Chaos is living up to its name....

[Nestor_II]

Just when i have some downtime at work to play, Chaos rears its ugly head and dashes all hopes of getting some time in while watching some machines print.

Oh well, maybe i can go home early today and relax before I can play.

[Tamianth]

And yet again, us Euros lose a whole day's play..........this is getting beyond a joke, now

[Sigi]

And yet again, us Euros lose a whole day's play..........this is getting beyond a joke, now

It would be better to do it alternating. So one week more downtime during "play"hours for the USA the other week more for Europe

[Finkledbody]

It really is pretty bad. losing 1 day to play, once a week, 52 weeks in a year..

So when paying for a whole year, we lose near two full months worth of paid play time to maintainence...

W00t!

[Kelsaka]

Yeah, judging by the updated predicted uptime (why can't it be put into GMT too??) I won't be seeing Chaos before heading off to bed /sigh

[LOVWYRM]

maybe Istaria is still alive because

we never charged them for this.

I can still affort that because I love the game.
And always could-
even at a time when Flame and me had to share one comp and one account.

I see it as a donation- to keep everything going.

[Meredas]

It really is pretty bad. losing 1 day to play, once a week, 52 weeks in a year..

So when paying for a whole year, we lose near two full months worth of paid play time to maintainence...

W00t!

Broadening on this fact, another site I frequent tends to go down every now and again for maintenance. Instead of just leaving us twiddling our thumbs, they offer to increase the length of those subscribed by a couple of days. It's simply good for business and keeps dedicated players from leaving, knowing their cash isn't going to waste.

My suggestion: Why not increase the sub length to accomodate this? I know it's maybe not ideal since the USA/etc players get a free day, but it really makes up for the rest of us stuck around GMT who are missing out. We're a good chunk of your playerbase too!

[Gimthen]

Broadening on this fact, another site I frequent tends to go down every now and again for maintenance. Instead of just leaving us twiddling our thumbs, they offer to increase the length of those subscribed by a couple of days. It's simply good for business and keeps dedicated players from leaving, knowing their cash isn't going to waste.

My suggestion: Why not increase the sub length to accomodate this? I know it's maybe not ideal since the USA/etc players get a free day, but it really makes up for the rest of us stuck around GMT who are missing out. We're a good chunk of your playerbase too!

I have seen this in other games also, ....... however .........

I am gonna play devil's advocate here ...

Technically speaking we don`t loose a day as we can play up to around 12.00-13.00 GMT before the server goes down for maintenance ... so instead of 52 it is more like 26+ days that maintenance requires.



Disclaimer: Granted, maintenance takes place during the Eu peak hours if it strays into the evening and prevents playing -probably- for hte majority of EU players (including me).

*goes back in his dwarven hole with a fresh beer before everyone shoot me*

[Velea]

Closing this thread; Chaos will be getting a restart either later today or tomorrow morning to fix the problems... waiting to find out when, and then I'll post on Announcements.