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dupadupa

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:) its currently 00:35 gmt here.. 8/09/09 :) where sa expansion :? lol

(i rarely get to log in, but away at hotel on work..!!)

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Lord Frodo

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Well EA Corp. is here in Calif. USA and it is 16:43 PST 9/07/09 so I wouldn't hold my breath.
What maybe 12:00 PST 9/8/09
 
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Yalp

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EA/Mythic I believe is located in Fairfax, VA? And it's only 7:50pm here
 

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EA/Mythic I believe is located in Fairfax, VA? And it's only 7:50pm here
You are right Mythic is in Fairfax. So maybe for me 5am. Who know what the higher ups at EA will do. Maybe they want to be up and have thier coffee before letting it lose. Only EA or EA/Mythic can really answer this.
 

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It'd be nice if they started selling codes at 12:01 am EST. I'd be more than willing to stay up late to get my code so I can log in tomorrow morning after server up and get a little exploring in before work.
 

Lord Frodo

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It'd be nice if they started selling codes at 12:01 am EST. I'd be more than willing to stay up late to get my code so I can log in tomorrow morning after server up and get a little exploring in before work.
0001 GMT 09/08/09 and they would be late.
 

Black Sun

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Ok?
Why would a company on the east coast USA go with GMT as their standard? Their local time would make more sense.
 

Lord Frodo

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Ok?
Why would a company on the east coast USA go with GMT as their standard? Their local time would make more sense.
Sorry

About Electronic Arts
FOUNDED: 1982
OWNERSHIP: Public (Nasdaq: ERTS)
GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS: Redwood City, California

A lot of global companies use GMT as a standard.
 

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I was not aware of that. GMT would be nice but somehow I doubt they'll be using that as the official release time. I'm betting it won't be on the site until tomorrow morning when they come into the office after a long weekend and have had that first cup of coffee and a doughnut.
 

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Ok?
Why would a company on the east coast USA go with GMT as their standard? Their local time would make more sense.

Because when you run a game across multiple time zones, it makes sense to tailor your service to those time zones? Not that I expect it happen, mind, but I'm always happy to be pleasantly surprised!

I can't actually stay awake any more now; it's 1.35am here and I have to get up to get the kids off to school. I was kinda hopin' to have it ready to log into when they're gone in the morning, but no such luck, I guess :(
 
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Yalp

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You know they probably need to have warm bodies in the CS chairs of UO Gamecodes and EA website when the inevitable happens...


:Spits coffee on monitor:

Haa. did I just say warm bodies and Customer Service in the same sentence? I must give myself twenty lashes!
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Lord Frodo

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I was not aware of that. GMT would be nice but somehow I doubt they'll be using that as the official release time. I'm betting it won't be on the site until tomorrow morning when they come into the office after a long weekend and have had that first cup of coffee and a doughnut.
OMG forgot about the doughnuts. Revised time 2PM PST
 
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Don't say bad things to loud , they still can cancel it....:dunce:
 

Black Sun

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Because when you run a game across multiple time zones, it makes sense to tailor your service to those time zones? Not that I expect it happen, mind, but I'm always happy to be pleasantly surprised!

I can't actually stay awake any more now; it's 1.35am here and I have to get up to get the kids off to school. I was kinda hopin' to have it ready to log into when they're gone in the morning, but no such luck, I guess :(
While I understand what you're saying, in this case it just doesn't make sense. For a company with most of it's staff (for this game at least) on the east coast of the US, it seems to me they would use that time zone to coincide with having people at their desks to handle the problems that will happen during launch.
 

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While I understand what you're saying, in this case it just doesn't make sense. For a company with most of it's staff (for this game at least) on the east coast of the US, it seems to me they would use that time zone to coincide with having people at their desks to handle the problems that will happen during launch.


And to me it makes sense to have support staff across your time zones. Picky, I know, but that's just me!
 

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I wouldn't expect to see it until at least 10 AM EST.
 
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From the Japan UO pages;

All servers down for maintance;
September 8, 2009 (Tue) - Around 11:00 pm (Japan time)
Approximately 180 minutes

Last time maintenanceRoll backMay occur. As pets and never lose an important item, thank you to log out early.

Want to keep all pets, even after maintenance, Pets have to be in stable condition at the time of riding or just before the final save maintenanceThere. ThereforeStart of the last backupInstead of waiting, we strongly recommend that you log out as soon as possible
(sorry auto translation)

The time for UO and EA store sales in the store, so we decided we will notify as follows.

[UO store]
September 9, 2009 (Wed) will be at around 1 am (that is 11am on the 8th EST)

[EA Store]
September 9, 2009 (Wed) will be at around 11 am [9 / 7 updated at 7:00 pm]
 

Esmeralda

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Sooo.. this means we have to wait how long?
Loooooooooooooooooooooooong!!!!!
 
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Tay M'real

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My issue with this is that EA doesn't seem to give to rats butts about this...I go to the EA site and there is not a damn thing about the SA expansion - nothing....I'm okay with not being able to buy it right away (I am at work) but they should be promoting how big this is and what a great expansion...

Mythic deserves more support from EA than this...

You guys really did a great job with this client so I can imagine how awesome the new content will be
 

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Well as usual EA Japan has the information we are missing. Shards to come down at 10 AM EST for a 3 hour maintenance.

Thanks Japan!! :thumbup:

No Thanks to the USA guys who continually deny the community any information.:thumbdown:
 

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The ultima servers are currently down.
Please try again in a few moments

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Anakena

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We are bringing the shards down for their final maintenance period before the launch of Stygian Abyss. Shortly Stygian Abyss will be available through the EA Store and through UO gamecodes. Keep an eye out here for announcement.
 
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