EVE General Discussion

Perhaps an honest one that doesn't want to be associated with self entitled beggars?

Doesn't matter either way, it's CCP's call and they've already indicated they will do some form of compensation... because they feel it is the right thing to do, not because they are obligated to.

I don't think you know what a DDoS is. It is not something that someone runs on their basement computer. You need to have control over a hung number of computers to pull it off, not easy. You either need to have hundreds of thousands of people willing to follow you for a cause (like Anonymous) or have control over that number of computers you have been able to compromise (nearly impossible given the security that exists today with modern software). Either way, this isn't something someone can do because they are looking for skill points.

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Some say recovery from a DDoS in the time CCP just did is pretty good.

I really don't care either way, I'm just hoping to get back to my home computer before the servers go down for the update. I had about 1 day and a few hours left when I went to bed on sunday night, servers running fine. Wake up planning to que up my long skills on 2 characters before I start working for 24 hours straight, servers down...luckily I'm in korea, so I should be able to log in when I get back to my room in about 3 hours, I hope.

Seems we have a thread full of people who love downtime. You know, you can simulate downtime by just unplugging your internet connection? Works a treat.

While you fellows get on with that people who paid money for a service that was down would like a refund. If you thinkj that makes me entitled I can sell you access to a game that never works if you like. No problem at all.

I do agree with the sentiment that skill points are not good for compensation. keep them, refund the cash. Or at a pinch I'll accept game time, but I want at least twice as much as was lost. That is to compensate for the inconvenience, not just the lost time.

Yup, I agree. If it takes a few days to stop the attack thats fine by me as long as my info is secure.

Forgive my ignorance, who is he?

Yeah they think they are going to get some kind of a door prize or good standings with CCP.
Without compensation they will lose money over this.
I know one of my accounts will expire because I was unable to log on to make the ISK to plex it this weekend.
Has nothing to do with RAGE or QQ. I was unable to log on and make my isk.
So this month the account will have to wait a week or so to plex up.

They delivered 3 sets of short messages via twitter split into 2-3 messages each (total of 7) over 18 hours.

What world am I living in where this is praiseworthy? I mean come on... wth

WTF do you want them to post?

"Working on the unexpected downtime. THank you for your patience."

"Still working on it."

"Found some veldspar in s server fan but removing it didn't fix the problem."

"We found the cause of the problem! Now working to get things straight."

"Things were really not stright. Lots of work still to be done."

"CCP Falcon just hit his pinky toe on a server rack."

""There is now blood all over the floor but the server guy is still fixing stuff. CCP Falcon is being evacuated."

It's not like there was all that much changing while they fix stuff ...