Something to point out. Lets look at the three major MMORPGs and there system support pages with downtime info in the month of Sept.
WoWis down every tuesday for up to 24hrs
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/07/26/extended_outages_for_world_of_warcraft.html
Everquest:
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Scheduled EverQuest Server Maintenance 9/22/2005 4:00am
All EverQuest English language servers will be coming down at 4:00 AM PDT (-7 UTC) on Thursday 9/22/2005 for an update. Estimated downtime is 4 hours.
Scheduled EverQuest Server Maintenance 9/21/2005 4:00am
All EverQuest English language servers will be coming down at 4:00 AM PDT (-7 UTC) on Wednesday 9/21/2005 for an update. Estimated downtime is 5 hours.
Scheduled EverQuest Server Maintenance 9/16/2005 4:00am
All EverQuest English language servers will be coming down at 4:00 AM PDT (-7 UTC) on Thursday 9/16/2005 for an update. Estimated downtime is 5 hours.
Scheduled EverQuest Server Maintenance 9/15/2005 4:00am
All EverQuest English language servers will be coming down at 4:00 AM PDT (-7 UTC) on Thursday 9/15/2005 for an update. Estimated downtime is 5 hours.
Scheduled EverQuest Server Maintenance 9/14/2005 1:00am
All EverQuest English language servers will be coming down at 4:00 AM PDT (-7 UTC) on Wednesday 9/14/2005 for an update. Estimated downtime is 3 hours.
Scheduled EverQuest Server Maintenance 9/13/2005 2:00am
All EverQuest English language servers will be coming down at 2:00 AM PDT (-7 UTC) on Tuesday 9/13/2005 for an update. Estimated downtime is 11 hours.
Scheduled EverQuest Server Maintenance 9/07/2005 4:00am
All EverQuest English language servers will be coming down at 4:00 AM PDT (-7 UTC) on Wednesday 9/07/2005 for an update. Estimated downtime is 4 hours.
Unfortunetly I do not see any emergency issues posted but thats not to say they have some.
Then good ole FFXI:
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Sep. 29, 2005 17:59 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Difficulties (Sep. 29)
Sep. 29, 2005 19:02 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Recovery (Sep. 29)
Sep. 29, 2005 19:53 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Recovery (Sep.29) Followup
Sep. 28, 2005 17:29 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
Remora World Recovery (Sep. 28)
Sep. 27, 2005 20:30 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
Registration Server Maintenance (Oct. 1)
Oct. 2, 2005 02:15 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
Registration Server Maintenance Extension (Oct. 2)
Oct. 2, 2005 05:30 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
Registration Server Maintenance Extension: Followup
Sep. 25, 2005 05:50 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Difficulties (Sep. 25)
Sep. 25, 2005 07:10 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Recovery (Sep. 25)
Sep. 25, 2005 01:55 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 25)
Sep. 25, 2005 03:40 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All World Login Recovery (Sep. 25)
Sep. 19, 2005 11:00 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Difficulties (Sep. 19)
Sep. 19, 2005 13:50 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Recovery (Sep. 19)
Sep. 19, 2005 05:25 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Recovery (Sep. 19)
Sep. 16, 2005 04:05 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
Search Function and Auction House Difficulties (Sep. 16)
Sep. 16, 2005 04:45 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
Search Function and Auction House Recovery (Sep. 16)
Sep. 15, 2005 07:00 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
Search Function and Auction House Difficulties (Sep. 15)
Sep. 15, 2005 07:35 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
Search Function and Auction House Recovery (Sep. 15)
Sep. 13, 2005 19:30 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 13)
Sep. 13, 2005 22:15 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Recovery (Sep. 13)
Sep. 13, 2005 01:15 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 12)
Sep. 13, 2005 03:15 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 12): Follow-up
Sep. 13, 2005 06:10 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 12): Follow-up 2
Sep. 13, 2005 10:40 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 12): Follow-up 3
Sep. 13, 2005 18:16 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Recovery (Sep. 13)
Sep. 12, 2005 02:00 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Server Maintenance (Sep. 14)
Sep. 8, 2005 05:55 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Difficulties (Sep. 8)
Sep. 8, 2005 09:00 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Difficulties (Sep. 8): Follow-up
Sep. 8, 2005 11:10 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Difficulties (Sep. 8): Follow-up 2
Sep. 8, 2005 16:30 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Login Recovery (9/8)
Sep. 7, 2005 00:00 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
FINAL FANTASY XI Network Maintenance (Sep. 7)
Sep. 5, 2005 02:40 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 5)
Sep. 5, 2005 04:10 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All World Login Recovery (Sep. 5)
Sep. 4, 2005 20:11 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 4)
Sep. 4, 2005 22:15 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 4): Followup
Sep. 4, 2005 23:50 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All World Login Recovery (Sep. 4)
Sep. 4, 2005 10:20 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Maintenance (Sep. 4)
Sep. 4, 2005 14:00 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Maintenance Completed (Sep. 4)
Sep. 4, 2005 05:15 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 4)
Sep. 4, 2005 09:15 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All World Login Recovery (Sep. 4)
Sep. 3, 2005 23:30 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Website Emergency Maintenance (Sep. 3)
Sep. 4, 2005 02:30 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Website Emergency Maintenance Completed (Sep. 3)
Sep. 3, 2005 22:07 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Difficulties (Sep. 3)
Sep. 3, 2005 22:40 [PDT] From:FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Login Recovery Notice (Sep. 3)
Sep. 2, 2005 22:55 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
Registration Server Maintenance (Sep. 2)
Sep. 3, 2005 04:50 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
Registration Server Maintenance (Sep. 2): Follow-up
Sep. 3, 2005 06:30 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
Registration Server Maintenance (Sep. 2): Follow-up 2
Sep. 3, 2005 08:00 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
Registration Server Maintenance Completed (Sep. 2)
Sep. 2, 2005 01:15 [PDT] From:PlayOnline
PlayOnline Recovery (Sep. 2)
O_O
honestly imo. No matter which game u go to you will have massive amounts of downtime.
Edited, Fri Oct 21 00:04:45 2005 by Tekki Edited, Fri Oct 21 00:13:12 2005 by Tekki