Tuesday is MaintenanceFollow

Yeah really. Isn't 75 million like, half the US population? (Totally guessing, but 75 million is more than 10 times WoW's subscriber base.) And who pays $30?



[Taken from WoW site, Battleplan on May 3rd]
Going Retro
The new zones added to the game in The Burning Crusade will increase Azeroth's current land mass by 25 percent. To insure that Azeroth continues to feel vibrant and populated, we will be increasing the player caps on all our realms by the same percentage. The new hardware installed on our 5th and 6th sites will be able to handle this increase in concurrency with some adjustments, but the hardware on our mature sites cannot. Therefore, over the next few months we will also be retrofitting our mature sites with the same top-of-the-line hardware deployed at our new sites. Players won't need the expansion to notice the performance boost this new hardware will bring to these sites.
[/end blue note]

If you read this, you'll notice it says over the next FEW months. One month has gone by. Perhaps Mannoroth is scheduled for this month, or the next.

Duck Tales, awhoooo

Yes, 75 million subscribers is way off the mark.

So how about we work with a much, much more conservative estimate, of 5 million subscribers. And let's also use a conservative monthly subscription fee average of $15.

Therefore, 5,000,000 X $15 X 12 = $900,000,000 = 0.9 Billion dollars.

So let's say they messed up their cost estimates and managed to make only 10% of profit out of WoW.

So, 10% of $900,000,000 = $90,000,000 = USD$90,000,000.

I don't know where you come from, but where i come from, a "take home" of 90 million bucks is @%@%!$ good! And that's for a product that doesn't work 20% of the time (average of 1.5 days down, out of 7 days)!

I guess the bottom line is, their being able to get away with it just underlines what a great game WoW is!

You know that first line of the sticky, where it says 5am-11am PST....

So, that would be 2 PM EST in Jersey

Yeah, I goofed. Should've been 7.5 Million, but somehow I completely missed the decimal, and as I was looking at that number, it became "ingrained" as THE number.

Oh, btw..... iiiiiiiiiiiiiit's TUESDAY! "zomg!!!111 The servorz are down!! What can I do?! Does ne1 no a private servor where I can playz?"

I heard someone say that not long before Mannaroth went down, in IF, while I was chatting with a Guildie(waiting on the server to finally shut down). It's always fun to hear people carrying on about how the world is going to end. The "Repent! The end is hand!" crap gets old, though.

I just hope they don't find some weird way to ***** things up again. I'd much rather prefer to spend my time PLAYING and not hoping I MIGHT be able to connect, after a previous 30+ failures to connect because Blizzard couldn't find their **** with both hands, a mirror, a map, and two friends to help.

...sigh. Bored already.

Huzzah! It's tuesday! And it doesn't deserve a huzzah!

Woooooo...

Boredom...

Heh, I remember on my first maintenance day I thought WoW was being hacked. Then I came here and read this thread O_o.

Seriously...

PST is 2 hours difference. Your server should be up at 1pm CST.

As the sticky states, MAint is from 5am-11amPST, so Mountain time would be 12pm, CST would be 1pm, and EST would be 2pm...if they come up on time.

Haha 75 million people...

I hate patch days.

GG, Blizz! I disable my firewall so your Piece of CRAP downloader can download the new patch, restart so the change takes effect, and guess what?! "You appear to be behind a Firewall. Click Here for more info." And this somehow happens AFTER it downloads 83% of the damned patch!

WTF? You force us to endure long hours of the background downloader lagging us while we try to play, then the damned downloader won't connect on patch day? Are you F**KING serious?!

....I hate Tuesday.

*Edit* It's 1840-ish now, and after discovering that my firewall needs to be ON, I re-enable it, make sure the appropriate ports are open, and yet the download is STILL stuck at 83%(127/151mb).

So wtf is going on? Am I going to be able to play today? Or this week? Or has Blizz pulled the ****** gig again and screwed it up?

*sigh* If only they would THINK before writing these applications/patches. WoW might be a great experience if they would.

Edited, Jun 20th 2006 at 9:41pm EDT by AkikoKittel

i have the exact same problem. it stops at 84% to me though but the numbers 127/151mb are still the same.
As u, i tried everything from diabling every firewall i could find, to try desperatly to find bliz support phone number. but stupid me havent written it down, and woooow, the site is down to^^
so there i am sitting with practically 0 knowledge about computers (im a girlygirl) and dunno what to do. but afer a call to my bf i was soothed a bit. looks like the wow servers have crashed.. again^^ why am i not surprised..

so, ill just wait a few hours and hope. thats the best any of us can do i suppose.
but just let us all hope the servers come back up soon^^

That wonderful display, I was also stuck at 84%, left for like an hour hoping that it would work again later, then nothing!

I looked up the info from that link that downloader gives you, said that google and yahoo toolbar pop up blocker can stop it, so I uninstalled them, restarted like it said and then....

I start this thing again and it takes me to 89%. WOW this is amazing. I am getting really irritated with this ****.

This patch went live on America yesterday and they playing properly after the patch/maintenance. So what the hell is different. I am getting really pissed off with this.

World of Warcraft has 6 million subscribers and they also have a huge ammount of staff.

Please explain to me why this is happening..

cause I am getting really ******n pissed off and paying money to suffer this. OMFG

I had the 84% problem, quit the downloader and restarted.
It slowly started going up.
Servers are still down though.