WILMAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

higgildypiggildy wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 3:33pm:


Oh, completely agree. That's why I've got no problem if they decide to reverse the purchases. But if they start trying to penalize players that simply bought from the AH...that would be way over the top.

Flav wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 1:43pm:

More than likely they don't know the difference between a repeatable read and an uncommitted read.

They may not even know how to read, they obviously can't code.   

....and the "fix" broke splitting items.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/427525-Fix-Broker-My-Bags

Lurp wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 8:40pm:

There certainly have been rollbacks, just not intentional.

Flav wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 1:43pm:


MPLS and BGP aren't weird - the rest of that shit's all French to me

Flav wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 1:43pm:

Friends in telcom software, which from the sounds of the data would make me quit software rather than subject myself to learning comm protocols.  I stay near the top of the software moutain, not in the weeds, by choice.   

About a decade or so ago we had an IBM upgrade expose a software flaw that started a frenetic spawn of extraneous financial transactions in our systems.  It took us three days determine how to fix the issue without making it worse, and was my first deep dive into the arcane gray areas around isolation locking.  We didn't even have the option to rollback because of the mix of valid and invalid actions taken during the 3 days, and it took us 9 months to clean the corruption out of our financial system with the appropriate paper trail, which gets audited heavily.

In a true rollback scenario I had a boss use an old system backdoor incorrectly to clear some data, and we found out the fewer parameters supplied, er none, the backdoor just wiped an entire table clear of data.  A panicked phone ensued, we shutdown the system and the systems group went to grab the backup and found out the last one was like two weeks old.     At least no one died or was injured, and that can be a real possibility in my line of work, but many "hot seat" meetings ensued.

ETA:  The second scenario gave rise to the only true statement you'll ever give a customer when they ask when the system will be fixed.  "We're closer than we've ever been!" 

AtomicMew wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 12:11am:


When? I remember plenty of broken things, emergency shutdowns and "scheduled" hotfixes but I can't think of any time since 2009 that I ever lost XP or items like you would in a rollback. Maybe I just avoid playing on patch day. Still would have read about it on the forums though.

rest wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 11:41am:


Yah, I can only remember one rollback, and it was like minutes over the couple years I played.