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No one has infinite amounts of time on their hands. Stop QQing like an alarmist teenager, right after making a statement to claim yourself as an adult. You log on before going to work? Then just do something else. Isn't your job and everything else more important than a computer game? It's not the end of the world that you didn't get to sit there for an hour, before leaving for the rest of the day (or night - whenever you work).

This expansion only just pretty much came out. You've got about two years before the next one comes out. Don't tell me that's not plenty of time to do whatever you're going to do in game.

I agree that the down time not being advertised was a surprise. Possibly slightly annoying. But maintenance will happen with this game, in a regular way. It always has so far. Why complain just now about it? Suck it up and act like a mature, working adult, if you want to claim you are one.

I'd just like to point out that I have WAY more free time on my hands than I ever did as a teenager.

Spoken, or rather written, like a kid with plenty of time on his hands. Apparently you missed the point. Prior to going to work is pretty much the *only* time I have to play. Kids are in school, etcetera. After work I have responsibilities to my household.

I'm paying my money to play, and recently I can't do that. So why am I paying my money? Now I agree that Blizzard cannot be expected to schedule their maintenances around every players personal schedule. But I don't agree that everything needs to be shut down for Arena. And that's the crux of it. I'm losing time and money for something that will never be a part of my WoW experience. And I'm not the only one. I'd feel the same way if they shut it down because WSG was glitchy, or a quest-line was being buggy. In my mind it's the same thing.

They shut down for one small part of the game, and some people - like yourself, Smallsword - accept it as part and parcel. But where does it end? What tiny little thing will cause them to shut down next time?

Take Arena and WG offline. Work on it outside the main game, perhaps on a Beta server, until such time as they feel it's fixed. Why does the entire system have to go offline?

After I hit about 22, I had a lot more time on my hands. Before then I was always so busy. I don't see how I ever could have raided as a teen ager, at least not seriously at all.

edit: If you have a job and don't have kids, you have a lot more time on your hands than a kid does.

Edited, Jan 23rd 2009 9:17am by Karthal

You're not special. Many others have lives that they need to deal with also. If you're that tired of it all, stop paying. And no I'm not some kid with a lot of free time I have a job and family to deal with as well.



And what about the players who play for Arenas? Should they not feel slighted that their part of the game has been offline? Just because you don't know many people who are die-hard arena players doesn't mean the portion of the population is irrelevant.



The did take it offline, work on it and try to develop a fix (which they are obviously trying to implement). There's only so much testing you can do on a test server. 100 people stressing a server will never ever find all the flaws or equal the amount of stress that 100k people in a prod environment will. And most likely the way the software works, in order to gt it back online a reboot is needed.

so I wake up early. Like real early (early for me anyways). I say to me self that wants to go back to sleep, "what the heck, you are over half way to 77. Stay away awake. Go get your level and then train for ice flying. It is early..all the kiddies are in school. Going to Dalaran will not equal Death by DC. gogogogogo!"

And so I wake up, fig to get my self going I'd come here and post in the Weekend Goal post, like every weekend. . .
and then I see this post. uuuuugh.
Wish I was someone who could fall back asleep. But now I've been up to long.

T.T

As long as some of the lag issues are fixed, I'm ok with the maintenance. Nothing like doing nothing, to DC -.-

There is always someone (or several someones) who QQ every time the server is down unexpectedly.

1. We knew that WG and arenas were down, we knew that they were working on a fix to these issues, and we knew that when these issues were (hopefully) resolved, it would require down-time for them to implement the fix.

2. We know that when Blizzard does maintenance (emergency or otherwise) they start at either 3:00 AM PST or 5:00 AM PST. Usually they try to do this on Tuesdays, but I am certain that they wanted to have Arenas and Wintergrasp available for the weekend, when the majority of the population is playing and is going to want to have these features available.

3. We know that a patch just came out, and there are always problems requiring restarts and extra maintenance after a patch. It is just reality. No patch to a game of this magnitude can be reasonably expected to be perfect on the first shot. At least Blizzard is trying to get it all right within less than a week of the patch coming out.

4. Yes, the servers have been down more than any of us would like this week, but any of us who are reasonable expected this. There are always going to be a few days here and there where you are not going to be able to play on the day/time that you would like to. If it is impossible for you to adjust your schedule, you either have to deal with it or stop playing.

Really, none of this is any sort of surprise. It happens to varying degrees every time the game is patched or a new expansion comes out. Since October, we have had at least 3 patches and a new expansion, so there has been quite a bit of down-time in that period. I love the new expansion, and I like what they have done in the patches overall, so I am willing to give Blizzard the time to get everything right. It has been inconvenient on certain days to not be able to play when I wanted to or not be able to do precisely what I wanted to do while playing, but you just have to either learn to live with that on occasion or find a new hobby.

Yet for some reason so many people still get surprised by it. It's mind bottling.

Not a Will Farrel fan? me either, but that line I thought was funny

I'm not complaining. Frankly, I think 15 bucks a month is a great deal for the service we get. Sure, wait times to talk to a GM can be several hours to a few days, and maintenance annoys some people, but its a steal. WoW is stable, a lot more stable than, say, free to play MUD's, which can crash on a regular basis for days at a time.

If WoW is down, go outside! Sure, you might deal with sub-zero temps, but you'll have that warm fuzzy feeling when you come in, icicles hanging off your nose, and your realm is back up!

I just started playing again last night after a month or so hiatus. I was looking forward to logging on. But at least, if they fix the WG and Arena issues, we'll have less QQ'ing about that in-game!

You know i read posts like this and laugh... this kind of down time is nothing compared to just after release... server would be down for weeks at a time for "Emergency Maintenance" and you'll notice that any time they must take the server down for extended maintenance that is not schedualed and it takes longer then a couple of hours, you will recieve a 1 day credit on your wow payment schedual IE you didn't pay for the maintenance time... so quit crying over spilt milk...

Thank you!

Someone else who sees that.

I love when people whine that some emergency maintenance is wasting their money. If you want to complain on your money being wasted due to sever down time, look back on FFXI, about ..what, two years ago or so? When the servers were down for practically 3-4 days? Mind is a little rusty on it all.

THAT is something to complain about "wasting" your money, not a measly 4 hours of emergency work to get the game functioning like it should.