Well Shewter... The 11 hours is for Hardware Changes... not to fix game issues. So your whole "Get over it because they're awesome" doesn't really fly here. They should have backup servers to avoid issues like this. For example; A 24 hour store like Walmart doesn't just lock the doors in the middle of a weekday so they can sweep up a little or change prices. Sony should be more competent and start doing something to avoid all this downtime.

~ 11-YEAR EQ VETERAN

Edited, Dec 9th 2010 2:50pm by Mcogre

It looks like SOE not only disabled any logging in/out, but they also took the servers down, too. So much for staying online in New Halas to craft. Why not just tell people that they're taking everything offline for twelve hours instead of telling them that if they stay logged in, that they can play? SOE has never improved, and why I continue to give them my money is a mystery, even to me. SOE's operations people are as dim-witted and useless as their marketing people.

Looks like thier main forum has gone into melt down, cannot even load up thier main page now.

Guess SOE can do sporatic patches and maintenance anytime they want now without giving prior notice!

It used to be that when they'd do patches and maintenance they would give you a few days to weeks 'heads up'.

I personally find it frustrating to login only to find the servers down / locked for half a day and then having to refer to Alla just to find out how long they're down for; (that's only when Alla posts the DT --- if they even know about it!)

Another sidenote on that: whenever SOE does a patch (no matter how big or small it is), how about mentioning what the patch entailed. Have the courtesy to say what you fixed, changed or "broke" (lmao)... rather than no mention at all. (I.E.,) a 10 mintue patch DL, that caused the servers to be down for 2 hours....WTH did you change? tell us...less it's something you don't want us to know about?? Bah....!

Here's an idea... how about doing more frequent patches for less time per patch? Let's say do weekly maintenance / patches that are only 2-3 hrs long (during non-peak playtimes) instead of 10+ hour long ones, only then having to bring them back down the next day for several MORE hours to fix the botched patch the day before?

Try taking smaller bites on patches...so you can actually fix the 'problems' that arise from so many changes all at once...? (Food for thought?)

I dont know when you will fix the zoning problems from other zones to the TSS zones and back.. EVERY time I try to zone my client crashes. And the flickering environment.. Is it a bug or is my video card not sufficient for some purposes ?? After restarting the game everything is okay.I wrote a bug report but no answer. After 2 days patch hope those problems will be fixed.