Meet Norishige Nagase. He is the General Manager of Ameba.

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Where did Pico go?

Looks like it's lights out for Pico again. We're not talking about the usual unscheduled maintenance mayhem. It's a blackout as of 7:00AM GMT.

(Thank the gods! I had just finished the secret spy theme Casino Challenge 5 minutes earlier.)

Not even the official blog is working. It's disappeared. This might be a major server problem. The granddaddy of server issues.

Remember the epic maintenance break from two weeks ago? How could you forget? It was almost 36 hours. I have a feeling this server meltdown will put it to shame.

That's all folks. I'm back to watching reruns of Torchwood.

With Pico out of service it's probably a good idea for you to watch reruns of something ... or discover a new Facebook game to enjoy. I'm thinking about The Hunger Games social game app. What about you?

Poll results: Pico Maintenance

We're approaching the 36 hour mark on Pico's most epic period of server maintenance ever.

Reading comments from the most recent notice of extending the maintenance it seems as though the game came back for a brief moment, but was so laggy that admins has to shut it down again.

People commenting are mad, upset, frustrated and totally out of their minds.

It's been more than a day since Pico went grey. No doubt the situation is a fiasco for Ameba.

When the break first started we asked 'What do you do when Pico is down for maintenance?'. Here are the results so far from our Facebook poll:



For those who keep refreshing the page ... your mouse clicking finger must be really tired. We feel badly for you.

It seems that most people to to other games. Some took the time to comment to tell us which ones:



Why not join in with these guys and gals while Pico is still down?

• Ameba Pigg online (in Japanese)
• Magical Saga on Facebook
• Nightclub City on Facebook
• Pet Society on Facebook
• Pocket God on YoYo Games
• Pokemon World on Facebook
• Transformice online
• Vampire Wars on Facebook

(My personal fav is The Sims Social. They're constantly adding new stuff and it has never had a maintenance break since I started playing 6 months ago.)

Maybe you could also listen to some music, watch wacky videos on YouTube or read a book while we hunker down and wait for the grey veil of server maintenance to be lifted away.

However you spend your time during the break, have a great day. Hopefully, we'll see you soon in Pico.

Taking all bets ...

I went to sleep, woke up and Pico is still on maintenance. Wasn't this supposed to be an unscheduled 6 hour break in game play? We're heading to the 12 hour mark in a little while, actually.

It really looks as though the recent GM Games function (which is utter nonsense) has killed Pico. I hope that when the game comes back up - if it does - that this new area will be gone, that some coding error makes implementing it impossible.

As you can imagine people are annoyed. They're taking to the maintenance notice on Facebook to vent their anger and frustration. Do you feel the same?



I've browsed through a bunch of the comments. The best (and most incoherent) rant - by far - was from this girl:



You can thank The Young Gun for digging up this comment. This is the reason you should stay in school and take grammar/spelling seriously, kids.

Maybe we should start taking bets on when "server maintenance". Ameba likes it when kids gamble, right?