What takes so long?

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I don’t know what is taking so long either. You would think with how much of a dumpster fire Overwatch 2 release was that the next thing released they would make sure it went as planned. But nope

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If only you’d considered that I was responding to a post that quite literally said the words “WoW in terms of complexity and concurrent users pales in comparison to Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Google and others. Yet these guys never have down time.”

I even quoted it so it’s there in my reply.

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i mean according to linkedin they have at least 40 site reliability engineers so maybe theyre all just really bad at their jobs

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Just wait until tomorrow’s surprise(not really with their track record) maintenance to address instability. I get what you are saying, dude. I’ve questioned it every expansion internally lol

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I love running into adults on the forums, your the 3rd one I have found!!

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And what makes you think Blizzard doesn’t? It easily could have been a situation where if everything went smooth they only needed five hours, they announced eight to give themselves a cushion, and then things went so wrong that their cushion wasn’t big enough. Stuff happens.

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There is nothing “fun” about it.

It’s just me yelling at a screen for 2 hours and then going “oh here’s the problem”

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That’s probably just to keep the website up and running not the actual game. LMAO

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And none of those are apples. How about an apple example?

Having said that, they should be experts at time estimates by now. Blizz, just automatically add 4 hours to your ETICs & if it’s ready before…Bonus!

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I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also swapping out and adding new hardware.

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I literally never said they didn’t. You picked one sentence, removed the context, and added a determination that I wasn’t making. We call that trolling. Why post?

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Thanks for the tip :eyes:

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IT for 26 years last 14 of with in the health care industry infrastructure support and project roll outs. (Before that was banking industry)

Healthcare is critical systems needing 24x7x365 uptime on many systems and I tell you we still need to take things down for multiple hours for major updates. All code is not the same. I don’t care who says so. All systems are not the same.

(We achieve our critical updates by tons of planning multiple approvals for change controls and then we leave a backup system on while the production is getting the update, this way the critical systems are still working just the new version is not online until production is done, but different situation with a game)

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it takes so long because they enjoy reading these threads of yall crying about maintenance

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Someone literally GAVE you an answer

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For years Tuesdays were almost a luxury day for playing the game due to standard maintenance. It dropped to a typical one hour or rolling restart eventually. A little patience is needed on out of the ordinary days like for large overhauls (I doubt they just stuck a floppy disk in and hit enter).

I might have to take launch day off to read the posts about any delays, crashes, people demanding compensation for an hour or two of no playtime and so forth. . . totally entertaining.

I have said it before but times like this can give an indication as to who has actually been playing the game for a long time and who has not.

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I used to patch servers (not in bliz) so maybe they are running into the same issues I used to run into.

  • remove all raid controller cards from all servers and blow the dust off
  • place all raid controllers on a large desk and everyone stands around the table joining hands and we bow our heads and pray.
  • put controllers back into servers in random orders and flash the firmware.
  • reload the OS (cattle vs kittens) and then make a TikTok video of everyone racing back and forth in the datacenter on wheeled chairs.
  • replace all the power cables with new labels that have the current date on each end, twice if its a full moon, thrice if a hunters moon.

We did all that in a few hours every Friday and got faster and faster each time. If we were fast enough management would bring in food, usually Indian family style. We would eat while the customers made sure everything was A-OK.

I assume its the same thing here because that is the same way everyone does patch day.

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It is crystal clear the difference, in terms of uptime, between any of the services I listed and Blizzard.

I’ll assume you are not an idiot and you understand the argument I was making. Arguing against a weaker version of an argument is just disingenuous. Principle of charity, Wikipedia that.

Don’t bother replying.

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If you’ve been around for any amount of time you would know this IS “better”.

A handful of years ago, servers were down/unstable for days after a pre-patch/xpac. If they need extra hours to make sure everything is stable, it’s still an improvement.

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This right here. You do realize this company is more money hungry than it’s ever been, right? Every second that the servers are up equals more chances for the players to buy WoW tokens or store items. They wouldn’t be down if they didn’t absolutely have to.

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