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poor service availability

lukeborgmanlukeborgman Member UncommonPosts: 36
in World of Warcraft

Is anyone else ticked that Blizzard keeps taking servers down for many hours or even whole days at a time?  I used to think SOE had poor service availability, but Blizzard is making them look good today.

It'd be great if there was an objective measure of service availability that could be used as a standard part of MMORPG ratings.

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  • jwoo127jwoo127 Member Posts: 2

    do you not know they have maintenance every tuesday....?

  • nomadiannomadian Member Posts: 3,490


    do you not know they have maintenance every tuesday....?
    Don't think he is talking about that. ::::35::
  • LexinLexin Member UncommonPosts: 701
    Would you rather have the downtime now or when the expansion comes out?

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  • dmond24dmond24 Member Posts: 10
    I known what your talking about it ticks me off also
  • willrosewillrose Member Posts: 91
    They have it for a reason and if you cant not play for a day or even hours the nthats sad get a life i hate it t obut it doe help. Just yestrday lag on my sever was awful after the matience to day it worked awesome so just read a book or play another game plz. this is my view srry for the bad spelling and grammer.
  • Plasuma!!!Plasuma!!! Member Posts: 1,872

    Originally posted by lukeborgman

    Is anyone else ticked that Blizzard keeps taking servers down for many hours or even whole days at a time?  I used to think SOE had poor service availability, but Blizzard is making them look good today.
    It'd be great if there was an objective measure of service availability that could be used as a standard part of MMORPG ratings.

    If you're talking about the infamous 'Tuesday maintenance', then you just have to stick it out and live with it. Sometimes they do it just for kick and giggles; but other times they're either fixing something they broke last patch, or in the process of breaking something else.

    Most of the time, it's a good thing. Blizzard is prone to annoying mistakes, though... for about two weeks, the rogues could not use their valuable vanish ability, and the devs thought this was OK; but God forbid if rogues and warriors are able to fire ranged weapons rapidly... they fixed that two days after it was reported.

  • DabbleDabble Member Posts: 1,043

    The extended maintenance isn't that often at all and if it resolves issues, then that is good.

    Some people will complain no matter what I suppose. 

    There are real things to complain about, when it comes to this game.  Let's not throw everything in the complaint box.

  • RuthgarRuthgar Member Posts: 730
    There is a solution:
    1) Find a server that is on new hardware and seems to be up most of the time.
    2) Transfer your characters over there OR reroll on that server.

    That is what I did a few months ago to avoid 1-2 hour login queues and horrible lag.
    I am glad that my realm isn't down for more than normal maint.


  • SycondamanSycondaman Member Posts: 262

    Originally posted by jwoo127

    do you not know they have maintenance every tuesday....?
    He's talking about numerous hot-fixes, restarts, and hardware changes on about 80% of the servers last weekend.
  • ShadoedShadoed Member UncommonPosts: 1,459

    At the end of the day it is a fact of life with computing!

    Whether you are playing online games, working in an office or just checking your own machine for viruses, downtime is as inevitable as death and taxes.

    Servers need to be maintained, backed up, serviced, updated, patched, cleaned and even from time to time break down. I don't mean this in a harsh way, so please don't take it that way, but if you are going to complain about down time you probably want to stear clear of MMO's in general because it is going to happen. ::::19::

    On the plus side, todays downtime on the EU servers should hopefully reap some positive results with all the new hardware being put into place. We will wait and see ::::01::

    It must be Thursday, i never could get the hang of Thursdays.

  • HubabubaHubabuba Member Posts: 229

    Originally posted by lukeborgman

    Is anyone else ticked that Blizzard keeps taking servers down for many hours or even whole days at a time?  I used to think SOE had poor service availability, but Blizzard is making them look good today.
    It'd be great if there was an objective measure of service availability that could be used as a standard part of MMORPG ratings.

    Try this for me, please....

    Load up your favorite game.

    Now, quickly, change out all of the hardware within your PC, including motherboard, processor, memory, hard drive(s), floppy dirve, CD/DVD ROM(s), sound card, and video card without disrupting the game that you are currently playing.

    Let me know how well your game ran while you were swapping out parts.

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