**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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This is almost certainly not another separate problem from the recent downtime, but some additional symptom of the larger issues that were causing massive instability over multiple days. It is possible, and maybe probable that the repeated issues didn't just affect the particular system components that those issues were contained in, but have caused other kinds of subtle corruption or system wide problems in the game that won't be easy to just sweep for and find.
In fact based on the announcement and reports of alliances getting late matches, it sounds like the match system wasn't just broken which would be easier to spot, but running much slower than normal which was causing alliances to match later and later, and would have eventually led to alliances being unable to find matches before the match period ended. So that's why it was taken down. Running very slowly instead of just not working at all is often a much trickier problem to solve, and a much more difficult problem to detect until you actually put the system back into production.
Keep in mind that however much this impacts us as players, it impacts the operations people supporting the game more. Worse than not playing the game over your weekend is working on the game over your weekend. I'm pretty sure they would avoid this if they could.
Good luck....
Seems like you need it
man, i never thought i'd say that.
Don’t you think, knowing that last war had problems, and seeing here that ppl were already saying it was well past the time that they normally find a match and hadn’t as of that time, and that even the earliest Ally’s that did match was much later than normal...
That you might have wanted to WAIT until at least the FULL MATCHING 4-Hour Timeframe came to an end, and seeing first that there wasn’t a flood of complaints saying “No Match”, BEFORE jumping in at your earliest, and placing your Defenders...
Knowing what happened last time to Defenders being locked.
Kabam came out with their Announcement to Cancel the War (and even the update to include the next war after that), BEFORE the full 4-Hour Matching period had even ended.
Just saying... (and a suggestion for Next Week's Wars, if they are still going to run, just in case....)
are they going to compensate for the rewards lost in the solo alliance war event currently running as well ?
So bottom line 3 wars total (as of now) are being cancelled and the requirement for participation is now just 2.
If you meant that canceling the season from here would cause people to get screwed out of participation, then given the pattern Kabam has been following so far if they cancelled the last three wars in the season (10, 11, 12) then I would assume they would decrease participation requirement to zero, as they would have canceled 6 wars and thus should assume players could have participated in five of the six to get credit, and give everyone participation credit to be safe.
But really?? Like it's that easy to have 30 different ppl from different walks of life, different parts of the world, to be all readily available to log in - with the required champs free and ready to drop at the right nodes just a little before match making is supposed to start - as opposed to during the 24h it's meant to be done - as per kbm's own set up - and when ppl can do it due to their schedule...
Just saying