24 hour patch in this day and age?

[dcdistro]

I have never heard of any game going down for 24 hours in the years and years i been playing for a patch maintenance... sure they might add some hardware to try and compensate for their horrible latency issues which haven't gone away much still... but really 24 hours to install a patch and do a quick hardware test??

I can understand 8 hours... but 24 that is insane..

[Zish]

You've never played a Blizzard game?

[Teslo]

I'd rather wait for a 24 hour downtime so they can ensure everything goes smoothly and works properly when it comes back up, than have a week and a half of buggy gameplay that gets patched 4 times over the NEXT week with 3 hour downtimes in-between.

WoW should be taking notes.

[Isyaan]

They can always end it early if everything checks out. People tend to not appreciate when shorter maintenance periods end up getting extended 2-3 times because they ran into unexpected issues.

[Lexia]

Have you not been here for the other patches?

[Ahmbor]

Shinra... Yuna.. ?

[Darsho]

This'll be a productive thread

[Mogi]

find something to play during it

[Shyluv]

It's 25 hours long now. Due to their reason for an extra hour, unless they finish hours earlier than they thought they would, I highly doubt it will finish early this time.

[Sparktacus]

I'd rather wait for a 24 hour downtime so they can ensure everything goes smoothly and works properly when it comes back up, than have a week and a half of buggy gameplay that gets patched 4 times over the NEXT week with 3 hour downtimes in-between.

WoW should be taking notes.

Uh...






That's exactly what happens here EXCEPT we also get a ridiculous maintenance time on top of the month long connection hiccupthon that is about to ensue.