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[Drkdays]

Well, if nothing else those reading this will see what getting involved in forums gets you. Mission accomplished in that regard. And I will ALWAYS find things to critique in this game and any other. That's how common ppl like us help make games better. If someone in game management has seen this and thought to themselves, "Maybe there are ways we can better prevent confusion to our players," then all the bashing has been worth it and I'll not feel sorry for it.

P.S. This is just one of many forums about the same topic. What does that tell you?

[SannaR]

I mean you can have flashing lights and noise makers on these announcements/notifications and people will ignore them. Look at patch days there'll always be at least one person on here or in game who seems to have been stuck in the void since last major patch who will ask the what's new/where things are unlocked question.

[SenorPatty]

P.S. This is just one of many forums about the same topic. What does that tell you?

-Tells me people don't read

-Tells me people would still rather avoid ownership after being explained what the error is and place the blame on the company

[Selova]

Lotta single digit postcount people coming in to complain... amazing how they figured out where the forums general chat were before reading the announcements in the launcher OR the posts from the devs about the maintenance.

Literally happens everytime there is a long maintenance for any online game. Its seriously mind boggling how people dont read any of the server maintenance notifications that are staring then in the face everyday no matter how far in advance its posted.

[Krotoan]

You don't have a lock on complaining. Give other folks a chance at it!

NO! ME!

Well, if nothing else those reading this will see what getting involved in forums gets you. Mission accomplished in that regard. And I will ALWAYS find things to critique in this game and any other. That's how common ppl like us help make games better. If someone in game management has seen this and thought to themselves, "Maybe there are ways we can better prevent confusion to our players," then all the bashing has been worth it and I'll not feel sorry for it.

P.S. This is just one of many forums about the same topic. What does that tell you?

I have no idea why you think these people who ONLY managed to find the forums (the wrong forum at that, there's a technical support forum) once something that was announced way in advance and also documented in multiple places happened are here to do anything other than whine till the server comes back up.

Someone already explained what happened and the OP was then assisted with further (easily searchable) information. Then the whining continued. Ridicule and eye rolling is not unwarranted.

1. People were warned way in advance
2. The information is readily available
3. People were helped first yet the whining continued

I dunno who you think you're defending, but it ain't the underdog.

[Drkdays]

Lotta single digit postcount people coming in to complain... amazing how they figured out where the forums general chat were before reading the announcements in the launcher OR the posts from the devs about the maintenance.

Ikr? Suddenly they know where to complain about it. Suddenly, they finally start looking at the notices on the launcher. Suddenly, it's SE's fault for not writing in huge ass letters when it's maintenance.


A lot of suddenly stuff that could've been avoided if they took a couple a minutes to read the news section in the main site once in a while instead on the day things finally happen.

People slay me when they play mmos and act like they're never supposed to go down for maintenance.

The announcements are there, sometimes even when you log on and have to go through a nice big ol' screen of "Hey guys game's gonna be down for some time." How people miss it and then cry make me wonder how we even play the same game.

See it's posts like these that make me realise that people don't pay attention to anything until it affects them right then.

1. People don't understand why they cannot log in.
2. People search the forums for answers because encountering an error does not suggest something planned is happening.
3. Well in advance notice does not mean well informed, just that it was noted to be upcoming.
4. People expect there to be an obvious answer if there IS something planned.
5. Forum lords sneer and cite poor reading skills and/or laziness (with the exception of those who simply answered).
6. Don't do that.
7. There is always room for improvement and suggesting that things are fine is what's lazy.

[Selova]

1. People don't understand why they cannot log in.
2. People search the forums for answers because encountering an error does not suggest something planned is happening.
3. Well in advance notice does not mean well informed, just that it was noted to be upcoming.
4. People expect there to be an obvious answer if there IS something planned.
5. Forum lords sneer and cite poor reading skills and/or laziness (with the exception of those who simply answered).
6. Don't do that.
7. There is always room for improvement and suggesting that things are fine is what's lazy.

Can't help people that don't want to help themselves. People that don't understand how MMO's operate somehow think that the game developer himself needs to call them on their personal phone to feed them the information. Obviously a massive over exaggeration, but apparently a giant notice every time they log into the game somehow isn't enough.

[Gula]

1. People don't understand why they cannot log in.
2. People search the forums for answers because encountering an error does not suggest something planned is happening.
3. Well in advance notice does not mean well informed, just that it was noted to be upcoming.
4. People expect there to be an obvious answer if there IS something planned.
5. Forum lords sneer and cite poor reading skills and/or laziness (with the exception of those who simply answered).
6. Don't do that.
7. There is always room for improvement and suggesting that things are fine is what's lazy.

Yes and we also need doors with several handles because someone didn't look down and see the lone knob.

[Krotoan]

1. People don't understand why they cannot log in.
2. People search the forums for answers because encountering an error does not suggest something planned is happening.
3. Well in advance notice does not mean well informed, just that it was noted to be upcoming.
4. People expect there to be an obvious answer if there IS something planned.
5. Forum lords sneer and cite poor reading skills and/or laziness (with the exception of those who simply answered).
6. Don't do that.
7. There is always room for improvement and suggesting that things are fine is what's lazy.

1. nobody claimed they didn't know WHY people were here.
2.again, it's understood why they came here, but we're generally mocking how they didn't discover any of the obvious and prominent postings of what was actually happening as well as the further assertions that this wasn't announced or shown well enough
3. Well in advance gives people large opportunities to familiarize and plan. A lack of doing so is nobodies fault but the user.
4.There was. yet people still missed it.
5.lords? we're all just posters here yo. Some of us just spend more time than others. We don't think we're better than someone with smaller postcounts, it's just indicative that you're new.
6. You don't pay my sub. ... you also aren't my dad.... and all that.
7. There is a point where no amount of grabbing someone's ears and pointing their face at a notice will help and further redundancy only serves to annoy those who are actually paying attention. There is ample notice given and near obnoxious levels of information available about whats going on.

[Drkdays]

So all the comments were just meant to be rude and not at all helpful because there's no point trying to help anyone who uses these forums? Find a better outlet for anonymous bashing please. People are here for help, not a peanut gallery. Maybe try twitter?