Maintenance extended to 5pm PST

[maxje98]

theyre up not kidding

Can confirm that its true!

[ro9ue]

Yeah hurry up Blizz, I need to get online and open my weekly cache so I can vendor my useless Mythic 10 necklace for 46g.

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VR is gay

Why are we talking about VR here?

Oh I never knew VR was attracted to the same sex.

[Tharkkun]

But that would mean making all the tech workers come in for a night shift! Already bad enough on those poor guys coming in at 7 A.M. when a normal tech worker starts at 10.

Normal patches start at 3AM PST so I'm going to go ahead and speculate they are doing onsite maintenance at each of the data centers for this patch. Probably adding new infrastructure or removing old end of life hardware in preparation for BFA.

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

Andd the emisarries are bugged. Argussian Reach is 14hours when it should be 2 days. HM reset and Legionfall too.

[Tharkkun]

Give me a break. They all know what they signed up for when applying at Blizzard. They are well compensated for the work they put in. "aww those poor workers" whatever!

They don't get paid anything special. They are near Silicon Valley. Developers are a dime a dozen so to speak. I know someone who didn't take a job offer to work on their engine team because they were offered 30K more in Minnesota to do virtually the same thing.

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for a small patch that dont add much, that extended maintenance was unexpected tbh

It was 2.2 GB's of content which only included a battleground's art assets. They don't patch entire files anymore like the past so that's definitely a lot of changes going into the game. It's obviously similar to the scaling tech they used in Legion leveling but it's being applied to 50+ zones now instead of 5.

[Usagi Senshi]

VR will be dead tech again by 2020 unless they can somehow lower the financial entry barrier to not involve $500 headsets and then a ridiculous rig to support it.

The average person isn't taking a $600 risk just so he can walk around a VR chat room posing as a 13 year old anime girl.

$400 gets you an Occulus set, two great controllers, two trackers, and a couple good games. The barrier is low enough now as that is pretty darn cheap for great tech.

I'll be snagging a set soon for some loli trickery antics too!