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Mortal site and forums down?
Aethaeryn
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Is anyone else having trouble with www.mortalonline.com
OR
www.mortalonline.com/forums ?
I can ping the site . . just won't load.
Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!
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Short answer: yes
Long answer: Apparently you weren't on this forum last night. Someone was trying to stir up rumors that one of the more vocal critics of MO was is launching DOS attacks against MO. The concensus apparently is that his "evidence" was a photoshopped mock-up of an online conversation. The poster also apparently posted conversation in which "I" posted how horrible the game is. Adding that pretty much put the nail in the coffin of his attempt to stir up trouble. It's entirely possible that if someone is putting in such an effort to stir up trouble, that they are in fact launching a DOS attack themself.
P.S. Also it probably should have been more obvious that the "evidence" was not "the real mccoy" since it didn't use the persons current ID for this forum and didn't use the numbers that he consistently uses with the alternate ID. (i.e. the ID used on the MO forums)
To be Honest, I am a bit disappointed.
I have been patching the game (luckily I know how to do research or else I won't be even know where to download the client) for 1.5 day already. Also they didn't have any more info about the game status + how to download the client. It really mess up people.
Also their sites keep going down and up. But mostly going down and I hope the technical issue will be solve asap.
Please SV do something fast !
Its funny how similar this launch seems to when Darkfall came out. AV's site was completely inaccessible for days at launch and you had to constantly refresh the page over and over again to stand any chance of buying it...
And both games had major issues with stability and overall playability at launch as well. Fortunately Darkfall turned out pretty well eventually, so I am confident that MO can do the same if the developers are dedicated enough.
same, live in florida, usa. site is dead. sad to see this, i think there are so many people searching for what this game boasts to have. unfortunately the task to provide all this game freedom is a monumental feat. would be nice if the game giants could join forces to make a colossal gaming experience rather than 500 small groups making entry level mmos that fail in the first 6 months.
Just GREAT i've finally finished download the game i login i try to make a charapter... and BOOM it crashes with a missing file bullshit thing that looks like some retarded programmer couldn't figure out some pathing problem.... atleast in DF you could start playing once you where lucky enught to buy it...
Yes, it appears that mortalonline.com has been under a DDoS attack.. more than likely from a bunch of bloaks who aren't up to the challenge of playing the game, so their greif the developers.
Sad really, given that these types of attacks are illegal and most of the lads who attempt this, have been getting caught and going to jail.
"No they are not charity. That is where the whales come in. (I play for free. Whales pays.) Devs get a business. That is how it works."
-Nariusseldon
If it's a DDOS attack they should go to jail
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The site and forums seem to be up? I guess they recovered. If that is indeed what happened.
can't connect to main site or forums right now - hmmmmmm
didn't you know that was all part of the hardcore gaming experience? You have to fight your way in before you can in game.
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
R.A.Salvatore
Ironically, this might be a sign of MO's success. While a DOS (Denial of Service) attack simulates what happens when a website is inundated with people trying to connect to it--thus denying others from connecting. The interest in MO may be so great that in fact too many people trying to go to their website is what is causing this issue.
I'm sure it'll be fixed, capacity upgraded or whatever in the next week or few days maybe and this will all be put behind us.
o.O. Ummmm...... There are 380 people on the MO forums. If that is too many for the site to handle. They have more problems than a DOS attack.
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
R.A.Salvatore
There's usually 600-800 however with them being down a lot I doubt many have bothered.
Sounds like they left for the weekend:
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Originally Posted by cmrabet
I am an Engineer and I work for a company that produces electronic-industrial machines for welding. I know it is not the same sector, but just an example to share one fact:
If I sell a system to a customer, and after it is installed in the factory it does not work or has an issue, and I just act like this (going to sleep and letting the customer's factory out of production)...I can guarantee you that the next day our general manager will kick my ass out firing me right away and faster than fast, because of the complain coming from the customer and the money he paid.
I don't understand how can this happen to us here, and not having even a DEV the decency to just write a small POST apologizing and asking for some patience!.
This is beyond bad customer support service,....this is NO customer service, not mercy for the customer at all.
I am sorry, but this kind of behaviour really piss me off, because I don't grow money in pots, I have to work to earn it to pay my hobbies like this Game...and finding out that my money is treated in such no respect way.
Regards from Spain,
Hi there!
Ya, sorry the server are indeed up again and we do have a auto-reboot thing running on the servers but it's not flawless yet.
As most MMO-companies the large amount of people coming online caused some issues we hadn't seen before and therefore you get to suffer a bit and for that I'm truly sorry.
But as we all know, I hope, we are pretty much working around the clock on this but today and the coming weekend we just need sleep, that's all just a couple of days of sleep before we go at it again with new energy.
The last crashes on the server will be looked at come Monday and most likely fixed during the next week.
We have outside folks rebooting and checking up on the servers when we aren't at the office (not that many hours the last month ^^) but they also need to go to bed now and then.
We are small, we are indi but we are freakin focused on making this the best game you have ever played, so as you suggested I ask you all to be patient.
We could NEVER do this without you folks so please stay tuned and we will get this launch out of the starting blocks and up in the air for real during the coming weeks...thou some pilots might be killed due to crashing the coming days.
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
Yeah, honestly I cannot believe that developer would leave on first weekend that as rule either makes or breaks a game. This has got to be one of worst game launches I have ever seen.