24 hr downtime is for a reason, and you should be worried

[Varushka-3281650 (Varushka)]

Ok, your right. The 24 hour downtime and the post by Blizzard explaining why doesn’t have anything to do with databases.

Burning Crusade Anniversary Pre-Patch Downtime

Hey folks, I wanted to stop by and share with you a little of the “why” involved in the upcoming 24hr maintenance window for Burning Crusade Anniversary, as it is, quite rare for us to have a downtime this long. WARNING! This post contains no useful information at all! I mean it! This is just potentially interesting insight being shared for anyone who enjoys this sort of thing. When Classic approached the Server & Live Ops teams about launching this new thing called Anniversary, there was a r…

This guy must be wrong.

@Varlth-dreamscythe

It’s a big database adjustment that is causing it to take all this time, not really related to them doing it right or wrong. They hit “start” and pray.

I guess this guy is wrong also.

C’mon Crud, you are better than this.