Originally by: Count MonteCarlo

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fix you're ****ing game you ****ing ******s, seriously how the **** is it so hard 2 ****ing hire some mechanics or some **** to take care of the database?

there's 1 million ppl that plays eve, and we all pay 15 euros, that's 15 million euros a month, 1 mechanic costs like 800 euros a month, get off your ass and fix ur ****ing company

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Originally by: Teibor

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Originally by: Dalmont Delantee

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thats like im sick of people standing up for them when its evident that CCP have serious flaws in their organisation but people still think the sun shines out of their ass.

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And I'm sick of people who actually think you can have the #1 MMORPG of all time and be fail. Granted, the standards aren't high, but seriously.

I won't say that the devs don't spend too much time tinkering with the game itself (yay nerfbat), but I will say, as supporting their product goes, they win. If a downtime gets REALLY extended, we get SP. They down their servers once a day just to make sure the other 23 hours aren't living hell for the players. They listen to all sides of arguments, particularly nowadays, and know when to tell the carebears to kiss it. They maintain the only true PvP major MMORPG and their content releases aren't just lousy mohawk grenades, they provide entire new gaming experiences.

Let's compare with others:

Blizzard: If WoW has a problem, they don't halt everything and fix it, they wait a patch cycle. So you're stuck with that issue for a month or two until they feel like they'll lose money over it. The skills themselves cap quickly and if you're more than a weekend-warrior gamer, you quickly discover the only redeeming value it still has, is that Felicia Day plays it. Further, when patch day does hit, which is only common enough to be frustrating, you get to let your computer download it all day. Fun. Even if not, you still get to wait for their servers to come back up.

Linden Labs: OK so Second Life isn't so much a game, but the system concept is the same. Terrible lag, difficulties with openGL implementations, and horrible physics implementation plague it and have for *years*. Rather than release blogs before a patch that say what an update will do, they promise it months (in some case years) in advance and then fail to deliver.

Guild Wars: $50+ one-time purchase because it's pretty, and it's fun for the cost of the box. You wont' spend years on it like here. Issues? Talk about your distant patches, if they come at all.

EQII: The sequel to the game that started it all, and the symbol of fail that handed the flag of fantasy MMOs over to Blizzard. Buggy, graphically glitchy at inception, card driver issues, etc. even appear now. Plus my ex plays it and she's fail.

Final Fantasy XI: I was so excited to ride a Chocobo after years of playing the games. Instead I found myself playing gender-neutral badly animated avatars in a world of 12 entities with different skinning. The only fun part was the feeling of exploration and travel, and at one point, this was gouged.

On that last one, really anything SoE is fail. Anyone who got hit by the SWG "reset" will tell you that.

You might not like having to go out in the sun for a couple of hours, but CCP is the best of the business. They could do better, but any business *could*. It's just not profitable to do it. What they do, they do well, and when they hose it, they shut things down before they get worse. I agree with that mode of thinking.


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I like long walks, a good book before bed, and human entrails served cold with a side order of scrap metal.

Originally by: Count MonteCarlo

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guess they get off they're asses and hired a mechanic

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Originally by: Count MonteCarlo

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Edited by: Count MonteCarlo on 03/08/2010 12:21:55

Originally by: Felix Macey

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Originally by: Count MonteCarlo

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fix you're ****ing game you ****ing ******s, seriously how the **** is it so hard 2 ****ing hire some mechanics or some **** to take care of the database?

there's 1 million ppl that plays eve, and we all pay 15 euros, that's 15 million euros a month, 1 mechanic costs like 800 euros a month, get off your ass and fix ur ****ing company

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Err not sure a "Mechanic" is what it needs. But thanks for your input

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well doesnt it say the database is broken or some ******ed ****? doesnt mechanics fix ****? if not maybe get a electrician or a computer man to fix it or some ****, seriously how ****ing hard is it to hire SPECIALISTS that should do all of this **** for u, u ppl have SO MUCH money, surely u can afford 1 MORE EMPLOYEE

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Originally by: Dalmont Delantee

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Get over it guys it happens, its not the end of the worth. BTW I don't care if your from another continent that this is your 'prime time' because you sign up to a game where the downtime is where it is and you acecpt that there might be issues with downtime.

STOP whinging I'm really getting fed up of just seeing whinging comments from people who have no idea of how much work and effort is put into EVE by the people who play it and the people who run it.

CCP isn't trying to screw you over, isn't trying to hurt your kids and isn't trying to steal money from you

Take your emoing to somewhere more approriate like Hello Kitty World or some free to play game if you don't like what they are doing.

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Originally by: Rashmika Clavain

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If you log in at ten minutes to twelve (GMT), you're logging into the server whilst it is still in its scheduled one hour downtime period.

Change Control not your thing huh?

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Originally by: Count MonteCarlo

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fix you're ****ing game you ****ing ******s, seriously how the **** is it so hard 2 ****ing hire some mechanics or some **** to take care of the database?

there's 1 million ppl that plays eve, and we all pay 15 euros, that's 15 million euros a month, 1 mechanic costs like 800 euros a month, get off your ass and fix ur ****ing company

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Originally by: 3rr0rc0d3

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Tuxford?

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Originally by: Devroush

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He wanted to reboot their test server but instead he accidentally rebooted the live server.

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Originally by: Amanda Eidolo

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A billion extended downtimes in a month due to unexplained 'database' issues.

My clone resetting itself without cause from 54.6m SP to 2.8m SP, with no rhyme or reason behind it while I am roaming.

My corpmate and friend having his skills mysteriously vanish mid-warp, leaving him trapped in space in a ship he suddenly could no longer use.

Items and modules mysteriously disappearing when being removed or fitted to ships.

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Quote:

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Python injection exploits being utilised and manipulated by countless powerbrokers and grifters.

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Originally by: Serial Driller

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Edited by: Serial Driller on 03/08/2010 12:37:56
I had just jumped into a level 2 mission called "Recon (1 of 3)". I didn't bother to bring a ship that would actually be able to take on the ships in the pocket because all I really needed to do was rush the gate and hold out till I reached it. Half way to the gate, I get the 20 second notice. Time to decide.. ..jump to a station or continue to the gate. I stay on course and make it to the gate. I make the jump, then realize the next pocket is even more loaded with nasties. I target a station and initiate a jump.. ..game shuts down. Hope my Thorax is there when I get back.

Could have been worse, I suppose. I could've been on part 3 of 3. That's where you are in a toxic cloud that does progressively worse damage to your ship.

40 seconds? Really???

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Originally by: Amanda Eidolo

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Why was my post deleted?

Why are you trying to censor me, CCP?

What am I saying that you're afraid of?

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Originally by: Jordan Musgrat

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You guys have got to realize that these database problems don't just randomly happen right? There may be something like..... wrong?

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Originally by: cheet sheet

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Look at you all asking for SP and a free month. I love all your tears. you can all try other games like World of Tanks and if you like moaning try APB lots to cry about there or we can start another post about lag

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