9 hrs??

[Zyrxagor00]

I hope its for the F2P to start before the end of the month live, but they are probably moving into their new room at WarnerBrothers headquarters.....

I've been inside of a couple of small developer studios. The ones I have actually gained access to and seen the inside of were either small private studios or contractors for EA Games. One was a subcontractor for Cryptic. All of those studios were AMAZING inside! And they were dinky little places compared to Turbine. But while comparatively dinky, they were not small by any stretch of the imagination. The smallest one had the entire top floor of a very large office building. The largest one had three floors of a large office building.

I'd love to see the inside of Turbine's studios.

[Khafar]

I'm assuming you mean that you don't think they are adding capacity to the exisiting servers.

What I meant was that I don't think they're expanding server capacity or adding new servers on Monday. It's too early for that (at least if I'm correct about the launch coming the last week of September or the first week of October).

Later... I expect they'll do "all of the above".

Khafar

[Hazmat]

LOTRO, DDO, and AC will all be down.

Beta issues with the game recognizing adventure packs, number of character slots, and VIP status.

I'm guessing that the account management DB is being rebuilt.

[GV-Tanith]

LOTRO, DDO, and AC will all be down.

Beta issues with the game recognizing adventure packs, number of character slots, and VIP status.

I'm guessing that the account management DB is being rebuilt.

Mayhap, but I'm willing to bet a number of us will be looking around for SuperOrcs at the southern edges of Eregion when the game comes back up (and hoping they don't see us first!)

[Nymphonic]

I kept looking at this over and over and over.....

[erikthe10man]

All nine hours downtime means is it's Starcraft/Torchlight/Fallout 3 time for me until the servers are back online.

[techknowrat]

Or could be DB maint, index rebuild, etc. Projected to take 4 hours, so announce 9, then when it all goes wrong and it takes 12 it doesn't look nearly as bad.

If it only goes a little wrong and takes 8 hours, they come up ahead of schedule, look good.

Substitute any maint activity for DB maint.

LOL you are probably right on the money with that

[Patrickwg]

Wow, a 9 hr downtime on monday..i wonder what that means????

Due to all of the negative comments about turbine recently they are going to try and get some positive comments go there way. They set the time that long so people will thank them when they magically are able finish so early. We see it all the time when down times end before they said it would. All kinds of thank you Turbine threads on the forums.

[Tewthpaste]

All nine hours downtime means is it's Starcraft/Torchlight/Fallout 3 time for me until the servers are back online.

City of Villains.

[lordjimdudkiewicz]

Due to all of the negative comments about turbine recently they are going to try and get some positive comments go there way. They set the time that long so people will thank them when they magically are able finish so early. We see it all the time when down times end before they said it would. All kinds of thank you Turbine threads on the forums.

Maybe they need all that time to lock/delete all those threads too!

[Lupini]

This is the update where they change all the female character's armour into versions of leather cat-suits for light/medium and heavy armour will be chain-mail bikinis.

[GregJL]

What I meant was that I don't think they're expanding server capacity or adding new servers on Monday. It's too early for that (at least if I'm correct about the launch coming the last week of September or the first week of October).

Later... I expect they'll do "all of the above".

Khafar

Ahh, ok...that makes more sense now. Yoiu would think I would have read it that way the first time, but I was still slightly asleep.

[Apollo31]

There's no earthly way of knowing
What direction we are going.
There's no knowing where we're rowing.
Or which way the river's flowing.
Is it raining? Is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a blowing?
Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing.
Are the fires of hell a-glowing?
Is the grisly reaper mowing?
Yes! The danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing.
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing!

[talonjendro]

Wow, a 9 hr downtime on monday..i wonder what that means????

[Ringwraith49]

Otherwise there won't be anyone to drive the company car to Panda Express at lunchtime..

You have no idea how long I spent watching this!

[PlunderBunny]

You have no idea how long I spent watching this!

It's mesmerizing....