I love you, someone who works IT and knows a little bit about issues and troubleshooting. 100% Agreed that a Multibillion dollar that wipes their own behind with $100 dollar bills in their general bathrooms should be able to maintain their game better. But hey, who we are kidding multi billion dollar company is gonna hire the minimum work force and always work understaff, can’t have the big bosses not getting their big bonuses because they hire the actual staff needed, right?
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“plenty of time”
Lmao, aight. Bootlickers gonna bootlick
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To add on, this level of downtime would be considered unacceptable for any SaaS product. It’s been an hour+, 3-5 days a week, for months.
I have plenty of other things I can do, but this is the time when I can play this dang game that I pay for, which I haven’t been able to do at all. I got to level 71 during prepatch and haven’t even had enough play time to start TWW content since I’m getting maybe an hour a week of game time during the window I can play at this point.
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It’s not a huge crisis tbh, the skill floor for devs now adays is significantly higher than even 5 years ago. Source: I am one (SaaS not a game). The real issue is that the game is ran on insane amounts of spaghetti piled into one bowl over 20 years with expected regular updates. My guess is that tech debt is just through the roof.
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no refunds
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This is reactive maintenance, not proactive maintenance.
Having more maintenance after over a third of a day worth of maintenance is reactive, it’s an “oh crap we didn’t bother with this” or “oh we broke this.” Not enough resources are going into the product, way too much are going into stocking the in-game microtransaction storefront.
And there’s so many brain rot turds in these sections literally going to bat for a company pushing out a half-baked product that they make the player base pay a subscription to do the bug testing for…
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Answer: They were laid off for stock buybacks.
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I gotta side with OP on this… just because they “schedule” it 5 seconds before they do it does not make it scheduled lol that is such a political way of claiming it to be scheduled. It wouldn’t be so bad if they actually fixed things during these maintenance sessions but its kinda like a plumber pulling the leaking sink apart just to make it leak worse when he puts it back together.
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Sorry OP, but I want my PVP weapon, so I approve of this maintenance.
Revenue has increased, they have YEARS of experience to draw from, is this reflected in the quality of the product?
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Ah, the best boomer response
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It really is not, the amount of poorly written code i have sifted through in my profession is abysmal
To this day i still cant find the justification of seeing things like a function that literally returns true, and thats all it does, nothing else, literally nothing but returns true.
Trust me, the competency crisis is bad.
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Right right, most people are aware of the weekly maintenance (which is also NOT directly told to you unless you read the EULA/TOS which literally no one does, not even you).
Extended 4+ hours + bugs + more maintenance, however, is not part of the product.
You’re defending bad design and planning by a multibillion dollar company that has had experience doing this for 20 years. You got Stockholm syndrome.
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Wanna call me a bootlicker because I find the “scheduled” argument melodramatic and worth nothing, fine.
But I got plenty to criticize for this company.
The use of the word “scheduled” just isn’t it.
Without scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, you’d be sprinting back to these forums to create “FIX IT” topics. Stop…it’s 4 weeks into a NEW expansion, y’all agreed and subbed to have a company conduct live service maintenance which includes unscheduled maintenance. This is NOTHING new to have maintenance to resolve issues during a expansion release to include newly added content, update class/spec balance, fix quests and achievements.
So many grown adults crying over a company providing a service to make their gameplay enjoyable for the last 20 years. Wild.
“bUt iTs nOt eNjOyAbLe iF tHeY kEeP pUtTiNg tHe gAmE iN mAiNtEnAnCe aNd wAsTiNg mY gAmE tImE!” 
Welcome to World of Warcraft, enjoy your stay! 
Goes both ways it seems.
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Their absolute radio silence after launch says everything. Blizzard isn’t a humble company, they happily brag when they’ve accomplished even the smallest of achievements. They’re not bragging… they’re dead silent… just like my friends list.
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I’m not the one here crying about 1hour of maintenance a company is providing to their customers 
Its youre defending of what they called scheduled that I’m calling you a bootlicker for, you dumby. The maintenance TODAY, that is happening RIGHT NOW, was not scheduled more than like 2 seconds in advance (obviously an exaggeration, i swear to christ if you take that literally…).
It’d be like if you’re on a plane flying thru the air, and suddenly the pilot was like, hey in 5 seconds we’re gonna change destination to this airport, and now we’re gonna called it a scheduled change because we gave you 5 seconds of warning lol.
Either you don’t really understand the situation, or you have an INCREDIBLY loose definition of scheduled.
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