You can stay awake later or wake up sooner and get that time back. So no, I will not hear you out.
How do you figure that?
Letâs say for example, I can only play during maintenance times (not me personally, or someone else). That means I lose a whole day of gametime every maintenance period. If there is a whole week of maintenance, thatâs a whole week of playing.
Youâre assuming that everyone who plays can play every single hour of every day. That is not true. Some people only get a few hours a day. Some people only get the time when maintenance is happening, so they donât get to play at all.
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If itâs a store mount, it costs them MUCH more than a dayâs worth of game time, especially if itâs a brand new mount.
Iâve been playing since 2009, and maintenance is an issue with this expansion unlike any other and the constant disconnecting issues I have personally experienced. I will say however, that i have genuinely like this expansion overall though, despite its issues.
Because I made a joke about what 50 cents can get you? Iâm very pro-Blizzard giving everyone 24 hours of gametime OR at least starting to predict longer maintenance instead of extending it by an hour every hour 15 minutes before the servers are supposed to reopen. Theyâve just been absolute garbage at communicating with customers PERIOD since TWW launched.
Perhaps YOU should real the EULA and TOS because I just did and there is nothing about downtime or maintenance. I have played MANY MMOs and have never had this issue with any other MMO. Most MMOs push a patch, you download the patch, and youâre good to go.
Most MMOs actually have a QA team, and actual equivalent test servers, and have everything tested and ready to go and they push it to the main server and theyâre done. I work as a software engineer and we support over 1500 supermarkets and we push live updates to all of their software with no downtime because we canât afford to have any downtime or outages. Blizzard makes WAY more money than our company, why is it acceptable for them to have outages and downtime for their customers?
At this point, it is absolutely warranted. Blizzard has extended maintenance every week since release and then added extra maintenance later in the week. Itâs completely understand able that players be compensated for Blizzardâs incompetence.
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Some of us have jobs, kids, families, routines, we canât just change our whole entire routing because Blizzard engineers canât do their jobs correctly.
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âWe had Larry the intern reskin an old mount. Took him 15 minutes and the playerbase LOVES it. Cost us a can of Redbull to keep Larry awake.â
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Or just donât play for a couple hours one day a month.
Itâs not a big deal.
1 day out of 19 years is crap
They have said this since that 3 day Wrath of the Lich king downtime, an they havent done it yet, nor will they ever plan to.
if it was a free game then i would agree but beings i pay for 6months to a year each time its up plus race changes or any other shop stuff i pay for . then we deserve better.
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These âI want my FIFTY CENTSâ posts always crack me up. 
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Grubzorz,
copied and pasted from the EULA:
you acknowledge that blizzard is not required to refund amounts you pay to blizzard for use of the platform, or for digital purchases made through the platform, for any reason, except as required by applicable law.
and
Blizzard does not guarantee that any particular Platform, Game, or Account, or any particular features or components thereof, will be available at all times, at any given time, or in all countries and/or geographic locations, or that Blizzard will continue to offer the Platform, Game, or Account, or all features or components thereof, for any particular length of time. Availability is subject to change at any time, although we will endeavor to use reasonable commercial efforts to provide you prior notice, unless the discontinuance arises from a matter that is beyond Blizzardâs control or causes the provision of such advance notice not to be possible or feasible.
However, if you find dispute over that clause, you are entitled to sue them in court for your game time. However, you will end up forfeiting money overall due to lawyer fees.
I do get it though, we want to play.
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Humble WoW Player
That wasnât the only time Blizzard gave free game time. Stop being an entitled, spoiled brat.
then we deserve better.
We donât. Because weâve supported this model for 20 years.
Go take a shower, vacuum the house, clean the bathroom. Seriously, itâs a couple hours. Get over it.
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As any legal document, itâs extremely vague. Iâm not a lawyer, and Iâm not advocating for any legal action against Blizzard, but since there is no agreement to a maintenance schedule when purchasing game time, this could be considered theft, even under that EULA you linked. If I pay for 30 days of game time for World of Warcraft, itâs for 30 days, or 720 hours, or 43,200 minutes, of game time. Not 700 hours, not 40,000 minutes, the full amount. Itâs like buying 500 Traderâs Tender and Blizzard puts 450 in your account and says âwhoopsie sorry there was an issue, oh well, what are you going to do, sue us?â
Itâs scummy, is unauthentic, itâs disingenuous, and itâs borderline theft. Something needs to be done with either improved maintenance or implementing a system that automatically returns game time to all subscribed players when there is downtimes. Itâs not a good look.
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Its not just that, a lot of these clowns that are from the âlaughing at these people crying over 50cents clubâ are likely prepubescent boys and girls who live on wow 24/7 while myself and yourself have a life outside of games.
So its easy if you have $500 to use and lose $1 but not so easy if you have $10 and lose $1.
Clearly its hard for them to graspâŠ
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and as I mentioned to someone else, maintenance hours are the only time some players even get to play the game. So if there is daily 2 hour maintenance every day for 5 days, and you only get those 2 hours to play, youâve just lost 5 days of gametime.
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