gaming When the servers go down....

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,492]

Okay, hypothetical situation time. one of your favorite games is either online only or mostly online. Then, the servers go bleh and you cannot log in. When this happens, what do you do? Is it a game of waiting at that point for you or do you checkout and play something different? 

 

Me, I either play something different, watch videos, listen to music, or go on a walk. I don't play many games that constantly need an online connection but it has happened before. 

 

Or do you do this?

 

 

Sometimes, we all just have to do that.

[Chaton 3,765]

If we're talking about game servers as in hosted game servers for games like TF2 or Minecraft, I just open up my own server for friends to mess on until the normal is back.

 

If it's servers as in global open servers such as in APB or GTA then I don't know. Never happened to me. Probably just go and play Space Engineers or something.

[TeeSix 116]

I normally just play a different game or wait it out. I do however very much enjoy occasionally roving the internet during such a downtime; I've been studying tanks (if you can call it study, reading a book at age 5) for 12 years, and I still learn new things to do with them just about whenever I do so.

[rarity1 461]

I would play another game or do something else.  This doesn't affect me so much because the internet in my country is unreliable so I would just play offline LAN games with my friends.

[cmarston1 5,959]

Either Play a different video game or surf the internet.

Edited December 22, 2015 by cmarston1

[baba_booey 4,302]

I just play the waiting game.

[MoltenKitten 341]

If I am in the middle of a match table flip all the way but, if I hop on to see it is down I just go oh well and do something else.

[ThePoniMan 164]

Oh, I get angry. REALLY ANGRY. YEAH! Haha, I usually get a little upset for like a minute, then I find something else to do until they are back up.

[kanwe yest 157]

When Xfire went down this summer, a lot of my friends all went separate paths.

 

But if... hmmm social club went down or STEAM went down, i'd be shocked. I wouldn't flip a table over it though lol.

[Comic Sans 401]

I usually go and find something else to do, but keep checking back regularly and trying not to go insane with boredom.

[gamecubeguy214 2,512]

I might play singleplayer or use other websites. The Minecraft servers once went down for a month for me because my father or a web protection system blocked Mojang.com.

[Scrubbed user 3,416]

Last year when PSN was being DDoS'd at Christmas by people who think a DDoS attack is "hacking", I was pretty much forced to spend time with my family. Turns out they're nice people.

[Catpone Cerberus 23,599]

I just play something else, read forums, watch videos or stare at my wallpaper and listen music.

[best poni 1,519]

I do my interneting elsewhere  

[redaxted 1,765]

I usually just flail my arms and legs and squeal annoyingly for a few seconds. Then I, fruitlessly, try and connect to the server again.

[Lume WMj 228]

In all honesty, internet connection issues are one of the few things in this world that are capable of infuriating me...  :okiedokielokie:

 

But well, as long as I'm not in the middle of anything important in the game in question (like, for example, a boss fight or a dungeon raid), I just listen to music or watch random YouTube videos until the servers come back. And if I AM in the middle of something important, I will keep mashing the Log In button and calling the game names until it decides to work. 

[Jokuc 8,173]

December 31st 2010

 

EA games decided that it was a good idea to shut down all the servers for my favorite game Battle for Middle-Earth and BfME2. I had played it for years and the game was my life..

 

I was literally sitting on my bed being angry for a whole month haha ... and I'm still pissed at ea

[EpicEnergy 23,218]

First I check my internet connection and anything else that might be preventing me from connecting to the servers like a new update. If the problem persists, I then check social media to see if anyone else is having the same issue. Once I find out that the servers are down, I try to find something else to do like listen to music and browse the internet, or play another game.

I remember one time Xbox Live servers went down when I wanted to play Destiny 2, and that was annoying since they were down for like 3 hours. I hate it when the servers for a gaming platform go down because then you can't play any online game until they come back online.

[MarkusTactician 61]

What!? I can't play "Insert game here" because of server maintenance (or etc)!?

Guess it's time to play something else.