But There Instead Was Another Reason
For the second time in 10 days, we again received a couple news tips indicating the official US hub for Sonic the Hedgehog 4 suffered an extended period of downtime.
The outage began Wednesday. As of early this morning, the site returned online. Once again, the UK and Japanese outlets for Sonic 4 remained online during the US outage, so rumors of the game’s demise are greatly exaggerated.
Instead, there are widespread but unconfirmed reports the domestic website fell victim to a wider power outage that is impacting corporate headquarters at Sega of America. It would explain why Sega’s blogs and Twitter feed have not been updated by the US community team for most of Wednesday. But unless the content resides on different servers, why are other Sega run sites, like the community blogs and the Phantasy Star Universe website, completely unaffected?
There may be another reason for the outage you haven’t thought of. TSSZ News has learned ownership of the Sonicthehedgehog4.com domain name has technically changed hands. A current WHOIS lookup of the domain shows Sega Europe employee Adam Hance as registrant. Hance is Sega Europe’s Online Director. Technical changes note EuroDNS now manages the domain name. That’s quite different from three months ago, when we first reported Sega of America’s Online Director, Brandon Laurino, actually registered the domain.
It’s not clear when the domain name changed hands from SOA to SOE. But if it happened recently, it may explain the recent rash of downtime. It has been previously noted that website data has been moved around behind the scenes, and address redirection were at the heart of the matter.
UPDATE: The second reason explained above has been affirmed in a statement made late yesterday on the Sega forums by Community Manager RubyEclipse.
“The website is still there – the redirect at sonicthehedgehog4.com is being transferred,” he said. “I just got done talking with some people here to find out what’s going on, and to make sure it was being looked into and fixed.”
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It’s back up now.
Just to let you know the PSU website was down for a few hours a day or 2 ago if I remember correctly.
Darn, I was kinda hoping it was canceled.
@Speeding Hegdehog: ? Sonic 4?
Is this why there hasn`t been ANY updates what so ever over this past 3 – 2 weeks? wheres our clocks!
damn, I hope that all 5/3 episodes are release this year, … dates please!
Hey Why would SEga create separete episode sites? I`d just post one big site adding bits on and on until all was released.
much better ^_^
bye!
(Keep an eye out for spammers by the way)
blueblur i dont know propley it take alot of time to make games or something.
@ Blueblur:
Yeah, that’s what I said, but i meant that I wish they’d rename it. I’m not liking what I saw of the game, and theirs no way they can modify it at this point (since it takes, like 3-4 months for Xbox Live to Review a game). I like the sound of “Sonic Rewind”. I’m not a grumpy Classic fan complaining about green eyes, I just don’t think this game deserves the title Sonic 4, because once this game is Sonic 4, and if it isn’t very good (which I think is the case at this point), they will never be able to make a true sequel.
Play the game first people, then your free to criticise.
It been two weeks dammit, where the hell is the clocks?
That site is still pretty bad espically compared to the SOJ has, everything from SOA’s PR seems to be awful
Who can forget this classic from official bread butterer Ruby Eclipse:
“Speed is something that is not given; but rather earned through dedication. Speed is not found by simply pushing a boost button, but by building momentum. It is the reward for skill in the face of difficult challenges – this kind of speed is the most exhilarating, not only because it is fast, but because of the pure perfection such speed exemplifies. This is the truth of the original Sonic games – and this is the truth of Project Needlemouse.”
No it’s not the truth of Sonic 4, it’s just a lie in your campaign to get jaded fans invested in your latest game. The fact that they are playing more into marketing on nostalgia than showing off the game for real speaks volumes for the quality of the game. I’m more than willing to change my tune if Sega actually shows off footage rather than boring concept art If the final game has 90% less dash pads and nerfs the jump dash I will be really impressed.
@Crysore
You’re wasting your time, it’s like yelling at the sky for being blue and expecting it to change colors.
@Dr.Eggfan
YES,The U.S site really bad layout,I like japanese website.
And thanks post Ruby comment here =)
No boost AGAIN “confirmed” xD
Sorry my english =/
About this:
“No it’s not the truth of Sonic 4, it’s just a lie in your campaign to get jaded fans invested in your latest game. The fact that they are playing more into marketing on nostalgia than showing off the game for real speaks volumes for the quality of the game. I’m more than willing to change my tune if Sega actually shows off footage rather than boring concept art If the final game has 90% less dash pads and nerfs the jump dash I will be really impressed.”
FEAR and more FEAR about sonic 4 now o.o
Really wtf:
Nº 1 – All game leaked videos online
Nº 2 – The number of website shutdown
Nº 3 – The post o Ruby
second episode will come by the end of 2010