So when does SE plan to credit our accounts for the multiple ongoing service issues?

[Lazaruz]

I concede to your point. I was just saying some other games compensate for unexpected downtime. Usually it’s not for DDOS though, but for patch fixes.

Indeed. If memory serves from my time back with WoW (yes yes, get your groans out now everyone), every now and then Blizzard would for instance actually add a couple of days for free to any active subscription, as a sort compensation for cumulative time that the game had been offline for patching, maintenance or anything of the sort.

I dont think anyone would argue that's a bad thing to do as it's most deffinitively a developer made "issue" that they then chose to compensate people for. But while SE's been quite generous and paused things like the auto demolition for houses when there's been a significant natural disaster preventing people from having acess to the game, it feels kinda silly and dangerous to ask them to take what is likely turn out to be a financial hit, for a problem that's not only not their fault, but something they're in all likelyhood either doing or already tried everything in their power to alleviate

(Not arguing against you or anything. Just wanted to elaborate ^^")

[Rymm]

Indeed. If memory serves from my time back with WoW (yes yes, get your groans out now everyone), every now and then Blizzard would for instance actually add a couple of days for free to any active subscription, as a sort compensation for cumulative time that the game had been offline for patching, maintenance or anything of the sort.

Wait, what? When did you play WoW, back in Vanilla? If it wasn't during that period then I call BS. I was subbed from Burning Crusade to Legion and never, not once, got time credited for patch day or maintenance downtimes.

Unless you are talking about the debacle surrounding the Warlords expansion launch, which was a one-time deal to apologize for how awfully they handled things. Which again, was their fault, not their ISP's (as is the case here.)

[Moonlite]

Definitely remember getting time in BC and Lich King. But they were for patches that had excessive maintenance during the week(think it was over 12+hours after initial patch might have been more). Basically what most MMO's considers a normal amount right now. Never got free time for DDOS and FFXI never got free time no matter how unplayable a game was at any given time.

[Lazaruz]

Wait, what? When did you play WoW, back in Vanilla? If it wasn't during that period then I call BS. I was subbed from Burning Crusade to Legion and never, not once, got time credited for patch day or maintenance downtimes.

Unless you are talking about the debacle surrounding the Warlords expansion launch, which was a one-time deal to apologize for how awfully they handled things. Which again, was their fault, not their ISP's (as is the case here.)

I did infact start in the tail end of Vanilla, some time before TBC was announced and launched. However I'm freely willing to admit that I might've just imagined it then, as was my intent to imply with the very beginning of the thing you quoted.

Either way, thank you kindly for the correction! I havent played WoW in years, so I had no idea if it was still happening nor when they would've stopped if it ever did happen