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Thursday, May 22, 2008
AoC downtime
I solved my Age of Conan crash problems by following the advice of a friend and guild mate, who insisted that I buy a sound card, because that would make my computer faster than just using onboard sound. I'm not an expert, but it appears as if my Nvidia motherboard doesn't really have a sound chip, it only emulates one using CPU power. So adding a sound card would free the CPU to do other stuff. I found a Soundblaster Audigy SE for 40 Euro, installed it, and tested that my AoC crash problem when casting a certain spell with sound on was gone.
But that was all I did in AoC last night, because then the European servers had a server maintenance downtime for 8 pm to 1 am scheduled, in preparation for the Euro launch on the 23rd. I really don't understand why all this downtime always has to be scheduled during prime time. And I've read the US early access period was even worse, because it was only 3 days, and of that time the servers were up only 48 hours, with one downtime scheduled the evening of the last day. I so hope that once the game is launched everywhere, the maintenance window is moved to mornings, local time. I find scheduled server maintenance starting at in the evening or late afternoon unacceptable for a MMO.
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To add salt to the wound, the downtime didn't actually get started until 2pm GMT, so you most likely could have played when you wanted to.
Well, think about how long Oceanic/ Asian players have endured the one day downtime every week on WoW. They are not compensated for the loss in play time and in fact are rewarded with lots of lag because Blizzard can't be bothered to have servers closer to Asia.
Considering MMO's are generally played by people around the globe, it's quite selfish to say "Just don't do it during my prime time. Do it during someone else's prime time"
Meep
Considering MMO's are generally played by people around the globe, it's quite selfish to say "Just don't do it during my prime time. Do it during someone else's prime time"
Meep
# posted by 
: 22/5/08 08:58
: 22/5/08 08:58
Considering MMO's are generally played by people around the globe, it's quite selfish to say "Just don't do it during my prime time. Do it during someone else's prime time"
Well, kudos to EA Mythic for sorting out some Oceanic servers for WAR then.
Well, kudos to EA Mythic for sorting out some Oceanic servers for WAR then.
Morning is the primetime for me and I would hate not to be able to login between 6am and 9am. The best time IMHO would be 2am to 6 am. That would force the HC teens to get SOME sleep during the night.
# posted by : 22/5/08 09:44
: 22/5/08 09:44
Sounds like you payed for the early access mostly to get AoC to run on your computer. Oh and of course to provide Funcom with the opportunity to tweak their servers for the release.
Thanks for reminding me to stay away from those 'special' offers ;)
Thanks for reminding me to stay away from those 'special' offers ;)
# posted by : 22/5/08 10:09
: 22/5/08 10:09
The U.S. servers, at least the two I played on, were up more than 48 hours.
There was a delay before it started and another at the end before release, both of those were extended a few hours, but certainly not 24 hours worth. Maybe on other servers.
~shrug~
As for the primetime? It's early access and players are hammering away at launch as soon as midnight rolls around. For the U.S. servers, that was the original time scheduled. You say that's unacceptable, but that's exactly what players waiting for the early access did too, they ~expected~ midnight.
~shrug again~
If you're expecting to be disappointed, then disappointment is all you'll see. It's like the opposite of rose-coloured glasses.
There was a delay before it started and another at the end before release, both of those were extended a few hours, but certainly not 24 hours worth. Maybe on other servers.
~shrug~
As for the primetime? It's early access and players are hammering away at launch as soon as midnight rolls around. For the U.S. servers, that was the original time scheduled. You say that's unacceptable, but that's exactly what players waiting for the early access did too, they ~expected~ midnight.
~shrug again~
If you're expecting to be disappointed, then disappointment is all you'll see. It's like the opposite of rose-coloured glasses.
# posted by : 22/5/08 10:24
: 22/5/08 10:24
Considering MMO's are generally played by people around the globe, it's quite selfish to say "Just don't do it during my prime time. Do it during someone else's prime time"
That would be only true if AoC had worldwide servers, which they don't. There are European servers, and Europe only stretches over a few time zones, so doing maintenance in the morning for all players on European servers would not be a problem.
That would be only true if AoC had worldwide servers, which they don't. There are European servers, and Europe only stretches over a few time zones, so doing maintenance in the morning for all players on European servers would not be a problem.
It seems newer games are getting more demanding with sound. My machine ran everything (Bioshock, Lotro) until it met Assassin's Creed where voices didn't play. Music and effects were fine. Turning off sound acceleration fixed it like for some with AoC.
# posted by : 22/5/08 11:44
: 22/5/08 11:44
"Well, think about how long Oceanic/ Asian players have endured the one day downtime every week on WoW. They are not compensated for the loss in play time and in fact are rewarded with lots of lag because Blizzard can't be bothered to have servers closer to Asia."
Just so you know, it looks like Blizzard might have changed this. This week, Oceanic servers had maintenance moved to a non-peak time.
No word on whether or not it's a permanent change, but it very well could be.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/05/21/oceanic-maintenance-moved-away-from-prime-time/
Taueth
Just so you know, it looks like Blizzard might have changed this. This week, Oceanic servers had maintenance moved to a non-peak time.
No word on whether or not it's a permanent change, but it very well could be.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/05/21/oceanic-maintenance-moved-away-from-prime-time/
Taueth
# posted by : 22/5/08 15:50
: 22/5/08 15:50
The end part of the link should read:
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Taueth
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