How many hours a year is WoW actually down?

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With yet another extensive weekly maintenance window upon us and the reality that most (or possibly all?) of the weekly resets since the expansion have gone through with at minimum 1-hour outages it seems like maybe we should talk about how many hours a year this game is actually down.

I have to imagine at this point that it’s adding up to at least 5 full days of outages per calendar year. Has anyone dug into the terms of service deep enough to see if there’s an SLA in there on service availability? At what point should players be credited back days of subscription time?

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Oh boy another one of these topics.

Yall really need to pick other games to play when wow is down.

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Banana Nut Bread

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1-1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tablespoons 2% milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla or rum extract
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (2 to 3 medium)
  • 3/4 cup chopped pecans

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in milk and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with bananas, beating well after each addition. Fold in pecans.
  2. Transfer to a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan. Bake 65-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool.
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Play wrath classic
if you need your wow fix

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After some careful consideration, and alot of calculations…4

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Lol. Lmao, even.

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Damn my math is off I got 42

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Awesome chef making lobster Mac and cheese worth a watch.

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52 weeks in a year, usually 3-4 hours per maintenance, adds up to around 175 hours a year, or about 7 days. If these 8 hour maintenances were every week (as if every week was right after an expansion release), you’d have 400 hours, or 17 days.

Blizzard sure would be in trouble if they didn’t outline in the ToS that every player agreed to that these maintenances are unavoidable and should be expected.

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Beer bread:

  • 3 cups flour (sifted)

  • 3 teaspoons baking powder (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)

  • 1 teaspoon salt (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)

  • 1/4 cup sugar

  • 1 (12 ounce) can beer

  • 1/2 cup melted butter (1/4 cup will do just fine)

Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

  • Mix dry ingredients and beer.

  • Pour into a greased loaf pan.

  • Pour melted butter over mixture.

  • Bake 1 hour, remove from pan and cool for at least 15 minutes.

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Don’t forget to add the tears of a Night Elf rouge.

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is the intern learning how to turn on the server, their continuous integration is horrible,
in that period of time you can reformat the computer and upload the code like 1000 times.
i think they went to lunch.

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Some games give you compensation for emergency maintenance, game breaking bugs, sudden nerfs, etc.

WoW has never been one of those games.

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Most of our contracts stipulate 95% availability. That’s based on sixteen hours of use a day, with eight hours of down-time for maintenance.

On a 24/7 basis, 95% availability would translate to under 8.4 hours per week.

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Would you like some cheese with that whine?

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Take it to your lawyer. He will laugh you out of his office as quickly as you are being dismissed here. So dumb.

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Blizzard used to regularly credit days to your account during vanilla when there were issue with downtime

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So grass is like… very cool. The texture is almost waxy sometimes. Depending if it was cut by a dull lawn mower or not, it can have very rough ends or sharp ends. Depending on if it gets watered frequently, it can be long, soft, and bright green; if it is rarely, or not at all, watered, it can be hard, break easily, tough, and yellow/brown.

Anyways I recommend trying to touch it.

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We’re not down days though.

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Sure, but they were that company at one time