Was 30 min ago, but that could've very well been a friend sitting there at the message, still says he's on. Now if you join and kicks you out with the message, "server blah" then you have been notified
How about weekend? And how about msg about the game is down appeared like 20 minutes after the first issue today. How about a staff which is on duty during the weekends went to eat for 30 mins and missed the problem? Come on, bE is not Blizzard - bE is small company and they do what they can. Edit: and even great Blizzard had such issues when servers went down on WoW. And the same was with Zenimax in ESO - gosh, they couldnt help me to log in for a 2 weeks after the launch staying silent and not replying on support desk.
1. Is it just an Amazon outage affecting multiple services? 2. Is it that some sort of package Behavior pay for cannot cope with the new influx of players 3. Can Behavior do anything to minimize the chances of this? such as upgrade to a better server (just an example) Should they do this, They have no idea how many players are going to stick around and investing money into something that in a week is going to be wasted is not good. 4. The biggest thing though is that there is no communication to us to let us know other then "Meh its Amazon's servers" They don't seem to stressed that its affecting the game at such an important time in its life cycle. 5. Regardless of whether they can do anything to resolve the issue now they are paying for something that is not being provided, They can and should do something to prevent it but if that means paying for more will they do that?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons-cloud-service-goes-down-sites-scramble/98530914/
You see why I don't have this issue is b/c I offered Nathan lifetime repair of his golden spandex ands bona fide BA nipple armour, so he made a direct line from my house to his parent's house so that I can always have server access...so no I don't have these issues clearly and I'm always busy when shit goes sideways.
Well the thing is.... It's weekend.. Devs are not going to work during the weekend... We'll see nobody unable to join during this weekend.. Poplulation will be drastically drop down
Thats great and all for a story that is from February. It would take the Development team literally 30 seconds to log in and make an announcement. "Sorry everyone, it is out of our hands, Amazon are having problems again with the servers, it is not tied to the influx of players and it is just bad timing for us and yourself, please bare with us." Or it might be "We didnt expect this many free players, We are working on a solution with Amazon" Who knows, But any sort of contact is better then no contact at all.. https://status.aws.amazon.com/ Appears to show no issues at all and services running normally so it is the influx of players was more then they imagined and some sort of package/server they pay for cannot handle the demand? The biggest thing that is drilled into me when I was learning my job was "No news is still news to the consumer" Meaning an update saying "We are looking into it but we cannot give an eta on a fix" is still news along with " its out of ours hands"
