RIP Linkshells

[NekoMataMata]

I don't know how they managed this. They had a 24 hour maintenance for what seemed like very little changes, and instead of everything going super smoothly, this happened instead?

I'm seriously trying to be fair. I know there's some people that just want to rip on the game just to rip on it but how do you even defend this?

[Vahlnir]

I don't know how they managed this. They had a 24 hour maintenance for what seemed like very little changes, and instead of everything going super smoothly, this happened instead?

I'm seriously trying to be fair. I know there's some people that just want to rip on the game just to rip on it but how do you even defend this?

I will admit that I'm more impressed by this mishap than anything else. Things are always going to go wrong in some way, but they did have a full day, so...I guess for SE, that doesn't mean fewer potential problems, it just means they have a full day to mess it up in ways maybe even they didn't know where possible.

[TaleraRistain]

I don't know how they managed this. They had a 24 hour maintenance for what seemed like very little changes, and instead of everything going super smoothly, this happened instead?

I'm seriously trying to be fair. I know there's some people that just want to rip on the game just to rip on it but how do you even defend this?

Hardware replacement is not a small change. That they only had linkshells break on one DC is a pretty successful implementation for something like this.

Major server switch over and if the only bug we get is Crystal DC linkshells not working I'd say that's pretty amazing. I suspect there will be other bugs and hotfixes incoming.

This. I'm fine if people don't have infrastructure of software engineering experience but when we who do have that experience say "It's not that simple" then we shouldn't be called white knights for it. It's not that simple, people.

[Vahlnir]

Hardware replacement is not a small change. That they only had linkshells break on one DC is a pretty successful implementation for something like this.



This. I'm fine if people don't have infrastructure of software engineering experience but when we who do have that experience say "It's not that simple" then we shouldn't be called white knights for it. It's not that simple, people.

Oh yeah, it was no doubt a lot of work. I'm not doubting the effort involved at all. I just find it amusing that they had a full day to do it and they still broke something.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Oh yeah, it was no doubt a lot of work. I'm not doubting the effort involved at all. I just find it amusing that they had a full day to do it and they still broke something.

More time just means more things that can break. You'd be surprised how often bugs come up in production data centers.

[TaleraRistain]

Oh yeah, it was no doubt a lot of work. I'm not doubting the effort involved at all. I just find it amusing that they had a full day to do it and they still broke something.

They had a full day to do the implementation but software and the hardware it works with sometimes does unexpected things, and sometimes it's not even something you can catch in testing since it doesn't manifest until all the pieces are chugging along together in a production environment. All said, this is a pretty minor bug for the changes that had to be made. Though I imagine there are probably some more that will come up.

[CStrife912]

They had a full day to do the implementation but software and the hardware it works with sometimes does unexpected things, and sometimes it's not even something you can catch in testing since it doesn't manifest until all the pieces are chugging along together in a production environment. All said, this is a pretty minor bug for the changes that had to be made. Though I imagine there are probably some more than will come up.

Sadly we suffer from too many armchair devs in here that can't give good input other than small indie company please understand where it doesn't matter how big you are...stuff can happen regardless. Heck apparently Ashes of Creation is going to launch with no issues....yeah no MMO ever has done that.

[GTK0HLK]

I don't know how they managed this. They had a 24 hour maintenance for what seemed like very little changes, and instead of everything going super smoothly, this happened instead?

I'm seriously trying to be fair. I know there's some people that just want to rip on the game just to rip on it but how do you even defend this?

One thing for sure, if anyone here has DC level knowledge when changing hardware..,
I doubt they'd spend there time here.
Let alone be up rn and handily tell us the possibilities of this happening/being expected.
[I know I dont]

[Lumiena]

I put a post in the in-game bugs section. Hopefully they see it soon and schedule a hotfix for it. You're all welcome to post there as well. I have friends on Aether who still have their CWLS, so it seems to possibly only be Crystal that is affected.

[LaylaTsarra]

I put a post in the in-game bugs section. Hopefully they see it soon and schedule a hotfix for it. You're all welcome to post there as well. I have friends on Aether who still have their CWLS, so it seems to possibly only be Crystal that is affected.

My crosslinks are working fine on Aether too. I can't speak for Primal but Dynamis and Aether are fine. Hopefully they can fix that without a downtime.