RIP Linkshells

[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.

[TaleraRistain]

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.

Sometimes when you're bigger it's even more of a problem because either more moving pieces or more chefs in the kitchen. My company is on the smaller side so there's a smaller pool that has to communicate and coordinate together. We use outside consultants for some things too (which is another possibility for SE) and that just brings in even more headaches.