SeeNoWeevil
Member
God knows why a business needs to take their servers down for 8-10hrs every time they deploy new code. Always in peak hours for us Europeans - thanks Capcom.
SFV server 'maintenance' down-time is really starting to hack me off
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lucebuce12
Member
I don't see this thread ending well.
DeathSparks
Member
This is nothing new, many online games do this and SFV is no different.
Kowashitai
Banned
Is this sarcasm?
This is absolutely something rooted in the past. Most online games never have downtime for updates.
NoctisVsStar
Member
¯\_(ツ
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_/¯Which games?
Silver Arrows
Banned
Maybe for a minute or so. Definitely not for hours.
SFV does it way more often than other online games, for much longer, and during times when most people would be playing the game.
It's evident: the online framework of the game was not made with the greatest of resources, and this is the result of that. It sucks, but yeah.
Son of a Witch
Member
I don't know of any other game that does it this frequently for 8+ hours.
SeeNoWeevil
Member
No, why would it be? There's no need to take systems down for 8-10 hours to deploy code. Unless they're doing all their testing in their live environments. Who else is doing this?
Shadoken
Member
Well first theres a Lunch break , then some brainstorming over the next sexy outfit to release ( this could take a while ). And finally hitting that submit button.
sixteen-bit
Member
Crapcom tryna leave Europe outta top 8 @ evo again
Street Fighter 5: The Server Warrior
The 18th Letter
Banned
no they don't.
Salty Rice
Member
Wouldnt be NeoGaf without a negative SFV thread.
Could be worse. Its not like this happens every week.
Could be worse. Its not like this happens every week.
What A Time To Be Alive
Member
Yeah even MMOs dont havr that much downtime during maitenence. Dont know wtf theyre doing.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Its pretty bad yeah i agree there
What other fighting game does this with any frequency at all
Most MMO's take extended maintenance times to give the servers a rest, deploy infrastructure changes, etc. It's usually not just pushing code, though who knows what the overhead is pushing patches to PSN.
Given some of the other implementation details regarding CFN and their online infrastructure, this would not be surprising. It's a very poor implementation even compared to other Japanese developers and it makes me wonder how Capcom would handle an actual hit mobile game if/when they get one.
They're basically a D-tier developer with a Z-tier infrastructure and we are basically watching what could be a good fighting game rot.
Murdamonk
Member
Yeah, crazy how they have to shut the server down almost every week for maintenance.
Well, most games don't need to shut down their server for 8+ hours for maintenance...
The only other game that I can think of that has long maintenance hours is The Division. Haven't touch that game for a while, so i don't know if it is still the case.
Well, most games don't need to shut down their server for 8+ hours for maintenance...
The only other game that I can think of that has long maintenance hours is The Division. Haven't touch that game for a while, so i don't know if it is still the case.
Shadoken
Member
Not saying the 8 hour wait isnt ridiculous. But there is hardly any other Fighting game that has monthly DLC updates like this.
eyeball_kid
Member
MGSV is equally bad. I basically can't play the game on Monday evenings because of the time they schedule "maintenance" and the number of hours they shut it down for. There's no excuse for taking down servers for that long.
edit: i do agree op. I just use it as personal downtime from the game too. the game is emotionally draining even though i love it.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Because you have to maintain your servers. There is a way to mitigate such a downtime, however Capcom is broke.
Edit: I question how many people here complaining even have a degree in computer science. Scheduled maintenance isn't just to play in marginal updates but to have enough time to fix other things which aren't to critical or should the updates went wrong.
Edit: I question how many people here complaining even have a degree in computer science. Scheduled maintenance isn't just to play in marginal updates but to have enough time to fix other things which aren't to critical or should the updates went wrong.
The 18th Letter
Banned
There's almost no other game period that does it let alone fighting games.
Blizzard added Ana to Overwatch a few weeks ago, the game wasn't down for 8 hours. Hell, at the same time they released a big WoW patch and it still wasn't down. Servers were a bit wonky for like 30 minutes at most due to all the stress.
To be honest out of all the negative threads for this game this one is completely valid surprised there wasn't one sooner.
CosmicQueso
Member
"hack me off"?
Demoskinos
Member
Because its an online game and that is what you do to make sure things stay operational. I don't know why this is unexpected.
Did ASW pull the XrdR servers down when Dizzy was added?
Other games don't do this anywhere close to this degree.
It is a bit odd when you think about it. It's not like an MMO or anything, hell when I used to still play they didn't even always maintenence on Tuesday and it was usually done early. I can't think of any other genre that really needs this kind of downtime, it's like they are using decade old tech to run this game. Compare it to any other fighting game and it looks even worse. Compare it to Overwatch, well at least Juri hopefully will not crash the game every time she lands a hit.
There are hardly any online service games that do have actual monthly content updates that go down for this long and with this frequency.
It's ridiculous.
ãInaba Residentã
Banned
It sucks and it should be way better but if that's what they have to do at this point to make sure shit works, then I'll deal.
100% fine with that.
Demoskinos
Member
Avid FFXIV player and they pull down the servers fairly often for hotfixes. Hell for major patches they do 24 hour maint periods.
dragonelite
Member
Lol