Splinterlands Is Down

At about 1:00 PM of my time yesterday, the Splinterlands game was down, and until now, the game has remained inaccessible to the players, and apparently the game is said to be going down for up to 24 hours and I'm not kidding when I say about that. For those of you who were not on Discord or haven't checked yet, there was an official announcement by Dave McCoy, addressing the current situation, but it doesn't explicitly explain what the root issue was. Here was the statement.

The statement does not come from Dave, but rather from Tech Support, whom he was just giving proper visibility to. Apparently, they have already identified the cause of the downtime, but because of the late hour, they were unable to take immediate action, so they instead put the entire game in maintenance mode. That was quite understandable since the devs would need to take some rest too, and we have a much smaller team than before. And although they have already identified the problem, they want to solve the issue more cautiously to make sure that they can handle it properly. This gives me the idea that it is not just a minor issue and they need all the manpower that they have to fix the issue.

It's not the first time that the team has taken a long maintenance window. Just recently, they had a very long maintenance window too when they implemented the Brackets system. But the difference between this and that is that we do not have any idea what the cause of the game being down this time is.

As a result, some players are worried that the game is being hacked and that game tokens and assets are in danger. Well, it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility, especially right now with AI, which has been used for a plethora of nefarious acts. Add to the fact that before the game came down, there was $ 30k worth of DEC that was exchanged on PancakeSwap for cheap.

It can also be a DDOS attack that may result in the game servers getting overloaded, as the site gets tons of requests that the game can't handle, resulting in it slowing down.

As of now, we can't really say for sure what's really happening with the game and can only wait for their announcements.

Of course, because of this long downtime, all players don't have access to the game, meaning that not only can they spend their energy, but it might also be that their energy bar is full because they were unable to play a match. At the same time, it could also affect some tournaments that were currently underway, and that makes players who were unable to submit their teams before the downtime to automatically lose their battles.

In case of Guild brawls, I do not know if it's still the selection phase or the battle phase, so if a guild has failed to assign their guild members to a fray or is unable to battle their opponent, they may inevitably lose their battles.

If you were on land and your workers have been working for 7 days already, you need to harvest your land, but because of the downtime, it became impossible to stop them.

Because of the downtime, you also can't transfer tokens or trade items in the game, even through the 3rd-party sites.

But I guess the biggest hit comes to the Gold Foil Arcane Fortune Draw, as the current card being raffled might not get the number of raffle entries that it was supposed to get during the time that the game is in maintenance. That means that fewer vouchers will be burned.

The reason I made this post is not to make you feel paranoid, but to tell what was currently happening in the game and also that how having the game in maintenance this long makes me realize how much I interacted in the game as a part of my life. For those of you out there who had no idea this was happening hopes this post get you up to speed.