Whatever they broke, if i was on the team I would fix the problem likely within a day, or at least give updates.
It just shows you how low the bar is, they are completely useless
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I wasn’t really addressing an industry standard. However, what I said above is a reality in the industry: games aren’t typically taken off a store for issues that are considered temporary.
I agree there.
I’ve suggested to Bliz that they put warnings/disclaimers on games in the store that have permanent issues (mainly the legacy games). But, there aren’t any. So unfortunately I don’t see Bliz doing it for temporary issues.
It’s annoying for sure. But there are possible reasons.
A more publiclly known one is WC3R’s retirement status which puts its priorty far below the actively developed games.
Another, that is speculation but very possible, is the fix not being simple in terms of regulations, security, finance, and avoid having the fix break more things, etc. Although admittedly hyperbolic, for all we know, it may require completely rebuilding from the ground up, which would obviously take time.
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maybe they are porting to mac silicon 
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Hey, i know maybe someone already said it and it is maybe not possible but, why not doing a rollback version for everyone, and then devs could try to fix the mac bug with no more raging people ? i mean, everybody could play and be happy.
Its just a suggestion, i know its more difficult than just going back like 3 clics
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How are there still issues? WTF is going on?
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Should mass request refunds for the game since it’s not working. A fix would come real quick I bet.
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Considering the severity of the issue, if Bliz could have done a rollback, they would have.
Because they haven’t after so long has me believing that something in the patch is a higher priority than breaking the Mac client. Meaning, the patch stays while anything it broke gets worked on after the fact.
And with how this has unfolded, that seems to be what’s going on.
Based on posts around here, that’s what’s been happening to some extent. But, 1. there’s reports of refund denials, and 2. there hasn’t been any obvious effect.
So it seems that Bliz is doing it their way regardless.
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I have done that when this first happened. I have the executables, they do launch but then right before you get let in (after the lion gate opens) it says that you must perform an update, if you click to update the executable just closes.
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That makes sense. The client version you have and the server version don’t match, hence the required upgrade.
What happens if you launch that offline?
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Send emails to blizzard asking for refund! this is not acceptable
I have they say no refund after 14 days lol
You’re not reposting deleted posts, are you?
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Finally some good news!
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Amen to that!
I bet it will be at the end of the week like always
That wouldn’t suprise me.
My hope is that it’s before the Warcraft Direct event on Weds.
So the message on battlenet now says that they are doing maintenance tomorrow from 7am to 5pm and that the game will be unavailable. Maybe (hopefully) that is when mac will be fixed.
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I hope so.
A 10 hour window is fairly rare. My question is, what else will be done in such a long maint? Something on the front end that players can see? Something on the backend that wouldn’t be immediately noticeable? Both?
I agree. 10-hour maintenance window is very rare. As a software engineer, I 100% think that they are doing some important tasks related to the game.
They probably realized they won’t be able to fix the problem without touching production databases because it’s a very rare issue that they never expected.
Plus, a 10-hour window is a bit longer than a regular shift. Which means, Blizzard is paying overtime (hopefully 
) to the developers for it. And this indicates that they are fixing this issue once and for all.
Let’s see how it plays out!
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