Yay to another 4 hours of maintenance

[Hellobolis]

Since when do they do maintenance at night? Nothing is cheaper to do at night. Not a damn thing.

(sheduled) maintenance always starts at 3am in the EU and always has since the game launched. and we get the bonus of the US beta testing the maintenance for us too which sometimes shaves off time.

[terminaltrip421]

I'm just glad the maintenance period is no longer lopping off the last hour of dailies availability

[shadowmatrix]

YOu would think a MULTI annually billion dollar company would afford servers that do not require this length of maintenance.

Meanwhile the FF 14 players deal with being told about a 24 hour maintenance with a shrug and Oh well.

[Scynfullone]

There is no need to take down a live service like this for hours at a time in 2020 unless there are some serious flaws with the architecture that WoW services run on. They do it because they can get away with it and don't believe its a straw that will break any or many camel's backs. They're probably right.

This is the best answer ever. "they don't need to they just do it because they can" lol

[uopayroll]

While not the end of the world, there has been an awful lot of extra and extended maintenance lately

[Mirishka]

YOu would think a MULTI annually billion dollar company would afford servers that do not require this length of maintenance.

Yay to another topic whining about an unavoidable aspect of running online games with millions of players.

[Scynfullone]

Yay to another topic whining about an unavoidable aspect of running online games with millions of players.

It absolutely baffles me how people are so oblivious.

[rrayy]

Their server software is ancient compared to more modern games so I imagine things just take longer. Also they are probably trying to figure out why the AV Classic is lagging so badly for everyone.

Except that they have been upgrading the server software as time as gone on. It's not nearly as ancient as you think.

[Unholyground]

Except that they have been upgrading the server software as time as gone on. It's not nearly as ancient as you think.

They can only take it so far though since WoW is essentially the same game with many shiny coats of paint

[Super Kami Dende]

They can only take it so far though since WoW is essentially the same game with many shiny coats of paint

Incorrect on many levels, they've improved the engine and updated server blades many times. Part of why it no longer runs on old software and requires 64 bit now as a base.

It's less "new coats of paint" and moreso "replacing the engine block"

[rrayy]

They can only take it so far though since WoW is essentially the same game with many shiny coats of paint

Except that isn't what they have done. They are outright replacing things such as going from 32 bit to 64 bit.

[Traveler Voltin]

stuff breaks
get over it