What's with all the maintenance

[Kosmos992k]

More maintenance? Oh holy crap guys what the hell? How bad are your systems that you have to routinely run 2-3 maintenance periods a week? Honestly, I work in IT, I have done for decades and I've never seen any system with maintenance outages this frequent unless the system in question was already lurching it's way from one crisis to another towards a spectacular death.

These maintenance outages are getting to the point where it's just a joke. Some bright spark will no doubt quote the ToS at me and say I agreed to it. Yeah, whatever kids, the problem here is not that there is maintenance, maintenance is a given, but not 2, 3 or 4 times a week. Regular maintenance on most any IT system I work with professionally is once a month at most. I've only ever seen maintenance as often as once a week on a system with a fairly nasty memory leak. But 2, 3 or 4 times a week? That adds up to between 8 and 16 maintenance periods a month and between 96 and 180 outages a year. I challenge any professional in IT to defend bringing a system down that often for "maintenance" - you can't.

Well, it's nice to have some people that actually mine the game files...

Um, no, it's patently obvious that the update was in 2.05 since that was the last game update. The maintenance scheduled starts after the Lightning event, therefore, logically, the 2.05 client includes the material needed for the lightning event.