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What we have played => Warhammer Online => Topic started by: Keggi on September 04, 2008, 10:59:44 AM

Title: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 04, 2008, 10:59:44 AM
well i hope this is up soon or there servers are going to take a big hit in a short space of time.

also incase there is any problems with codes and such.



Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 04, 2008, 03:58:39 PM
well i hope this is up soon or there servers are going to take a big hit in a short space of time.

also incase there is any problems with codes and such.





Three Letters: G. O. A.

Says it all - especially when the US has had theirs up for a while now...
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 04, 2008, 05:43:23 PM
So... Mythic builds the game... GOA releases it? They have a bad history?

Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 04, 2008, 05:52:41 PM
So... Mythic builds the game... GOA releases it? They have a bad history?



Mythic = Dark Age of Camelot devs. Now property of EA.

GOA = French shower of crap who ran the EU DAOC servers - late on updates, little helpful support, account billing errors out the ass. EA-Mythic went with them again for this game as EU Provider and well its not the best decision they could of made to be totally honest to show us in the EU that they want our custom.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 04, 2008, 06:02:41 PM
Sounds crap.

In tune with the crappy website and communication though. :D
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 04, 2008, 07:55:21 PM
They've posted a message that WAR is coming. Early afternoon on Sunday.

2 days to go, no means of registering your keys yet.

I read something about everything in your key that looks like an O (not 0) actually being a Q?
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 04, 2008, 07:57:52 PM
there web site is crap compared to mythics

and still nowhere to put in codes. what they playing at?
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 04, 2008, 08:13:30 PM
im thinking it might be up tonight or early tomorrow there was an open beta button below the main header which has now dissapeared so maybe they are working on it.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 05, 2008, 10:51:03 AM
*** delete ***
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 06, 2008, 01:52:34 PM
well just seen a post by a CM over at WHA basically saying the account center will be up tomorrow at the latest before the servers go up vague is an understatment they must know by now when its going up.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 06, 2008, 01:55:00 PM
(http://i.current.com/images/asset/889/368/41/8jLjZQ.jpg)

Expresses my feelings quite well ;)
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 06, 2008, 04:33:01 PM
run the patcher now still no account page but things are moving.

the patcher gets an update with create account button that directs you to the war-europe site.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 06, 2008, 04:44:46 PM
run the patcher now still no account page but things are moving.

the patcher gets an update with create account button that directs you to the war-europe site.

Done that earlier, had it connect to EA-Mythic originally. At least now it points the right way.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 06, 2008, 04:47:24 PM
i wish my closed beta client would update luckily i already downloaded the open beta client.
just need to install it.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 06, 2008, 04:54:39 PM
im sensing a mass rush to register keys and server downtime for tomorrow

or maybe im just pessismistic
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 06, 2008, 06:20:11 PM
Ah... the force is strong in this one...
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 06, 2008, 08:32:16 PM
Quote
New account pages will be available at www.war-europe.com tomorrow morning from 08.30. To gain Open Beta access, create a fresh account using these pages, log in with it and enter the code you have been given. This only applies to new testers; all previous testers have automatic Open Beta access

A minor patch will be available before the servers are brought online early afternoon tomorrow. The suspense will soon be over; WAR is dawning and we all have a very exciting time ahead of us.

http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en106&lang=en
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 06, 2008, 08:33:06 PM
account center opens 8.30 am tomorrow uk time i think
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 06, 2008, 08:35:07 PM
account center opens 8.30 am tomorrow uk time i think

Yeah Eire (new Datacentre is there) is on UK time and shares BST iirc.

I have set my alarm for 8ish :)

(I is sad I know)
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 06, 2008, 08:42:52 PM
some ppl are saying gmt and not bst so im totally confused
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 06, 2008, 08:51:12 PM
If they mean GMT then thats 9.30, but then why not just say that as (i chcked) eire is on BST and not GMT.

Tis annoying regardless.  Probably just our continental cousins thinking how they tell the time is relevant somehow :D
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 06, 2008, 08:52:32 PM
i have asked on the beta forum if i get a official reply i will post.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 06, 2008, 08:59:52 PM
Little hope of registering tomorrow if the website is already dying now...

Starting 8.30 tomorrow their website will get hammered. Better off not mentioning any time, so at least people will "trickle" to their website instead of utterly flooding it.

Hell if I was them I'd resort to plain HTML in 3 lines until tomorrow is over:

Register here
Download here
Please stop raping our website
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 06, 2008, 09:05:28 PM
i have asked on the beta forum if i get a official reply i will post.

Just asked for clarification of Magnus' post in the announcement thread. me thinks he cannot tell the time...
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 06, 2008, 09:08:50 PM
reading the post it says closed beta testers dont need to create an account because they get into open beta anyway which makes me think there will only be the option to enter OB codes and the HS and retail will be added to the center later
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 06, 2008, 09:14:57 PM
just read the thread on WHA lol im still confused anyway i think i read on there that as a CB tester my beta account will be my master account.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 06, 2008, 09:18:08 PM
On the subject of your CB account you are right - you have NO need to make a new one. me who has no CB access needs to make a fresh one.

As for time, Magnus basically come out and said as all the EU pretty much are on summer DST programs then there is NO need for him to clarify any difference (But he will in future he says). Therefore to me it seems like 8.30 our current time in the UK/Eire is the time it all starts :)
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 06, 2008, 09:24:58 PM
i will set my alarm for 10 am then ;D
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 07:37:49 AM
The client will run the patch. The Create account button in the client login popup leads you to the website. Website not showing any signs of registering options yet.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 07:39:01 AM
It got me started on the registration stuff - uses the same reg box it did when it was just a reg for the website.

However it doesnt generate a captcha image and just errors out there at the moment.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 08:20:32 AM
I do wonder why GOA didnt have the same timeframe and organisation of Mythic (Well I know why: SHOWER OF SHIT) as surely EA being the money grubbing whores they are should have ensured that to get people wanting to sub a large portion of the potential subs shouldnt be treated this way.

Who seriously launches a system that hasnt been stress tested (and is built in bloody flash ffs) on the day of the actual OB start, in fact a mere 3 hours before it kicks off..

/rant off
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 08:31:08 AM
Yeah... the American website is much, much better. Even WoW's is better as it uses Flash as an addition to, rather than a replacement of HTML. Can't even open a silly link in a tab on the EU website (unless there's some trick to doing that with Flash links I don't know of).

Apart from that, they should spend some more points in their planning, time telling and communication trees. :D
I'm off to make breakfast and do the dishes... will be back later. I assume you'll post server info on the frontpage?
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 08:56:38 AM
Yes I will - if we ever get in :D
/me goes back to his full english breakkie.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 08:59:55 AM
me thinks they are going to get flamed to feck over this they kept on reasuring people the site could handle the traffic.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 09:03:48 AM
Sometimes the website works, but even then no sign of new registration pages? All I see is the big register for beta button at the bottom that has been there for weeks (I think?) and it doesn't do anything.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 09:05:09 AM
I used this:

http://war-europe.com/#/registration/?lang=en

From a news article on the WHA site.

Now am just stuck refreshing to see if I ever see the captcha image!
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 09:47:42 AM
Thanks for the link. The image isn't showing for me either.

They could at least regain some credibility by doing a news post.
It's been 08:30 and 09:30 in all European countries now. ;)
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 09:59:39 AM
saw someone post that they got the image but it failed after that and kicked them to the first page again.

and someone is saying that they have not wiped previous account information so you need new nickname and email address so why do you need a new account crazy!!!!!
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 07, 2008, 10:03:42 AM
give them a big Fecking chocolate cigar useless twats

Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 10:17:01 AM
they are just arragant the community has been telling them for weeks what would happen leaving it to the last minute to put up the account center.

cant even get on the WHA forums there must be a forest fire in there lol
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 07, 2008, 10:20:38 AM
cant even get on the WHA forums there must be a forest fire in there lol

yup wont load for me at all so tried Only-WAR.com and theres already a 16 page thread on how shit this is :)

whom so ever thought it would be a good idea for them to launch there registration a few hours before open must be dumb
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 10:21:33 AM
Its crazy - couple of huge threads going. Some people able to get past the captcha stuff, others like me cannot see that image (but hey at least there isnt an error code now..) in 3 different browsers on 2 different machines!
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 07, 2008, 10:25:11 AM
captcha image im not even getting a continue button on page 2 of registration :)
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 10:26:16 AM
I just hope they learn from this and are willing to admit things have gone a bit iffy in a news post.

I've tried a couple of times in IE and don't get the image. Going to try 1 time in Safari and then I'm off doing cleaning until later today.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 10:45:52 AM
Uhm.

Got in using an old account login on the main page.

Added my beta code and it says "code has expired".

.........................
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 11:04:06 AM
could be why you have to create a new account.

but then again eeeeeeeeeeeeeek

where did you get your code from hmv ?
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 11:07:37 AM
aye.

Worked it out - it seems it is to do with why new accounts are needed. Probably yet another coding error/foul up by GOA! As mythic customers US side can use 5 year old DAOC accounts if they want too :(

To make matters worse, I had a image code on a browser in another window, and didnt notice it until I hit "new image", now I dont get one at all.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 07, 2008, 11:14:58 AM
The account centre was brought to you today

by the number 414

and the letters

G, O and A

join us next time for more shenanigans and if your lucky we might just screw you too .


have a nice day
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 11:15:31 AM
can now see image in 2 browsers.

But get error 414 when i try to go further.

At least i can see images!
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 11:18:00 AM
And one browser went past it :)

Fingers crossed confirmation works fine!
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 11:19:54 AM
theres a new message on war-europe seems its just timeout errors and you just need to keep trying.

oh forgot

/sarcasm off
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 07, 2008, 11:21:07 AM
theres a new message on war-europe seems its just timeout errors and you just need to keep trying.


yeah yeah 414 gave it away do they think we are dumb
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 07, 2008, 11:29:25 AM
got a code now getting 414 on next page never mind waaaagghhh

its aaaarrrrggghhh!!!
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 07, 2008, 11:30:30 AM
now getting a 300 error

lack of connection, have they taken there servers down for a hotfix? lol
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 07, 2008, 11:47:06 AM
awaiting confirmation email finally, but it does appear as if they have taken the authentication server down
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 11:49:41 AM
awaiting confirmation email finally, but it does appear as if they have taken the authentication server down

Same stage here.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 12:07:48 PM
well i could login to the patcher earlier but im now getting authenication error so us in closed beta who dont have to create a new account cant do jack
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 12:15:10 PM
cancel that im patching now 196meg

and if its just us CB people patching it is slooooooooooooooow
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 02:10:52 PM
Man I come back, my MSN is on fire. :p

Not much luck of actually playing yet then? Trying to load the WAR website here.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 02:13:05 PM
they are saying some people have managed to create accounts but i have a hard time believing it.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 02:14:18 PM
Still awaiting my confirmation email before I can actually try and login to the site to add my beta code.

Seen mentions of people getting to character creation ingame, but I take that with a pinch of salt - unless they are Americans in the wrong thread or something!
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 02:23:11 PM
the char creation immage is just where the server list comes up and thats as far as i get.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 02:24:39 PM
I'll try later... or tomorrow...
Won't get past 414.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 03:09:31 PM
ok see the quote that goatboy posted in the account center thread.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 03:10:08 PM
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We are sure most of you followed our news about the registration page and the patch process so far. During the day some of you have encountered issues with these steps. We are aware of the situation and are working on solutions.

As we wrote in previous news connecting to our account system might lead to timeouts (error message 414).  The link between the website and our account database needs some optimisation. Our technicians are working on that and, while their work will temporarily slow down the registration process we expect some improvements soon.

It might happen that the patcher stops working. The technical teams continue to improve the performance of the patcher and some of their changes might lead to a disconnection between your client and our patch server. In this case please restart you patcher, it will continue its download at the beginning of the last file you downloaded during the disconnection.

There has been a misunderstanding about the creation of new accounts. If you already have an account on www.war-europe.com , you don’t need to create a new one and can activate your key directly here.

Some of you have received error messages stating that your Open Beta code has expired. We are currently looking for the reason of this error message. Rest assure that your code is definitely valid.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and are working hard to improve the whole situation.

http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en110&lang=en

See, that's good. Apologize, explain, promise to fix it. Good job.

Having said that, I'm not getting in yet.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 03:17:36 PM
they must be translating from french to english or something because everybody was lead to believe they needed a new account.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 03:39:15 PM
Quote
The moment we've all been waiting for is here – the European WAR Open Beta servers are online! All previous beta testers will have immediate access while new testers will be joining WAR in waves.

All Open Beta servers are currently running the Core rule set – there are no Open RvR servers in the Open Beta. English players will be able to choose from the following servers: Karag Dron, Karag Orrud, Nehekhara, Karak-Hirn, Karak-Norn, Alarille, Burlok and Ellyrioon.

GOA and Mythic are very excited to bring Europe the WAR Open Beta. WAAAAGH!!

Great, but now I can't log in at all! :p
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 03:40:10 PM
What I do? :(
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 04:02:19 PM
i posted the same as you about the latest news on war-europe
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 04:13:04 PM
Oh. :p

Sorry, didn't understand the not safe for work thing. xD
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 04:17:41 PM
From www.war-europe.com

Quote
"Our registration and authentication servers have been taken offline for maintenance. This means that it is currently not possible to create new accounts or authenticate Open Beta keys. During this maintenance we are processing all queued account registrations and key authentications. These services will be available as soon as this work is complete."
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 04:50:41 PM
Doh... I'm guessing they meant 8.30 PM all this time.  :P

At least the website seems more stable. And by stable I do mean not much worse than it normally is.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 07, 2008, 05:03:47 PM
yawn went of to play LOTRO for as few hours and its still not working :)

but at least i dont need to make a new account after all :)
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 05:07:49 PM
Funny stuff:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=j3aN7zVBv3w

and (warning F word used):
http://i38.tinypic.com/vnp1jk.jpg

PS; ooooooh shiny automatic YouTube integration. :)
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 07, 2008, 05:31:05 PM
someone on tentonhammer war forum just posted got his registration confirmation email it took 6 hours.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 05:33:28 PM
someone on tentonhammer war forum just posted got his registration confirmation email it took 6 hours.

I've given up on that since they said current account holders on the site dont need to register.

Just want to you know actually stick my codes in, but thats down at the mo :(
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 05:55:07 PM
Yeah atm they're processing loads of new accounts... from a lot of people that already had an account.
Perhaps a clean start would have been better. "It went wrong. We're sorry. Register your key again using your existing account. Have fun."
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Mangala on September 07, 2008, 07:25:43 PM
Think I shall try again in the morning.

Seems login on the site is back up, but people (and me) keep getting 414'd.

I'll let stuff die down me thinks, after all, I am in this game for more than OB access :)
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Goatboy on September 07, 2008, 08:12:42 PM
Yeah 414 city today. Alas... going to be tomorrow evening at the earliest. :(

At least they're being honest:
http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en113&lang=en
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Caradir on September 08, 2008, 12:34:36 PM
Most up to date news


Quote
As we told you in previous news, the key validation system has been taken offline while our technical teams work on it. A lot of work has been done and some of the hardware on the database server has been changed as well as a lot of software improvements and our teams are still working hard to prepare the systems.

As a result, we will launch a new code validation page today at 16:00 CET. This new page will feature a delay between the input and the validation of the key. You will now receive a confirmation email within a few minutes of entering your key.

On a related topic; if you created a war-europe account yesterday and have a validation email for this, these changes will allow you to follow that link and validate your account.

Thank you for your patience.
Title: Re: account center
Post by: Keggi on September 08, 2008, 01:29:57 PM
lets hope it stands up this time with alot of people hitting it at 3pm although most people will be at work and school.