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World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past
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?
I'm sorry, but Blizzard having had to reboot the servers for 2 whole years now was very bad coding on Blizzard's part. Imagine if you had to reboot the servers at your job everyday? I doubt they would be around long.
Funny? Like is Japan funny now? They are short, I suppose... Ha.
To those who are "level 60" or what not - there is life for you after World of Warcraft. I know it's hard to see now, but you eventually will come around. No, not even light, controlled play is acceptable. Get off the computer and go hang out with friends or at the gym. You will get far more satisfaction out of socializing or physical workout than you ever will out of becoming Level 60 in a dweeby game.
'A lie if repeated often enough, becomes the truth.' - Goebbels
So quit whining and quit.
It's not like low Warcraft ping times are a basic human right.
Loser.