4 to 5 days maintenance

[Gilraen]

I'm guessing the originator was fishing for 'maintenance outrage' posts, but I honestly don't mind. That's going to be a ton of data, can't just email it. Probably going to have to download it onto portable drives and fly them over. Hopefully they won't get lost in transit. Then, as mentioned, there's the testing and more testing before the flip the network switch. While I hopefully won't be too adversely affected, this is can only be good things for those that do play in Europe. What's a few days in the face of that?

I would expect a shorter maintenance hitting the NA servers while stuff is getting prepared for the move, but I doubt you guys will get hit by the full 4-5 days.

Actually, the outage will be all encompassing so that no one group of players will be left out during the process. Remember that so far there has been no time in which this game has been available to only certain regions (barring internet weather).

[sirDarts]

I'm guessing the originator was fishing for 'maintenance outrage' posts, but I honestly don't mind. That's going to be a ton of data, can't just email it. Probably going to have to download it onto portable drives and fly them over. Hopefully they won't get lost in transit. Then, as mentioned, there's the testing and more testing before the flip the network switch. While I hopefully won't be too adversely affected, this is can only be good things for those that do play in Europe. What's a few days in the face of that?

Yup, I am EXTREMELY looking forward to this.
The difference measly 20-30ms of difference make for me when playing using WTFast is GINORMOUS! I can't even begin to imagine how nice the gaming experience will be when I drop to ~30-40ms delay from the current 140ish... I would gladly even trade 2 weeks of playtime for this.

[Gilthas]

That's going to be a ton of data, can't just email it. Probably going to have to download it onto portable drives and fly them over.

I have no idea how they're actually going to do it, but couldn't they just download the data directly from one datacenter to another. If it's a lot of data to transfer, you're also not going to be using regular portable drives to do the transfer.

[Sessurea]

My abandoned ninja is crying with joy and will dream of spamming mudras happily for those 5 days.

[Gilraen]

I have no idea how they're actually going to do it, but couldn't they just download the data directly from one datacenter to another. If it's a lot of data to transfer, you're also not going to be using regular portable drives to do the transfer.

We're not talking mBs or gBs here. I have a feeling it's going to be in the tBs of data per server. If they are sending all that data over the internet then the days could be the time spent downloading it all. That seems a little inefficient to me. Easier to just download it onto portable drives, box it up and fly it across overnight. Put them in a carryon and fly Air France with Takeshi from accounting (or whatever air carrier is appropriate with where they are putting the EU center).

[Adire]

Really going to be disappointed if NA is brought down for the full length of time too. I'm sure there's a way around having to do that.

[BHGlobbd]

Which realms are being moved?

[sirDarts]

Which realms are being moved?

Those with (EU) behind them...

[Celef]

They will probably turn off all the servers during that maintenance to make sure everyone is equal regarding the issue
I wonder if we'll get a composation for that, i mean, we pay for a whole month and we'll get probably a week without acces. I don't mean a refund but maybe some cosmetics items or Cs money, like they did in Rift for exemple

[Adire]

They will probably turn off all the servers during that maintenance to make sure everyone is equal regarding the issue
I wonder if we'll get a composation for that, i mean, we pay for a whole month and we'll get probably a week without acces. I don't mean a refund but maybe some cosmetics items or Cs money, like they did in Rift for exemple

5 days of reimbursed game time or something would be most fair. Especially if they plan on impacting people with a 5 day maintenance who do not benefit from it at all (NA players/JP players).