Labor Day Update?!?!?Follow

So let me get this right I personally have yet to log in today so i dont know this for a fact however my LS is Emailing me saying that there will be an update on Labor day?

Has SE lost its mind?!?!?! An 8hour Update on a day where most people are not working and want to play?

This is quite frustraighting considering we just had an 8 hour update last week?

Is this true?

Unfortunately yes.

There is a "complaint" thread in the main forum, where people are bouncing around the idea of petitioning or calling customer service to complain. If you feel that's something you'd like to do, you should head over there. Actually I believe some people have already done it and posted it on that thread. I never finished reading the whole thing.

**Ok, I just went back to try and find the thread for you and guess what? There are actually like 5 or 6 floating around there :/

Edited, Fri Sep 3 16:24:32 2004 by Eleusynia

If you do call to complain, you will only get a sympathetic ear (in most cases) from C.S. They too are unhappy with this. Good to know some of them play as well!

Well, I have already sent in a complaint on both of my POL accounts, and when I can play tonite, I intend to be contacting GMs on both accounts as well.

-Tweed

all i have to say is wow

Thank god for Socom 2 and Madden 2005

Well, it's either cutting into the JP player time or the NA player time. And there are quite a few more Japanese players than North American players. It seems to me to be the lesser of two evils, inconveniencing a few people, rather than the larger whole.

You are correct, sir. It's the anti-US side of SE coming out.


I personally will be spending my eight hour maintenance waiting period playing Star Ocean 3. ;)

Nah, it got changed because the techs came to their senses and realized that it was a day they could take off and still get paid for.

I'd like to see them run fail-over servers myself. I mean, the price we're paying is a high one in the MMORPG field, and equipment purchases are one-time expenses. Why not simply have a second cluster mirroring the first, and switch the load to the second cluster when it's time to do maintenance on the first?

There's no reason that server maintenance has to mean downtime, save for a complete equipment relocation or other humongous logistical undertaking (IE - facility power outage due to upgrades, etc), or an update rollout that requires a server reboot (something that would require the fail-safe cluster to be restarted as well to avoid desync). And seriously...it shouldn't take 3 hours to reboot a server cluster.