Lets talk about... Maintenance 18 hours after extended maintenance

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No one is saying we should not have maintenance that type of argument is beyond ridiculous to suggest.

The point of contention here is that its been happening like this every week since launch, we have had massively extended maintenance windows, multiple maintenance windows, back to back maintenance windows.

This is not normal, this is not right, this is now what blizzard is known for producing. If you think that this is in any way normal, then i can tell you, you have either never played previous expansion launches or you are horribly distorting your memory.

This is embarrassing for blizzard to have to bring these servers down to fix this game. This is meant to be THE kick off to the next 3 expansions, and if this is the quality we are getting on what should be the best foot forward, i dread to think of what is to come.

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They’re not providing it for free you blow hard.
WE PAY FOR THEIR INCOMPETITENCE YOU DOLT!
THEY SHOULD HAVE THESE BUGS SORTED OUT BEFORE AND DURING THE PTR!

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I think you could really go far in Silicon Valley with this level of spin, bud. This is unacceptable downtime for a SaaS product.

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1 hour is nothing. I agreed to the ToS, maintenance and downtime comes with the service you agree to.

But I also expect a more finished product. Since… you know… they had 2 years to work on it since the previous expansions launch.

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Yep, that’s me. It’s bad enough seeing them extend scheduled maint hour after hour and then they just do this. 20 years of maintaining this game and they still can’t get it together with maint

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LOL :slight_smile: Perhaps some bailing wire as well.

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Doesn’t matter, they still call it “scheduled” even in those cases.

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Look at the rage already!! Good lord :rofl:

Go make a cup of coffee y’all, it’ll be ok.

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Ok so you’re either a troll, or just an idiot.

I’m gonna stop feeding the troll.

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In that case, schedule it every day. That way most days are a pleasant surprise, lol.

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The amount of people in here that are like “OmG I awgweed to the TOS for my daddy blizzard.” OH yesss Blizzy baby please may I have some crap in my bowl. NOM NOM NOM

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A MMO is never a finished product and it’s been 20 years of WoW. You should know that as a MMO player…right? RIGHT? :laughing:

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They aren’t providing me with maintenance, sparky. I didn’t ask for it nor do I want it.

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“Maintenance has been scheduled 24/7 for the next week”

And now we’ll be happy when the servers are up for 166 out of 168 hours that week.

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Some of us actually work in software and are familiar with the level of standards required for a product that is continually being updated. :slight_smile:

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I will be right back guys, grabbing a coffee for more comments.

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Any more emojis and hitting that capslock key and I’m going to guess someone’s really jump-the-gun today.

MMO’s have that excuse to let your character fall through the world, tool items facing backwards, getting stuck in collision, missing audio files for years now, the still-bugged auto-cast features for certain abilities, exploits and game-breaking playability because they’re never a finished product I guess.

Right? RIGHT?

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Definitely wasn’t something as easy as just a simple server restart, as it should be back up by now if that was the case.

Who’s ready for the extended maintenance notifications?

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Neither. Just logically speaking about facts about maintenance from a service provider and how redundant it is to complain when it’s expected from a new expansion and as a MMO as a whole.

Just be glad the maintenance is coming from a “video game” and not your Power Company conducting unscheduled power shutdowns/outage’s every day for 1-5 hrs leaving you without power. I think the unscheduled maintenance from your Power Company shutting off you power without warning would be more bothersome over Blizzard conducting maintenance for a video game.

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Sounds like boomer code :sweat_smile:. Unfortunately almost all of the sh*tpost code I see comes from legacy code bases with tenure campers waiting to retire as the authors.