Lest we forget, Microsoft is in the picture now. They’re not going to maintain the status quo. They are going to extremely overhaul or completely replace the CI/CD pipeline that Blizzard has been using for WoW to something that is far more automated and far more streamlined. It won’t happen overnight. It will take years, but it will happen little by little.
People say I’m wrong, but in my perspective, Microsoft (specifically their Xbox division), is going to migrate alllll of Blizzard’s infrastructure to facilities and infrastructure systems far more advanced than what Blizzard could achieve. Blizzard wasn’t a technology company. They used technology from third party vendors to host their systems in their on-premise datacenters (with limited public cloud integration). Microsoft has their behemoth Azure in their back pocket, plus all of the huge amount of investment they are pouring into cloud gaming. WoW will at some point be migrated to the systems they’re developing to be a platform for all types of games, including complex MMOs like WoW. We eventually won’t see the kind of downtime like the WoW systems experience with most major patches as they do now.
Because how many more maintenance downtimes will there be in the coming days. Not sure why blizzard struggles so hard with launching content. It gets worse every year. So maybe 24 hrs they could bring them up, no issues, no lag, etc.
I dont think the problem here is the game being down. Its the commitment made by Blizz to have it back on by a certain time and then going back on that commitment over and over. People make plans around times given. It shows a lack of respect for other people’s time to not stick to your time given to have an activity which a lot of people already paid for up by your own time commitment you made and published to the public. Would be much better to give a late estimate and be back on early. How many times can someone fail to estimate their timing properly? Sure, things unforseen happen…but that shoud be like a once a year thing and not an issue with nearly every single patch.
I’d rather be seeing the Blue updates that they are working on thigns on theri end than have it come up and have ten million issues popping up causing even more.
I feel kind’ve bad for those of you who are desperately sitting behind the glow of your various computer screens, sweating and anxiously waiting. As a player for more than 16 years now, I understand that you wanna see the new content. But I also understand that it’s ok to do something else for an evening and just let them do what they’re doing.
TLDR; It’s ok. Everything is going to be just fine.
so you are saying if they go down for maintenance every single tuesday, my game time being charged is suspended. so in a months worth of game time, if I buy 30 days of game time at exactly midnight going into the first, I should theoretically play until 4am going into the 1st of the following month because I still have 4hrs of gametime, and not the midnight breaking point between the 30th and 1st. I dont have access to servers while they are down for maintenance.
No…you use your experience and take into account the things that often go wrong and give a time estimate with those unforseen things already taken into account. If you CAN do the job in 8 hours but it MAY take 24 hours then post you’ll have it up within 24 hours. Then, when you have things done early people will be happy with your performance.
They can either take a little extra time to make sure product is shipped with fewer bugs/broken features or they can release something buggy af “on time.”
Apparently it doesn’t matter and people would prefer the latter.
If u guys are seriously upset about a game being down for a few hours for a patch that we’ll have at least until next year, we need to find u another hobby
Well when you start your own multi-billion dollar gaming company and have a game that’s been going for 19 years that, despite several issues, still has millions of people playing, you can show us a better way.
