IW/Activision - WAKE UP

[Mike_Nomad]

How arrogant of a BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION like Activision allowing this consumer abuse to happen when they've already realized well over 14 million copies in sales ($70million) and there is no end in sight. How dare they leave all those consumers hanging, slowly twisting in the turbulent winds of broken Master Servers!!

I see plenty of unhappy consumers and perhaps a rebellion of some sort in the works if this grotesque situation is allowed to continue. So far, a perfect opportunity in a three day weekend in the States has been lost because of some bungling, bean counting pinstriped petunia who obviously refused to spend the right money to get the FIX DONE.

Obviously, Activision is suffering from the Canary Virus.

The fools are trying to fix this problem on the CHEAP! - CHEAP! - CHEAP!

Otherwise, what in heaven's name is taking so long to fix overloaded Servers? After all, this isn't rocket science.

They need both better hardware and more bandwidth to handle the load!


ACTIVISION!! WAKE UP - SPEND THE BUX!!
ITS TIME TO SUPPORT YOUR CONSUMERS!!
FIX THE MASTER SERVERS & AUTHENTICATION EXPIRATIONS
WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY OR EXCUSES!!!

SEVEN (7) DAYS & COUNTING!!!

[xvx]

It isn't rocket science, its computer science. You can test rockets in labs, but testing 100k+ connections to a database server is impossible to test, you can anticipate it, and hope it works, but we don't live in a perfect world. You must give them some time to knock out the kinks.

I have heard some reports that they were getting DDoSd which doesn't help things at all and isn't easily solvable..

I have also heard they were running the master server on a virtual box. If that were the case then yes I totally agree that it was a HUGE F up on Activision's part. Everyone I talked to about it the first thing I heard was laughter, because it is just ridiculous if its true.

Give them some time and hopefully it will work out. I myself haven't had any problems the last 2 days.

[romeozor]

It isn't rocket science, its computer science. You can test rockets in labs, but testing 100k+ connections to a database server is impossible to test, you can anticipate it, and hope it works
they had plenty of experience from previous cod versions, so there's no excuse

[rudedog]

Where is 402, in this mess? He should at least be letting people know what is going on. I can see taking the time to fix a complicated issue (if it's more then just a faster or stronger box to handle the traffic) but stick around and give us updates over the long weekend.

What gets me is, could cod4master.activision.com be one loan server for the whole world? I've seen some of the tracert's back to the master server from the UK and the latency is horrid. You would think they would have a Europe and Asia master server. These could be used as fall back master servers in case of a failure. Didn't valve have a similar problem when their loan data center lost power - which in my business is a very big no-no.

Everyone should now how my pet peeve is for dev's to stick around after a game ships to field these types of questions, however this may be more of an infrastructure or engineering problem. Non the less someone should be called in ASAP to address the issues both publicly and physically.

[Wizz]

What I find very damn funny is that in CoD and UO I connect "instantly" there is ZERO wait no matter what server, my pings or location of the server. Works perfectly

Yet with CoD4 I havent been able to play but just ONCE in the last 3 days. What kind of bullcrap is that.

Yes where in the hell is 402 with the updates, oh thats right busy playing with the xbox kiddies, wanna bet they are having ZERO trubs playing online while us PC users is sitting around with our thumbs up our butts. This is totaly unsat.

[David Champion]

Ah Mike I love you man, well said.

I can't even connect to my favorite server because it says its already in my favorties and it never shows up, man that sucks...

"Awaiting..." "/reconnect" 10 times in console just to get on... and manually typing in IP's because they don't show up in server browser, yet they are there. I can contribute to my favortie server money-wise but, why because I can never get on within' a reasonable amount of time and get frustrated and join another one...then "Await connection...4...5...6...172..."

[Mike_Nomad]

.....<snip>Give them some time and hopefully it will work out. I myself haven't had any problems the last 2 days.

Seven (7) days is more than enough time to rectify the situation or, in the event of remote locations being set up to accommodate influx, then at least keep us updated. As it appears now, they've (Activision) taken the three day holiday weekend off and left the users, worldwide, hanging. The trace routes to the master server are horrid.

Its a known fact that IW is not to blame for this trouble. Activision was "slick" and handed the problem over to IW after it arose. Now, Activision has to BANKROLL the proper fixes, new hardware and more bandwidth.

I refuse to apologize for Activision.

[Wolverine]

The worst thing I have seen on my server is clan mates having to attempt to connect several times.

Is that what all the bitching is about or is there something more?

[Mayhem*]

Its been taking me and my clan members over 5 minutes to connect to our own server....

[romeozor]

i dont like the 20+ mass pub servers so i usually search one below that, thing is when i see there are 3 open slots and i try to connect it obviously wont do for 2-3 loops (if i'm lucky) but if i have to reconnect 16 times and the 17th time it would let me in but i get the "Server is full" text :mad: gr-gr

[BoSBrian]

You know, it is bad that it takes multiple times to connect. It sucks, it really does.

But, Activision or IW or whoever is responsible relased a damn solid game with quite a bit of what we asked for. So they have a major hickup, at least we can connect, at least we can play somewhere......I say give them a break!

Everyone is so quick to fly off the handle over issues such as this, I wouldn't want to set around all weekend and read threads like this one and and respond to them either.

I say if you're pissed at CoD4 go play Airborne.....oh, wait....Now there is something to bitch about!

[Daboys]

Maybe this is what happen to the master server - lol

[garetjax]

You know, it is bad that it takes multiple times to connect. It sucks, it really does.

But, Activision or IW or whoever is responsible relased a damn solid game with quite a bit of what we asked for. So they have a major hickup, at least we can connect, at least we can play somewhere......I say give them a break!

Everyone is so quick to fly off the handle over issues such as this, I wouldn't want to set around all weekend and read threads like this one and and respond to them either.

I say if you're pissed at CoD4 go play Airborne.....oh, wait....Now there is something to bitch about!

The problem is this is an ongoing pattern. Remember the fiasco with the charlieoscardelta website totally crashing and all the xbox360 token problems?

They could have avoided this with a pc mp beta test but they said it was not necessary.

They had one for xbox. They even made changes based on the feedback for xbox.

Garet

[Dirtynap]

Just been at a friends house and we tired to connect to over 20 servers. Not once did we maage to get online. After leaving it 20 minutes we tried again and still no luck. So we have given for the evening after over 1 and half hours trying. Note: we are in the UK.

[Busterking]

I don't understand why they are dragging their feet on this issue.

They have a great game going and then can't fix this stupid issue.


Unbelievable.

[The_Humungus]

Trying to look on the bright side of things......

My server has been full constantly for the past 4 days because players are afraid to leave for fear they can't get back on quickly...

[Ghost Dog]

I feel sorry for you guys... can imagine the frustration after such a weekend as I only get to play during weekends myself. They should be smarter than that. If you run a master server, the least you can do is run a backup server.