Curse

w00t! · Aug 11, 2010, 01:43 PM // 13:43

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Originally Posted by Killed u man

No company is honest. Unless a non-profit organisation, but other than that the general rule of the thumb is: if there's money involved, people will do anything to get as much of it as possible.

As a matter of fact, part of a PR's job is to either hide, bend or break the truth so that you try and keep the masses quiet/pleased/informed.

Not saying Anet is a company trying to steal our money (altough with banned acounts, they have been known to steal people's money after they got banned by allowing them to make a new acount, only to ban it a few hours later), but they're still a company trying to make money.
If they had to choose between making money, or keeping loyal to their community, they will choose for the money. They have shown this time and time again.

OMG! I just noticed that BOTH Anet and Costco's websites are down at the same time. Very suspicious, and surely not a coincidence. Clear evidence that Anet is adopting the Costco retail model, and is just out to make money.

Killed u man · Aug 11, 2010, 02:07 PM // 14:07

Tullzinski:

The fact that people are corrupt and money obsessed doesn't invalidate my arguement.

My point was that Anet is a company trying to make money. And unless a company is non-profit organized, it "only" cares about profit. Obviously customer satisfaction is something alot of companies thrive for, but the reason why they want is, is to make more profit. (happy customers = more profit)

But I'm sorry, you guys are right:

Anet is a loving company, that has customers service that will come tuck you in at night, and even make you a nice coco before you go to bed. They will give you a sweet, warm kiss on your cheek as they slowly put the warm bed cheet over your sleepy body. Then they will slowly walk out of the room, gently looking at you, hoping you'll have a nice dream, and that you love them as much as they love you. All that's left for them to do now, is to go downstairs, and start working on a 7 course breakfast prepared with the best of ingredients and alot of love.

God bless Anet, may they live forever!

If you want to live under the illusion companies don't care about profit, but rather about their customers, go ahead. However, anyone with the least bit of education and common sense knows how the world works.

If Anet is moving their servers, it's not because they want to provide a better service for us, it's because they can save more money.

Now, I'm not saying that the server quality will be shit afterwards, no. What I'm saying is that Anet is trying to save money. For all I know, they have found a cheaper, higher quality location. But the fact still remains that money is primary goal for these actions, not customer satisfaction. If that was the goal, as you clearly claim by ridiculing my posts, there would be far more obvious actions to take:

-Fix PvP
-Faster, higher quality updates
-Give PvE'ers what they asked for a long time ago: better gold sink, 7 hero teams, SF nerf, more rewards for elite areas which won't be able to be solod anymore, etc.

All of these would be alot cheaper than to buy better servers/location as you claim. Why would they go out of the way of the easy solution, to go for a lesser effective, more expensive solution?

Hey, I gues Anet is just as mad as me...

tasha · Aug 11, 2010, 02:14 PM // 14:14

I would speculate that the servers have found a new home next to the Aion servers which were moved to Texas last week.

Pure speculation though.

To Chicken To Die · Aug 11, 2010, 02:15 PM // 14:15

Anyone considerd the fact that the downtime probbaly is can be most likely is the only thing we shall ever notice about the data center movement?

Jatari Thundercloud · Aug 11, 2010, 02:21 PM // 14:21

Well there goes my Oni Claw Farm for today.... 100 k a day farm.. I hope they get up sooner then 24 hours. lol

Gill Halendt · Aug 11, 2010, 02:24 PM // 14:24

Over already?

I logged in no problem just a few minutes ago.

Jatari Thundercloud · Aug 11, 2010, 02:25 PM // 14:25

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Originally Posted by Gill Halendt

Over already?

I logged in no problem just a few minutes ago.

I'll go try now. Thats very good news if thats the case..

Jatari Thundercloud · Aug 11, 2010, 02:27 PM // 14:27

Guild Wars is back up.. WOOT !

Puddin Cheeks · Aug 11, 2010, 02:28 PM // 14:28

Yup, I'm in , 12 characters

Essence Snow · Aug 11, 2010, 02:29 PM // 14:29

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Originally Posted by Gill Halendt

Over already?

I logged in no problem just a few minutes ago.

Looks like it. I just logged back on...only 1 American dist of Kamadan....lol

Oh and btw...for the bet record....7.5 hours=WIN!

ll Jamie ll · Aug 11, 2010, 02:34 PM // 14:34

Well umm our guild rerolled new cape + gh like 2 days ago. But we're back to the old gh + cape lol.

Rocky Raccoon · Aug 11, 2010, 02:35 PM // 14:35

What do you know the sky didn't fall.

dorin · Aug 11, 2010, 02:40 PM // 14:40

Ppl are just gettin` happy

To Chicken To Die · Aug 11, 2010, 02:41 PM // 14:41

Time to claim Cavalon with 1,000 lucxon faction guild

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Originally Posted by ll Jamie ll

Well umm our guild rerolled new cape + gh like 2 days ago. But we're back to the old gh + cape lol.

Can't be a rollback since I have the glad points and VS I got yesterday.

Big_Iron · Aug 11, 2010, 02:47 PM // 14:47

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Originally Posted by ll Jamie ll

Well umm our guild rerolled new cape + gh like 2 days ago. But we're back to the old gh + cape lol.

This concerns me. I've done quite a bit in the past couple of days and would hate to see if it was all for nada. I'm hoping they used a more recent backup.

jray14 · Aug 11, 2010, 02:48 PM // 14:48

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Originally Posted by ll Jamie ll

Well umm our guild rerolled new cape + gh like 2 days ago. But we're back to the old gh + cape lol.

So there was a rollback? Bummer. I was hoping that an actual database backup would be part of the maintenance period. Can anyone confirm/refute? I played all day yesterday to get my fix, and it'd suck to lose all that progress, lol.

Mintha Syl · Aug 11, 2010, 02:49 PM // 14:49

Already???That was fast!! I suppose they just moved it on the other side of the street or something like that!!

-Vodka- · Aug 11, 2010, 02:55 PM // 14:55

Doesn't seem to be a rollback for me.. I still have everything I last logged off with...

Mike Zadorojny · Aug 11, 2010, 02:55 PM // 14:55

The game is back up. Thank you for your patience.

Jatari Thundercloud · Aug 11, 2010, 03:00 PM // 15:00

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Originally Posted by -Vodka-

Doesn't seem to be a rollback for me.. I still have everything I last logged off with...

Same for me all is the same as last night including the 7 ecto and Oni claws i farmed yesterday. !