Downtime Notice: Wednesday, March 2nd 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[PapaToad51]

I think the work on the servers is taking longer than expected

those things can be a pain to upgrade, as my brother can attest to (he works in IT)

even a simple software update can be a royal pain if it causes bugs in some other part of the system

Who said anything about "upgrading the servers"? SSG does not "upgrade". Our last official "server upgrade" almost resulted in the death of the game. Gland has never recovered from their "upgrades".

[Malusny]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable due to maintenance and to release Update 53.0.2 on Wednesday, March 2nd from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT). Click here for the release notes.

Looks like someone started the update when it wasn't ready to be updated. I just wish that the people who are responsible for those things were just a bit more reliable. No personal attack here, just a fact

DDO not really reliable to be frank.

Will play a different game and use their in-game store since we cannot play DDO.

Cheers

[NemesisAlien]

Any current updates? Game still down. Its 5.20am, been waiting all night.

[rohmer]

I think the work on the servers is taking longer than expected

those things can be a pain to upgrade, as my brother can attest to (he works in IT)

even a simple software update can be a royal pain if it causes bugs in some other part of the system

Only for the clueless

[Volarr]

Yeah, entire website was either overloaded or down during most the downtime. But please devs, a lot of people don't use twitter, facebook and all that garbage etc., or use it very seldom. Put out announcements to them and your own site and launcher tool please!

who would think to update the launcher

[Steelstar]

The game worlds have reopened. One additional note to add (it will be added to the Release Notes shortly):

• Updates have been made to the Name filters and some other forms of text filters in the game. Chat filters have not been updated at this time, but will be in a future patch. We will continue to adjust these as needed.

[ahpook]

3:00pm EST was the original. As the time stamp on your post, it was only 11min past.

Oh, look at the guy bringing facts to a forum b*tch session..

I think the forums were also down most of the downtime.

Yeah they were updating the login server stuff it would seem which would not be in the release notes but may have affected the timing.

Additionally this item in the notes:

• We are continuing to work on general improvements to server performance. Specifically in this release, improvements have been made to technical dungeon message processing optimization that we identified as having a weighty impact on game performance. Players may also see specific improvements in outdoor adventure area performance.

is hard to quantify as to the upgrade impact. Maps, quests, and gameplay are built into the game code and easy to deploy once built. But if the "message processing" requires changes to server sub systems or some form of inter-server communication, it could be complex and require reconfig of servers that can really only happen once the game is offline. Of course we don't really know what that line means but the point is the lightness of the user facing changes is not a true indicator of the complexity of the update.

[ahpook]

Only for the clueless

I detect a waft of dunning kruger.

[rohmer]

i detect a waft of dunning kruger.

lol

[Arkat]

I detect a waft of dunning kruger.

Nice.

+1

EDIT: "You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to ahpook again."

[rohmer]

I detect a waft of dunning kruger.

Fanboi confirmed. Ooh ooh, they failed, it must have been impossible!

[rohmer]

Oh, look at the guy bringing facts to a forum b*tch session..


Yeah they were updating the login server stuff it would seem which would not be in the release notes but may have affected the timing.

Additionally this item in the notes:

• We are continuing to work on general improvements to server performance. Specifically in this release, improvements have been made to technical dungeon message processing optimization that we identified as having a weighty impact on game performance. Players may also see specific improvements in outdoor adventure area performance.

is hard to quantify as to the upgrade impact. Maps, quests, and gameplay are built into the game code and easy to deploy once built. But if the "message processing" requires changes to server sub systems or some form of inter-server communication, it could be complex and require reconfig of servers that can really only happen once the game is offline. Of course we don't really know what that line means but the point is the lightness of the user facing changes is not a true indicator of the complexity of the update.

LOL, you really dont know much about IT do you....

For example... Azure and AWS do deployments every 30 minutes to their infrastructure, yet almost never take down time. How could this be?????

[cdbd3rd]

The game worlds have reopened. One additional note to add (it will be added to the Release Notes shortly):

• Updates have been made to the Name filters and some other forms of text filters in the game. Chat filters have not been updated at this time, but will be in a future patch. We will continue to adjust these as needed.

Tighter or looser?? "Update" and "adjust" both sound ominous as heck.

For example... Azure and AWS do deployments every 30 minutes to their infrastructure, yet almost never take down time. How could this be?????

Unsure if question is rhetorical, but mirrored servers would a hint. Something I don't think they run here or Hobbit-side.

[Jerevth]

LOL, you really dont know much about IT do you....

For example... Azure and AWS do deployments every 30 minutes to their infrastructure, yet almost never take down time. How could this be?????

Different server HW, different underlying SW code. DDO is based on programming language and design almost 20 years old.
Are you asking why programming from two decades ago can't do everything Microsoft Azure- a current programming code with all the lessons learned in design and spec in its foundation- can do... the concept of a crank starting engine not being able to start by a key-fob must really be confounding.

[mgoldb2]

LOL, you really dont know much about IT do you....

For example... Azure and AWS do deployments every 30 minutes to their infrastructure, yet almost never take down time. How could this be?????

No MMORPG including the one running on AWS don't require downtime for updates that I know of. New World Amazon MMORPG that running on AWS have maintenance downtimes for updates.

[Tarinia]

No MMORPG including the one running on AWS don't require downtime for updates that I know of. New World Amazon MMORPG that running on AWS have maintenance downtimes for updates.

The HArdcore server is still available- means we have more time for afterworkparty?

Tarinia