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obsessedrpgr
Member Posts: 5
in Wurm Online
I am on the site. I click Play now. And first it takes awhile, when it finally comes up. It says It cant deplay the page. At first I thought It was the internet. but I have no problem with this page. Is wurm down? Or, how do i get on it, now that they are having problems?
Just did a diagnose connection issues: this is what is said:
The remote computer isn’t responding to connections on port 80, possibly due to firewall or security policy settings, or because it might be temporarily unavailable. Windows couldn’t find any problems with the firewall on your computer.
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It does look like there are problems again
Its down.
No idea when it will be back up, no idea whats wrong, no idea if this was planned, no idea if the game has died forever, no idea about anything because there is no information anywhere from anyone, but apparently this is normal.
From what I've gathered from the forums before they went down and from dev blogs and the such, the games team doesnt have the capacity or ability to let thier customers know what the status of the service is at any given time.
Ok thanks. Anyone know when its going to be back up? i got horses to feed.
I have noticed that over the years. Wish i knew what was going on.
If you are a premium account you merely pay money. Why you think that makes you deserving of the most simple information is beyond reason. Now go sit in the corner, throw more money at Rolf, and shut up. Maybe he will decide you are worthy of a simple, we are screwed message.
Can still join the IRC Channel. Room #Wurm at Rizon.net
Check the official #wurmonlline twitter channel for updates.
The game is currently running fine but the login server and website is down atm.
(probably another DDOS attack by a bunch of losers)
It seems that Rolf (the sole developer), doesn't bother working on weekends or outside normal working hours (9-16 CET (maybe an hour or two longer on occasion) as he lives in Sweden) no matter what happens, though this doesn't stop him from posting a game breaking patch, and then going home and leaving the mess for the next day - or monday if he decides to patch on a friday...
His primary means of communication seems to be the IRC channel, and so if you can't be bothered with IRC you are SOL... He also sometimes make very general statements/vague hints about game changes on the so-called patchnotes in the Wurm launcher... It seems that most of the game is meant to be "figured out" on your own as part of the challenge... but since Rolf likes to make ninja changes to the way the game works basically you can't really know what is going on in the game world in advance... which again makes the lack of wiki (they might decide what to do with the wiki some time next week (quote from the VERY reduced homepage (http://wurmonline.com/) or as I read if they can be bothered...) very bad IMHO...
If the login server is down the game is not running fine, and I can't really see any universe when that could be interpreted as fine...
[20:33] <@Zcul>; it's up again and login works
Login server is up again according to Zcul in IRC
Always the same people ready to make any excuse they can to climb ever higher on the fanboy top ten list.
End of the day, if people don't think Rolf's doing a good enough job, stop playing and make your own game. It's not easy to cater to the vast reaches of the world wide web, lets see you do a better job? Rolf~ Your doing just great!
You say that, but what has Rolf really done?
Papyrus + Paper + Ink, that's all Zcul. Zcul made the reeds, rice, water farms, ink, and all that stuff with grass.
Saroman/Wollschaf have been working on realistic season changes that go with the ingame time.
AGAIN, Zcul does the inner walls of buildings and works on two-story houses.
Budda creates timers in Wurm that will count down for you, a nice nifty feature that helps with meditations and prayers.
So what really has Rolf done? Look at the blog, all he's posted lately is he bought a fuckin' mousepad. Yet all the donator coders are doing EVERYTHING for him. Then Rolf goes out of his way trying to find new ways to make money with scammy BitCoin and CoinLab shit (that probably fucked his website over). He hasn't really done shit lately, least not that I can see.
And who hires the staff? I'm sure the CEO of most corporations can honestly say he does nothing but play Farmville and Golf all day, but if his staff are good and hand-picked then that's all that matters. I mean, look at Charlie's Angels. Charlie did NOTHING WHATSOEVER. But his team got the job done.
"Take my love, take my land,
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.
Take me out to the black,
Tell them I ain't comin' back.
Burn the land and boil the sea,
You can't take the sky from me.
There's no place I can be,
Since I found Serenity.
But you can't take the sky from me... "
Zcul, Budda, Saroman, Wollschaf are not employees, nor hired by Rolf. They approached Rolf to help. It's not the same, it's not as if he went out and found them and pays them.
The point is that the unpaid contributors are doing much more work in a course of a month than Rolf has done in a year.
Tell me one big update this year Rolf has done. What? I literally can't think of one thing, and I am not tryin to bash Rolf, I am just saying his progress is horrendously slow.
"End of the day, if you don't enjoy the gas tank of your car exploding once in a while, you should really build one from scratch..."
Nope, Rolf sells a product, that product is expected to live up to certain minimum requirements, if it doesn't you want the person to fix it... not stop playing games untill you can make a better one!
So you do spend all your day trolling forums of Toyota, Mazda, BMW, VW etc. (I think just about every car company in the world has had to recall a huge number of cars due to severe safety issues)?
End of the day, its clear that whatever Rolf does you will never be satisfied, why don't you just move on and let us few thousand retards enjoy ourselves playing his game? There are literally thousands of other games out there for you to play, now SHOOO.
I am not a fanboy, I constantly criticise Rolf on the forums to keep him on his toes. I do know that he still made a game that kept me away from dozens of AAA titles over the past 3 years and he doesn't make mistakes/fails to fix bugs on purpose.
I would rather be a fanboy though than a scammer/exploiter/cheater like you. How is the lawsuit going? LOL
Nice. Criticize him into telling us how things are progressing. Five or ten seconds is all it takes. I spend more time buying silver and game time. His blog says it will be sorted out in a few WEEKS. So an update every couple days on THIS forum would be a considerate thing. We do pay him for his time.
BTW, I do enjoy the game very much and I do appreciate the product. But communication would be nice.
Here is a condensed version of the developer http://wurmonline.tumblr.com/ blog dated Friday, May 11th:
Hey, Rolf here to tell you very little of what's going on.
We got hacked. But some of you can still click play and get the game to work. For those who can't get it to work, figure it out yourself, that's part of the mystery of Wurm.
I never liked the system I used for this game and as a result things are fucked up. Oh yeah, all the info might be lost. Knowing me, the possibilities of that are very high. Good news though! We'll start over fresh, and we'll let other professionals do what I am too lazy to do.
Very little will change in the upcoming weeks, but don't mind us, we're just three employees of an indie game doing our best. We'll make sure that the means to take in more money from you guys is working just fine.
The company was "attacked" three days ago and all we've gotten so far is a webpage thrown together by a 10 yr old and a blog from the CEO laughing at us. And all the fanboys can say is the usual bullshit about how this has never happened before and Rolf works hard on this game. The problem is, not all of us are fanboys and we know this type of shit has happened before, and Rolf don't give a fuck about his customers. If he did, there would be some kind of official update either here or on that goofy home page for Wurm. Instead, for three days now we've stared at a brief excuse for how screwed up things are, a couple links to be able to play (and of course pay), a link to come to these forums for even less info, a non-updated twitter feed, and a list of ranks from Epic. Seriously, what the hell is so important about the ranks list that it's made it to the website instead of an update about what's happening? A chimp can see this game is hosed right now and the least of it's problems is being hacked.
BTW, you fanboys, like Wulfgar, have got your tongues so far up Rolf's asshole that you can't see straight. You have no clue that your responses here are doing as much damage to the image of this game as Rolf is by not responding and not taking care of his business.