PVZ:GW seems to be the first next gen game to have this issue. Servers were reportedly taken offline while PopCap resolves the issue.

We dealt with these issues a lot last gen on all systems, but now that we're moving to an always online future shouldn't these things be taken care of already? Is it acceptable if Destiny is also broken at launch?

Yes, this thread is about all systems and online networks

So PSN isnt down?? =P

So what? Just play the single player mode for a while!

in fact if everything is going to be always online there will be more issues and more maintenance imo

An entire service like XBL or PSN being down is not acceptable IMO

Individual game servers are a little more acceptable but still shouldn't happen.

A few downtimes are ok. Sure, it sucks if you wanna play online at that exact moment, but most of the time, everything works fine. Witht the complexity of modern games and networks, it's just impossible to absolutely guarantee that a network or game is 100 % available all of the time.

Give those guys some space, they're doing a good job. I bet you aren't perfect either at what you do. Those people, always asking for perfection because they're paying 5 bucks a month... We're all just humans!

I hope you were being sarcastic.  PVZ is multiplayer only.

Are we seriously going to act all shocked and amazed when multiplayer only games are a mess at launch?!

Was just playing and it seemed to work fine. (been playing for a couple hours)

Anyways, having a little bit of downtime in a game is fine as long as it isnt persistent. Having something go down for a over a month on the other hand is not acceptable which i believe is what youre referencing.

Exactly. People bitch, but they asked for it by demanding their consoles always stay connected.