Help me understand - in your mind anyone who calls out a flaw in the way Blizz manages it’s servers is “crying” ? Fascinating…
As for it only inconveniencing me… there were more than a few other players in world at the same time, pretty sure Blizz pulled the rug out on all of them.
I work retail. People say they’re gonna get me fired all the time because I didn’t do something exactly the way they wanted.
I still have a job.
It’s an MMORPG, a video game, not the stock market.
15 minutes is nothing.
15 minutes.
Yeah, you obviously have no idea what the word means because it certainly doesn’t apply to the OP.
No, I’m pissed that I essentially wasted close to an hour because Blizz can’t do things on schedule.
You know, some of us have real problems. This is not a real problem.
Stop doing things literally an hour before shut down when you had a whole week to do it?
Like, these things have been happening in multiple MMOs since the dawn of MMOs. If people haven’t learned by now, they can waste their time.
That I need to shutdown? Like my entire business? That’s not how IT works. Finance can still do finance offline while the servers are under maintenance just like devs can still code in their offline IDE’s and push everything up when the server containing the repo is up.
You can start any mythic+ dungeon when? You’re saying you can finish a mythic+ in 15 minutes?
So you spent nearly an hour in a mythic+ yet you still were 1 minute from timing it?
If you’re going to make a fake story at least get your facts straight dude.
Now to be fair ,op does have a point if I were watching a movie with some buddies and the show is cut short at the end by 15 minutes ,we’ll be angry too.
I think the thing is…
It’s a completely unnecessary and avoidable problem. An unforced error for no reason.
Millions of players and I’m sure more than one was trying to get their weekly torghast or m+ run in under the wire.
If you and your group aren’t good enough to time or finish a M+ in AN HOUR, then next time try not doing a key with an hour or less before shutdown.
Millions of players waited until the last possible minute to do something they had nearly 7 full days to do?
I doubt that big dog
Ah man…what a crappy week. Oh well at least I can get this in before reset as long as it goes well. Oh…well fml I guess I’m not getting this done. Thanks big company that evidently can’t tell time or bother to tell us in advance they changed their minds about a time frame they have posted multiple places.
Your assumption of why other people chose to do things in the window allotted to them is supercilious and unhelpful.
I worked with and in IT for many years. A shutdown that occurred 15 minutes before it was advertised would have been unacceptable. I did know a few people that thought it was “all good” and “users had plenty of time” every one of them was fired for screwing something up because of that thinking.
IT guy at the wow server farm, “Hey Bob watch this. Go check the forums in a minute.”
(Pulls cord at 7:45 AM)
They should do a better job but come on, stop waiting until the last minute to try and get stuff done.
A minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things. Everyone is entitled to feel however they want to feel but this is a 1st world problem. There are much bigger issues out there than Bliz shutting down servers 15 minutes early on a maintenance day. Although this is what the forums are for right? Complaining? Generally about very small and insignificant things?
Finance? Seriously?
This is a video game, not a bank.
You sir have never worked in IT for a fortune 500 company. Finance and dev are very different divisions. Most coders have entirely independent testing environments that allow them to work while the primary systems are down. Finance however NEEDS access to corporate data - you shut that down ahead of schedule and I promise you there will be hell to pay.
The thing here is it’s SO EASY to perform the shutdown ON TIME. That they constantly do it early, while lots of players are still in world is in indication of unprofessional IT management.
It’s not a “Big Deal”, but it is indicative of the way Blizz operates. Just no good reason for it to happen.
If they are going to consistently shutdown 15 minutes early then just say so in the maintenance notice.
Assuming there’s even that many still subscribed, I think you meant more like a few dozen… and every single one of them had 6 days to not have this situation happen. It’s entirely on these last minute andies.
If you’re doing Torghast on a Tuesday morning, this is on you, not Blizzard.