Niami DenMother
11-14-2006, 10:09 AM
Today marks the release of eagerly-awaited Echoes of Faydwer expansion!
Those of you who have been playing online games for quite a while are likely used to the routine when it comes to expansion launch days - go find something else to do for a few hours - work on your spouse/sweetheart/family faction, clean your computer area, etc.
For those new-ish to expansion day brouhaha, today is the day where you hurry up and wait. This expansion is beyond ginormous, and anything that is the product of this many untold thousands of hours of development takes time to be settled happily onto the servers. The most recent estimate I heard was an ETA of 12 hours (the patch started at 4 a.m., Pacific).
As with all undertakings of this size, things can and likely WILL go wrong, and I expect we'll see more than one emergency hotfix or patch this week to fix something that just didn't like the move from a testing to a Live environment. So, take a deep breath or three, accept that there will be some chaos, and that it isn't all an intentional plot to make your life miserable. {grin} (If that doesn't keep you from flying off the handle and screaming bloody murder, just remind yourself that there's a very exhausted redhead with a rolling pin who's ready to let fly at the next person who even jokes about "well, we know who to blame if there are bugs".)
When the massive patch notes become available, I'll make sure I get a copy of them linked in. Meanwhile I am going to be pretty much writing until I drop, adding in various useful guides and the like to the site. I will randomly edit this article with links as I get significant changes in place.
Those of you who have been playing online games for quite a while are likely used to the routine when it comes to expansion launch days - go find something else to do for a few hours - work on your spouse/sweetheart/family faction, clean your computer area, etc.
For those new-ish to expansion day brouhaha, today is the day where you hurry up and wait. This expansion is beyond ginormous, and anything that is the product of this many untold thousands of hours of development takes time to be settled happily onto the servers. The most recent estimate I heard was an ETA of 12 hours (the patch started at 4 a.m., Pacific).
As with all undertakings of this size, things can and likely WILL go wrong, and I expect we'll see more than one emergency hotfix or patch this week to fix something that just didn't like the move from a testing to a Live environment. So, take a deep breath or three, accept that there will be some chaos, and that it isn't all an intentional plot to make your life miserable. {grin} (If that doesn't keep you from flying off the handle and screaming bloody murder, just remind yourself that there's a very exhausted redhead with a rolling pin who's ready to let fly at the next person who even jokes about "well, we know who to blame if there are bugs".)
When the massive patch notes become available, I'll make sure I get a copy of them linked in. Meanwhile I am going to be pretty much writing until I drop, adding in various useful guides and the like to the site. I will randomly edit this article with links as I get significant changes in place.