With a rare and very naughty outage caused by maintenance alert, gamers have, literally, poured out sorrow. Server downtime is slated for Tuesday, August 12, starting at 9:30 AM CEST (3:30 AM EDT, 12:30 AM PDT, for those nocturnal folks). The question is for how long would the maintenance last? Five hours! Yes! Five LONG hours! Yet with the overwhelming amount of responses to this update, the players sure do have a lot to say.
The patch notes, to begin with. They were linked to the tweet, but that did not stop gamers from giving their reviews on the changes—or nothing of changes at all. ROTTENCORPSE Gaming outrightly called the Season Pass events “boring” and called for the return of XP-based progression. There’s just too much work to go through, and I can’t justify spending money on a pass that doesn’t allow me to progress how I want anymore.
Now for some loot drama. Mike Lowary said, “I would be able to get over all these ridiculous loot drop rates if I didn’t have to constantly stop & destroy caches, fix storage bug.” He is not alone; WilliamAbdou laughed at the 0.5% drop rate: “Do Like Black Friday 🤣🤣🤣.” Meanwhile, Pinguino_alas was not amused and shot back, “0.5%? Really? Are you fucking kidding me?”
And then came the matchmaking issues. Synthrider83 accused Ubisoft of ignoring the players of Oceania: “Matchmaking/call for backup has been dead since before Brooklyn release. Massive wants Aussie players to just SOLO all content.” Oof.
And then arrived the complaints about the raid, with Swag Emu saying that the raid exotics were ‘almost guaranteed,’ while Losty and Pinguino_alas are not having any of it. Losty slammed “‘Guaranteed’? LOL,” while Pinguino_alas torrched it with a harsher, “That’s a joke XD.”
But wait, there is more! Some players are still waiting for their next-gen updates (Vinci9000, that is) while the rest are just dying from boredom. Monkey6200 admitted: “Got halfway [through the new DLC] and got bored.” And then there is this one guy who just wants his old backpack design. Priorities, right?
All in all, much drama is being stirred up by this maintenance update. Will the changes fix anything? Or is this just another one of Ubisoft’s dropped balls? Only time will tell, but one thing for sure is that The Division 2 community isn’t holding back any punches.
And hey, if you’re still stuck in the unfortunate position of waiting for the servers to be back up, how about taking a walk outside and touching some grass? Just an idea.
