Adventures in Origins Registration...

[Set]

I got bored 54 minutes into banging my head on the beleaguered Origins Registration server and started keeping a log, trying to track down the elusive black-text-on-a-white-background 'rare spawn' Problem With Request screen.

12:54 Problem With Request, white text, black background
12:55 Problem With Request, white text, black background
12:56 Problem With Request, white text, black background
12:58 Problem With Request, white text, black background
12:59 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:00 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:01 thrown back to Prereg page
13:02 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:03 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:05 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:06 had to pee
13:07 white page loaded with adds on left and Add Events buttons at bottom left (only the second time I’ve seen that one!)
13:07 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:08 Problem With Request, white text, black background, beginning to wonder what happened to the black text on white screen version, I miss it
13:08 thown back to Modify Existing Badge prompt screen, musta double-clicked
13:10 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:10 thrown back to Modify Existing Badge prompt screen again! Argh!
13:11 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:11 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:12 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:14 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:14 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:15 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:15 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:16 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:16 thrown back to Modify Existing Badge prompt screen again, instead of mastering the click-fu, I am the click-f00
13:17 wondered if babies are actually succulent
13:17 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:18 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:19 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:20 Problem With Request, white text, black background, is it a myth? I know I got the black text on white background at least three times in the first hour!
13:20 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:21 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:21 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:22 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:23 while I’ve been sitting here, 4000 people have died in car accidents. Origins Pre-Reg may have saved my life!
13:24 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:25 OMG! Problem With Request! White text, on a black background! Shocking!!
13:25 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:26 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:26 added all fourteen events to my two badges! In a dream I had, just now.
13:27 in the real world, ‘Problem With Request’, white text, black background
13:28 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:29 user error, screen is all white, I think I double-clicked something
13:29 yup, Modify Existing Badge. My bad, I thought I was over that premature clickulation thing, how embarrassing
13:30 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:31 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:32 Problem With Request, white text, black background, now 52 minutes since I emailed info@originsgames.com, as instructed by this nice page, which I only did after 40 minutes of frustration
13:34 Problem With Request, white text, black background, booted to login screen!!!
13:35 back to Modify Existing Badge screen, finally
13:35 ah, Problem With Request screen, how I had missed you! White text, black background, again
13:36 ‘kay, I’m done missing you now. Problem With Request. White text, black background
13:37 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:38 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:39 Problem With Request, white text, black background, this one came up *fast*
13:39 Problem With Request, white text, black background, again, fast, or perhaps I’m dozing off during the 30 second waits for the page to reload…
13:40 I forgot I had this song, I’m sort of dancing in my chair, it’s catchy
13:40 Problem With Request, white text, black background,
13:40 Problem With Request, white text, black background, so nu
13:41 Problem With Request, white text, black background, it’s definitely sped up, the suspense is, well, it’s not killing me, but it does kinda itch
13:41 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:42 got Email, it works for Joby, nothing they can do, and oh, I got booted to the Login screen again. Ugh.
13:44 back to Modify Existing Badge screen again
13:44 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:44 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:45 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:45 ooh, a Problem With Request. Never seen that before… :/ white text on black background
13:45 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:46 Problem With Request, white text, black background
13:46 Problem With Request, white text, black background, boot to login, suddenly on add events!! I didn’t even re-login!
13:47 Problem With Request, white text, black background, and back to login AGAIN!
13:47 done trying for now

 

[kenobi65]

Some friends of mine have indicated that it's going much more smoothly now than it was earlier.

 

[Crothian]

There are plenty of games I want to play, more then I have time to do so. I'm waiting till this evening to sign up (like maybe 2am ) hoping the servers are a lot easier to use and the games I want are not the popular ones.

 

[Pepster]

Since I call my employer "The Corporation" and didn't want to make any attempts from work, I waited until I got home from work, around 5:45PM EDT. I got booted once, but the cart saved everything I was attempted to sign up for. Surprisingly I got everything I wanted.

Pepster