This is the first time in more then a decade that this happened.
Usually all updates were almost instantaneous, requiring a few sec to download and start.

Waiting in que at 11 out of 12 requests for over 9 min. to start the game is going to be a big problem in the long run. What if there is 2000 requests and I am at 1999 place, 7 hours wait?

same issue here -- it would appear as though the update server system has been downgraded rather that upgraded

So, it should be fine now. I've removed one of the new servers from the starting cluster. It was previously round-robin-ing between an old one and a new one. We're back to running on just the old one until we figure out wtf is going on.

In theory:

- You should only have been getting the broken update server about 50% of the time
- It should have fallen back to the secondary server at some point.

But apparently the latter was not happening, sometimes?

At some point, apparently our updateserver stopped liking being compiled for Linux. We have to debug it a lot more to find out why.

On the upside, it's good that we're finding this out now, and not during the middle of an iPhone release or something.

Sorry for the issue, everyone.

Yeah I found out that restarting the updater usually made it work (about 50% of the time as you say)