may have pissed off some real life magic users messing up your network.