Downtime Server Downtime - March 25, 2015 - Game Update 46!

Lord Jareth · Mar 25, 2015

Rage not giving back power back either.
lots of players complaining about it.

rickybobby4511 · Mar 25, 2015

I'm on ps3 and is freezing

Valsmurf · Mar 25, 2015

SenseIess said: ↑

“HEY I'VE BOUGHT LIKE 8 BOOSTER BUNDLES AND DIDN'T RECEIVE IT LOL WTF

Senseless USPC”

babyz wife said: ↑

“guys i bought 5 bundles and didnt get anything else just replays”

Did you guys have space on your inventory? you need 5 free spaces per bundle. Happened to me last booster bundle, I had to open a ticket but i did get all my stuff, hope you do too

TAVelcro · Mar 25, 2015

TAVelcro said: ↑

“It could be during the maintenance one of the HDDs wasn't working to standard so they replaced it and are copying a ghost image to it only The ghost image was also messed up so SoE gathered up a small group of 7 to start from scratch. The group then went to BoB who was the man who kept all patches on back-up. The perilous journey down to the 3rd floor was far greater an challenge they hadn't been prepared for and Susan lost her sanity during the short 15 second of elevator music on repeat. They arrived at Bob's cubicle shortly after leaving Susan to perish in the grasp of evil only Bob was missing and the back-up info they needed for this copy couldn't be located. On his desk was a ransom note signed by Joker to destroy all EU servers to make US servers stronger or risk an outcry from the public and make US PC wait even longer to go back online. Eric, the level-headed one of the group thought to negotiate with the Joker and give him what he wants, "no one likes EU anyway" he said. The group was in agreement as Eric grabbed a soda from Bob's mini fridge and took a sip. Little did the group know but The Joker laced the soda with Peanuts and Eric was deathly allergic to Peanuts. In his last few breaths, he suggested hiring the worlds greatest detective. The group left Eric to his suffering so they could hire Batman to locate Joker before it was too late to get the US PC servers back online before the end of the day.

He has been hot on the trail since this whole ordeal began and despite his relentlessness, he was only able to retrieve the information only after The Joker had moved all the data onto an even older type of drive, the Floppy. Worried about the time needed to get the information from thousands of floppy drives, the group was fed up with the constant complaints from the community on the forums and jumped head first into the data transfer. The clock was ticking and it had already been 9 hours since SoE sent this group on it's quest. Poor Jennifer got a floppy cut on her index finger and lost too much blood and shortly after, died of dysentery trying to clean the wound in the men's restroom. Time was running out and with the group's numbers getting shorter and shorter by the hour to absolutely ridiculous events, hope was fading. Will our brave yet really, really odd group of adventurers make the transfer in time? Will they happen to just realize all the servers are set up on a RAID setting and all the information had already been copied to the new HDD upon installation? Was this whole quest a sham set up by SoE to quietly rid itself of 7 specific employees all the while angering the community with it's well timed and tactful delay after an update? Find out next week in a new issue of "This really can't be a sitcom, right?"”

TAVelcro said: ↑

“The group had worked the large number of nearly endless floppy drives down enough to get an estimate of about how long it could take, 2~3 hours. The news was warming to the remaining 5... all but Anthony. The news turned the normally quiet and unresponsive Accountant to a full blown raged doomsday sayer. He began to shout obscenities about how SoE was playing a trick on them and this was all a charade, how none of them were expected to live nor receive compensation. It didn't take long for the other 4 to take a vote to silence Anthony, for good. After drawing straws, it was decided that Jerone would be the one to do so and so he did by convincing Anthony to tear off the label on a mattress for the sake of the group. Needless to say the CIA and FBI showed up and hauled Anthony away. Never EVER take off a label from a mattress... it says so right on it.”

TAVelcro said: ↑

“With the eternal rage arising from the forums, the remaining 4 were running out of time and fast. There may not even be a player base by the time they could get all the information copied over. To think, floppy drives use to be the hot new thing and here is it now, thousands of useless pieces of plastic littered all over the work space for the crew to sift through in hopes to get USPC back online. Jerone pitched an idea to post on the Game Server Status page that the server be back online in hopes to take some of the attention away from the forums and the group all agreed, though a suicide plan, it may work to buy them some time. Without a moments delay, the website reflected that the USPC servers were back up and for an added kick, listing low population.

The plan worked! For just a minor distraction, thousands of people fled from the forums to verify this information by attempting to launch the game. Things were beginning to look up for the adventurers and would have stayed that way if not for the shady and treacherous habits of the HR assistant, Connie who came up with an idea to shower the forums with kitty cat videos to make the angry mobs happy. The idea was shot down by Jerone's plan and Connie was out for blood. She secretly signed the server status update in Jerone's name and even put his location for all to see who was responsible for such a lie. Her diabolical scheme worked quite well for among the unruly mob was Reverse-Flash who saw the signature and location and in nearly a split second showed up and ran off with Jerone who was never heard from again.”

TAVelcro said: ↑

“It was almost an impossible mission filled with impossible hurdles and yet the remaining 3 found a way to see through the cluster ***** of floppy drives to a hidden pattern The Joker set up conspicuously set up across the data. It was a command line code to load USPC on a test server to allow players to play, retain their items they earn and when the actual HDD was ready, migrate it back for practically no down-time! The group was ecstatic that finally their increasingly terribly quest would perhaps finally be reaching it's goal. Trevor, a low level Network administrator happened to also notice a subliminal Trojan set up to also relaunch what appeared to be a repackaged version of City of Heroes/City of Villains. He had always enjoyed the game but was too afraid of the wrath SoE may bring down if one of it's employs allowed another MMO to rejoin the market. He was just about to tell the other 2 when he saw Connie and what appeared to be trying to erase evidence of her involvement with setting up Jerone. Trevor, worried she could do the same to anyone else, plotted to exploit Connie's weakness for cats by looping a cat hanging onto a ledge via a projector and cleverly placed the "cat in danger of falling" on the elevator shaft that Trevor was able to open using the convenient crowbar laying around. (Whew! What a sentence!). To spare the details for the younger readers, Connie didn't bounce too well. <Too elaborate of a scheme? I thought so myself... I was running out of crazy reasons why this team fell to peril.... Ok I got a better one.>"""Trevor plotted to exploit Connie's weakness for food by lacing some of the birthday cake from the office birthday party the day prior with some laxative he had found secretly in Bob's office. To spare any drawn out details, she wasn't going to be leaving the restroom anytime soon."""" <That any better? What?... Oh... So it doesn't make any sense why Trevor would have grabbed up laxative in Bob's office hours earlier. I agree... But by this point, the story has got to end sometime soon so i'll just leave open ended questions... Just make up your own reasoning.>”

TAVelcro said: ↑

“With everything ready to go, the last task was for Trevor to disable the Trojan and for Brandy to flip the switch. during the last few moments before the finale, Brandy and Trevor began to speak of the events of the day and even what may befall tomorrow. As the two talked more and more, Trevor began to get an odd feeling of evil intent from Brandy. It was as if her answers were forced, coerced even. Thinking nothing of it, he type the last few lines of code needed to stop the resurrection of the hidden MMO.

The switch was flipped to bring USPC back online. Trevor and Brandy both stood up in celebratory excitement. After a few seconds of pathetic dancing, Trevor was met with a gun pointed at him by Brandy. "How long have you been on their payroll?" Trevor asked, assuming that after all, Anthony was right and this was some sort of SoE Conspiracy. "We are both on their payroll, only difference is what we are paid to do." Brandy answered in a cold tone. "So why exactly go through all these loops to just 'Pink Slip' a few employees?" Trevor asked almost sarcastically, half expecting to facilitate a small spark of anger from Brandy. "Heh, above my pay grade. Believe me when I say, nothing personnel love." Brandy exclaimed in a subtle yet fake feeling of understanding. Silence and footsteps is what followed the sound of the gun as Brandy walked away from a burning room she had set to cover up any traces of her being there. The company is well insured and fire department only 1 block away, everything was pre planned by her employers. Though, well never truly know who within SoE could have honestly set all this up. Perhaps not even Brandy knows.

After nearly 12 hours of back breaking labor, the job is finished... USPC has been brought back to life! So much work and all to keep the community happy with their talk of lost money due to a 12 hr downtime. I mean come on, so many ungrateful people and most will never remember the sacrifices of those brave souls who delved into the darkness of SoE to fix such a mundane issue. Alas, everything was back to normal and DC Universe can once again suck the souls right out of everyone!”

The Full Mini Story

SenseIess · Mar 25, 2015

Valsmurf said: ↑

“Did you guys have space on your inventory? you need 5 free spaces per bundle. Happened to me last booster bundle, I had to open a ticket but i did get all my stuff, hope you do too ”

Yes...

rickybobby4511 · Mar 25, 2015

Not even in the game for 2 min and it freezes what should I do to fix this

Lando · Mar 25, 2015

all you people crying to hurry up and get server going Grats so server was down for no update rage has NO improvements, Booster bundles are broken but hey at least server is up .....

Valsmurf · Mar 25, 2015

SenseIess said: ↑

“Yes...”

ohh still opening a support ticket's probably the way to go with this. Although i wouldn't expect a speedy response, I'm sure they'll be swamped right now.

SenseIess · Mar 25, 2015

Valsmurf said: ↑

“ohh still opening a support ticket's probably the way to go with this. Although i wouldn't expect a speedy response, I'm sure they'll be swamped right now.”

Already did xD

rickybobby4511 · Mar 25, 2015

I'll just wait till tomorrow if it doesn't work then I will send a email

Ikyotojin · Mar 25, 2015

rickybobby4511 said: ↑

“So I can log in but after a few minutes the game freezes”

I managed to do Catwoman vs Chemo, then the game locked up again. 20 minutes. 2106 est to 2226 est on ps3

eyri · Mar 25, 2015

3 freezes and w8ing t get in the last 30+min

darkscarletx · Mar 25, 2015

4 freezes for me, I will play tomorrow so they work on it. Hope it will be fix and the rage and booster bundle for everyone.

Lord Jareth · Mar 25, 2015

Yep on Uspc Seems only the text are a bit different everyone on there complaning That rage am not working
Sorcery thing didn't change Booster gold thing is bugged.