Emergency Maintenance Explanation?

[Toriavon-emerald-dream]

UPDATE: Confirmed 1 hour FOR NOW on the maintenance. Still no explanation.

[Bonelord-malfurion]

It’s ok everyone. Lets all do the chant again, like last night!

“Oga Boga, Oga Boga, Servers Up, Servers Up!”

[Mudwalker-lightbringer]

twitter said down for approximately an hour. But who truly knows how long. could be 12 hrs again could be 30 min.

[Caletos-area-52]

They probably left it up long enough to make sure people didnt miss their daily horseman completion for the event.

[Nocternity-sargeras]

bump bump 123

[Tiffany-ravencrest]

@Toriavon-emerald-dream

To any of the devs at Blizzard, all we see is that emergency maintenance is required and that the game will be offline until further notice.

Is there a possibility of an explanation as to why so we know what to expect? Take what time you need, I’m simply curious as to what happened since nothing has been mentioned on Twitter or here on the forums and only on the Battle.net loader.

The product hasn’t been released yet. “Pre-patch” is really just another type of beta test. The product is new give it some time.

I remember back when I was just getting started I had an IT job for a big insurance company that ran IBM systems. I learned that some companies loved to be on the leading edge doing beta test and others would wait until someone else tried it out first.

Those doing beta test or early releases accepted the fact that they were running new products and that there would be bugs that had to be fixed. It’s just the nature of the software industry.

[Tikaru-dragonblight (Tikaru)]

@Soulebreaker-hyjal

I wonder if it’s the game suddenly causing graphics cards to overwork.

I really hope so, my poor 5600xt seemed to be having random strokes last night for no reason.

[Caelin-boulderfist (Caelin)]

People have been reporting issues with the new UI not saving changes, so perhaps they are quickly fixing issues like that.

[Volkul-shuhalo (Volkul)]

It’s Broke, they fix…

[Finraziell-wyrmrest-accord]

This is what the community managers are for, but they won’t post about it until after everyone else already knows.

[Toriavon-emerald-dream]

@Tiffany-ravencrest

The product hasn’t been released yet. “Pre-patch” is really just another type of beta test. The product is new give it some time.

I remember back before I was just getting started I had an IT job for a big insurance company that ran IBM systems. I learned that some companies loved to be on the leading edge doing beta test and others would wait until someone else tried it out first.

Those doing beta test or early releases accepted the fact that they were running new products and that there would be bugs that had to be fixed.

You’re speaking to me as if I haven’t been playing this game for almost 15 years. I’m very well aware prepatch has its quirks, which is why I asked politely what the sudden explanation for “emergency maintenance” was from so that those of us who take the time to read patch notes can see what is being hotfixed or what was discovered to result in emergency maintenance that wasn’t scheduled already for next Tuesday.

[Khoshek-moonrunner]

That would be nice. Having to futz with the UI for an hour was annoying. Having to set it up again and again more so.

[Maltruis-emerald-dream]

There was an emergency and they needed to do maintenance.

[Marla-westfall]

yeah that was surprising - I just got on and 4 min to shut down message. I guess I didn’t want to play live at all.

[Lilithiea-wyrmrest-accord]

I’m glad I have to work in a couple hours, sucks to everyone who isn’t working and wanted to play.

Bad form on Blizz’s part to just drop the servers without warning though.

[Turbokilla-caelestrasz]

A lot of people have been reporting significant FPS drops after the pre-patch went live.

I would assume this maintenance has something to do with that.

[Xeirusz-emerald-dream]

Yeah bleeding edge of technology here, implementing addon features people have been using for like a decade, lol.

[Xranger-stormrage (Xranger)]

maybe they’ll surprise us and add some content…
like the primalist invasions…
that would be cool, however unlikely!

[Mazzikyn-proudmoore]

I took my system out of DriectX12 and in to 11 legacy mode this morning. My stuttering seems to have settled down a bit.

[Meemuu-wyrmrest-accord (Meemuu)]

It’s not really maintenance if it’s an emergency, is it now? Maintenance is done in order to prevent problems.