Producer's Letter: Expansion 17, Beta and Preorders!

Is it an indefinite/permanent ban?

I'd say I can't believe it but unfortunately I can.

 

I had been holding out hope that an actual revamp and class balance pass would inject enough breath into the game that I might come back, even if only at the pleb 'standard' edition, so I can goof around a bit. But alas.

Of course, even if I wanted to re-enter the game, the launcher is broken, so it's not even possible.

 

Having tripped over that thread that shows exactly the same thing happened 2 years ago you would think that they would have implemented a backup plan back then to avoid it happening again. Yeah, I know, you're all going for the 'optimistic' button ...

 

DW did mention a name at some point when somebody speculated it might be Cloudfront. It isn't. Something like Highwind?

 

In which case DBG are almost certainly using the cheapest - and it shows.

 

I don't think there's any way to tell. Under RadarX, I had a temporary ban. I only know it was temporary because I kept trying to log in. After a week, I was able to log in and found a note saying that I had insulted someone. Of course there was no clarification as to the insult and, of course, I couldn't read the note telling me about the ban until I was unbanned.

 

Naturally. A CDN not working is a clear case of "but you only had one job to do" though... If you can't D the C, how will you ever have customers at all? And days long issues? Please... those customers are long gone and they're not coming back. And continuing to do a **** job of fixing your problems isn't going to act as some siren song to call them back, either.

Come to think of it, this sounds a lot like Daybreak itself -- is the CDN run by Columbus Nova too? Wouldn't be surprised...

 

Highwind is correct as far as the CDN goes. Is anybody really surprised everymfingthing is broke? And you don't ban people for saying the truth even if you don't like the truth. At least you shouldn't. Also, I'd bet money the CN owns Highwind.

 

Man, those forums are stuffed full to the gizzards with dumb right now. <Generic Thanksgiving turkey analogy>

 

I bet that they forgot to pay the CDN and all that is needed is for the check to clear so they can switch the service back on...

 

Mitigation boosts for Wardens, accuracy for druids, health and power increases for in-combat rezzes for druids, all accuracy, recovery speed, casting speed and (non ability specific) reuse speed from every single class....

 

So basically, their AA revamp and balance pass consists of a adding a dinky amount of fervor damage and nerfing/eliminating abilities that made classes unique.

Exciting.

P.S. Are you playing the beta, Mermut? 'Cause I'm wondering if you're playing beta...

 

The AA revamp should really be called the Simplify and Scale update.

Pretty much everything that was somewhat unique, is now just increasing the effectiveness (Fervor) of the ability by X%

 

I simply can't believe just how many more people appear to have done the 'delete and whine' trick overnight. Why are so many people so quick to do something that should be a last resort as a first option?

 

Why delete, don't they know they can "move" the folder, or at least make a copy.
The problem is with the CDN, it isn't going to work if they delete their files, it is content distribution network related.
They just need to sit tight until it is fixed by the ops/CDN.

 

It's not just fervor damage, fervor has a different meaning in the context of the AA revamp. From the notes:

Why they didn't find another way to describe it when fervor has been pretty well established elsewhere, I don't know.

 

Thanks for clarifying

I'm glad to see they're remaining loyal to the playbook by adding unneeded complexity to an uninspired and mostly usless "balancing" scheme.

 

Well exactly. One label for several different functions is never a good idea in any environment.

 

You know that, and I know that ...