We've had enough extended maintenance for the next five months after last time. Blizzard has our collective permission to finish ahead of schedule without issue this time.
Going by the trend EU might get expansion early :D
I'd rather have the extended maintenance now rather than with launch (which will, undoubtedly, still have extended maintenance). So I'm largely fine with this. No biggie, really.
I hope they fix the freezing problem after a loading screen when a character is in a cross-realm guild.
Rent due type post
Thanks for the update, it's been on the Launcher since at least Saturday tho. Already planned for an extended nap tonight! 😀
Lmao why do they even bother announcing these times anymore? Just say “down for the day, maybe back online between midnight and 3 am east if you’re lucky.” This way people don’t need to waste a day off from work/life staring at a screen.
Hopefully the few extended downtimes so far in the pre-patch cycle lessen the risk of a massive downtime upon expac launch since these updates have introduced most of the new systems being added to the game in TWW. It is guaranteed that there will still be a sizeable downtime on the expac launch but there is at least some hope that it will not have to be continuously extended past whatever they estimate due to game instability and coding/LUA issues (i.e. turning an 8 hour downtime into a 14 hour downtime).
Why can't extended maintenance be done during night time?....
In all fairness, this is not an "announcement," as if the original maintenance time was just an hour or two. The launcher has said for days that the maintenance was going to be 7AM-3PM.
Europe is getting the same global down-time too (03:00 to 11:00 CEST, Central European Standard Time). Sounds like whatever is being rolled out, or changed in the server room(s) is, unusually, being applied world-wide at the same time. It may be it's dependent on a contractor or third party that only works whatever their standard hours are?
then it's time to reverse that stupid decision. It's the same kind of BS corporate-think that removed their customer service department. These kinds of decisions are super short-sighted and ridculous. You dont keep your game going by slashing all the help people can get when there is an issue or removing a dept that is dedicated to getting these things tested before they go out so we're not stuck in some sort of QA poop-hole. I know Blizz is capable of rolling out larger patches in smaller chunks during normal maintenance periods to reduce or eliminate ALL DAY maintentance windows. They've really regressed with this issue.
It's not just the extra hours from maintenance it's all that stuff that breaks with it that can add days or weeks of loss game time. Like so many quest zones being broken due to objects not being interactable or scaling being all over the place Really limits the things to do list when trying to find something that does work
Does EU get extended maintenance all the time? Why don't they do this at like 3 am PST
lol are we in for another 16 hour maintenance window?
Blizzard isn't failing us all in some way by having to perform maintenance on a game that's otherwise running at all hours of the day and night. WoW players operate on all sorts of different schedules, it'd be impossible to choose one timeframe that accommodates all players while also allowing Blizzard's people to do their job during normal, reasonable office hours.Nothing about this is 'new Blizzard' or some prophetic sign-of-the-times, you know how this game works. The squabbling is worst than the maintenance.
