6AM to 2PM maintenance

[Divinexve]

Clearly someone has never played Maplestory

[ComputerNerd]

Just another whine for the sake of it.
Blizzard have made huge improvements, considering that used to be as regular as a weekly occurrence.
Now we get restarts pretty often which are a fraction of that.

Seems that ANY downtime is something to complain about, or more likely just grasping at straws to present some "new" argument simply to be complaining about something.
This isn't some new or unexpected change to their maintenance schedule.

[Emerald Archer]

do you know how a patch looks in GW2? They patch while you are playing.

The topic isn't about a small patch.. This is a large patch, ones GW2 don't do often, but when they do, it's 9am-5pm PDT, which is.. oh goodness wait a second! That's a whole 8hrs! That is inexcusable!

[Softbottom]

The servers will be up sooner than 2. A lot of the time they are just giving themselves extra time in case something fucks up. And realistically 6 hours is nothing. Look at patches added in vanilla when the servers were down for 2 days.

[Deleted]

It isn't a matter of "fucking it up". Things just simply go wrong when moving code from test servers to live servers most of which can not be predicted. If you think you can do better then please by all means show Blizzard how it is done. Otherwise shut it.

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The sad thing is players have started to whine about this as well and tell Blizzard they wouldn't have made other plans if the game was going to be up sooner than expected. These people will never be happy with anything Blizzard does even when it is the things they ask Blizzard to do.

I know how it works, hence why i feel confident in expressing an opinion. Thanks for your input though mm

[Emerald Archer]

I know how it works, hence why i feel confident in expressing an opinion. Thanks for your input though mm

I mean it's kinda like saying "water is wet" Yeah they stuff it up sometimes, even when taking it "slow" but most of the time they don't, and the times it does happen, the vast majority of the time it's a small issue the majority of the player base won't come in contact with, and will get fixed live within a few hours. Without distruption.

Credit where credit is due, no need to be a negative Nancy.

[Deleted]

You would think after all these years Blizzard would know how to patch their servers quickly. I'm not saying they will take up the entire estimated maintenance time, but holy hell.

I think WoW is one of the only MMOs I have played that patch days can literally take all day..

Is it because they are on older servers? Just curious why it takes such a long time for Blizzard to patch

if you think you can do better, head over to
https://careers.blizzard.com/en-gb/openings
Check out the Information Technology sections, and apply.

seriously, people think of thier own little bubble, rather than look at the larger scale of things.

[cuafpr]

b..c if you think it will take 4 hours ask for 6hrs (or more). its best to always give yourself more time to patch than not. I'm glad i have control over how long my windows are now myself vs denying request that were less than an hour (finally got the min window bumped to 3hrs before i left that job).

[rda]

The topic isn't about a small patch.. This is a large patch, ones GW2 don't do often, but when they do, it's 9am-5pm PDT, which is.. oh goodness wait a second! That's a whole 8hrs! That is inexcusable!

Yeah, let's compare downtime once every week (WoW) and once every 18 months or so (GW2).

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if you think you can do better, head over to
https://careers.blizzard.com/en-gb/openings
Check out the Information Technology sections, and apply.

seriously, people think of thier own little bubble, rather than look at the larger scale of things.

ROFL

As I said, we have this stupid downtime not because nobody knows how to get rid of it, but rather because Blizzard don't want to spend the effort.

[Hyrja]

It will prob last 1-2 hours. just to create some hype.

[donwayne]

Here it is folks.

ATVI owns Blizzard now. They are a publicly traded company and lots of people have invested their money it.

SOOOO.

The end of this quarter is 3/31.

They are hoping that announcing a new patch on 3/28 will increase subs, sell tokens, game services, so they can report higher earnings for this quarter.

Tomorrow at 6AM - 2PM Blizzard Employees are not working on updating the client and servers, they are likely creating content and fixing bugs due to the rushed announcment, hence the 8 hour time frame (which is also the time frame of the typical American employee's salaried workday!).

Thank you commercialism!

[Aoyi]

I think the listed time is more of a "just in case" listing. There haven't been many maintenance days for WoW in the last few years that have taken the full time. Its better to tell people now that it "might" be down for that long rather than say they'll be back up at 9am and miss the mark by several hours. Also, every MMO I've played has had long maintenance times. This isn't a Blizzard thing. I can remember some MMOs being down for almost a full day for larger patches.

[Jaylock]

You would think after all these years Blizzard would know how to patch their servers quickly. I'm not saying they will take up the entire estimated maintenance time, but holy hell.

I think WoW is one of the only MMOs I have played that patch days can literally take all day..

Is it because they are on older servers? Just curious why it takes such a long time for Blizzard to patch

Why do you care? Why not just go to work and then when you get home, *POOF* server is all patched and ready to go the moment you get home at 5:30-6pm

[Deleted]

I dont get why they dont deploy patches at 3-4 am like they do on EU. Most people should be sleeping, less people would be affected.

[Eleccybubb]

I dont get why they dont deploy patches at 3-4 am like they do on EU. Most people should be sleeping, less people would be affected.

Because it's so hard to go a few hours without a video game?

[infinitemeridian]

Gotta love these armchair devs who come out of the woodworks and think they know software dev/infrastructure better than Blizz.

Also, most people are at work/school during that time, so not sure what the big deal is.

[Eleccybubb]

Gotta love these armchair devs who come out of the woodworks and think they know software dev/infrastructure better than Blizz.

Also, most people are at work/school during that time, so not sure what the big deal is.

You forget there are those who aren't and treat WoW like it's their life and whatnot.

[xanzul]

The reasons Blizzard patches incur so much downtime - inexcusable in 21st century - are likely historical. The changes required to remove the downtime are too fundamental, they don't want to spend effort on them.

Except they did exactly just that. Have you really not noticed that most weeks there is no downtime and when they do need to take servers down it is usually just rolling restarts? Or does that get in the way of your Blizzard hating narrative?

That's 8 hours, mate. Downtime this long belongs to 90s. Any dev worth their salt who still has to pause - WEEKLY (OMG) - for this long should be ashamed. The only reason we have this idiocy is that Blizzard are minimizing effort they put into WoW, they are spending token effort keeping it alive trying to squeeze whatever money they still can squeeze here and investing into other projects.

So why did Blizzard implement aussie servers a few years ago when most of you haters were claiming wow was in maintence mode and would never get more money invested into it? Obviously you all were wrong then and you are wrong now.

Also how do you explain FFXIV's routine 24+ hour maintenance windows for their content patches? It is a much newer game not to mention the fact the whole original game was scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up making it even newer and yet still has 24+ hour downtime?

[Deleted]

*Remember the days when weekly maintanance was 3 am to 11 am every week, regardless of patch or not.*

[xanzul]

Yeah, let's compare downtime once every week (WoW) and once every 18 months or so (GW2).

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ROFL

As I said, we have this stupid downtime not because nobody knows how to get rid of it, but rather because Blizzard don't want to spend the effort.

But Blizzard essentially has gotten rid of it. Outside of major content patch releases most downtime is at most 1-2 hours and more often times than not it is just 15 minute restarts not to mention the fact downtime usually ends much sooner than originally estimated.

I find it curious no one is mentioning the live maintenance Blizzard did last week.