Emergency Maintenance 1/23Follow

I wouldn't be surprised if they do another update to fix the one they issued earlier....

Ehh...since when does 'Emergency Maintenance' = scheduled maintenance?

I think scheduled maintenance is maintenance planned in advance, whereas emergency maintenance would be...you know...a response to an emergency? Just sayin'.

I'm sure they're keeping the servers down longer just to **** us all off.

I DEMAND MY PLAYTIME!!! ROMP ROMP ROMP! OH NO IT'S GODZILLA!!!

Anyways, I'm a little disappointed I wanted to get right back to grinding quests/heroics but this is important. It shut down my server for a minute once because of WG. The whole server! I couldn't level because it'd just wipe out waves of us. It's always a good thing that they are fixing WoW, of course it can be a little annoying when the server is down.

I don't mind a wait. I'd just like to have an Idea how long. it's like the DMV I guess.

I manage software on a very large scale. When you have to perform an emergency maintenance you can give your best, educated guess at how long it will take to restore performance. Sometimes you're completely wrong.

See, when you perform a planned maintenance, you have a plan. It's laid out with procedural steps, each of which generally has a known duration. This planning is part of the preparation for a maintenance and by the time the deployment date rolls around, it's generally pretty close to the mark. When you go in to an emergency maintenance, you have had much less time to work out the procedures. There's a larger chance of unexpected problems popping up.

It'll be done when it's done.

that's why it's like the DMV. you can never guess the wait. lol

I hate when I'm rolling an alt toon and these kids come up to me and wanting to duel when they are 10-15 levels higher while I'm trying to level. I decline and then they start begging "PLZ?" and emote /crying. How lame. I just put them in my ignore. On the other hand if a toon wants to duel and is like 10 level lower to test their equipment and I have some free time. (LOL) That's different.


Edited, Jan 23rd 2009 12:38pm by xonhex

<sigh> Sorry guys, my fault. :) Blizz obviously knows I need to clean my house, and by taking WoW offline, it seems like I'll be forced to do so. <shakes fist> Damn you Blizzard!! Though, with the unexpected downtime this morning, I went grocery shopping so we can eat...lol

coming back up get rdy....

Obviously Pallier doesn't like PvP and is intent on making MULTIPLE posts to make us all well aware of that point.

He also obviously doesn't read the patch notes and take note of all of the changes made in the patches that are designed to improve PvE abilities/content.

Also, he obviously doesn't raid, because a side-effect of the recent problems is that Naxx has been almost unplayable and this also needed to be fixed along with Arenas and WG. Naxx is NOT a PvP aspect of the game, but the entry level raid at 80 that everyone who has any aspirations of raiding wants to do.

I do not personally like PvP either, but Pallier is just going to have to learn to live with the fact that a very large portion of the WoW population LOVES PvP and does WG, Arenas, BGs, etc. and they are a MAJOR portion of the game for a lot of people. As a business, Blizzard would be utterly, completely, and totally stupid to keep Wintergrasp and Arenas offline for any longer than absolutely necessary. They would also alienate a ton of players who enjoy the PvE side of the game if they did not fix an issue that was affecting players in Naxxaramus.

I mean seriously dude, you don't like PvP... SO WHAT! Try to see it from a business perspective and understand that pissing off at least half of your subscriber base by not fixing PvP related problems is financially a really bad idea.

yeah cause we all know when they say "this emergancy is to fix ARENAS" thats made for us PvE players to fix our raid content.