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

[Maero]

wow someone feels priviledged
I Pre-ordered HW and was to get early access but due to maintenance probably will not have it but big deal...
I will just do real life stuff in the meantime, surely you can wait a few days?
And to the poster talking about companies offering compensation for downtime... it's a day or 2 max, it's not like we will be 2 weeks without access

[Tawm]

Your compensation is an entire expansions worth on content with (hopefully due to the time they're taking to check the servers) "minimal" server issues.

Which we have paid for, and will continue doing so to access said content.
I'd like those 24 hours added to my gametime next month.

[Kitano123]

Honest question: What company reimburses for scheduled maintenance?

World of Tanks often provides free days of premium sub for downtime.

[Hypie]

Which we have paid for, and will continue doing so to access said content.
I'd like those 24 hours added to my gametime next month.

Laughed hard at this one.

No you won't get that Downtime back. Read the damn EULA before you agree to it.

[MrsFluffyButt]

Wanna know what ya' should of done, kiddo?

Kick that sub into action after patch day!

[Gyson]

Honest question: What company reimburses for scheduled maintenance?

I doubt any. However, now we're getting into the area of what constitutes reasonable downtime. If they announced the servers would be down for a week, does that mean nobody should ask about reimbursement because it's "scheduled"? Exactly how long is too long? For you it may be a month, for someone else it's a day. Neither is right nor wrong.

Blizzard, for example, will say X hours. But then problems crop up that cause the downtime to be much longer than planned, or cause emergency maintenance soon after (something that may very well happen here). That is usually what leads to compensation for downtime being issued (even though it's not required).

Obviously it's safer for developers to pad their estimate, which is fine as long as they're trying their best to get it as done as quickly as possible. It doesn't suck if questions about downtime compensation eventually lead to a developer reevaluating their procedures and finding ways to shorten their maintenance periods. To read the responses in this thread though one would think we should all just roll along with everything because room for improvement doesn't exist.

[Cirgellon]

Ahh, the ramblings of a 12 year old... Next we will hear about how these kids are contacting lawyers and bringing lawsuits as they find out that they get nothing. It's all too predictable as these kids make a big deal out of this stuff in every game forum there is.

[Avalon_Albrook]

I appreciate the feedback as I now know I will have to discuss my individual compensation with customer service.

You do that.

[Tawm]

Laughed hard at this one.

No you won't get that Downtime back. Read the damn EULA before you agree to it.

It was a joke. Not that I've ever read an EULA.

[Meleoffs]

World of Tanks often provides free days of premium sub for downtime.

World of Tanks is also a free to play game and don't require people to sign a EULA that explicitly states that they won't give reimbursement for downtime.