Whats the longest downtime a Tibian world/game itself has experienced?

Question

Was waiting for Server save and it got me thinking. Whats the longest downtime Tibia has experienced? What happened?

Any information much appreciated

Answer 1

The longest downtime Tibia ever experienced would have to come from the records of the news on Tibia.com. Now, not every record was kept there so there could've been a longer downtime than what I'm about to list so I will mention this as, one of the longest downtimes Tibia has ever experienced was...

• 5 days due to a server hack-

"In the night from September 17th to September 18th (2003), one of our servers was hacked. Unfortunately, the hacker got access to our central database. Important data had been manipulated and copied by the hacker. Therefore we had to shutdown our complete service for 5 days. Without rest we patched all servers and changed important parts of our data structure to ensure more security in the future. Moreover, it was inevitable to reset all game servers to a state before the hacking. Of course all premium players got a compensation of 5 days to make up for the lost premium time."

Source:

https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=221&fbegind=1&fbeginm=1&fbeginy=2000&fendd=14&fendm=4&fendy=2020&flist=11111111

• About 2 days due to a miscommunication of the server getting canceled with the host-

From Feb 28 2001-March 2 2001- "We are sorry to tell you that our server and the whole game will go down in the evening of Wednesday, February 28th. We cannot say yet when the game will be up again but we hope to continue our service within one week. Gameloft who currently hosts our server did not manage to warn us in time about the cancellation of their service. Therefore, we are forced to stop the game until we found a new home. You can be sure that we are working hard on getting Tibia back online as quick as possible."

Sources:

https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=35&fbegind=1&fbeginm=1&fbeginy=2000&fendd=14&fendm=4&fendy=2020&flist=11111111

https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=52&fbegind=1&fbeginm=1&fbeginy=2000&fendd=14&fendm=4&fendy=2020&flist=11111111

Comments

Great info. Has there been anymore long ones since 2003?

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I'll keep searching but can't find anything recent that's longer than a day or hours~