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Wildefire
General Goods Vendor
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
Posts: 1
Location: USA |
| Vendetta Online: All Characters Accidentally Deleted @ Offic |
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Now this is why GMs hate doing things like restoring stuff that players accidentally delete. On Monday, while attempting to restore a wrongly deleted character for a <i>Vendetta Online</i> player, one of the staff <a href="http://www.vendetta-online.com/h/news.html" target="_blank">inadvertantly removed <b>all</b> characters</a> from the game's database. Luckily, a recent backup was available, however any progress that characters might have made since the backup was saved has been lost. As compensation for the snafu, <i>Vendetta Online</i> is crediting all paying users a free week of gameplay.
<br><blockquote><em>This evening, while restoring a character for a user who had apparently deleted it by accident, Andy accidentally deleted all the characters in the database. This would be kind of funny, if it wasn't for ALL OF OUR CHARACTERS BEING DELETED (!@#!@#). So, anyway, we've restored from a backup made at 4:00 AM (CST) this morning. Character changes made since then will not be reflected in the database, except for the handful of lucky people who happened to be online when Andy had his snafu, and had their characters preserved through activation on the server.
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<br>We sincerely, sincerely apologize for this. It's the first instance of a problem we've ever had like this, and it was a pretty bizarre event that caused it (not entirely Andy's fault.. partially mysqldump apparently acting in a way other than documented). To apologize, we've given all paying users a free week of gameplay.
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<br>The new UI will also include features to prevent people from accidentally deleting their own characters (having to type in the character name to confirm deletion), to hopefully mitigate the cause of this giant mess in the future.
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Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:35 am |
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cokebottle tuque
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well looks like there geting a good amount of publicity from digg over this so it may infact be worth it just for the amount of new users gained. |
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Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:37 am |
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