13:12:22 neon | " The following realms are still undergoing their extended maintenance and we expect to have them available again at approximately 14:00 CEST (Paris time): "
13:12:34 Alexya | christ!
13:12:36 neon | In the same thread as " Due to an unforeseen issue the below realms will be undergoing extended maintenance. We expect to have them available again at approximately 13:00 CE(S)T (Paris time). "
13:12:40 neon | 1 post below it
13:13:11 neon | Makes you really trust them the second post, when they use "approximately" in both
13:13:18 Alexya | well, once they said they excpected it to be up around 13:00, but it came up around 22:00 :P
13:13:23 neon | This is fucking retarded
13:13:35 Alexya | aye
13:14:36 neon | At least they're better at informing us now, only 1 thing left for them to do.. LEARN TO FUCKING HIRE PEOPLE WHO CAN GET THE FUCKING JOB DONE IN THE TIME THEY HAVE TO DO IT! God damnit
13:14:47 neon | (As I said earlier, CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL)
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13:15:07 Alexya | I think they got people :)
13:15:13 neon | Yes, I know, I know
13:16:06 neon | I know that the problem probably isn't with the people working on the maintenence, but there has to be something that causes almost every maint to be extended or somehow delayed
13:16:19 neon | Crappy code base, crappy maint workers, crappy planning.. SOMETHING
13:16:30 neon | This shit has been going on since release
13:17:21 Alexya | well there is only scarshield and some other servers that almost always is down
13:17:32 Alexya | or well, when this server was new, it was like that :)
13:17:35 neon | You would've thought they would go something like "uhm, ok, this is the 4th time in a row we've had big delays on our maintenence work, maby there's some kind of problem we have to deal with to
avoid this happening this frequently in the future"
13:18:05 Alexya | :)
13:21:38 neon | There will always be problems from time to time, and I can accept this happening once or twice a year, but since it's even unclear to me WHY they have to take the realms down once a week (or now,
once every two weeks), I haven't seen any info on what they're actually doing during this time that can't be done live.. Is it some kind of DB optimization/cleanup maby? And if so, I can guarantee
that there's a way to do that live too, maby it would cause additional costs or something, but I don't fucking care, if I PAY to play a damn game every month, on top of buying the fucking game I
expect a maximum of 2% downtime
13:22:15 neon | I mean, if my ISP would have more than 2% downtime I would go fucking crazy and switch company
13:23:07 neon | (Actually, my ISP (BBB, Bredbandsbolaget) has got very nice uptime, probably around 99.95% or something - just saying)
13:25:03 neon | And now the loginserver isn't responding any more either :P