umm and idea how long servers going to be down?Follow

Yeah.
It is just getting a touch extreme.
I might have to whip out my EQ1 druid and run around with him for a bit.
But, of course, when I do the servers will come back online.
I think I'll just wait for the monster patch to pull out my old druid.
I miss him. *sniffle*

Server Maintenance 12/17/2004 12:30 PM

We are currently restoring US servers and Innovation to their state at the time of this mornings 7AM PST update. An ETA is unavailable at this time. We will be updating you with progress hourly and will deliver a more firm ETA as soon as we can. Worlds will be brought back online as they are ready. Thank you for your patience.


hope no one did anything important after this mornings update... I know I myself lost a bunch of harvests..

Ahh crap, I just bought myself some really nice leggings from the broker right before it crashed. I better not lose them :(

I did that quest on my fury, the debt does blow.

well according to this message there restoring everything as it was before they patched.. so if you got those after this mornings patch... prolly not...

Sorry to say but I don't think you will get items back if you got them after the 7 a.m. PST reset time. On EQ1, as far as I know, they never gave back items that were obtained right before the crash but then lost due to a rollback after the crash.

Anything they do is going to cause a lot of ill will. People are far too sensitive to any tiny change with thier gaming experience. SOE can't win either way. :/

I totally agree - SOE cant win either way, but if they keep servers down people will be really PISSED OFF *grins*

Apparently a lot of players lost their quest journals and spells, wouldn't want that to happen to me, lol.

I just hope that the repatch doesn't make me loose the quest I just completed, took a long time and quite a good group to complete.

This downtime is extreme though, I only experienced it once with EQ I. But that was two days in a row, wonder if they'll beat that record, here's hoping they don't, lol.

I do doubt sincerely that Sony will compensate this, they never did with EQ I, and it would be almost impossible to refund or give back everything so many players lost. Although a free day added to the subscription would be nice ofcourse.

What bothers me is that I have not seen any hourly updates; cannot get into a chat channel; and it seems a long time for a reversion. Otherwise, I have not mined the daily (almost) updates.

The news on the eq2 sony site says they are doing a "rollback" and they apologized to the europe player base.

Rumor is the restore is going to be from 7AM pst, when the patch was installed. This would essentially wipe out anything you've done after the patch.

Rollbacks suck. Down time sucks. But alot of accounts got screwed up by the patch and they gotta fix it....

That sounds like the sort of thing they'd rollback for. If there was a goldrush they can't easily act against the players without admitting their mistake. Rolling back will correct the situation.

I am not fond of conspiracy theories but it does make you wonder if the plat industry has a mole at SoE. Some items changed price to create similar massive profit opportunities in EQ. Of course they denied any inside involvement but who else can change the NPC prices?

Old EQ players will remember the Great Cheese Rush. SoE is quite good at this sort of ****-up. As a programmer I would have thought it fairly easy to create a policing application to continuously search for unbalanced prices on NPC vendors.

BAH!! this is painfull.

Since I am married, I on average, only play 2 hours a night after my wife goes to bed. Today however, she is going out with friends from work, and for the first time, I was to have the entire evening to play......

I even checked out what I wanted to accomplish tonight.....attain level 16 and 3 levels of tradeskills.

Oh well......another night.