Any plans for compensaion due to a full 24 hours with inability to play?

[Chukkaque]

Every other game I play including F2P games. Blizzard/WoW has added at least 5 days in the past year due to downtime. Even FREE games like Marvel Heroes gives compensation for longer than normal downtime by giving 100% bonus drop/XP weekends or vanity pets. This is the only game I play with such a hateful community when it comes to stuff like this, it's embarrassing reading the posts when the OP probably came from almost any other game out there.

As to scheduled maintenance, no other game takes 24 hours, even for major expansions.

"Longer than normal" 24 hours is a pretty understandable downtime for an entire expansion update.

[LambLich]

Every other game I play including F2P games. Blizzard/WoW has added at least 5 days in the past year due to downtime. Even FREE games like Marvel Heroes gives compensation for longer than normal downtime by giving 100% bonus drop/XP weekends or vanity pets. This is the only game I play with such a hateful community when it comes to stuff like this, it's embarrassing reading the posts when the OP probably came from almost any other game out there.

As to scheduled maintenance, no other game takes 24 hours, even for major expansions.

Except that was only done after the game was in a totally unstable state for the first week of the expansion launch(hello being stuck in the floor for 3 days), nothing at all to do with pre expansion maintenance.

[Aramina]

Every other game I play including F2P games. Blizzard/WoW has added at least 5 days in the past year due to downtime. Even FREE games like Marvel Heroes gives compensation for longer than normal downtime by giving 100% bonus drop/XP weekends or vanity pets. This is the only game I play with such a hateful community when it comes to stuff like this, it's embarrassing reading the posts when the OP probably came from almost any other game out there.

As to scheduled maintenance, no other game takes 24 hours, even for major expansions.

I had a feeling you were going to mention Blizzard. For the record though, Blizzard has never -ever- reimbursed gametime for SCHEDULED maintenance. They have only given it for extreme extensions and/or unplayability of the game.

[Khemorex]

lol ok lets do some math :P
u pay around 14 € for 30 days playtime soooo 14/30 = 0,4666 .
So you want a compensation for 0,436666 Cent? how about a lolipop or a bonbon :P

[Planeswalker]

I had a feeling you were going to mention Blizzard. For the record though, Blizzard has never -ever- reimbursed gametime for SCHEDULED maintenance. They have only given it for extreme extensions and/or unplayability of the game.

They have also never scheduled 24 hours of maintenance. Doesn't bother me either way, I'm doing RBGs on Wow on my other monitor as I type this (yay for being on defense) plus I still need to go to the gym today. Only reason I posted is against the toxic community here since the OP probably came from a different game; I mean did we really need 150 posts flaming the guy?

[Twilite]

I consider it compensation if I'm allowed to play when the maintenance is over.

[Aramina]

They have also never scheduled 24 hours of maintenance. Doesn't bother me either way, I'm doing RBGs on Wow on my other monitor as I type this (yay for being on defense) plus I still need to go to the gym today. Only reason I posted is against the toxic community here since the OP probably came from a different game; I mean did we really need 150 posts flaming the guy?

Fair enough. Though, for WoD launch they probably should have gone ahead and schedule 4-7 days of maintenance so I didn't continually torture myself attempting to play on a high pop server. :P

[Able]

They have also never scheduled 24 hours of maintenance. Doesn't bother me either way, I'm doing RBGs on Wow on my other monitor as I type this (yay for being on defense) plus I still need to go to the gym today. Only reason I posted is against the toxic community here since the OP probably came from a different game; I mean did we really need 150 posts flaming the guy?

Every forum for every game ever treats people this way. The OP asked a question with a fairly obvious answer. And, he got flamed for it. I don't agree with it. But, it's also completely unsurprising.

[Xanikk999]

I haven't seen a 24 hour maintenence in any MMO I played before this one. Are they actually doing work during that full 24 hour maintenence? Even in other MMOs expansions 24 hours was not normal for a maintenence window.

[Aramina]

I haven't seen a 24 hour maintenence in any MMO I played before this one. Are they actually doing work during that full 24 hour maintenence? Even in other MMOs expansions 24 hours was not normal for a maintenence window.

I have never seen 24h maintenance either. HOWEVER, every expansion I have been a part of (which there are a number of), there were days/weeks of bugs/lag/disconnects/crashes/restarts/more maintenance/etc that added up, imho, to way more than 24h of unplayability. If they can get EVERYTHING done in 24h and I can play the way I did prior the xpac then I am good with it.

Note: I, in no way, realistically expect perfection even after 24 hours, but I do feel the longer maintenance will curb some of the post-xpac woes experienced by other titles.