The US-based EQ2 servers are now back up and running with the Grandmaster issues supposedly patched. EU servers will patch early tomorrow morning their time. Original article after the jump…
Day: October 7, 2014
Feldon
October 7, 2014 6:14 pm
From the SOE Forums: We will perform account and commerce maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM PDT on Wednesday, October 8, 2014. We expect this maintenance to take less than two hours. Actual downtime for services should only last 15-20 minutes within this maintenance window. This will impact the following SOE services: Account management Commerce functions, including purchases Game, web and forum logins Time Zone Conversions PDT: October 8 @ 6:00am-8:00am EDT: October 8 @ 9:00am-11:00am BST: October 8 @ 14:00-16:00 GMT: October 8 @ 15:00-17:00 AEST: October 8 @ 11:00pm-1:00am
UPDATE: Servers have all been patched and the issues in this article have been resolved. Click through to read the original article…
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