** North American Server Bounce Complete at 7:15am PST [15:15 GMT] **

[Naevia]

I play on Seastone, and it's still not as bad as every other MMO at launch. It can get a bit tiring, but I rolled on another server to play on the other side when that happens. Not really a big deal.

[Megabucks]

I am personally in on any server i choose play BEFORE their schedule UP time. 15 minute restart? 30 minute maintenance? That is perfect snack grabbing, drop a deuce, get a drink, let the dog out and do a smoke time. Hell, these downtimes aren't even on primetime.

They most definitely are for the seastone cluster...those servers crash way too often.

[Psyki]

this is not "constant downtime" ... This is one of the smoothest launches i've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of launches. Well done Trion, keep up the good work!

I agree with Stza as well, I have been playing MMO's since '96, Beta tested all the major ones and was there for the first day of all the major ones and so far this is by far one of the best launches I've seen.

[blackrains]

15 minutes downtime in the early morning when the gamers have gone to bed or are just waking up? sounds good to me, go eat breakfast and quit QQing. restarts are unbelievably fast with rift, nothing I've seen has gone so smoothly that handles this many users.

keep up the great work Trion!

[Devildoll]

When they are updating to ****ing fix things they said were unbreakable or already fixed shows me the fools are just guessing at crap. Still no clue what they are doing yet and still unsure what the hell all the beta's were for if they are still tweaking after launch. FAIL.

Well apparently your not a dev, or anything in that capacity so you dont know what it takes to create a game..then run it. If you dont like it...PLEASE quit. 15 mins is nothing. I can live without Rift ..or any game for that matter for 15 mins. not to mention...its a free month of game play. they can pretty much do what they want the first month. Personally I hope after 1 month that they double there subscriptions...triple! Cause thats gonna be THAT many more people leaving that other game that people think is so hot. ..and no..not Hello Kitty Island Adventures!

[shayyaa]

If you guys haven't played any other MMO's then dont't talk crap about down time... I have played EQ1 and 2 this is nothing compared to their launches...

[Korthaz89]

Do NOT feed the immature whinner's - that's what they crave.

[Wickednisse]

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I haven't had a single issue of lag yet. The servers seem rock solid, never crashing, only being taken down for a few minutes a day for improvements. I don't think you quite know the meaning of the word fail.

Seriously, I haven't been this happy with a game's performance in a very, very long time. Even the chaos from experiencing my first RIFT went smoothly (okay until the level 18 mobs decided to play chew on the level 10 lowbie, but I died without any lag at all!). I'm VERY impressed so far.

[Stza]

When they are updating to ****ing fix things they said were unbreakable or already fixed shows me the fools are just guessing at crap. Still no clue what they are doing yet and still unsure what the hell all the beta's were for if they are still tweaking after launch. FAIL.

I really doubt anyone at Trion said that the servers were "unbreakable"... There are just some things that you cant test and dont get data on you have many, many thousands of people playing your game. If you've ever developed any kind of software you'd know how crazy complex this stuff is...there's no such thing as making it perfect.

[Dignam]

15 min isnt bad. But saying 15 and having it be 70 with no update is.

[Dagstyrr]

would prefer a regular downtime like what eve does (every day same time for about an hour) to keep up on maintenance/patches so that its smoother and dont have the unexpected resets ... even if not always needed still better to keep up on everything

[N37runn3r]

Wow, this is a HUGE negative impact to me. 7am-7:20 is my first break of the day at work and I was hoping to get some Rift time. Where's the line to QQ?

It's all good. I'll go brew me some coffee instead.

[michaeladunagan@gmail.com]

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I haven't had a single issue of lag yet. The servers seem rock solid, never crashing, only being taken down for a few minutes a day for improvements. I don't think you quite know the meaning of the word fail.

no kidding. lol it would be nice if they had a East-coast server as far as time the time diff sucks lol but over all great game and i will say after playing other MM O's this would be the smoothest launch ive see compared to others like Age of Conan Jesus that game had tons of glitches when it first came out.

[Corvinna]

So far, when they say 15 or 30 minutes...its that or less...and you apparently don't know how MMOs go if this is constant downtime. Most MMOs go down for several hours in a row at least one day a week for maintance...15 mins here and there won't kill you.

[Nekovivie]

So the current bounce is at 10am EST? And they average 15 minutes? Cool.

I've just had bad timing the past 2 days, lol.