Greetings!
The servers will come down for the launch of our first expansion to Age of Conan! The downtime is scheduled to last 12 hours until we are ready to open the floodgates and allow players into our latest creation.
Launching an expansion is no easy task. It's very important to our team to ensure all the official information is out there and easily accessible to you, the player. Therefore, I wanted to have one official thread that contained all the important information and discussions about the launch!
I hope everyone enjoys the work our entire team has put into this epic expansion. Everyone at Funcom is very excited about its full release and we all hope you enjoy playing the expansion just much as we did creating the expansion!
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Latest Information
(Last updated at 10:00 PM-EST)
03:50 AM-EST: The US servers will come down for Update 2.0 (Rise of the Godslayer) on 11th of May at 08:00 GMT / 4am EST. The downtime is scheduled to last 12 hours. During this downtime we will also take the forums offline at around 09:00 GMT / 5am EST for about one hour for maintenance.
04:00 AM-EST: The US servers are down for the launch of the expansion!
04:50 AM-EST: The forums have been updated with the new Rise of the Godslayer logo!
05:34 AM-EST: We have found a slight issue with the items for the Might of Crom pack (
full item list here). There was a problem with the claim system for these items so we had to remove them from the build this morning. These will hopefully be available after the first post-launch update. (Silirrion)
01:00 PM-EST: We are currently doing our internal testing on the new expansion builds to double-check their integrity before opening the doors. This is a normal process we take on every update to the game, big or small. During this process, the QA teams will take another look at everything going out to the live servers before passing off on it's full release to the public.
03:50 PM-EST: We are extending the downtime for the US servers by 4 hours due to the issues that have cropped up during the EU deployment of the expansion. Unfortunately, the EU regions have already been delayed and we are expecting their release to come very close to their expected uptime. This means that we must delay the US uptime so that we can fully launch EU first and the follow up with the US launch like every other major update released. Overall, we are aiming to come up within the 2 hour extended delay, but it highly depends on how the EU deployment goes when it's fully launched. The current expected uptime is 24:00 GMT / 8pm EST.
08:17 PM-EST: The downtime for the US servers will be extended by 6 hours. It seems we have hit a bit of bad luck with the deployment of the expansion to the servers. The expansion is good to go, but the movement of the full expansion to our server locations around the world is causing issues. We are currently working on solutions to speed up this process and we will do our best to get you into Rise of the Godslayer as soon as possible! The current expected uptime is 06:00 GMT / 2AM EST.
08:51 PM-EST: EU Servers have opened up for patching. The US servers will follow. The game servers will not be online as this is only the patch servers. This is a good sign that ALL regions will open VERY shortly!
09:02 PM-EST: All regions can now update their clients! The game servers are still offline, but we are getting closer!
10:00 PM-EST: All regions are now open! ENJOY!
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Other Information
(Last updated at 04:46 AM-EST)
04:29 AM-EST: Join the community in IRC! You can find us in room #ageofconan on server irc.funcom.com port 6667.
04:46 AM-EST: EU servers are having good success applying the expansion data to the servers for internal testing.
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[OFFICIAL] Rise of the Godslayer Launch Thread! (SERVERS OPEN)
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[OFFICIAL] Rise of the Godslayer Launch Thread! (SERVERS OPEN)
Good thing I'm at work and not sitting at home anxiously checking if the servers are back up again every 5 minutes :P
