Considering the recent problems with PB lately
Erroneous kick for empty etkey
Total computer crash/freeze
and many in the past.
I really think PB should change their ways of releasing updates, how about the option to choose
from the latest ‘bleeding edge’ or the ‘stable’ update, leagues could then use ‘stable’ so all matches can be played without problems.
Your opinions guys, why yes or why no?
Regards,
Back of an envelope-type stuff:
Number of days since ET release: 782
Number of PB issues with updates, resulting in player “down time”: about 5
Average number of days to resolve a PB issue: about half a day
System uptime: (1 - 5 x 0.5 / 782) x 100% = 99.7%
I’d say someone is exaggerating things…
I can take a day without ET every now and then, what’s more annoying to me is the “valid GUID not reaching GUID auth server” that I (and a lot of other people) have been getting for months.
As other’s have pointed out, half a day to solve things is very much an xaggeration.
I’d just want to add that 99.7% uptime is rather miserable, even if it were true.
Source data: PB ET release notes. All troublesome updates were fixed within a day, many within hours. Even taking a time-to-fix of 1 full day per incident only reduces the uptime to 99.4%.
And calling an uptime of 99.7% of a game that’s provided to you free of charge and without any warranty “miserable”, makes me wonder what what reference material you’re basing that conclusion on.
Well, just ask the people getting the guidauth error… I get the error every day. It’s certainly troublesome and it’s certainly been more than a day.
Anyway for a mission critical system to have 0.3 or 0.6 downtime is indeed miserable.
I would gladly pay for PB if they came out with a ET version that was more stable and checked against more cheats (although they definitely have improved on this recently). I know you get what you pay for, that’s why I would rather pay than get the free one.
Is the lock-up thing still happening?
I haven’t had time for et since the latest problems started.
Lekdevil thank you for your view on this topic, but i’m not exaggerating anything
i just wishes it to be as a safeguard, ‘Stable’ since thats clearly not what we have atm.
Those 5 items you’re talking about are just the ‘critical’ problems, Ofcourse i also mean the more frequently problems such as erroneous (GUID-AUTH,Game Integrity) notifications, a quick view on any server logfile should provide you with enough information, if still not convinced? then take a look at www.evenbalance.com 
These are all problems caused by faulty set-up and/or network communication problems. That’s not punkbusters fault. (It could be that PB causes network problems, however these have happened since day one, so what you suggest wouldn’t work anyway.)
The GuidAuth problem was not caused by faulty setup. PB did something to break it… Anyway it seesm to be fixed now, I have not heard of it happening for a couple days…
The GuidAuth problem. I still incounter it everyday. Lets put it this way. Almost evey time I try to play ET. So that could be 4-5 times a day. And it happens to all my clan mates to. If its fixed they dont know what they are talking about.
