The inevitable "Rollback" - Page 2

Peace runeword exploit. Nuff said.|||I know it'll happen, but it'll be for under 6 hours, tops. And I know I'll rage like all the fires of Inferno, since they forced this whole online song and dance crap down my throat in the first place.|||Never in my years of WoW & D2 experienced a rollback that made me anything more than slightly annoyed.

I doubt that this will be a problem.|||Exactly what happened with all the other ones. Everyone will ragequit and the game will be deemed a total failure, never to be played again. Two weeks later, all the servers will be permanently taken down.|||I expect that all auction house transactions will have multiple redundancy with duplicate servers in separate locations, so I don't think that there will be any roll-backs on the auction house.



Rollbacks on characters shouldn't be longer than 1 to 5 minutes depending upon how long the game server buffers character updates before saving to the character/account storage system. There might be something longer if there is a data center fire or a massive tornado and blizzard hasn't gone the extra distance to do simultaneous remote duplication for the account storage system. A data center fire is pretty unlikely and I wouldn't build a flimsy data center in a region plagued by tornadoes so I am not worried about rollbacks.|||I doubt there'll be any serious rollbacks in Diablo III - they learned a lot from WoW.|||Coming from an IT background, Backup infrastructure has drastically improved over the last 10 years, I wouldn't expect a rollback to go back more than 1 hour. Also, since roll-backs in RPG type games consist of a Database rollback (usually because something happened with items), there are new methods that can be used to fix the issue without resorting to a rollback. For example, if there is a major dupe outbreak that is discovered and goes viral, Blizzard would use a complex query to locate those items and destroy them without having to roll the servers back.|||Wow I didn't know these sort of things happened. What happens if you found some **** hot item worth a tonne, then went and sold it on RMAH and made a nice sale and then boom! It rolled back to the point where you no longer had the item to begin with? What of the item, the money, the trade? What happens to the receiver of said item?

Can this happen?|||Quote:








Wow I didn't know these sort of things happened. What happens if you found some **** hot item worth a tonne, then went and sold it on RMAH and made a nice sale and then boom! It rolled back to the point where you no longer had the item to begin with? What of the item, the money, the trade? What happens to the receiver of said item?

Can this happen?




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Wow I didn't know these sort of things happened. What happens if you found some **** hot item worth a tonne, then went and sold it on RMAH and made a nice sale and then boom! It rolled back to the point where you no longer had the item to begin with? What of the item, the money, the trade? What happens to the receiver of said item?

Can this happen?




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