It’s 8 hours because the Gnomes have barricaded themselves in the server room.
There is plenty of competition, the world isn’t that empty in the newer content which is how it should be. If you are having issue on your own server dealing with over crowdedness that’s fine, don’t go mucking up mine.
Not to mention, it isn’t like I don’t see people hopping around on that server hunting stuff down from other servers. So, you see it really isn’t that bad off after all.
World of Warcraft is best when you have a community of other players around you, and while numerous ways to participate in cross-realm play have been added to the game over the years, there are still many aspects of the experience that are realm-based. From your history with your guild to your interactions with the economy around you, a realm with a healthy population provides more opportunities, and it’s been several years since we last connected some realms. We’ve now completed a comprehensiv…
During a scheduled maintenance period (currently planned for 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PDT on Thursday, July 23), the following realm connections will be made:
New Realm Connections are Underway
Could be something else. New catch-up mechanics. Figured they wouldn’t talk about them first, knowing how the forum usually finds flaws in EVERYTHING.
Maybe they’re doing the background work for servers and implementing a patch for Classic.
We’re putting the finishing touches on the next patch for WoW Classic. Version 1.13.5 will go live in July. With that patch, we’ll be ready to unlock the content we’ve been testing on the PTR.
We have not, we simply wanted Gnome Paladins added but they instead wanted to give us Easy Bake Ovens. It was not an acceptable substitute.
I sooooooooooooooooooooooo want to see this! I can imagine a Gnome yelling for the light and whacking on some bosses ankle and the boss going stop it! stop it! KNOCK it off!
Reminds me of droopy fighting the dragon or the bull.
I think that’s a good deal. Gnomes can’t use human sized ovens.
Because you did something to anger Zeus and now here we are. Thanks a lot.
Possibly merging servers.
they use amazon web services now, they can merge servers and move them between infrastructure instances just by clicking and dragging on their control interface.
with AWS they could even just eliminate downtime almost completely if they so chose, but that would cost extra money so they won’t.
Because you did something to anger Zeus and now here we are. Thanks a lot.
Wait, he angered my pet Devilsaur?
Could be anything, in the mean time go play some Paper Mario
Maybe they’re doing the background work for servers and implementing a patch for Classic.
That would shut down only Classic Servers
Looks like the real reason was they released 8.3.7, it just patched to retail
Blizzard is having a pool and seeing how many post there will be in regards to 8hr maintenance and the winner with out going over gets a week off with pay
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7… 21… 8…
15… 29…
14… 7…
2…
WORLD OF WARCRAFT 2 CONFIRMED!
When I read the maintenance notice that expects 8 hours of the game being unplayable I was surprised. Why such a long outage?
What this now? I dont know about you but I’m playing
Shadowlands releases today.
8 hours maybe 7h45m are to fix tab targetting , how the heck can this still be broken after all this time. let me hit ‘Tab’ = “Target Nearest Enemy” oh look i just pulled a mob from 2 zones over , instead of any of the 6 mobs beating me with clubs.
incompetency reigns at Blizz