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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. Interesting! by seebs · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I am looking forward to seeing whether or not this works.

    I am not entirely optimistic. I mean, yes, it'll be more convenient... Except for the part where you can no longer SCHEDULE for server resets.

    "Oh, sorry, were you 95% done with MC? I guess you'll have to go back."

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  2. Re:I can't really see much of a problem with this. by walnutmon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh... I'm sorry man... A girlfriend?

    I didn't realize...

    Guess that explains your anger and resentment. Girls are a lot better when you are NOT their boyfriend. Trust me. You don't hate WoW... you just can't afford it cause you just blew 500 on X-Mas, the fake person holiday.

    "Indignant probably isn't the word that you're looking for. Perhaps you meant uncaring? I never implied that every WoW player is online every day, so I fail to see how your straw man argument has proved anything."

    I never implied you did. You implied that I implied it, but I never did.

    "capitalism dictates that it is up to you to decide if the downtime is worth your money."

    What does that even mean?!

    "Is your potential disappointment worth the monthly fee?"

    I didn't realize I pay Blizzard FOR their potential dissapointment game. I'd say that is more what a girlfriend is.

    "that's between me and her."

    Nope. That's my cock.

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