PixlBit

Great, glad to hear it's running better!

Excellent! Thanks for the status report, hopefully we can get that back up to zippy speeds 

Alright, I did some more work to alleviate some of the slowness. Still not where I want it to be yet, but I think we're headed in the right direction.

Ultimately, it's looking like I'm going to need to upgrade the database server because the version we're currently using is fairly out of date. The latest releases offer numerous performance enhancements, many of which are directly related to the problem I'm seeing.

Please let me know if it's just unbearably slow for you guys. I know it's not perfect still, but I think it should be at least usable now.

So, I've managed to fix a number of bugs, but they're all unrelated to the general slowness of the site. I'm not quite sure what the issue is still, but I'm running diagnostics and hope to have some definitive answers soon.

Again, thank you for everyone's patience, I deeply apologize for the issues.

There does seem to be some sort of small issue. I just put in a stopgap measure that should help improve performance, but I'll be looking into a more permanent solution.

Well, we're back and it took longer than anticipated. *crosses fingers* hopefully we don't have any major problems.

No doubt, I'd definitely rather they take their time with it than rush it out the door. Though I'm bummed that I won't be at E3 this year to give the game a go on the show floor. Oh well.

Demon's Souls should be a fun voyage, I made my way past Phalanx in about an hour and a half when I started it a few months back, so I was pretty happy with that. Dark Souls certainly prepared me well and after the last fight of that game, I feel like a master of the parry.

That appears to be on the convention center in downtown LA where E3 is held. See below for a picture we took at E3 2010 of what appears to be the same or a similar spot.

In any event, excited to hear it's a big ticket item for Namco Bandai, but sad to see that we won't be playing it until next year. This pretty much clears me for my Demon's Souls playthrough I've been planning since I know I won't get to burnt out on the series by marathoning through all of them in one year!

Hard to say one way or another on this right now, but it's not looking too bad. Mark me down as "cautiously optimistic."