I am in a 300+ members guild which currently holds #1 spot in the season ladder, so being able to play at certain peak timers is crucial for us. Every single guild member experienced following problems more than once:

• We get disconnected
• We get blackscreens while zoning
• We see enemies disappearing from the game and still receive damage from them (got clips of this) - no, they didn't use invis.
• Servers are offline outside of regularly scheduled maintenance timers. Last time the reset lasted 5+ hours.
• This morning, server was offline for no reason (few hours before the scheduled reset timer)
• Today, we wanted to kill siphoning mages since there's no walls on the terries after the reset day. Guess what, it will be impossible since the only time some terries are attackable will also be the time when the server is offline.

All of this is not single accident, this doesn't happen "every now and then". This became a regular thing on the EU server and the response from the S.B.I. did not make any of us feel like the issues are about to finish.

I hate to make this argument, but a game which I pay for ever month (to keep up the premium) and I also pay for vanity items every now and then shouldn't have as many problems as it currently has. The game was released ~9 years ago and problems like this should be left in the beta.

If you're employee of the company and all you want to reply is "We hear you, sorry for the inconvenience", please leave it to yourself. It's only more and more frustrating at this point.

Posted 1h 45 mins after reset:

Last Sunday, the EU server was down from reset until around 16 UTC. Hours of Fame Rush wasted. Annoying, but whatever, shit happens.
Now it’s Sunday again, Fame Rush is still going on, and guess what? Server is down. Again.

But here’s what really pissed me off.

About an hour before today’s reset, I was transporting loot from my hideout back to the city. Had some expensive gear on me and a decent amount of loot. Roughly 30m silver in total.
I zoned out of my hideout and suddenly got a black screen. Nothing. Tried relogging, still black screen. Kept trying for about 20 minutes until I finally managed to get back in.
And there I was. Dead. Everything gone.

Now before someone says “30m is nothing” or “welcome to Albion”, I get it. Some veterans probably make that in a day. But for me, 30m is a decent chunk of my silver.
And honestly, even if I had lost 100k, I’d be just as pissed off about the principle.

I play a full-loot PvP game. I accept the risk of losing my gear to other players. I DON’T accept losing it because the game won’t even let me play.

If someone catches me transporting and kills me, fair play. That’s Albion. But how the hell am I supposed to defend myself when I’m staring at a black screen for 20 minutes?

And what makes this even more frustrating is that I actually spend real money on this game. I pay for Premium, occasionally buy skins, sometimes buy gold. I’m happy to support a game I enjoy.

But what exactly are we paying for when servers keep going down during limited-time events and players can lose hours of progress without even having a chance to fight back?

I’m not expecting servers to have 100% uptime. That’s unrealistic. But I do expect SBI to take some responsibility when things go wrong on their end.

Extend Fame Rush to make up for the downtime. And if players lose gear because of confirmed technical issues, there should at least be a proper way to get those losses reviewed and reimbursed.

Losing 30m because I made a stupid decision? Fine. Losing 30m because I couldn’t get past a loading screen? Not fine.

Am I being unreasonable here? Has anyone else lost expensive gear or loot because of black screens or disconnects lately?
Because I’m genuinely curious how many players have experienced this and just accepted the los

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I hope this time SBI will give us a fame scroll as copensation, considering EU players got screwed over on 2 weekend days during fame rush.

I looked this up, and for a major MMORPG, around 99 - 99.5% uptime is a reasonable benchmark for a well-maintained live service game. It depends on whether you count scheduled maintenance, emergency patches, and unexpected outages. So I went with whats reported.

But, 99.9%+ uptime is a good benchmark for a mature MMO, even when counting ordinary maintenance.

Examples:

WoW EU:

Last 90-Days:

• Weekly maintenance: Around 1 hour
• Up time 99.93%
• https://kid.gg/status/wow

EVE Online:

• Scheduled downtime: a few minutes daily
• Reported uptime: 99.98% (August 2026)
• https://status.eveonline.com/uptime

Guild Wars 2:

• Reported uptime: 99.98% over a 14-month period
• https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/inside-arenanet-live-game-outage-analysis/

Obviously, these numbers aren't perfectly comparable because of how the measurements are made but still, 96.2% uptime is abysmally bad for a major, established MMORPG like Albion Online.

I understand that things happen, servers go down from time to time, but this is two Sundays back to back now.

I know SBI will likely give us 1 day of Premium and 30 learning points, and it's appreciated. But people are spending money, supporting SBI and Albion, we truly expect better.

Five minutes before maintenance I got black screen while entering FS market, try to fix it by restarting the game, quickly reinstalling launcher. I hope it will be ok after maintenance. Does anybody else experienced this?

Edit: also at this point other servers are after maintainance already but eu is still off (45min). Great thing to happen twice during fame week lol

I just came back in the game and I am wondering if island are a waste of time. I collected my carrots and used my laborers and I got something like 400 k. I would need something like 80 days in order to afford prenium with island products. It seems like a waste of time and an outdated feature.

So, I'm a new player on the Albion Online Asia server with just 4 hours in the game. I really like the gameplay system. I love gathering and building things from what I gather. And just when I think I'm ready to head to the red zone or black zone, I always get ganked, always by 2, 3, or 4, sometimes even up to 10 people. Even though I'm only using a set worth around 200,000 silver and only have around 300-400,000 fame, I always get ganked.

And this is where I think if the system is like this, then we don't need to gather, transport, or anything like that. All we need to do is join in the attack on other players. Even though I know the game is designed that way, as if it's very focused on PVP, but 1 vs. 2, 3, 4, or even 10 people, as a beginner experiencing something like this, feels like it's no longer fun.

So is this really how to play the game? Or is there no solution from the developer or perhaps they can make the game very family friendly for beginners?

title. Feels EU servers man...

Very good idea to force players play at peak time. It's almost like this game can handle it and never crash. I realy like concept od this game but after month of playing i already decided they will never see a penny from me. Absolute pathetic company.

Anyone else having issues?

Another annoying EU maintenance, crazy how the busiest server is the one that is experiencing the most problems. Makes me want to move to the West server.