WoW: The Maintenance Within

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In the latest World of Warcraft expansion, “The Maintenance Within,” players dive into a realm where the true enemy is Blizzard’s server stability! Adventurers traverse the Land of Downtime, battling fearsome foes like the Overzealous Server Sabotaging Gnome and the dreaded Character with that name that already exists. Each quest involves daring feats like waiting in line for hours, only to be greeted by a “Scheduled Maintenance” pop-up that somehow feels more intimidating than any raid boss. The ultimate loot? A shiny new achievement called “Patient Hero,” granted to anyone who can resist the urge to throw their keyboard out the window during yet another unexpected shutdown!

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in fact, they scheduled this maintenance specifically to spite you, level 19 warrior

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reads title

OH I HAVE A BINGO!

a man in a suit and tie is holding a microphone and saying * drops mic and walks away * .

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oh thank god. I thought it was to spite me. I was angry at first but knowing this I can just chill.

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Turns out, helping the machine-speakers down in the Ringing Deeps was really all an allegory for Blizzard itself.

And they need your help!

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Measure twice, cut once! :joy:

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I believe you’ve hit the nail on the head.

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all that and all of a sudden wow tokens are worth 174k as well??

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Thank you for the giggle

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Me seeing the laucher today.

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And here I was all happy to get on and game after losing half my play time yesterday…

AAA game btw

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Missed my cue on that one.

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my already limited gaming time has been limited even more, bahh…
—whats the reason? what are they fixing, at least let me read something about this…

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they be measuring nothing, straight eyeballing it and sanding it down.

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I dont get the whole thing about whining over maintenance. It has been happening for nearly 20 years and will continue to happen. It happens for all online games. How do people not get this? Its so odd.

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Remember when Tuesday maintenances used to take 10-15 minutes. Pepperidge Farms remembers.

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Remember when every Tuesday maintenance took all day?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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Every Tuesday Maintenance, nope. Was that when the game was new? It’s been out for almost 20 years now.

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Only thing I get from this reply is that you arent Pepperidge Farms

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Only thing I get is you must be a Blizzard employee, get to work and these servers up.

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