It's 2013 and we still have server maintenance.

[noo]

Some other slightly ironic things about modern life.

-There are no robots.

-I still have to wear pants.

[strangerdanger]

I'm upset skateboards don't hover yet.

[cmennare]

Some other slightly ironic things about modern life.

-There are no robots.

-I still have to wear pants.

We have robots, my job was taken over by one. I was depressed until I started wearing mini-skirts on the public trans bus. The cold plastic is comforting to my testes.

[XDurionX]

You have to wear pants? Does that mean...i´d have to, too? *mildlydisturbed*

[Viradiance]

To be fair, games that have been out for only a few years (TOR, Rift) also have tuesday server maintenance.

It just turns out it's not safe to run diagnostics and tweaks on a sensitive piece of machinery while it's on, running and handling loads of valuable data that people would flip shit over if it was lost.

[Flatspriest]

How else do you expect the servers to stay functioning most of the time? Of course there is still server maintenance. Without it, they would start slowing down and crash completely eventually. They would also not be able to implement any new features or patches for the game without downtime for maintenance.

Have you ever turned your computer off? Have you ever ran virus scans? Have you ever ran defrag? Have you ever made sure that there was no dust inside your computer? If you answered yes to ANY of those questions, that is maintenance. You computer is similar to a server. Without proper maintenance, it will start to slow down and not work properly.

[El_Diabl0]

It's Blizzard, what do you expect? They haven't even unified their chat systems properly and it often goes down during maintenance along with their games.

[Imnick]

I don't think you understand what maintenance is.
Stopping scheduled maintenance would be ludicrously unwise.

[noo]

How else do you expect the servers to stay functioning most of the time? Of course there is still server maintenance. Without it, they would start slowing down and crash completely eventually. They would also not be able to implement any new features or patches for the game without downtime for maintenance.

Have you ever turned your computer off? Have you ever ran virus scans? Have you ever ran defrag? Have you ever made sure that there was no dust inside your computer? If you answered yes to ANY of those questions, that is maintenance. You computer is similar to a server. Without proper maintenance, it will start to slow down and not work properly.

Common man, they've been getting over 100 million dollars every year for 10 years... give or take.

Have you ever had a dream? Have you ever wondered what's possible? Have you ever bent reality with your mind and lived in a new world? Point being, some things should be but they aren't.

[psycon]

I'm upset skateboards don't hover yet.

thisthisthis

[Kalcheus]

I'm upset skateboards don't hover yet.

Zemeckis has 2 years

[Peso]

You know the servers need a break too.

[SodiumChloride]

It's Blizzard, what do you expect? They haven't even unified their chat systems properly and it often goes down during maintenance along with their games.

Yupe. They have "no resources" to fix something as simple as not prompting pure DPS classes for their role during role check ...

Blizzard fanboys have always defended maintenance by saying that it's because WoW has an astronomical number of players and that it's the only way. Well, since WoW's sub numbers are falling like a rock in a vacuum, if what the fanboys say is truth, we should be see a vastly improved "maintenance experience" soon.

[crosscoastgaming]

I never really thought about it and seeing as they have made such strides with streaming launchers and such i hope they can move to a full on hotfix system int he future.

[Nobleshield]

I think a lot of the maintenance is database-related. Now, I don't know what they use but databases are almost always the bottleneck when you have huge amounts of data. You have to constantly rebuild indexes so things don't run to a crawl, and I imagine that's where most of the maintenance is as with huge data, those indexes take a long time to build. My job has like a hundred gigabytes of data (maybe 200, not sure I'm not the DBA) and we need to rebuild indexes at least once a week, now granted we don't operate 24-7 so we do this maintenance in the middle of the night, but it's a couple of hours of downtime where none of our internal systems will work (and this causes issues if the indexing process runs into business hours). If we have that, I can only imagine what the maintenance must be for WoW with god knows how much data, to say nothing of how it's stored (I somehow doubt it's a RDBMS; I think I read once that Blizzard wrote their own database system for WoW).

[Kalcheus]

Blizzard fanboys have always defended maintenance by saying that it's because WoW has an astronomical number of players and that it's the only way. Well, since WoW's sub numbers are falling like a rock in a vacuum, if what the fanboys say is truth, we should be see a vastly improved "maintenance experience" soon.

As an IT professional, I adore these threads

[ComputerNerd]

Yupe. They have "no resources" to fix something as simple as not prompting pure DPS classes for their role during role check ...

Blizzard fanboys have always defended maintenance by saying that it's because WoW has an astronomical number of players and that it's the only way. Well, since WoW's sub numbers are falling like a rock in a vacuum, if what the fanboys say is truth, we should be see a vastly improved "maintenance experience" soon.

And arrogant players come up with the fanboy argument against anyone who disagrees with them.
A rant about subscription numbers for the sake of it.
Are there not enough unnecessary threads elsewhere for your liking ?

We simply don't know what goes on during maintenance.
Considering we have rolling restarts half the time, it is already a vast improvement over the previous mandatory downtime every week.

[Sierra85]

i think it's perfectly acceptable for wow to go down for a bit to keep the servers running fluidly.

[melodramocracy]

Some other slightly ironic things about modern life.

-There are no robots.

-I still have to wear pants.

It's 2013, but you're not playing a 2013 game. Hence the maintenance.

[otinar]

Someone has to vacuum the fans!!