Beta Servers down for Patch 10. Will be back up around 20:00 PST.
us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3941896296#1Posted Jan 23, 2012, 6:53 PM UTC
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Tonight... WE BARB.
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Damn, I wanted to barb. Maybe I'll monk.
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Have the patch notes leaked yet?
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New patch means new wave of Beta invites? Right?
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Can't wait to try out some of the new features and I hope achievements are back up!
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yea me too, has there been any mention of making them active again?
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Oh man achievements would be exciting!
Edit: Hooray.
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Can anyone explain why they need to pull the server for 9 hours?
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The only true answer here is no, except the people responsible for deployments at Blizzard.
I am mainly a software developer, but I have been somewhat involved in the deployment process for a number of online services. What I can tell you, is that the steps, tools and processes are entirely different from product to product and company to company.
I have worked on products where typical patch updates involved 0 downtime due to the language and platform used (Erlang, with hot code swapping).
I have also worked on products where a typical update could last most of the day due to the nature of changes and related processes as well as brief internal testing.
There is no way for the general public to know what exact steps Blizzard take when they perform a patch update, but I can guarantee everyone that they are not sitting there playing chess and drinking beer.
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I guess that is what I'm most curious of. If they are mostly waiting on something to load, or what is being worked on that can only be worked on while offline. Most patches in non beta games require 0 downtime and I do understand it's beta, but I was just curious of the technical difference.
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Most patches in non beta games require 0 downtime
This is pretty much never the case in any MMO, unless it is a pure client-side only patch.
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I honestly haven't played an MMO since Nexus TK back in the day. I guess d3 would be competitive with MMOs from a technical standpoint since its online only. EDIT: d3, not d2.
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It's a pretty massive update compared to previous ones.
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They are also wiping all the characters. I imagine that is more complicated than dragging some files to the recycling bin.
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I image it is something like
DELETE * FROM player_char
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No * there, it ain't a SELECT. And I hope they have referential integrity, which means they have to delete all the lower tables first (unless they have the balls for cascading deletes).
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I actually wonder this too. I would love to know exactly what goes on in that time. I'm not complaining, or upset in any way, I'm just curious. It can't possibly take this long to just update all the files on the server, or start the server up. I would assume they've actually already done at least some basic internal testing, so it shouldn't really need anything new.
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I would assume they've actually already done at least some basic internal testing, so it shouldn't really need anything new.
Sure, but there are always some differences when moving from a test configuration to a production configuration. No matter how slick your deployment pipeline is, depending on the product it is still worth having a basic test suite to ensure the transition went smoothly - this is especially the case while a product is in beta, and most likely they are changing a lot of the server setups (both software, configuration and hardware).
See my reply above for more details too.
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I imagine it's not just 1 single server. They probably have to do it all over the country, and maybe even the world.
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They might not need to. It's beta. Do you feel like you deserve to have the servers up as soon as possible so you can play?
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It is possible AcronymEjr was just curious. I'm curious as well, and I don't even have beta.
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Not deserving; only curious.
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Exactly, they have no need to optimize the process to make it as fast as possible since this is the beta. If they really had to I'm sure they could have created an optimized process to do it in less than 10 minutes, but they would have needed 10 times the preparation time.
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need this be asked for a game that is 15 years old?
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11pm EST? Not so bad. That took me far too long to tabulate.
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it's late.
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Live NOW!
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ETA April 2012 <--- I feel like the earnings call will probably coincide with a release date that week or following. Give them 1-2 months to build out the gold cd.. APRIL
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Sign of release
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05:00CET
so You take day off tomorrow? :)
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Ofc!
Im confused, what does this mean? And why is the title using military time? When the article doesn't?
Using pm and am is weird