A Q&A on why your servers might or might not be up right now

[tyles]

this dev needs to work on his english... jesus dude...

[Halloween]

So when is the official, true launch of the game? 12:01 am ET has come and passed, and the PC NA server has yet to be wiped, so that "launch time" has been eliminated as a possibility. The patcher lists 8 am as a possible launch time, but it does not list the corresponding timezone. I have previously heard 10 am PT, and recently I've heard about the "Defiance Launch Day Streamapalooza," which begins at 2 pm PT. Does anyone actually know this officially? When I mean officially, I mean literally what exact time launch begins, not hours before.

This has seriously jaded me to question every single game-related scheduled event from this point forward. I'm still wishing this is the worst April Fool's prank ever.

UPDATE:
8 am ET has come and passed - the servers are still online with no wipe.
8 am PT has come and passed - the servers are still online with no wipe.

My next guess is that the wipe will occur on or before 1 pm ET.

[Halt]

I've seen this movie.....You have to kill the fat witch to get her name back.....The paper dragon boy will help you.

You are a hero.

[Yonan]

Early launches are common and good to spread out the server load. I was trying to login periodically for that reason and it paid off - once again, as it has in other MMOs. Wiping the characters would be unheard of in this situation and cause a lot of anger. Not being able to login? Annoying. Having your charater deleted? Much more annoying.

[Chappy]

I'm sitting here at work, about to fall asleep. Played the game for a few hours today, i can tell you there really isnt alot of people who got in..i might have saw 100 in the 8 hours i played, so rest assured there is a good chance your gamer names are safe. Working customer service i am not surprised at all by the amount of worthless complaining going on and calls for refunds!!! Act like adults, so some people got to test server load before you, so what. I'm sure you really wanted to see a main line quest bug out for half the people so you cant progress the story line quests. That's about all you missed. So take a midol and grow up.

[Newsin]

so your whole gaming experience is gone now because someone has taken your name? what would of happen at midnight when you got home and someone already had it?

Dont pay any attention to IGears he will argue tell your face turns blue and he loves to troll... just like I am doing to him now.

[Shadewolfe]

You know what? If all you are going to do is piss, moan, and complain about not getting served everything on a silver platter; you can stay the hell out of my game and off my server. I will not miss you, and neither will anyone else with a modicum of human decency and common sense.

[Zyvaks]

say what you will, it will not change the fact i am very cheezed off. i was waiting very patiently, my fingers ready to hit the download button once the psn store updates, to get online asap and claim my names before they get taken.

what do i find when i get on the forums? i find that all the whining little brats who were begging to get on early were finally getting their wishes granted.

i have learned that being patient doesn't get squat, so from now on when i want something i will be sure to start 50+ threads all begging for whatever it is my little heart desires.

[Chappy]

You do know the PS3 servers are seperate from the PC and no one on PS3 got on early, your gamer tags/names have yet to be claimed...so your comments/complaints are invalid..good day sir

[EyeMaze]

Ok, but can I download client on PC before servers are open, because for now i gets "Login successfull but this account is not entlitled to play DEFIANCE..."??? I entered my preorder code yesterday.