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Why would I bookmark this page?
Anyway isn’t lag obvious when you log in?
Judgement Day part 2.
Not rolling back those servers is dumb AF. I get not wanting to get into a situation where you’re litigating every single death or lag spike… but a confirmed event that caused hundreds to die because of severe server instability should absolutely be an exception.
Incredibly bad call on their part that will hurt their game in the long run, as a lot of those people just aren’t going to come back.
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Maybe if they could do it in a way that only restored those who died in the lag, but not in a way that rolls back those sick elite drops that people got during the same period, etc.
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I feel like in this instance you just gotta accept that a couple people might get freebies. You’re only talking rolling back a few minutes so maybe a couple dozen people who get the benefit unfairly, but hundreds who died unfairly.
I wouldn’t make a habit out of it, but Blizz said themselves this was a server error that they’re working on resolving for the future… so assuming they fix whatever caused this then it’s a one-time thing.
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I mean, you’d also be rolling back whatever good things people may have experienced also, like epic drops or quest completions.
I don’t really know what happened. I guess it didn’t affect DP or I wasn’t online when it did, but I suppose I could see going either way on this: on the one hand, it’s HC, and accidents are going to happen. You can’t rollback natural disasters IRL. On the other hand, if you could, some people would definitely want to.
At the end of the day, I feel bad for anyone whose character died as the result of technical issues.
It was EU server only so doesn’t impact us at all. But apparently it took out a TON of people on stitches.
You’re right, there could be some negative effects, but particularly with the game mostly unplayable at that point I’d guess the chances of it are pretty low… If the game is so lagged that everyone in combat died… then I’m guessing there weren’t a ton of epics being looted lol.
This isn’t RL and it wasn’t “an accident.” It was unequivocally a failure on Blizzards fault
All they need to do is add some lore behind time freezes that RNG kill you. So these threads stop.
when you created your character, you accepted that server instability could cause your death 
simple as.
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Which is irrelevant but thanks for contributing?
how is it irrelevant? it’s the reason why you will not be getting a server rollback
You die, you die.
Should they also rollback if in the future a Frontier 40-man raid wipes due to server crash?
IMO it’s always a question of weighing the benefits versus the negatives.
Server/Character data is likely backed up periodically, but I have no idea on frequency; in other words they can’t just roll back to the moment before the crash meaning the Stitches crash happened in early morning, but their last backup of data may be from several hours prior, or maybe even closer to a day.
If they could roll back to minutes before the crash and they were on it fast enough I wouldn’t have an issue with them doing a rollback. The negative impact on however many players losing some sort of progression is worth it to fix a crash that resulted in thousands of people losing their characters. But chances are by the time Blizzard catches wind and is looking into it hours and hours have passed and the backup is also much older than when the crash happened. It’s not really a good situation.
Blizzard could look into restoration, but that’d be a lot of legwork and it opens the can of worms for appeals, plus I don’t they really have the resources to actually do it.
This has nothing to do with Frontier and tbh it’s kinda cringe that you brought them up.
If there was a bug that accidentally dealt 5k damage to everyone world-wide… would that constitute a rollback?
Clearly there are some instances that are so universal and so egregious that a roll back is warranted, however rare. So the only question is whether or not this qualifies, and in my opinion it does.
If the server crashes in a way where so many die from it I would not mind if even such 
also got advantage of a roll back.
They were absolutely aware as it happened. This is a massive company, they have people monitoring these things 24/7. That’s not to say that makes rolling back any easier, and you’re right the backup could have been from earlier (I’m honestly not sure how their server backs up this kind of thing) but it definitely isn’t hours before Blizzard becomes aware of something like this.
No, there aren’t.
You die, you die.
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I mean just at my own company we are backing up data like…twice a day I think. I’ve been told that once the backup is complete, another backup starts, but it just takes that long so we get two backups a day. Blizzard is working in petabytes work of data and while I’m confident their ability to back up their data is much faster than ours it’s still something where they are only going to be doing on a time-basis. I’m a bit out of my depth, but I can’t imagine a scenario where they can rollback to any one specific time.
I’m sure they were aware of the crash, but what I meant more than anything was that there is going to be some red tape for deciding what to do. The people monitoring the servers aren’t the ones who make the decision on what to do so even if you want to humor the idea that the important people woke up this morning and held a meeting on what to do we’re still talking many hours after the crash.