As expected, Season 2 launched on March 2nd 2007. A little later than expected, as it was around 6pm-ish GMT, but they were smoothing bugs out.
However, I was shocked at the impatience displayed by the players, and the general anger towards Mind Candy. I feel that people forgot that all of the Mind Candies have put a huge amount of work into the new site, and I would like to remind people that it has only been up around 2 weeks, it is a very large site as well as very new, and there are bound to be bugs.
The whole launch problems were made a lot worse by the constant refreshing, and it actually broke their server. But players were not to be daunted and continued to refresh, thus putting the server under more strain, and preventing it from coming back up. I was extremely disappointed by the lack of awareness shown, as this is an intelligent community!
I really hope something like this will not happen in the future, and I hope that all involved will learn from this.
Thank you to Mind Candy for all the hard work last night, extremely appreciated, and I’m looking forward to solving cards and the ARG part of Season 2 starting.
Happy solving everyone, and remember, if the site is down, take a breather and leave it alone for 15/30mins. It does us all the world of good. I think I shall now go and solve some of my Season 2’s!
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