5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

[LemmingKingXXX]

You should never have a job in QA. In my line of work, ONE mistake in QA means I lose my job, my certification to ever do my job again, and I will probably end up in jail for negligence. Just because this is a video game doesn't mean SE can slack on the professionalism. There is obviously a deficiency in SE's QA department that needs to be handled.

What the hell kind of QA do you work in that a single mistake leads you to jail time?

[Siobahn]

You never played EQ or WoW at launch.

Or Vanguard. Or GW2. Or Rift at launch. Or SWTOR at launch.

EQ launch was 1999. There weren't a TON of other MMO's to learn from back then. In 2014, you would think SE could do a little research in order to prevent repeating bad decisions made in MMO's of the past.

[Nayto]

Which is why it was quickly forgotten. We're six months in, and things like that are still happening.

Idk... I don't find myself using the drinking bird I bought anymore. Used to use it every time so I can get into the servers since the queues were broken.

Waste of 5 dollars for that stupid bird.

It's better to acknowledge that there are issues and work together, rather than be in denial and blame others.

The internet, right there.

[DCILuther]

This is just not good. 2 Maintenance in a row?

I do hope they fix it before tonight. I can't have 3 nights in a row being 90k'd every time I go into an instance. And don't blame my ISP and whatnot. That's not the issue, as many other folks on my server are having the same complaints.

Finally, stop blaming the user/player then defending SE when clearly SE must do something about the issues. It's better to acknowledge that there are issues and work together, rather than be in denial and blame others.

[Felis]

I remember people complaining about emergency maintenances not beeing emergency maintenances if they don't happen suddenly ^^

[Badguy]

Been playing on server since day 1 i still consider veteran, especially considering the fact most of the content in the game can be completed in a matter of hours, sure thats not the norm for people playing this game but, ya know, its really not that hard either. Why battle a server boss there's almost nothing to do anyway.
You can defend your game all you want, the fact you through "Put up with" isn't shocking.

"put up with" AKA kept playing when i didnt want to

[lancia12]

You should never have a job in QA. In my line of work, ONE mistake in QA means I lose my job, my certification to ever do my job again, and I will probably end up in jail for negligence.

While this isn't life or death, you are totally correct in saying this screams of a problem with QA.

I've tested many things in a test environment and it checked out under test circumstance, but once rolled out, people found something wrong with it and it had to be revised. It's just how it is.

MMOs ALL have a weekly maintenance window which is usually 2 hours long. Patches and updates usually happen within this window and they usually extend the window by 2 hours. This is common and makes sense. 25 hours since Feb 18th. That is a problem and in ANY environment withing any company anywhere, this would be a huge problem. So saying "It's just how it is" is incorrect. It isn't how it is.

[Excalipoor]

The "most veteran" player that i know of who have left the game have done so because of the radical changes the game underwent between 1.23 and 2.0. NONE of the players that i have ever met have left because of maintenance times. To think that long time players would leave due to maintenance down time is ludicrous.
As for the alpha and beta 1.0 players that i know, we put up with the game in its current state because it is 1: the best MMO currently available (though not the best that has existed) and 2: we have hope that it will continue to be fun and will develop into a better game.

My question to you is this; How do you define veteran players if you did not know them before the 2.0 alpha?

He means pre-order 2.0 veterans who got all 50's in less than a week at launch and are the one's who screamed at everyone in Titan HM to FRKN DOJ PLUMES RILLY WOW. Those gaiz. -_-'

[Kieren-Dohla]

Look, they had to make a hotfix right after 2.16. One of the reasons is it screwed up some of the behavior of enemies in bct and ppl thought they had nerfed those turns, plus there were others issues, 2 day later they had maintenance last night. Now emergency maintenance this morning. I'm complaining because the whole goal of proper testing to is to avoid even 1 hotfix, although that can be forgiven, but when you release a patch, requiring 3 separate hotfixes in about 4 days, it sounds like someone in QA or who manages QA should be fired. It's not professional.

[Susanoh]

You never played EQ or WoW at launch.

Or Vanguard. Or GW2. Or Rift at launch. Or SWTOR at launch.

I remember being disconnected every time I logged in on the very, very first day of GW2 launch. Other than that, I really don't remember having too many issues or down time with actual play time tbh.