Feldon
If I had to summarize Fan Faire in one statement, one consolidated takeaway thought, it would be: We’re gamers too. If we can, let’s give the players what they want. Giving players options and trying new things were the prominent themes throughout Fan Faire’s EQ2 panels. SmokeJumper in particular seemed eager to break away from tradition if it could lead to better gameplay. “Because we’ve always done it that way” must undoubtedly be one of his pet peeves in EQ2 meetings. Yet, it’s been barely three weeks since Fan Faire, and the glossy slides and upbeat pronouncements of flexibility...
Day: August 1, 2011
Yesterday afternoon at approximately 1:04pm PDT, SOE games and services became inaccessible to a large number of people due to what some observers have described as a routing problem between the San Diego and Dallas, TX routers on the Level 3 backbone. The outage lasted about 10 minutes. Today, at 10:27am PDT, SOE services were again briefly knocked offline, this time for approximately 15 minutes. It’s unclear if this is part of a pattern or a couple of isolated incidents. More as we have it…
Not sure how we missed this, but from EverQuest2.com… The Unrest, Guk and Everfrost servers will be offline on Tuesday, August 2, starting at 2:00 AM PDT for an estimated downtime of 6 hours. This maintenance is being completed for server hardware upgrades. That’s… 2:00~8:00 AM PDT 5:00~11:00 AM EDT 10:00~16:00 BST 11:00~17:00 CET