Extended to 16:00 UTC…

subarctic

How predictable

Granamere

With this big of an update I was going to be surprised if it was up by 10:00. I do wish for things like this they would start off with 12:00 then if it was ready by 10:00 we could just have a happy surprise.

Calastir

Gazing into my crystal ball on top of that I predict a long patch download after maintenance is finished and a queue until bedtime.

LucianaLumenor

Yet another extended maintenance during an event. Guess no event tickets for me today then

EF321

Calastir wrote: »

Gazing into my crystal ball on top of that I predict a long patch download after maintenance is finished and a queue until bedtime.

You can download patch already

barney2525

Boo

h9dlb

Addons will be broke anyway so not worth playing half a game

zaria

Only one thing to do.

Jaimeh

I don't mind, because there's a lot of new things added, and I'd rather they do the maintenance properly instead of hurrying it up. It was also nice they updated it promptly about the extended time. I think the archive will be really fun, so worth the wait!

oicero

Not on my day off NOooO!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc

twev

Jaimeh wrote: »

I don't mind, because there's a lot of new things added, and I'd rather they do the maintenance properly instead of hurrying it up. It was also nice they updated it promptly about the extended time. I think the archive will be really fun, so worth the wait!

This is the 40th update.
For a company that has been refining it's craft for 37 years.
You'd think there would be some sort of a standardized system involving knowledge of server equipment parameters, checklists to facilitate things like software comparability between existing and update code, and possibly a trial run or two on test equipment to see if the update will even install, install in a reasonable amount of time, and what that reasonable amount of time is, which leads to a working product and an actual schedule.

EramTheLiar

twev wrote: »

This is the 40th update.
For a company that has been refining it's craft for 37 years.
You'd think there would be some sort of a standardized system involving knowledge of server equipment parameters, checklists to facilitate things like software comparability between existing and update code, and possibly a trial run or two on test equipment to see if the update will even install, install in a reasonable amount of time, and what that reasonable amount of time is, which leads to a working product and an actual schedule.

There is.

It involves deploying the patch and then fixing everything that breaks as they find it. :-D

twev

EramTheLiar wrote: »

twev wrote: »

This is the 40th update.
For a company that has been refining it's craft for 37 years.
You'd think there would be some sort of a standardized system involving knowledge of server equipment parameters, checklists to facilitate things like software comparability between existing and update code, and possibly a trial run or two on test equipment to see if the update will even install, install in a reasonable amount of time, and what that reasonable amount of time is, which leads to a working product and an actual schedule.

There is.

It involves deploying the patch and then fixing everything that breaks as they find it. :-D

Ahh.
Business has formally amended 'rolling out code' practices.
I must have been busy working, and missed the memo/tweet/whisper.

Many thanks, I'm back in 'The Loop'.

Jimbru

Speaking from long MMO experience: when an extension to patch downtime happens, what it VERY often means is that they patched the game, started it up server side to check it internally -- which involves devs actually running through the game looking at things they changed -- and they found some crazy code interaction or other unexpected problems that somehow didn't show up on PTS. "Ummm, why are all the Argonians hot pink?" So they need to extend the downtime to fix the found issues, instead of putting bad code live.

twev

Jimbru wrote: »

Speaking from long MMO experience: when an extension to patch downtime happens, what it VERY often means is that they patched the game, started it up server side to check it internally -- which involves devs actually running through the game looking at things they changed -- and they found some crazy code interaction or other unexpected problems that somehow didn't show up on PTS. "Ummm, why are all the Argonians hot pink?" So they need to extend the downtime to fix the found issues, instead of putting bad code live.

As a player who wont play a potential suitcase - pink argonians for a day might be rofl funny once ina while.

Jimbru

twev wrote: »

Jimbru wrote: »

Speaking from long MMO experience: when an extension to patch downtime happens, what it VERY often means is that they patched the game, started it up server side to check it internally -- which involves devs actually running through the game looking at things they changed -- and they found some crazy code interaction or other unexpected problems that somehow didn't show up on PTS. "Ummm, why are all the Argonians hot pink?" So they need to extend the downtime to fix the found issues, instead of putting bad code live.

As a player who wont play a potential suitcase - pink argonians for a day might be rofl funny once ina while.

You can actually make a pastel Argonian if you want to. They've got several colors.

JanTanhide

h9dlb wrote: »

Addons will be broke anyway so not worth playing half a game

You can update a lot of them now. I've already updated many.