OMFG!!! 16 Hour Maintanance window!!!

[SurfD]

The weekly realm maintenance normally scheduled for Tuesday morning has been moved to this Thursday, January 13, at 4:00 AM PST. As part of this week's maintenance, we will be making improvements to our current infrastructure to address recent performance issues. Please note that implementing these improvements will extend the duration of the maintenance window to approximately 16 hours. We thank you in advance for your patience during this time; we will work diligently to bring the realms up as quickly as possible.

SIXTEEN FREAKING HOURS!!

I am rendered nearly speachless.

[schild]

Wow. Are they giving you a free day for that month?

[Paelos]

Let's see that's 7 EST, so with a 16 hour delay I can play at 11PM on a Thursday night. This game is starting to give me more reasons by the week to not sign in.

Meanwhile Pirates is fun.

[Fist]

The weekly realm maintenance normally scheduled for Tuesday morning has been moved to this Thursday, January 13, at 4:00 AM PST. As part of this week's maintenance, we will be making improvements to our current infrastructure to address recent performance issues. Please note that implementing these improvements will extend the duration of the maintenance window to approximately 16 hours. We thank you in advance for your patience during this time; we will work diligently to bring the realms up as quickly as possible.

SIXTEEN FREAKING HOURS!!

I am rendered nearly speachless.

Seriously...if the thought of being without a video game for 16 whole hours nearly renders you speechless then you really need to get outside, get some fresh air and realize that there is life outside of WoW.

[Merusk]

Seriously... realize that there is life outside of WoW.

Right, like that CoH sub that hasn't expired yet!

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What?

[AlteredOne]

Blizzard is just trying to encourage their most dedicated customers to procreate.  Their marketing department studied the great Northeastern power outages of 1965 and 2003, and determined that a 16-hour window was optimal for encouraging even the most hopelessly addicted players to attempt to reproduce.  This is a clever bid to increase revenue.

[Stephen Zepp]

Blizzard is just trying to encourage their most dedicated customers to procreate.  Their marketing department studied the great Northeastern power outages of 1965 and 2003, and determined that a 16-hour window was optimal for encouraging even the most hopelessly addicted players to attempt to reproduce.  This is a clever bid to increase revenue.

Oh man, and the worst part is I know couples like this.

[Fargull]

Hand Lotion Sale

Fixed it for ya...

[Pineapple]

SIXTEEN FREAKING HOURS!!

I am rendered nearly speachless.

The best thing to do is sit in the corner of your room in a fetal position, rocking back and forth.

Or you can go to the store and restock on ramen noodle packs and Mountain Dew.

[Soukyan]

Maintenance

Speechless

I know you're upset, but I had nothing better than spelling corrections to add to this thread.

[AcidCat]

Seriously...if the thought of being without a video game for 16 whole hours nearly renders you speechless then you really need to get outside, get some fresh air and realize that there is life outside of WoW.

Looks like you have it pretty much covered, I guess there's nothing else to see here ...

[Der Helm]

[Riggswolfe]

If this fixes the recent server issues it is more than worth it.

[Trippy]

The login message on the extended downtime has been updated -- now it is saying that only certain servers will be down 16 hours. These are:

Blackrock
Bonechewer
Cenarion Circle
Deathwing
Destromath
Denthecus
Doomhammer
Spinebreaker
Gorgonnash
Kil'Jadeden
Kel'Thuzada
Lightbringer
Nathrezimi
Windrunner
Proudmoore
Shadowsong
Silver Hand
Silvermoon
Tichondrius
Hyjal
Kilrogg
Uther
Terenas
Ner'zhul
Icecrown
Frostwolf
Dragonmaw

[schild]

Looks like Earthen Ring isn't on that list.

Just sayin.'

[murdoc]

I'm guessing that instead of taking the whole game down, they're doing only certain servers at a time. When someone complains about downtime they can say 'Yeah, but 1/2 our servers remained up for you to play on!'

Just guessing though.

Maintenance

I always spell that wrong.

[Calantus]

Mine is and thank god for that. Hopefully the occasional 10 minutes it takes to sell backpacks of loot to vendors will go away soon.

[Dren]

Whisperwind is my server and it isn't on there.

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Woot?

[Viin]

Yah! Wtf! Icecrown isn't on the list.. where's the luv for Icecrown! It needs fixed too! -whine-

[Rasix]

I didn't think my server had enough problems to warrant 16 hours of downtime.  The 10 seconds of lag every time I enter Org(always happens when you first open a window or target someone)  really doesn't bother me.

Ohh well, not like I don't have shit I can do in the meantime. This possibly would have bothered me I was still 19.

[Viin]

Interestingly, Nathrezimi is on that list. That server has a LOW population even during peak times (I've started playing a Horde char there, because of that). So I'm guessing they are just taking a handful and doing /whatever/ to them regardless of popularity Maybe next week they'll do the rest.

[Sable Blaze]

Best thing they can do is move the AH out of Ironforge on Whisperwind. Most of the problems I see stem from that.

Moving it out would spread the population out, get dumbasses out of the braziers, and reduce travel times and costs (yes, I'm a tightwad).

It is curious Whisperwind isn't on the list, but whatever. I'm not going to complain. Even with the IF lagathons I find the game extremely playable (if not very shoppable).

[kaid]

The problem with moving the auction house is wherever you move it to will then be the nasty lag area. They really need is auction houses in ironforge/storm wind/darnassus for alliance and in each of the big horde cities.

I simply cannot understand why the flaming hell if you want to check the auction house if you are an elf you have to go to another freaking continent. If you make these one per side guess what you are going to get a freaking metric ass ton of folks congregating there. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure lots of folks are going to be wanting to buy and sell shit.


kaid

[Signe]

I guess it's why most people make an alt and park it in front of the AH and just mail stuff back and forth.

[Viin]

I guess it's why most people make an alt and park it in front of the AH and just mail stuff back and forth.

Yah I've certainly seen more of that lately.

They did say they were going to put up more auction houses and link them together, so hopefully that'll fix a lot of the problems everyone sees in the faction auction cities. (Apparently no one uses the Horde/Alliance auction house).

[kaid]

I think people would like to use the horde alliance auction house but from what I have heard it is um more than a bit frisky to get in there and do your stuff.

Just picture a boxing day clearance sale with orks taurens and elves and you have a picture of the brutality and depravity that occurs trying to get into these places to shop.

kaid

[Stephen Zepp]

I think people would like to use the horde alliance auction house but from what I have heard it is um more than a bit frisky to get in there and do your stuff.

Just picture a boxing day clearance sale with orks taurens and elves and you have a picture of the brutality and depravity that occurs trying to get into these places to shop.

kaid

Now THAT is an image!
*pictures a tauren swinging it's purse at a gnome yelling, "no, it's MINE!"*

[Rasix]

Anything that may result in elf death gets my official thumbs up.

[WayAbvPar]

Anything that may result in elf death gets my official thumbs up.

Heh- ditto. Got to make my first credited PvP elf kill last night- what a great feeling =)

I have never experienced any of the lag that you all seem to take for granted. Of course, I play on a medium pop server on the Horde side. I would venture to guess that it is different for the Alliance, especially near the Hunter trainer (which has got to be 10 deep with fucking Night Elves at all times, judging from the amount I see in contested zones).

[Rasix]

Heh- ditto. Got to make my first credited PvP elf kill last night- what a great feeling =)

Yah, it's like watching Duke lose in basketball. The great feeling is always there.    

The elves on my server are such goddamn pussies though.  My friend the other day had an elf priest that was 3 levels higher than him turn tail and run without even attempting combat.  We've gotten good fights out of dwarves, humans, and gnomes, but the elves just die in rapid order.   Of course, with a group of a shaman/shaman/mage, we're quite a load to handle in small scale skirmishes.

Every time I see an elf hunter I just groan.  I just wish I could speak to offer some sort of sarcastic put down that might enter into their mind just how unorginal and homogenous their entire breed is.  Take out all of the elf hunters on the alliance side and you've got enough to form you own damn faction.

/derail

[WayAbvPar]

Yah, it's like watching Duke lose in basketball. The great feeling is always there.

I was with ya until then....I love Coach Krzuyskrzskrzrweki! I was on the Duke bandwagon in the late 80s (when Quinn Snyder went there- he was a local guy). One of my favorite college games of all time was watching them beat the shit out of UNLV (after getting pwned the year before).

Now Arizona? There is a team worth hating =P (I actually root for them when they aren't playing UW).


Back somewhat on topic-

Take out all of the elf hunters on the alliance side and you've got enough to form you own damn faction.

IIRC, I saw some stats on the ER server that indicated that they outnumbered the entire Horde faction. If you come up with a suitable global insult for NE Hunters, let me know.

[Rasix]

If you come up with a suitable global insult for NE Hunters, let me know.

"Drizzt sucks" would probably whip most of them into a frenzy.

[Shockeye]

[AlteredOne]

Yah, it's like watching Duke lose in basketball. The great feeling is always there.

I was with ya until then....I love Coach Krzuyskrzskrzrweki! I was on the Duke bandwagon in the late 80s (when Quinn Snyder went there- he was a local guy). One of my favorite college games of all time was watching them beat the shit out of UNLV (after getting pwned the year before).

Duke is about 15 minutes from my house, but I'm a UNC fan :P  However, the aforementioned trouncing of UNLV was a great moment in basketball, and for a couple of brief shining hours I was as big a Blue Devil as you could find.  Good old Tark the Shark, what a shame he's at dumpy Fresno State, he was such a great villain figure.

[MrHat]

Hahahaha.

Nice find.