I’m not doubting the possibility of nocebo effect, but it’s also just as possible that the servers had a poorly timed difficult spell right after Randy’s message. It has been getting markedly worse of a late, even more so than before the winter update.
Could also be a combination of both, in fact. There could be a slight dip in server quality paired with people noticing more. Nasty combo, eh?
It could also be that some people are returning after hearing of the end to finish up whatever business they had, and then noticed the typical issues that we’ve all come to accept as status quo.
It’s unfortunate all around, really. It makes it hard to come back for a couple missions every once and a while with the servers acting like this, regardless of the reason.
I didn’t notice it getting worse as much as some people did, but maybe it’s just because I’ve always had issues. The boss rush in Heliophage for example always was messed up for me and most enemies weren’t where my client showed them to me.
We did some random draft PvP games yesterday and I played the most depressing Toby the world has ever seen, because I couldn’t even crit a Thrall at close range sometimes (I aimed at the right spot, but most shots just passed through it without doing something), my stun mine didn’t work although I’ve definitely hit that Kelvin on my end and having Whiskey and Marquis against me also didn’t help.
I’ve had problems like that since forever although I’m usually green bar and always blamed a combination of my sucky copper cable internet and my obvious inability to aim properly for that. Also a reason why I’m getting almost depressed when others always tell me to just play an easy character like Oscar Mike if I don’t want to be called a useless scrub - I can’t hit anything and feel even more useless for the team then.
Could be some sort of bad mojo but twice in the past week the Sentinel has gotten stuck, last night with a team of 5.
Everyone just kept saying, Gearbox fixed this. Yeah, bad mojo.
Ive been playing since about 3 or so months before last winters update and although the servers have always been sketchy at times(and fine at others), Ive definitely noticed worse server response since the farewell. For me its 50/50 wether I can even finish a bots game for dailies now.
Although I will admit I decided to come back and try some stories last night and all was smooth…
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(So long, and thanks for all the fish)
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I’ve been seeing an increased frequency of problems in my neck of the woods since the last actual game update (and possibly the one before that - memory is fuzzy). It may be an issue with the way additional servers are spun up as demand rises through the day. I say that, since I will frequently see problems in the 7-8 pm eastern window (note that the daily challenge update rolls out at 8 pm eastern), which is when folks start firing up the game after work and supper.