10 pm, which timezone?
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= UPDATE =
Multiplayer server maintenance complete; servers are back online! Thank you for your patience during the downtime!
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What are the changes?
it was a server maintenance
Yeah. I read that. Im not blaming them, just replying to the comment saying āits not US peak timesā. Which does not matter because, itās AoE peak times.
When will the maintenance be over?
Normally you can click on Multiplayer ā Lobby and if you make your own room in the lobby you can select LAN as server.
Based on some response it seems like you cant access Multiplayer or the lobby during the maintainance. So you cant start a LAN game during the server maintainance.
For me this seems as bad design. Why would they block LAN games during server maintainance?
- LAN-Multiplayer should be available offline - for sure. No software developer would implement it ābehind online multiplayerā without being explicitly told so. Is the reason behind this marketing-related or some kind of antipiracy measurement? Anyhow, itās bad service to the paying customer who shouldnāt be hit by any such measurements.
- The timing: 10PM is really absolutely not comprehensible nor understandable nor does it make sence nor is it reasonale for āregular server updates and maintenanceā - for these reoccuring tasks there is no explanation to not have them automated and to not do them at a point in time where most players are offline as opposed to a regular evening/āprime timeā. Is it that your shifts do not allow for another time in the week? You need to change this, it is a real annoyance to any fan. Move this to the morning (morning everyone is working not playing) or stop it altogether until you have it automated (and then if you need to do something manually you can still append it to a regular automated maintenance at a point in time where almost no-one is affected). This is a ticking timebomb, if your maintenance goes wrong and you have fans waiting at the very evening into the night and then encounter newly introduced bugs, doesnāt make them happy what do you think.
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Yes, except I believe they perform routine maintenance on all servers at the same time, so it might be 10pm for you, but would be a completely appropriate time for everyone else around the world to have the server checked etc.
true, it would need to be taken a close look on statistics how many players are affected by region. iād then prefer the compromise for the largest amount of players to be satisfied, even if it means a bad time in my region. to have an official announcement about the result & resulting time is a must
Itās not that big of a deal. They arenāt constantly performing maintenance, but it would be great if we had a fortnight advanced warning, just so people who look forward to playing AoE2 after work could plan ahead it coincides with maintenance.
Some players have a bug that they cant connect to the multiplayer without a reason like me.Sometimes its work sometimes notā¦(Servers Online cause my friend can play next to me everytime) and yeah if you cant connect you dont have access to Lan option this is not cool.
I am not really sure it affects many players, but sure, the devs needs to have a look at this bug. No doubt.
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Another mainteinance?? Three days in a row? And always at peak time (EU),
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I dont know but down for me and 3 other friends (EU)
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Yeah i was right in the middle of a 3v3 game and it stopped working
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learn to read. Maintenance was yesterday
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Itās 3:21 PM here in USA
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