User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter Frontier G9 Discussion/@comment-4731324-20160316030256

So for everyone who wishes to point and laugh, comment, rage, cry, postulate, complain or what have you, Frontier has been down for about 50-60% of this entire week. It would appear that the servers that they've been using for pc players since ages past have suddenly been failing them horribly. Because of these monstrous issues, there has been emergency maintenance after emergency maintenance trying to fix them. To that end, they have now been forced to upgrade their servers.

There is both good and bad news with this. Good news (naturally): upgraded servers. Hooray! Bad news: everything done this entire week is being removed. They are reverting the data back to the last uncorrupted point, last week's maintenance. Meaning all time, effort and free courses they gave us as compensation this week... is as dust in the wind.

While they hope to get the servers running by the end of regular maintenance time tomorrow and provide us with compensation, it's not quite...sufficient; especially for currently subscribed players. Yes, they are giving the best courses away for free for all of next week; but the players still have to re-grind everything that they worked long and hard for over the weekend. (They even still plan on releasing Howling Zinogre this week on top of everything that players will have to grind again.) Although it could be forgiven with these courses, currently subscribed players won't be getting anything from the free Hunter Life Course or Extra Course (provided they paid for it too) this week. Not even an extension to the current subscriptions.

The whole situation is more or less bittersweet. But it's clear that it's an absolute nightmare for the Frontier team and could prove to be a pivotal point for the life or death of the game.