Emergency maintenance

[Zileth]

It's considered toxic in this community to complain when it's been SEVEN DAYS since people have been able to play the game because SE, who knew over a year ago this problem would occur, did not take steps to prevent it? You can't even say "oh it's covid theres no parts to make more servers". Every single launch in MMO history has had a large influx of people to try it out and servers have always been overloaded, it's very clear that they did not take steps to prevent this. You can claim they said they were doing things to try, but the fact that they waited SO LONG to even attempt steps shows how poorly this was planned. Go ahead and respond with your flames, but as someone who played wow for 15 years, has 5 level 80's (Non-boost) on GW2, a 65 on rift when it was level cap, a level 100 on DFO, among many other games. It's common sense that this was going to happen and they waited way too long, knowing full well that this would be the result.

You do know the server shortage has been going on more then a year lol

They didnt know it was going to be this bad a year ago. They started looking into getting new servers once que times started many months ago and couldnt obtain any to this day due to production and on time of that they couldnt predict the influx of players during covid nor could predict that a good amount of WoW players also transferred over.

Also, LOL what does WoW and RIft and GW2 has to do with what happened? You listed 2 games which arnt doing well and listed another that going through issues due to the company bad practice lol Also if you bring up well they have server BS lol its because for one when they had high populations at one point, they could easily get servers up and running because COVID was not causing a shortage

Again, still thumping your chest acting like a Karen lol showing how you know nothing and did no research bc you have high lvl toons on other games and played WoW for 15yrs lol makes you some expert LOL

[IdowhatIwant]

The good news is you get to wait in the que again. People need to realize this problem is NOT going to get fixed. This release was a mistake. Square is in damage control mode.

Damage control was delaying the game, blaming covid for being slow to obtain server equipment, and saying the issue was on customers end. If you read the statement today they were very transparent in what they are doing to alleviate the issue.

[Zileth]

The good news is you get to wait in the que again. People need to realize this problem is NOT going to get fixed. This release was a mistake. Square is in damage control mode.

No matter what people would of been mad LOL. They have been transparent that they tried and have been trying to get more servers however cant obtain any atm and that they are going to do maintenance for server stability and also hopefully going in and fixing the crashing out of que and not having your spot saved if you quickly log back in

Also this been known that EW will have really long ques lol they been warning us

[Limecat]

The punchline is that this is probably to remove the couple thousand extra skyward score that doesn't matter anymore from the few people that had pre-launch collectables in their inventory, instead of something that actually matters. X3

Ah, ok, they actually posted what they're up to on the lodestone. Doing something server-side to stop the queuing errors, at least.

[ryouma17]

this will give me time to play some more oblivion i still got a few daedric artifact quests to complete

[technole]

Yeah, in YoshiP's note this morning he mentioned there would be an emergency maintenance today but they didn't have a time, which seemed odd because they generally like to plan this out. I kept thinking it'd be late as possible PST and was correct.

Could have been a variety of reasons, maybe they were in the middle of validating the fixes when he wrote it and didn't setup a downtime window yet, until now.

[Minsue]

The good news is you get to wait in the que again. People need to realize this problem is NOT going to get fixed. This release was a mistake. Square is in damage control mode.

Yeah cause having so much money from all the people wanting to play is terrible acting like it's new world dupes or something.

[Vav2021]

have a free bump. people need to see this.

[Chyro]

So servers should be back up in about 4 hours?

[Bixillarla]

Yup 10pm - 2am PST.