December 8th and servers shutdown in Europe

[Darthslider]

Cata realesed 7th but it is Tuesday. What about Wednesday`s European servers shutdown? Will we have some time to rest while leveling?

[Darthslider]

I hope we can rest few hours ) No mercy for players! )))

[Dart Matsuraki]

As wg15 said, there is no plan for server downtime during Cataclysm's launch. It is designed so that the transition is simply a flip of a switch done behind the scenes and you will be able to enter the Cataclysm zones if you have already upgraded your account.

For this reason it is strongly suggested that you log in 2-3 hours before Cataclysm launches in your time zone, because the closer to launch it gets, the more likely it will be for you to encounter a queue. And I doubt many people are going to be wanting to log off any time soon

[dranx]

I'd say nothing more than a restart.

[Rivin]

I hope we can rest few hours ) No mercy for players! )))

You can rest on your own if you really need it... o_O

[Killaim]

As wg15 said, there is no plan for server downtime during Cataclysm's launch. It is designed so that the transition is simply a flip of a switch done behind the scenes and you will be able to enter the Cataclysm zones if you have already upgraded your account.

For this reason it is strongly suggested that you log in 2-3 hours before Cataclysm launches in your time zone, because the closer to launch it gets, the more likely it will be for you to encounter a queue. And I doubt many people are going to be wanting to log off any time soon

Maybe it's the sleep deprived me, but Darthslider was talking about the wednesday's scheduled maintenance (8th december), not the actual Cata launch (7th december 00:01).

As for the matter, I think they might throw in a maintenance, unless they change something up. I wonder if US will get their maintenance on Tuesday's night several hours after launch o_O

[Darthslider]

Maybe it's the sleep deprived me, but Darthslider was talking about the wednesday's scheduled maintenance (8th december), not the actual Cata launch (7th december 00:01).

As for the matter, I think they might throw in a maintenance, unless they change something up. I wonder if US will get their maintenance on Tuesday's night several hours after launch o_O

Exactly! i`m asking about sheduled maintenance!

[xsl]

As wg15 said, there is no plan for server downtime during Cataclysm's launch. It is designed so that the transition is simply a flip of a switch done behind the scenes and you will be able to enter the Cataclysm zones if you have already upgraded your account.

For this reason it is strongly suggested that you log in 2-3 hours before Cataclysm launches in your time zone, because the closer to launch it gets, the more likely it will be for you to encounter a queue. And I doubt many people are going to be wanting to log off any time soon

Just curious, what good does log in 2-3 hours before Cataclysm launches do? I thought once the server restarts, you will be back at your login screen anyways. Or does logging in early do something for you requeue'ing wise

[TaintedOne]

No, really. They never did an server shutdown and mainteneance after X-pac releases, that´s why they have been 8 hours this week instead of maybe 2. They prepare for two weeks

^ this , also keep in mind they don't have to do a maintenance every week. I recall several times throughout wrath the my server never went down for the the weekly maintenance or got a restart. I'm normally playing that late ( or early depending how you look at it :P ) and the server shutdown is my notice to go to bed ^^ ... needless to say I didnt get much sleep.