All Worlds Maintenance (Dec. 16-17)

[Grembo]

Why would a patch take 1-2 days? I've never seen a patch take that long in all my MMO playing years.

Read it again, it's not just for the patch.

Also, I only had to type "24 hour Maintenance" into google and within seconds it became quickly clear that WoW has had quite a few take that long. Funny that eh....

EDIT: Looks like Maple Story got hit with 8 days worth of downtime once, ouch.

[Babydoll]

Kind of, they are only fixing it for certain instances, like PvP, certain dungeons and the primal battles, for example. They are not fixing it for most content, but the delay isn't really a significant problem outside of the instances they are fixing it for.

Yeah, its better then nothin...I'll take it lol. XD

[Kailea_Nagisa]

of course 2 of my 3 days off from work.... lol -.- oh well

[LiadansWhisper]

Yes a lot of people are having to use tools like Pingzapper to reduce their ping -especially time warner customers in california. There are some routes to SEs servers that are ruined by ISP - not by SE. Although maybe SE shouldn't put their servers in Canada where nobody of significance lives and instead put them in Dallas or Chicago which have much better traffic routes for data.

Montreal actually has extremely good connectivity. They have some of the best fiber in the world.

[Sylve]

Montreal actually has extremely good connectivity. They have some of the best fiber in the world.

Jap Fiber makes makes me jelly. But hey, the 100mbps Fiber i get in Australia is better than the 100 year old Copper. lol

[Bladeglory]

Agreed, again im just unsure why they decided to estimate a full 24 hours for it, I would be incredibly suprised if it did indeed take that long. I guess it makes them look better if they do it in twelve, than estimating say 6 hours and extending it by 6.

Scotty Time. It's better than Valve time.
"...Scotty tells Kirk that refit will take "eight weeks, sir. But you don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for you in two." Kirk asks if he multiplies all estimates by four. Scott says he has to, "how else would I keep up my reputation as a miracle worker?" "

[Lithera]

Yah they've been constantly overestimating maintenance times if you've noticed. Pretty near every follow up notice on a maintenance has been to announced an EARLIER finish time than originally announced.

[Cluebilly]

Hey when it comes to updates like this, I'm willing to give them as much time as they need to get it all going. At the end of the day I'd rather them take their time than try to rush it

[3Jane]

They use military time..so midnight.

lol, that's just the 24 hour clock in the rest of the world. Military time I think is called Zulu time, no idea if that is different though.

[Kewitt]

I hope it take 8m and 21 seconds(random numbers but longer then 24 hours) longer so people freak out when smashing the log in button.