Downtime Notice: Wednesday, November 19th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT)

[CloaktheBard]

The DDO Game Servers will be offline for maintenance on Wednesday, November 19th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT). Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!

It's 8:33pm 11/18/2014 and I'm stuck at installing pre-reqs. If the downtime starts tomorrow, but it's happening now, who do I get mad at? How are the comments dated a day in the future? I have a fine grasp of time zones... What the fruk is going on?

[Dj_Fisty]

It's 8:33pm 11/18/2014 and I'm stuck at installing pre-reqs. If the downtime starts tomorrow, but it's happening now, who do I get mad at? How are the comments dated a day in the future? I have a fine grasp of time zones... What the fruk is going on?

For once no issues here other then the normal raid lag. ROFL. ahhh watch i just jinxed myself..... i'll post back lol

[Nestroy]

Just out of curiosity, Cordovan: Will another hotfix be applied too or do we just get a server cleanup? If hotfix, do we get some info on what is fixed during downtime?

Thx for info!

[Hendrik]

Just out of curiosity, Cordovan: Will another hotfix be applied too or do we just get a server cleanup? If hotfix, do we get some info on what is fixed during downtime?

Thx for info!

Hopefully it is a hotfix for three exploits I sent in...

/crossesfingers

[96th_Malice]

Oh well .... Looks like I can try out the new Battlefield 4 maps today I guess ..... Rumor has it there is a Bow in there now .... YAY !!

I am sure archers vs. guns is a bad idea

Great now I'm gonna be a gimp in BF4 as well !!

Cya in a few hours

[DakFrost]

Hopefully it is a hotfix for three exploits I sent in...

/crossesfingers

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sure they will, and monkeys will fly out of my....well, you know, it's not very likely.

Also, as a side note. Have they extended to downtime yet?

[Monkey-Boy]

It's Windows Patches.

[96th_Malice]

Speaking of Windows ... not to derail this thread BUT Microsoft has decided DX12 will only be compatible with Windows 8 ....

Guess the new PC is getting windows 8

On a side note ..... that's pretty lame

[Hendrik]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sure they will, and monkeys will fly out of my....well, you know, it's not very likely.

Also, as a side note. Have they extended to downtime yet?

Well, seems like they did address one of the three before I sent my findings in...

Other two, one can hope...

[moomooprincess]

My guess

Whatever piece of networking gear(NICs, servers, routers, etc) that broke last Thursday, that was bandaided, and was ordered, and then the bandaided part failed again on Saturday arrived on Tuesday.

That new gear is being installed.

There might be some new code sent in this fix/patch/release(if there is one), but with the rotten performance of Lamannia over the weekend, no one is sure if the code is really bad or if it was the networking gear.

With the new gear installed and operating, then the code can be better analyzed. I hope so, at least.

[Cordovan]

Just out of curiosity, Cordovan: Will another hotfix be applied too or do we just get a server cleanup? If hotfix, do we get some info on what is fixed during downtime?

Thx for info!

This is maintenance only, nothing being changed in-game.

It's Windows Patches.

Among other things, yes.

[Garix]

This is maintenance only, nothing being changed in-game.



Among other things, yes.

Hopefully your including the out of band patch MS released last night https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS14-068

[SymphonicTheory]

Sooooo...... whens everything coming back online....?

[Nestroy]

This is maintenance only, nothing being changed in-game.



Among other things, yes.

Thank you for the info.

On a side note, I could not stop wondering there has not been any outcry so far that we have a server downtime today. Seems Wednesday is a good day for downtimes. Perhaps you guys at Turbine could stick with that day?

[SymphonicTheory]

I disagree with the wednesday thing. ;P But I will keep my fingers crossed for servers coming back up in 30 min.

[Monkey-Boy]

I disagree with the wednesday thing. ;P But I will keep my fingers crossed for servers coming back up in 30 min.

MS released a "patch your server NOW!!!" patch, that's why it's a Wednesday.

[moomooprincess]

I disagree with the wednesday thing. ;P But I will keep my fingers crossed for servers coming back up in 30 min.

If my clock reading skills are correct, the servers are scheduled to be down another 1 hour and 23 minutes.

[SymphonicTheory]

Turbine likes to play savior. tell em itll take 5 then when it takes 4 they look like gods ;P

[Aelonwy]

Turbine likes to play savior. tell em itll take 5 then when it takes 4 they look like gods ;P

Actually Turbine doesn't do this enough, they need to tell us it will take all day so we'll be thrilled when its just 4 hrs. Usually happens the other way around they say it'll be 4 hrs and then it goes over time a couple hours.

[Sylvar_Foxx]

I don't know if announcing a time frame for any maint is safe really. I've seen times in other games where if the maint ends before schedule, there's nothing short of a hallelujah chorus going on. If maint goes over time, you almost need to get police involved due to the rioting.

I know of one company though that runs quite a few MMOs that actually gave up announcing time frames due to the extremes of that exact scale. "No ETA" ended up becoming their policy. At the same time though, unless there was an emergency maint, their maints are scheduled every week at the same time, so I guess there'd be that difference. Or does DDO actually have a regularly scheduled maint that I've just not noticed?