One million characters wiped - Page 2

LFG · 10-07-2006, 09:58 PM

I wonder if Winter got her idea about posting in colored type from Smed:

http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/e...d=78515#M78515

LFG · 10-07-2006, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Calthine

Actually, from what I'm seeing around, Massive Magazine might have a teeny bias.

Ya:

http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/060718/102240.html

Their website includes direct links to eq2players.com and some of the SoE PR live feed material.

Manic · 10-07-2006, 10:57 PM

that was fun few days i got banned from eq chat ..i kept damanding answers and the gm was a complete dumbass

Calthine · 10-07-2006, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Sqee

Nobody remembers all the unannounced down time we had last christmas?

Kinda makes sence actually.

Actually, no, I don't. But the one I was referring to was 3-4 days consecutive downtime. Not intermittant downtime.

Calthine · 10-07-2006, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by LFG

Ya:

http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/060718/102240.html

Their website includes direct links to eq2players.com and some of the SoE PR live feed material.

Heh. That's no big thing, *I've* got access to the PR site. But I've seen reports that the initial issue was 2/3 WoW. Ah well, too early to judge.

Ever · 10-07-2006, 11:44 PM

I remember this .. I was sitting around that night thinking "it might come up soon" until it got into the next day, then I said nevermind.

Jibb · 10-08-2006, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Calthine

But I've seen reports that the initial issue was 2/3 WoW. Ah well, too early to judge.

They did give WoW extra coverage, but overall they seemed to cover every MMO out there. The first page add is for Everquest 2 and the demo disk contains all SOE games. The preview for the Burning Crusade (WoW expansion) got 3 pages, whereas Feydwer got a half page.

I dont mind a little extra coverage for WoW considering they own the lion share of the market. Based soley on the number of subscribers, it seemed Everquest 2 got more then it's share of attention.

clint · 10-08-2006, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Jibb

According to Hartsman, someone restoring the servers did two steps of the procedure out of order, which ended up wiping the magnetic tapes before they were copied to the servers. The result was a set of empty servers and blank magnetic tapes. Around one million characters were essentially deleted. Gone. Wiped. Poof.

I remember that time vaguely and don't think I lost anything but don't really remember. I can actually imagine how that guy felt though in a sense. When I was in college I worked as a programmer for a record company on my breaks. When doing some database conversions I wrote over the database core and wiped it clean (it really wasn't my fault which was why I kept my job). The job ran overnight and when I came in the next morning everyone was sitting around doing nothing and they just stared at me for a bit. Fortunately there were backup tapes but they were 3 days old. So 3 days of work lost (and fortunately only on the test system). But at least I didn't delete anyone's characters!