Feldon 
From the EQ2 Forums:
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7 AM Pacific* all U.S. EverQuest II servers will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours.
UPDATE: EverQuest2.com has this update about Splitpaw:
Important: On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 5 AM London Time* the Splitpaw server will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours.
LATE UPDATE: Game Update 63 has been delayed to April 18th, 2012 for EU servers!!
Time Zone Conversion
- PST: April 17 @ 7:00am~12:00 Noon
- EST: April 17 @ 10:00am~3:00pm
- BST: April 17 @ 15:00~20:00
- CET: April 17 @ 16:00~21:00
Is that definately the BST/CET update time? Is that normal?
Can’t find any offical information, Piestro doesn’t even know.
So Piestro, asked about EU servers, answers:
My answer was the following
Don’t bother, it’s always the same:
In between, what happened is the following:
Hum… So, this huge sarcasm (that everybody on French server 100% believes in by now) to tell you something: PLEASE ! START TO SEND THE DATA TO AMSTERDAM BEFORE YOU BRING DOWN THE SERVERS !
Well, if the downtime was anything like AoD…
I hate how they patch these long updates so late.
Creative explanation….clueless….but creative! *lol*
Hey Feldon, shouldn’t that be CET 16:00~21:00 ?
For the time challenged (like me), here’s a link that may help:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=EQ2+GU63%3A+Skyshrine&iso=20120417T07&p1=770&ah=5
oh they posted a 2nd note for SP… lols
‘On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 5 AM London Time* the Splitpaw server will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours.’
now i do think they got that date wrong since SP never went down =P
Sorry folks. SOE loves to release their news updates at 3pm, which is MIDNIGHT my time. Math fail!
At wich Time will be Valor down? This evening? Tomorrow morning? Is SP down now? lol
Anyone know if Splitpaw is really getting the update right now ? According to server status its offline, but am at work so cant check.
Server status has been borked for a week now. Splitpaw is up atm, with no sign of Skyshrine so far.
Getting the GU ahead of US servers seemed pretty unlikely to begin with anyway!
I’m sure Piestro misunderstood. Somebody may have told him “5AM as usual” and he went with 5AM London time the 17th instead of either 5AM PST or 5AM London Time the 18th.
Splitpaw is still up, so no, they are not getting GU63 eight hours ahead of the US. Although considering how Splitpaw and other international servers have been treated over the years, that wouldn’t be a bad thing. 😉
As usual, someone at SOE is obviously unable to calculate the time difference properly. US servers will go down at 7 AM Pacific, which is 10 Eastern and EU server will be at the same time which is 3 PM London time.
The above information on the hamsters is really appreciated as I was unaware of the problem with the hamsters. Perhaps we could take up a collection for one of those automatic feeders so that no one at SOE will have to remember what time to feed the hamsters and solve the whole problem. WAIT…..No, it’s SOE, which means they’ll forget to put the food in the feeder once a month or forget to plug it in, or forget to set the timer. Sorry folks, I see no solution in sight.
I’m a little bit worried: Still no announce for Non-US, non-UK international servers downtime. I know they said that every server will get gu63 at the same time, but since no one bother to post anything concerning this GU on, by example, French forum I’m expecting the worse…
Its past 1pm and still no patch, guessing that they’ll wait until prime time.
@Whilhelmina Loved the Titanic bit 😉 I have visions of someone sitting in the Amsterdam data centre typing in the soggy update pages.
*sarcasm* I am sure they must ask Pro7Sat1 before patch because we belong them now…
*Adjusts his sla…ahh customer tag*
I want sexy patch notes.
I hope we get a dose of AoD fixes unless they are going to contiue to ignore the zone ld’s, application memory errors, etc that came in with their expac that wasnt.
I assumed it, and i get it. Like always EU Customers are handled like a not appreciated userbase. Server are Still up, no comment from SoE no Official Announce. Who cares about Europe? Soon Europe is Pro7Sat1 problem…… Im sure thats SoEs thinking.
Yea, they actually could’ve scraped up some confidence to things if they actually had given it first to euro after the mess they had to take.
But well maybe they really don’t care much about whatever population they have left on those servers (heard loads of ppl have moved off them lately).
You would have thought, given the level of irritation the Euro customers already have, that they would have gone *out of their way* to give at least ACCURATE information.
Not only do we get bad news, but wrong info, and no corrections. Lame.
On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 5 AM London Time* the Splitpaw server will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours.
*Convert to your local time
Message edited by Piestro on 04/17/2012 08:43:13.
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-Piestro
EverQuest II Community Relations Manager
Forgot the link:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=517324
April 18th for Splitpaw, but when for other EU servers? No clue…
Don’t tell me there are OTHER EU servers? I thought it was a myth.
So roughly 3hours of patch for US, how long for EU? 6+3 should make 9AM CET. let me compute the time to feed the hamsters, retrieve datas from sunken Titanic… Bess estimate for me is 8PM CET April 19th 2013!
“then, the datas are translated from english to english so UK players can understand them”
@Whilhelmina Your sentence above is the funniest thing I’ve read in about a month. Thank you for brightening my day with humor!!!!