Gegensmith wrote: »There is something else striking about this instance.
No one was able to log into the EU server for more than six hours, causing many players to lose their trade bars and daily rewards.
When ZoS appeared to have noticed, and the banner on the forums appeared, the problem was resolved about 15 minutes later.
This makes it clear that players ability to alert ZoS that there is a server problem via the forums isn't working effectively. It took six pages of forum posts before anyone noticed.
We don't expect everyone to be working over a holiday weekend in the US. We do expect that there are people who are there to address such a problem when it arises and that players have the ability to alert ZoS to it.
ZoS, can you please look into developing a more effective means for us to alert you. A specialised means just for when the server is no longer functional and you can get your people to address it in a timely fashion.
Perhaps you could limit this to certain GMs, if you are worried about it being abused. But it's clear that the current method isn't working. This isn't the first time this has happened. It's going to happen again. You've been working hard recently to improve communication and we appreciate that. The game and player experience is better for it.
This is a big one.