That's 5 hours. So, you either don't want to tell the players anything about the cause of the problems, or, you haven't a bleeding clue. Either case is quite baad mmkay?

cannot get into game with any choices given here without being booted or the screen just freezing up

aussie tz here

It's really closer to 6 hours because the 1st mass disconnect happened around 02:15. CCP isn't even acknowledging that part yet. The server population went from 36,000 to 24,000. Not long after that at around 02:35 or so a ton more people got booted off in the 2nd mass disconnect of the morning. So they may have taken TQ offline at 03:06 but there were serious and ongoing problems well before that.

My brain tells me the recent connection issues and the new launcher are unrelated, just an unfortunate coincidence. My gut is telling me something else. The fact that CCP can't even explain yet what happened Friday morning before downtime isn't making my gut feel any better.

Try a repair... restart... or ... internet server check... windows 7/8 click on the problem solver..

The Russians are coming!

The cold war is now hot.

It seems like people need to be reminded that there is a major patch coming up in a couple of days, and that, without fail, stuff happens right around patch time.

Maybe not stuff this mangled, but stuff nonetheless.

CCP devs are doing everything they can do at ungodly hours to fix the authentication/login issues occuring at this moment. So, if you can't login, go watch a movie or something, and realize that the problem is being handled as fast as possible.

Personally, a 5-6 hour unscheduled downtime is nothing when you compare it to any of the other major MMO's out there.

- rant end.

It's really closer to 6 hours because the 1st mass disconnect happened around 02:15. CCP isn't even acknowledging that part yet. The server population went from 36,000 to 24,000. Not long after that at around 02:35 or so a ton more people got booted off in the 2nd mass disconnect of the morning. So they may have taken TQ offline at 03:06 but there were serious and ongoing problems well before that.

My brain tells me the recent connection issues and the new launcher are unrelated, just an unfortunate coincidence. My gut is telling me something else. The fact that CCP can't even explain yet what happened Friday morning before downtime isn't making my gut feel any better.

Try a repair... restart... or ... internet server check... windows 7/8 click on the problem solver..

That's 5 hours. So, you either don't want to tell the players anything about the cause of the problems, or, you haven't a bleeding clue. Either case is quite baad mmkay?

Some half-wit in the Help channel is telling everyone that the Launcher has been hijacked by some Russians to steal passwords.

He should be banned for some considerable time to reflect on his actions.

CCP have enough issues with the Launcher without the extra hassle caused by some folk.

Yeah that's a pretty ****** thing to do.

The saddest part is this whole launcher fiasco has left CCP with almost zero credibility with respect to the launcher. That such an outlandish claim is even remotely believable speaks volumes. I mean, it might be true. I don't think it is, but the way things have been going can you really blame anybody for believing it?

Spreading rumors like that doesn't help anybody.

Spreading rumors like that doesn't help anybody.

so maybe CCP are actually a remnant of the breakaway partizans from the old CCCP....would explain the Russian elements creeping in.....and just to annoy you all, i've been drilling roids for the last hour with no issues :-0

As said before playing with no problems couple of hours now. On Mac.

so maybe CCP are actually a remnant of the breakaway partizans from the old CCCP....would explain the Russian elements creeping in.....and just to annoy you all, i've been drilling roids for the last hour with no issues :-0

cough..cough.. Mac ... I have 1 & you'll have to do more than that to convince me :) have 4 computers & the 1 thats a mac is split hardrive & mainly used on windows :)...

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