Originally posted by Draylynn

End of the day, if people don't think Rolf's doing a good enough job, stop playing and make your own game. It's not easy to cater to the vast reaches of the world wide web, lets see you do a better job? Rolf~ Your doing just great!

"End of the day, if you don't enjoy the gas tank of your car exploding once in a while, you should really build one from scratch..."

Nope, Rolf sells a product, that product is expected to live up to certain minimum requirements, if it doesn't you want the person to fix it... not stop playing games untill you can make a better one!

Originally posted by kediec

I agree with what Wulfgar has said .

People need to realise , the game has just been targetted by a malicous person / persons , this will cause problems in ANY game ( look at the hacking of Sony etc ).

Heaven forbid that Rolf uses IRC ( a chat client readily available to EVERYONE , with different clients available to use ) to do his day to day communication .........................

Also , in 4 years of playing , i have rarely seen any problems with the servers that hasn't been sorted out asap . When their has been problems , Rolf and the team that help have worked even harder to fix things . Just because a crashed server doesn't come up within 5 minutes , doesn't mean Rolf isn't working to find out the cause and to try and fix it .

Is it frustrating when a game you enjoy goes down because of things OUT OF THE DEVS control ? , Of course it is , but life goes on .

 No, what people NEED to realize is that the forums was attacked by a simple SQL injection attack shortly (within a week I believe) of the "upgrade" to the forum and wiki software... If you in the year 2012 don't know what input sanitation or SQL injection is, or why it is inportant you really need to read http://xkcd.com/327 published october 10th, 2007... and you really shouldn't be making any kind of web application -- and yes, that does include setting up a forum or even a bloody blog!

Yes, the IRC client is available to most people who can get a hold of a browser, but you actually need to be logged in at the same time as Rolf to actually see what he writes...

Well, at least for some of the last unscheduled downtimes (wait, all of them are, I of course mean all of the patch shutdowns that are warned about 15 minutes or 30 mines before it happens, not the unexpected ones, due to a crash) I haven't been able to find any information about the patch, neither the content or even that fact that one was in progress, neither on the web site, the blog, or the forum.

I seem to recall people saying that Rolf mentioned something (on IRC) about him fixing some bug or other the next day or even the next week...

My point is that the hacking on may 11th was not out of Rolf's hands (or whoever selected the new forum software, or checked it's specs), but something people should expect if they don't protect their databases and stop running script in random posts from (basically) unknown users.

Originally posted by WulfgarDK

Another rant of misinformation aimed to hurt Rolf and his game, I guess you are one of those who got banned for exploiting...get a life

Well, actually still playing, but thanks for your concern ;-).

Originally posted by Beta1234

It seems that Rolf (the sole developer),

Rolf has 2 paid employees helping him developing the game along with a whole lot of volunteer people that are all doing a great job.

 Well, like I said, you might have gotten that from IRC, or somewhere on the forum, I really couldn't tell, but I never found anything on the web site, and yes, I did look for all the information about what was changing and who was doing what, and the blog you mention doesn't really seem to include a lot of hard information about the development of the game or the organization of the team... Still not sure who the two paid employees are supposed to be...

doesn't bother working on weekends or outside normal working hours (9-16 CET (maybe an hour or two longer on occasion) as he lives in Sweden) no matter what happens

Rolf has worked on many late nights and weekends so please stop posting your petty lies here.

though this doesn't stop him from posting a game breaking patch, and then going home and leaving the mess for the next day - or monday if he decides to patch on a friday...i

I have heard rumours something like this happened more than 3 years ago but recently he has done a good job of staying late to be ready to fix any game breaking bugs that snuck in in the patch.

So how long did it take for Rolf to fix the issue with half the house doors that didn't work (one way doors and some that seemingly didn't work at all)? Not the first patch that only fixed a small amount of the issues, but the one about 6 or 8 hours later (if I recall correctly)

His primary means of communication seems to be the IRC channel, and so if you can't be bothered with IRC you are SOL...

He has a blog that he updates often and also often make posts in the forum. Its true that he uses IRC as a way to daily communicate with players but that can hardly be held against him? 

 Well, the blog doesn't really give that much information, except of course the bloke in New Zealand I think it was, that had started producing mugs and mouse mats with a Wurm logo and Rolf gave him some free PR to thank him for the gift... Oh, yeah and there was Zculs posts... oh wait that wasn't Rolf, was it? About the forum, the problem is that Rolf (or that is the way it seems to me anyway) disappears any negative posts. locks threads, and generally complains if people posts anything not overly positive, or maybe even suggests a better way to set up the test servers to test the new reduced timers, to mention one example recently.

About IRC, the big issue that I have with that, is that if you aren't logged in, you don't have any clue about what happened there... there is no record of any discussion that Rolf had with the small part of his subscribers that are online on IRC, no record of the information that Rolf shared with the few online, etc... If he put this discussions on the forum instead people could actually search the forum and maybe be better informed about what is going on in Wurm.

Originally posted by WulfgarDK

Check the official #wurmonlline twitter channel for updates.

The game is currently running fine but the login server and website is down atm. 

(probably another DDOS attack  by a bunch of losers)

If the login server is down the game is not running fine, and I can't really see any universe when that could be interpreted as fine...

It seems that Rolf (the sole developer), doesn't bother working on weekends or outside normal working hours (9-16 CET (maybe an hour or two longer on occasion) as he lives in Sweden) no matter what happens, though this doesn't stop him from posting a game breaking patch, and then going home and leaving the mess for the next day - or monday if he decides to patch on a friday...

His primary means of communication seems to be the IRC channel, and so if you can't be bothered with IRC you are SOL... He also sometimes make very general statements/vague hints about game changes on the so-called patchnotes in the Wurm launcher... It seems that most of the game is meant to be "figured out" on your own as part of the challenge... but since Rolf likes to make ninja changes to the way the game works basically you can't really know what is going on in the game world in advance... which again makes the lack of wiki (they might decide what to do with the wiki some time next week (quote from the VERY reduced homepage (http://wurmonline.com/) or as I read if they can be bothered...) very bad IMHO...

Well, it seems like they just can't set up at set of servers that can handle the load of a beta test :-(

It seems like their launcher couldn't download a file correctly (listed in logs\launcher_YYMMDD.log) so I pasted http://cdn-patch.swtor.com/patch/assets_swtor_en_us/assets_swtor_en_us_4to5.solidpkg in my browser and placed the file in the main swtor folder, and then everything worked.

L2P!

Just a shame that they broke the launcher (maybe only the european, and maybe just for some people, like me :-(

When installing English Assets 6 about half way through the prograss bar, I get am "Internal Error..." dialog saying:

ABORT: Class mismatch pointer (0x0593F564: NULL != FileListStruct:.\base\filelist.c) (.\base\filelist.c/1291)

Does anyone have any idea about how to fix this fail? (Forums and the entire akamai server seems to just report "Bad request")

Originally posted by jpnole

Originally posted by momodig

Is there going to player a wipe after open beta?

OMG there is always someone who asks this question. Once again, there is always a character wipe after open beta.... people asked during Rift beta, WoW beta, Lotro, Conan, City Heroes, etc etc etc. The answer is always yes, there will be a character wipe.

The MMOs you mention are all "western" MMOs, Hellgate London could be called an "asian" MMO (Hanbit is IIRC korean). In "asian" MMOs "open beta" means soft launch.

Eligibility

The drawing is only eligible to members of the MMORPG.COM Web site who are residents of a country where such contests are not prohibited by law, who are 13 years of age or older and not employees of CCI, CCI sponsors, CCI volunteer staff or CCI affiliates and their families. Only one entry is allowed per person and is limited to one entry per household.

Why the ... is this contest limited the the US and Canada, when the rules clearly states that it's open to all contries without law against such contests?

Wankers...

So what does an error code of ([450]) mean?

Just too bad they fucked this up!

when logging in I get redirectd to the main gpotato site, and when logged in I navigate to the contest using the news link on the front page, I get asked to login...

Rinse and repeat! AKA fail!

Wurm is not free.

Originally posted by tarsos
As a result of these optimizations we’ve also been able to keep sales open most of the time.

Well, still no link to the shop, no point.

Originally posted by Michael_MC

Hello fellows,

 

As you probably noticed the website is back...see you soon! ;)

No english sites, no point :-)

I guess we'll see when they get their act together and release the full list.

A great way to get a lot of page views and extremly happy customers who can spend the entire day pressing F5. Like I said no point :-)

Darkfall probably isn't dead, they just seem determined to not get any new subscribers, so unless they change that attitude I won't bother with it, and when they do get their act together, the game will be too old to bother with anyway. Their loss.

The interview is a .jpg?

that's about as big a fail as the "game" AKA MLM rip-off.

Yet another **** over for people outside the US

Originally posted by Szark

... the details of how we plan to update Crafting in TR.

I think the word they were looking for was "implement".

Don't complain about the graphics! The graphics are better than the gameplay!

Originally posted by gorguk

hmm i dunno.. only a 3 day trial almost doesnt seem worth the download time... maybe if it was a normal 14day trial...

My guess would be that they don't want to give you time to get to the parts of the game that they have updated since the good old (read: buggy) beta days :-)