Feldon Xalmat from Crushbone has deduced:
On Sunday, August 22, 2010, at 4:30am Pacific, one of the authentication servers for the login server seemed to crash.
Anyone that’s experiencing massive lag, or is unable to log in, this is the reason why.
Who would be logged into EQ2 at such an ungodly hour? Well it’s mid-afternoon for me, so I am such a person. 😉
Amnerys made it official:
Around 4:30 AM (PDT) this morning, some EQII servers experienced outage and connection issues. The problems were resolved within an hour, and the team at SOE is looking deeper into the issue.
We apologize for the inconvenience. All servers appear to be running fine now.
I’m not sure what happened but it seemed to be an SOE wide problem, or at least Planetside had problems at exactly the same time. I’m guessing a login server went odd (I managed to login once to Planetside, but without audio).
Actually I’m from Permafrost, not Crushbone.