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World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past

Posted by Zonk on from the now-they-can-stay-in-for-a-full-week-without-blinking dept.

1up has the news that Tuesday maintenance will no longer be the way of the future for World of Warcraft. This is a big change from the weekly several-hour downtime that the company has used for the past two years. From the official post: "In the upcoming weeks, we will be testing the effect of a live maintenance, where regular maintenance tasks are run during off-peak with realms live. On Tuesday, December 26 there will be no scheduled downtime for weekly maintenance. We will perform all necessary maintenance tasks while the realms are live. We are anticipating the possibility that we may need to perform rolling restarts off-peak if we find that a realm restart is necessary; however the downtime for each realm would be less than 10 minutes if it was required." Is this really that big a deal? I know that the timeframe had to be inconvenient for EU players on the U.S. servers, but was a couple of hours of downtime early in a workday really such a burden?

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  1. Downtime was a good thing by TodMinuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hardcore players used it to resupply their homes and get the minimal amount of sun needed to survive.

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  2. Oh thank God by davidbrit2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was getting pretty edgy with only 166 hours of Warcraft a week.

  3. Why? by NineNine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Last time I checked, it said "News for Nerds" at the top of this page. Why not write up the technical reasons why it's happening? Is it rebuilding indexes on some crappy MySQL servers that we can laugh at? Is it applying weekly Microsoft patches to servers? I've never played the game so from my perspective, it seems absurd that the game has to shut down on a weekly basis. I just got finished playing OGame (see sig), and all hell broke loose if the servers ever went down (which they did on occasion, but it wasn't weekly... it was like once a year).

  4. Easy explanation by rxmd · · Score: 2, Funny
    Welcome to my little part of the world. Oceania.

    The explanation is easy, of course. Blizzard is at war with Oceania. Blizzard has always been at war with Oceania. ;)
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