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Seems Turbine forgot a big thing, and that was to make sure the ddo.com domain was kept renewed. The DDO launcher, tied to the domain new section, fails to load and hence no-one can get in. Forums and site are down. Over a weekend, shame Turbine, shame. Maybe make the launcher not tied into the website, so the game can be still access when stuff like this happens.
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6/16/12 6:32:57 AM#2
Ha, it's true. Quick! Someone buy it up and ransom it back! Writer / Musician / Game Designer Now Playing: Skyrim, Wurm Online, Tropico 4 |
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Seems they've remember to do something, 2 days after expiration.
Ooops!
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6/16/12 6:34:20 AM#4
LOL- If true this is the funniest shit ever. |
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Now that would have been pure gold. They wouldn't be able to ransom it back, but it would certainly have meant it was down for a long time. Most of these domains have 'locks' in place that prevent that. But it would have been so funny ... well not for anyone that wanted to actually play the game ...
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erictlewis
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Joined: 11/08/08
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. |
6/16/12 6:37:41 AM#6
What would be real funny if somebody came along and snatched up that address and held it for ransom. They could make a killing. |
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6/16/12 9:14:04 AM#7
For those having problems the steps posted below from another user on their google+ account: ------------------------------ Find the hosts file on your computer in the following directory ------------------------------
This worked for me though it did update the patcher about 5 times. My guess is so that it could download a fix where you don't need the host entries :)
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6/16/12 9:15:50 AM#8
Holy cow, that's crazy stuff right there. I really hope it's just a miscommunications thing. |
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6/16/12 9:20:42 AM#9
Originally posted by george99 Thanks, this seems to have worked! |
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Nice fix george99, it's funny how the players have to constantly find fixes to Turbines issues. Having to do this, reminds me of the days when people used to host their own web sites on their computers and had to 'trick' web sites into visiting the right IP.
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Loktofeit
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Joined: 1/13/10
EVE in 2013 - DUST 514, CSM8, Fanfest, 10th Anniversary, Uprising, Odyssey. Gonna be a good year :) |
6/16/12 5:49:21 PM#11
Originally posted by erictlewis Actually, according to ICANN, cybersquatting is illegal so it wouldn't pan out too well for someone that tried to do that. :) filmoret: One thing I have never figured out is why the game devs hardly ever fix simple problems that arise. It is like they don't care about the pvp community. Nitth: What makes you so sure its a simple fix? filmoret: Because most of them are. Sometimes its just changing a number in a code string other times its creating a few variables. However none of them should take over a few hours of coding. |
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6/16/12 5:53:04 PM#12
ROFL. This one is a classic.  |
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6/16/12 5:58:23 PM#13
Even Turbine forgetting about their legacy games from time to time. :p |
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6/17/12 9:44:30 AM#14
Originally posted by george99 :( didnt work. still get error message on client startup. did you add the lines above into a standard notepad doc and did you save with any particular file name? |
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6/17/12 10:13:59 AM#15
ok got it working. you have to add these entries to the "hosts" file in the directory path mentioned above. open this file with notepad, add the above ip entries after the "local hosts" entries. when you add them do not use the # symbol at the beggining of the entry. you might see it used for all the other entries. when i removed this symbol and saved the file it worked. i copied and pasted the entries above and it automatically added the # symbol. |
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