137334-dear-carbine-these-in-game-server-notifications

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			Hello Carbine - I am here to hopefully shed some light on a possible miscommunication or that I am too stupid to find the the darn thing! anyways - I was AFK ran to the store to get some redbulls to game all night and then I see this toaster window on my screen (I am a returning player as you can see in my record) that the realm was going down for maint. and to check the official forums on the server status, so what do I do? I go to google and search for wildstar server status forum because lets face it the main website for wildstar is pretty confusing for returning players and even my new friend to the game had some issues too.The point - You say to players in game to check the official forums, so I did exactly that - and yes on the official forums I did - Anyhow! there is nothing relating to the servers maint shutdown for 10-5-2015, but I did see something for 10-4-2015.  Now if the actual datebase server is based in Dallas and I live in California - are the post being post in a different time zone, so for me it registers the day before? Are they in China?Just drank 3 redbulls thinking I was going to enjoy my Esper, but now I am stuck not knowing anything as they said to check official forms - I am refreshing this biznatch! /refresh /refresh /refresh /refresh	
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			Search "wildstar ops twitter" it has all the upto info on the servers.	
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			That pop-up warning you saw also said it was just a restart and servers would only be down for about 10 minutes.	
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That pop-up warning you saw also said it was just a restart and servers would only be down for about 10 minutes.
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			I am more worry about OP's health at this point. :o	
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I am more worry about OP's health at this point. :o
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Search "wildstar ops twitter" it has all the upto info on the servers.
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			 That's just a default message.. if you want to be on top of the pr game you'll have to play with the 3rd party media the devs use... The forums are more for us to use they still read the posts but don't post as much as they do on twitter excet.	
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Interesting - I thought I read it pretty clearly lol I was wired on caffeine....
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			The initial pop-up said 10 minutes for a restart.  The following count-downs didn't mention it, but it was stated in the first message.	
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Search "wildstar ops twitter" it has all the upto info on the servers.
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 That's just a default message.. if you want to be on top of the pr game you'll have to play with the 3rd party media the devs use... The forums are more for us to use they still read the posts but don't post as much as they do on twitter excet.
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They really should do something about notifications and news always being on the forums.  Nothing wrong with 3rd party media per se, but the forums are the official source of discussion for the game, the messages direct you here and it would be common sense to keep updates here.  Unfortunately pretty much every developer out there these days only puts a small fraction of news and updates on their forums and post the vast majority of it through Twitter and Reddit. 
 
Kinda frustrating that this has become the status quo.  It's getting too frustrating and confusing to keep up to date with multiple games.  I want to be able to just check the official site for news, discussions and notifications, and really don't want to bother following 500 developer's tweets or check Reddit or any other 3rd party media just to keep up to date on the games I play :/
			
				
	Edited October 5, 2015 by CapnSensible	
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They really should do something about notifications and news always being on the forums.  Nothing wrong with 3rd party media per se, but the forums are the official source of discussion for the game, the messages direct you here and it would be common sense to keep updates here.  Unfortunately pretty much every developer out there these days only puts a small fraction of news and updates on their forums and post the vast majority of it through Twitter and Reddit. 
 
Kinda frustrating that this has become the status quo.  It's getting too frustrating and confusing to keep up to date with multiple games.  I want to be able to just check the official site for news, discussions and notifications, and really don't want to bother following 500 developer's tweets or check Reddit or any other 3rd party media just to keep up to date on the games I play :/
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Oh you were right, there also said to check to forums for more information and yes it was nothing.
 
But it was only a restart. :)	
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			Sadly, Blizz is completely neglectful of their other franchises.  Nothing like that happens on the SC, D3 or HotS forums unfortunately.  But 2 of buy-to-play and one is F2P, and none are anywhere near the cash cow WoW was/is.  That probably sounds cynical, but it's true.  All other Blizz forums are a ghost town as far as blue posts go, and 95% of their news is released by devs on twitter or twitch.	
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			It is a very no active forum for english readers, only twitter. 	
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I may be wrong, but *Official* Forums should be the first place to be updated with relevant information. FB, Twitter, whatever should be updated after official forums, as just an additional info channel. Not everyone uses social media (me, for ex.*). Sometimes 3rd party sites have more accurate info than official.
 
If I'm forced to search official info somewhere else than forums then someone failed hard at their work. Just my 2 €c.
 
*- I know, I don't exist so much. Call me a fossil.	
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Many things are only said on twitch streams and never posted anywhere else.
Carbine is and was never good at pr or community management.	
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They seem to be giving the same pop up regardless of why the server is going down.
 
To top that off, they are still doing what we complained about a year ago, putting all the information on Twitter even though not everyone uses it.	
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			I wish they would publish a copy of their "schedule" for the next week or so, then we can avoid entering an adventure or a dungeon just before one of these many scheduled maintenances are sprung upon us.	
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