Why is the game being taken down multiple times a week every week?

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Unfortunate

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they ain’t fixing nothing is the problem. i’m still pink i have to do the weekly multiple times to just get credit when they the souup hunts whatever up and this is been going on for awhile. btw the weekly the the hunt this week it’s amazing i ain’t seen one hunt up this week and have been on multiple times but nothing lol but sure we fixing things.

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While that certainly IS a great goal, sometimes that is not possible if they want to actually fix bugs instead of leave them in game. This one hour down time is minor compared to the extra down time and instability we had in Vanilla, BC, Wrath, etc.

The goal to keep the game up as much as possible has not changed. They have gotten to the point where Maint is an hour, or rolling restarts sometimes. Up time compared to the earlier years is much improved.

The first goal is to have the game working for as many players as possible. That comes before anything else and always has (the definition of “working” will vary depending on who you ask).

What you seem to want is that they don’t fix things no matter what, except on Tuesday. That would not be healthy for the game. They already bundle minor things and save them for Tuesdays, they only do other Maint if they need to.

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This is flat out wrong, I played all three of those expansions and at no time was the game taken down multiple times a week every week consistently since launch of the expansion.

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It happened so often they gave us game time credit. I had over a month of credit by the time WoD came out.

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Yep lets go back in time and compare 2006 tech to 2023 tech.

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Is there any place that tracks downtime per expansion? I would love to see what the downtime has been for DF vs the first few months of Vanilla, BC, Wrath.

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Who cares, get over yourself and touch some grass

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In B4 Maintenance extended each hour every hour for 9 hours

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Things you can do during maintenance:

  • Do chores
  • Wash up/bathe
  • Make some breakfast
  • Pay some bills
  • Play another game
  • Read a Book
  • Do a Report
  • Get a Buck
  • ???
  • Profit

This public service announcement has been brought to you by the letter T and G. Words that start with T and G: Touch and Grass.

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I care thats why I asked. Again I forgot I have to spell this stuff out in crayon

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I think everyone is in agreement that they want bugs or issues fixed. Where it becomes problematic for folks is when it cuts into the time they have available to play the game. And then when it happens repeatedly, the mindset shifts from being ok with the bug fixes to “Why is this always happening?”.

I’ve been playing the game since day 1; I remember the long downtimes. But like anything, you expect improvements over the years so those issues go away due to the improvements. Which now are scheduled downtimes, posted in advance, instead of spur of the moment 9 hour down times.

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You are on a forum complaining that I am on a forum complaining yet its me who needs to go outside, yeah ok.

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Game goes down for 2 hours to fix a bug or 2 and you’re on the forums being a baby “cause game down, idk what to do with my life in my mom’s basement”

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Because it’s full of bugs and problems because QA is bad. Whether its because of insufficient testing, or overzealous release cycles, or some combination of these, buggy releases are being rushed to live servers and the servers have to endure much more maintenance because of all the problems.

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Again see above, you are on a forum complaining that I am on a forum complaining.

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I had some time to play before I went to work and multiple times now I’ve been met with maintenance during that time. You wanna tell me to do something else because I get to play about 4hrs a week and half the time there’s a stupid maintenance. Get off your high horse.

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All your posts history is about is complaints about something this or something that :man_shrugging: :man_shrugging: :man_facepalming:

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I decided to make some pastrami flavored beef jerky. It’s marinating now. :bacon:

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The answer is simple.

  1. The so-called, “hardcore loyal fans of WoW”, characterized by sticking with the game during it’s declining years, the type of person who frame their posts to shut-down opinions and priorities that arent theirs, who tell OPs who posts questions such as yours to “go touch grass”, cause they are in the camp it’s okay to suffer multiple, extended outages as long as new content gets out FAST cause they are the ones who consume content at an extraordinary pace, want new content in spite of any downsides for getting stuff out fast.

  2. Blizz caters to this player base.

  3. Leadership at Blizz exploits their employees (see recent comments by them announcing scale back to promise bonuses) and doesnt value their QA and CS teams (something about those being “not long term” careers.

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