Whats up with forming a team. For the last two days, everytime I try to form one I get a message, team server is down. Today, around 10am I finally formed a team, then the server crashed. Of course they posted saying it would be up by noon, its 3:48 here and it still shows that the server is down. Funny enough, the website is down also...

They seem to be having a few "issues" today.  hehe

The website isn´t down, just heavy traffic there.

There making some  changes to the game. Giving out respecs and stuff.

If you want to know whats goin on, MAN...this is really the wrong forum to ask! LMAO.

Not laughing at you, just that after a few years of lurking, and finally taking the plunge to post on these forums. I know this is really not the place to get info on whats happening in or on any game!

 Dax.

"A small issue with the patching servers needed our immediate attention. As a result, players can currently not patch the game. As we currently have no time estimate, we will keep you updated as this progresses. Thank you!" -Cryptic Studios

Reminds me a bit of a CoH Event though... "Issue #1: Release"

Originally posted by Herodes

The website isn´t down, just heavy traffic there.

 Official forums seem down to me. I get this message everytime...

We'll be right back!

The Champions Online™ website is currently offline for maintenance
and will be back soon.

Thank you for your patience and for visiting the Champions Online website!
 

Ive managed to sign on once tonight but only for 5 mins as i had to go out, but every other single attempt to sign on before the lucky one and since has been a major league fail, to follow this on the website has failed as well near enough all night, which leaves me with one question? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Refund my 6 months sub pls, and i beg you tell Bill Roper he is a cock!!!! and while im at it ( a mini rant) WTF cryptic!!!!! you lot insane getting invovled with Atari, well not really atari just some looser of a french firm that bought a great name!

It's obviously the end of the world for all the school kids getting out of class today only to find that they cannot log into an mmo for a bit. We should all just say goodbye...

laters.

Originally posted by vmoped

It's obviously the end of the world for all the school kids getting out of class today only to find that they cannot log into an mmo for a bit. We should all just say goodbye...

laters.

People work. Sometimes they come home and feel like playing a good game. And really nobody is crying, wth are you talking about?

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Originally posted by t0nyd

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Originally posted by Herodes

The website isn´t down, just heavy traffic there.

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 Official forums seem down to me. I get this message everytime...

We'll be right back!
The Champions Online™ website is currently offline for maintenance
and will be back soon.
Thank you for your patience and for visiting the Champions Online website!
 

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Originally posted by vmoped

It's obviously the end of the world for all the school kids getting out of class today only to find that they cannot log into an mmo for a bit. We should all just say goodbye...

laters.

I would love to go back to skool buddy and do it all again, but i left in 89 for good so do the maths and carry on calling everyone kiddies?

Ive paid for this and 6 months so i expect some service, its not beta anymore!

i was doing an escort quest last night when i got kicked off line...tried going on their website to see if the servers were up as the launcher wasnt loading..but suprise! the website is down.  i know bugs happen, what cryptic should do is credit everyone a day..i know this isnt a big issue for me to say "OMG REFUND MY SUBSCRIPTION NOW"  stuff happens..all MMOs have  hiccups like this

Originally posted by k1klass

Originally posted by vmoped

It's obviously the end of the world for all the school kids getting out of class today only to find that they cannot log into an mmo for a bit. We should all just say goodbye...

laters.

 

I would love to go back to skool buddy and do it all again, but i left in 89 for good so do the maths and carry on calling everyone kiddies?

Ive paid for this and 6 months so i expect some service, its not beta anymore!

Then act like the adult your supposed to be, don't you realise it's a game for heavens sake? kids/tweens come here to whine "I can't get into the game WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" not adults.

I'l be playing CO but thankfully I've learned lessons from many many MMO releases and I'l happily wait until things settle down, the mad rush always causes issues in the first month, everyone wanting to get to max lvl ASAP, lining up to jump someone else's quest mob, getting frustrated because the nerf bat keeps getting swung in the first month to deal with all the gaming issues that enable the MMO savvy to lvl up in a week.

If you did pay for a 6 month subscription you obvisouly had enough faith in Cryptic to give you a decent game, otherwise why would you have invested the lump sum?

Originally posted by jasiones

i was doing an escort quest last night when i got kicked off line...tried going on their website to see if the servers were up as the launcher wasnt loading..but suprise! the website is down.  i know bugs happen, what cryptic should do is credit everyone a day..i know this isnt a big issue for me to say "OMG REFUND MY SUBSCRIPTION NOW"  stuff happens..all MMOs have  hiccups like this

 I dont expect any kind of reparations. I would just like Cryptic to not down the website when the server crashes. This way they can keep us informed as to whats going on. I dont think the fact that when the server crashes, they bring the website down, is any kind of coincedince

I never understand why people make mistakes like this. Sure I can understand the game having a problem and having to be taken down to get fixed, that's reasonable. What's unreasonable IMO is their website not being stable. How much really does it cost to get a good server for their website? There are thousands of websites on the internet which handle massive influx of hundreds of thousands on a daily basis and yet Cryptic can't handle it when a few thousand players want to look at their website.

What's also unreasonable is this whole nerf, respec deal. You're supposed to iron these things out in beta, not launch the game and then start making major changes. Take a lesson from SWG and stop inflicting unwanted changes on paying customers. 

Originally posted by t0nyd

 I dont expect any kind of reparations. I would just like Cryptic to not down the website when the server crashes. This way they can keep us informed as to whats going on. I dont think the fact that when the server crashes, they bring the website down, is any kind of coincedince

I was wondering about that too. When the forums have been available they've been really slow but I've seen the website go down at about the same time as the game enough times to make me think they may have all their eggs in one pretty flakey basket at the moment.

Originally posted by Nirwyl

I never understand why people make mistakes like this. Sure I can understand the game having a problem and having to be taken down to get fixed, that's reasonable. What's unreasonable IMO is their website not being stable. How much really does it cost to get a good server for their website? There are thousands of websites on the internet which handle massive influx of hundreds of thousands on a daily basis and yet Cryptic can't handle it when a few thousand players want to look at their website.

What's also unreasonable is this whole nerf, respec deal. You're supposed to iron these things out in beta, not launch the game and then start making major changes. Take a lesson from SWG and stop inflicting unwanted changes on paying customers. 

What's more baffling is that the server is down for more then 5 hours, 2 hours over their projected downtime and they don't even have the curtesy to update their PAYING customers about what's going on.

Just one post 5 hours ago (After the server crashed / went down) about a Minor Issue (LOL) and that it would take about 2 and half hours emergency maintenance.

Ehmm. Right. Anyone buying that?

Oh... and the website and forums are down again. lol.

Originally posted by korat102

Originally posted by t0nyd

 I dont expect any kind of reparations. I would just like Cryptic to not down the website when the server crashes. This way they can keep us informed as to whats going on. I dont think the fact that when the server crashes, they bring the website down, is any kind of coincedince

 

I was wondering about that too. When the forums have been available they've been really slow but I've seen the website go down at about the same time as the game enough times to make me think they may have all their eggs in one pretty flakey basket at the moment.

It seems that the site and forums are somehow linked to the game servers in such a way that they suffer along with server issues.  As you noted, when I can't log into the game (which really is not often, today being the worst) the site seems to go down as well.

We all know screw-ups occur when games go live. However, this week there have been rather a lot of downtime, server crashes, disconnects, etc.

A simple announcement on the forums that everybody will get a day added to their account, as is the norm in other games, would stop us feeling robbed. As it is, it's 10pm here in the UK and I haven't been able to log in today, and without some Dev acknowledgement of that, one can't help but to feel a little cheated.

Originally posted by dougmysticey

Originally posted by korat102

Originally posted by t0nyd

 I dont expect any kind of reparations. I would just like Cryptic to not down the website when the server crashes. This way they can keep us informed as to whats going on. I dont think the fact that when the server crashes, they bring the website down, is any kind of coincedince

 

I was wondering about that too. When the forums have been available they've been really slow but I've seen the website go down at about the same time as the game enough times to make me think they may have all their eggs in one pretty flakey basket at the moment.

 

It seems that the site and forums are somehow linked to the game servers in such a way that they suffer along with server issues.  As you noted, when I can't log into the game (which really is not often, today being the worst) the site seems to go down as well.

 

This is not that unusual.  Same thing is true for EVE, when the game servers go down, frequently the website goes down with it. 

So unlike what one poster said, sometimes this site is the only place I can find out the latest status. (because the Dev's seem to host an IRC channel during down times and while I don't monitor it, many others do and share the updates here on MMORPG.com

Patience folks, new game, always going to be some growing pains.  Look how rough WOW's start was for some folks and yet it certainly didn't hinder their long term success.

I was looking to play some champions before work, but oh well. It's not like my life revolves around CO. I have other things to do if the server happens to be down. Maybe other people should have back-up games/activities.

I just picked up the game from GameStop today.  Actually paid money for it.

I sit down to play this brand new game, and...

I was about to buy the game on steam, good thing I came here before doing it. By the way, anyone got any news? That seems like a serious issue, even the official web site is not working half of the time I try to check the official forum.

Originally posted by ChipSet91

I was about to buy the game on steam, good thing I came here before doing it. By the way, anyone got any news? That seems like a serious issue, even the official web site is not working half of the time I try to check the official forum.

My patcher started, but it still says Server Down. Also, no files are transferring from the patcher.