if it is the akamai outage. get ready to hear "it's not our fault" crap. turdbine hired those pricks to work for them. so.. it IS turdbines fault. there i vented. and yes i fell beter

DropBear wrote on Mar 26^th, 2014 at 2:01am:

^

Yay! It's not their fault. poof poof

Hi Flav,

I know you have a stone to grind with Akamai, and I believe the facts you have presented.
It is entirely possible that Akamai are set on world domination, and to control the entire internet, but in this case I choose to believe that it is just another outage, likely internet related as some people were able to stay in game or log back in intermittently.

Turbine have had server and game outages before Akamai and will afterwards for various reasons.

My leading theory is that the DDO server(s) are actually hosted in Glin's mum's basement, and that she occasionally unplugs the wrong cord when doing her laundry.   
And this is the real reason that Turbine need Akamai, because Glin's 33k modem cannot handle all the traffic, and his pocket money doesn't cover all the excess upload charges.

But the worlds are back up, so let's put aside the Akamai conspiracy theories, and play ball!   

DropBear wrote on Mar 26^th, 2014 at 5:26am:


I have a stone to grind with Netsession.
If you really read what I wrote here and over there, I have no problem with the rest of the Akamai services.

Point of fact is that dndclient has been using Akamai Infrastructure to get some stuff ( DDO Store Pages, Web Pages, Launcher Alerts... ) long before we ever heard of Netsession...
I have traces from last year that shows that. If I had a problem with Akamai I would have raised the issue then.  I cannot exactly tell how long they have been using Akamai services since in Europe DDO was not using them ( they were using other services ), but I'm fairly certain that DDO used Akamai services at least since F2P.

An outage on some Akamai servers can lead to an outage on the Forums, the Store, the Launcher and maybe crashes of the client... It's facts. Now I have no idea if it was an Akamai outage or if it was the turbine-peer@pnap router that went wonky ( it can lead the the same effect ).

I was just answering that it couldn't be Netsession, but that Akamai services were used for a lot of other things in DDO.

Ra wrote on Mar 26^th, 2014 at 2:36am:


Because toaf

Ra wrote on Mar 26^th, 2014 at 2:36am:


Don't Fuckin blame me, I didn't do SHIT!

was in bloody crypt with full party (except permaopener) when servers went to bit-heaven.

was able to finish elite run - but when everyone Fo'd they got stuck on the loading screen of gloomy doomy death.

wasn't able to log in - but was able to run around with the permaopener (separate account - mboxed) - so it wasn't the world server - rather the login / forum / myaccount etc.

I blame them >>>>>

DropBear wrote on Mar 27^th, 2014 at 1:45am:


No you missed it. You really think Turdbine would make a statement about any failure, be it Alkamai-related or not? Of course not. They have their forum-minions for that. It's them making those ridiculous threads about "Thank you for your hard work devs, I'm glad you fixed the 2-day-server-outage, you can't be blamed for a third-party-product". Or since when does Turdbine directly communicate with their customers?

This whole Akamai bullshit is lame, why do ppl bitch about it so much?

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the day of the update i opened ddo and the akamai shit occured. i hit no, googled ddo ml, and lost about 3 minutes of in game time to completely remove akamai from the list of things i will experience in my ddo life.

as a result, launching my game is easier/faster, and always successful on the first try.

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Because people are dumb and don't know a) what Akamai actually does; and b) why Turbine would hire them.