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*chuckles* If you only knew. She also keeps us, her crew in line... and that is not always easy.
Yes. She is that awesome.
And she doesn't even get combat pay, but she should!
Some have gotten emails, but I didn't get anything. If you log into your Mythic master account and look at the active billing info for each of your accounts, it should have something like "CS UO Subscription" for a month tacked on in between your current billing cycle and the next one you'll be billed for. It essentially moves your next payment date back by a month.
Ooooh, I'm so scared. Care to make any other threats so typical of you?
I did read every post. If a lack of rebuttal is the best you can come up with, that suits me fine.
We got our game time, so that is done.
Now let us all be realistic about a universal rollback. You see how the community reacted to this happening to just ONE shard. If you were the business manager of Ultima Online, would you realistically think it to be a good idea to give everyone a free month of UO and then piss off EVERY SHARD just like Atlantic did? There are many advantages and disadvantages to playing Atlantic; I should know I played six years there before transfer to Pacific. Everyone needs to 1) Stop exaggerating. If you really lost billions nobody is crying for you. Billionaires are what is wrong with UO, 2) be glad EA even bothers keeping this game going, we all know it is headed for the crapper, 3) get out there and play!
Now let us all be realistic about a universal rollback. You see how the community reacted to this happening to just ONE shard. If you were the business manager of Ultima Online, would you realistically think it to be a good idea to give everyone a free month of UO and then piss off EVERY SHARD just like Atlantic did? There are many advantages and disadvantages to playing Atlantic; I should know I played six years there before transfer to Pacific. Everyone needs to 1) Stop exaggerating. If you really lost billions nobody is crying for you. Billionaires are what is wrong with UO, 2) be glad EA even bothers keeping this game going, we all know it is headed for the crapper, 3) get out there and play!
And you miss the point: they're giving you twice the time to redo what was lost. You might place value on your time, but EA can only value it as a pro-rated monthly subscription.
Let's say your enjoyment was worth $50 for the two weeks. You got a pretty good value for half a month, don't you think? They're restoring that, plus giving you a chance to get another $50. Or, tell us how much you value the play you receive -- less than half a month's subscription, or more?
Be patient. Don't panic. People are getting restored piecemeal. I have a feeling that the backups weren't corrupted as in purely garbage data, but a format that can't easily be restored.
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4 of 5 accounts credited here.
Just want to say you don't have to do anything to get credited. Apparently if you logged in at all you will be credited for your time. It doesn't matter how long you'd been logged in or if you have a house or any of that. I haven't paged a GM or contacted CS or anything.
Just want to say you don't have to do anything to get credited. Apparently if you logged in at all you will be credited for your time. It doesn't matter how long you'd been logged in or if you have a house or any of that. I haven't paged a GM or contacted CS or anything.
I for one am glad this is almost over everyone goin on about how this was the biggest blunder in UO history all I can say is when I look back on this what will give me nightmares years to come is dealing with the Reverters ... These nasty little creatures had a barding dificulty of 1 billion or as I am sure in their caculations would be 100 billion including all the rares they ever collected in this game and any game they played before or during this one ...
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lol...
I guess you didn't play during the birth of Malas...
I did
There were lots in this thread who referred to this as the biggest blunder in UO history ... I actually disagreed and pointed out AOS
Indeed... I was credited with 30 days, and I don't think I even loaded a character. I just reopened my old account last week and peeked into Atlantic to see if I had any characters there.
I am happy for those with 20/20 hindsight. As said all they needed to do was feed the UHall trolls. I will get on and ruffle the feathers of those don't share my view and think they can speak for me. My experience comes from pre pub 16. When you crashed and couldn't get back in the game till others crashed. Forget getting back to your corpse pre insurance days. When you made sure there was 2-3 back up suits in the bank before going hunting. Like their ability get get out information. There is a history of not doing the right thing. Even if they did get out some kind of plan. How many would of still had the faith? When there is a handful still wondering WTF. Call them grubbers and just move on. If 400 post ago they came on and stated they have a way to track all goings on and it will just take time.
Just need the pic of the office betting pool for who will shoot coffee out their nose next while reading the forums.
Just need the pic of the office betting pool for who will shoot coffee out their nose next while reading the forums.
I always thought the start of Trammel housing was worse. Trammel had already been open, so everybody was already logged in, waiting for the primetime race start (not at server-up). It was anticipated to be the worst-ever stress on the servers, so busy subservers telestormed random people to supposedly less-populated subservers. It didn't matter which one for me. Many of us were purely lagged out.
Malas wasn't accessible until an account was upgraded. The trick to upgrading an account to AoS? The same thing with getting Atlantic chars restored: patience. People weren't waiting for the page to load fully. They'd click "Edit account," nothing would happen, so they'd keep reloading the page, putting more strain on the website. I simply waited the few minutes for all the JavaScript to load, upgraded two accounts, and plopped two 18x18s outside Luna.
Kindly tell us how anyone here was a "troll," even those demanding reverts for all, and also who ever claimed to speak for you, since I don't see those.
You have an odd memory of the old days. When most everyone relied on modem connections, we'd lose conn because of the phone line or ISP, then come back as a ghost over a looted-dry corpse. Did you ever lag out for no reason, then logging back in to find your character blackholed?
None of that was "fair." It could be compared to lightning strikes on a battlefield. Force majeure. If you play enough, it happens just as often to the other guy.
So true!I did
There were lots in this thread who referred to this as the biggest blunder in UO history ... I actually disagreed and pointed out AOS
AoS was a major Act of Stupidity. And they keep making it worse...
Hmm I just checked my accounts and all were credited 1 month. I didnt request it and I dont play Atlantic much. I just logged in this time to claim xmas rewards. I don't know if I should bother them with it right now to take it back or just buy @60 bucks worth of stuff from the online store.
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I wonder how YOU would of reacted if you and lost as much of some of the people thought they had...Would be interesting of all those negativistic crybabys got their codes and their toons back - or why they stopped posting?
Buying $60 worth of stuff doesn't reimburse EA. They're giving you things for that $60.
This is what im thinking too. Im to scared to let anyone do anything at account management... But buying stuff from the store that I wouldnt have done .. Better than just keep quiet about it. Or get an account management disaster and end up quitting. Not a big deal if I own some extra trees Bulk Odere Deed covers or whatever is on that site for sale. I would feel better do do something, without going near account management..its a scary place .
Just checked my accounts. Two of the three were active on Atlantic during that time frame, the other wasn't. Those two have been credited with a month of game time, the third one hasn't. I'm guessing as long as you even logged into Atlantic during that time period you will see a credit.
I just download the Clients and patch for my new toy ( http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/ASUS_ZENBOOK_UX21E/ ) to beeing able to log into the game on the road as i travel much (and my 11.1 3 year old Sony Dreammachine can be finaly replaced...) and by that time i checked account Management for all my accounts and well, i did not get any free 30 days - but i have to say that this is TOTALY OK because i dont Play Atlantic, i just loged into all accounts to get the gifts but dont actively play there...so....all fine here, i dont mind if i dont get something, give it to the ones that realy Play the shard..
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I'm still waiting. EA's site says I have an open case but still no lost char returned, just an email for every time i paged a gm.
Not looking for anything like this to happen before Christmas, and while the team has done an OUTSTANDING job handling this situation
I am interested in what is to come. They are a pretty creative bunch.Way to know where your towels were guys!
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What does that even mean?Way to know where your towels were guys!
I never doubted that they would.The Devs & whoever else was involved in undoing the Atlantic fiasco have shown us evidence they can come through in a crisis, have to certainly give them credit for that.
Well it seems as most of the issues have been fixed. There still is the question of those whom did shard trades but that looks like more of a trader issue than anything else, which a revert would have solved. Some limited communication would have gone a long way to resolving the problem but the track record has been such that no one should be surprised.
Perta and staff I commend you for allowing this thread to run 16 pages, by far you have shown more communication skills than anyone at EA and if voting for lead producer was a player option I would consider the team as front runners. Thank you for putting up with myself and the other's whom are UO fools.
Perta and staff I commend you for allowing this thread to run 16 pages, by far you have shown more communication skills than anyone at EA and if voting for lead producer was a player option I would consider the team as front runners. Thank you for putting up with myself and the other's whom are UO fools.
I had certainly doubted it. This kind of extreme effectiveness isn't in character.
May this sudden extreme effectiveness prove to be the new standard behavior for them.
Well, you have learned the value patience in this life. I most likely would have reacted the same way as you. But I don't think it's cool of you to call others crybabies for posting their fears and concerns over this fiasco here on this thread. Seems to me this would, after all, be the place to do it. I don't blame anyone for feeling the way they did and venting it out. Things were uncertain, at best, for a while there. Hindsight is 20/20. I'm just glad most of them are getting their chars and items back so we can get back on the path to making Atlantic and UO better for everybody.
I don't think they were ever, on any of the designs they have drafted, not aware of what to do, or ineffective. I think the environment (15 year old code from a by gone age) they work in is highly perilous and has too many pitfalls to avoid them all with any publish of consequence. This effort on their part shows just how very effective they are capable of being at digging through the records and correctly interpreting the data. And I'll leave it at that.I had certainly doubted it. This kind of extreme effectiveness isn't in character.
May this sudden extreme effectiveness prove to be the new standard behavior for them.
I'm betting on Where your towels were,
a. For cleaning up the mess...
b. For drying our tears and sweat
c. For popping the rudest among us on the rear
a. For cleaning up the mess...
b. For drying our tears and sweat
c. For popping the rudest among us on the rear
I dont think anyone was calling anyone "crybabies" what I believe everyone was frustrated over was the fact certain people were trying to throw all the other servers under the bus because they were angry and upset over losing stuff but then wanted everyone to lose stuff as well .... Sorry but I still dont understand how people can be so angry over losing stuff but then tell the people they are trying to make lose stuff that its ok its just stuff dont be angry ....
There were in fact people who lost a lot of stuff that were against a shard wide revert because they saw no reason to make everyone suffer ...They were also patient and giving the devs time to fix things.. I am glad everyone is getting their stuff back but more so these people who were actually thinking of others not just themselves ...
Useful for so very many things.I'm betting on Where your towels were,
a. For cleaning up the mess...
b. For drying our tears and sweat
c. For popping the rudest among us on the rear
If I just restarted playing in Sept of this year I wouldn't have had much care for the older player base either. There were lots of people whom said they lost nothing yet thought a revert was a benifit to the game as a whole.
You do understand that the "old player base" doesnt just include people from Atlantic and transfers right ? So people were caring about all that "old player base" on the other servers as well....
There were a lot of people yes that thought a revert was the "fair or right thing to do" but I think it couldnt have played out any better then it did ...
You care so much about the player base why did you want everyone to lose when they didnt have to ...
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