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Two years on and Blizzard STILL has to shut down the severs every week?

JadarJadar Member Posts: 300
in World of Warcraft

I spent most of my adolescence and the entirety of my adult life dealing with computers and it grates on my professional sensibilities that a company could be so lame. I suppose being the preeminent success of the MMOG world entitles a company to treat customers with a certain disdain, but you would think their programmers would have some sense of pride. That a server should need to be shutdown, dusted out, the spaghetti code combed back into place, not just occasionally but weekly is an insult to every programming guideline with which I am familiar. My God, just what sort of mess is the WoW code base?

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  • GlottisGlottis Member Posts: 69

    Who cares it's during early time in the morning, and they are moving onto live maintenance, meaning they wont shut down servers every weak.

    There are games such as EVE Online with maintenance EVERY DAY.

    You are dealing with computers all your life but clearly you don't now jack. Stop being so ignorant.

  • YnyrorYnyror Member Posts: 91
    When you write a better code man  let the dev's know im sure they will set you up with a free z-board.
  • Major_SkillzMajor_Skillz Member Posts: 84
    Originally posted by Jadar


    I spent most of my adolescence and the entirety of my adult life dealing with computers and it grates on my professional sensibilities that a company could be so lame. I suppose being the preeminent success of the MMOG world entitles a company to treat customers with a certain disdain, but you would think their programmers would have some sense of pride. That a server should need to be shutdown, dusted out, the spaghetti code combed back into place, not just occasionally but weekly is an insult to every programming guideline with which I am familiar. My God, just what sort of mess is the WoW code base?

    Well then. When your MMO comes out you let us know.

    programming guideline with which I am familiar = null

     

     

  • PraetorianiPraetoriani Member Posts: 1,147
    Honestly, there are very few MMORPGs that don't have this kind of maintenance. Many MMORPGs have their maintenance daily, so WoW players are actually rather lucky.
  • korvasskorvass Member Posts: 616
    What a retarded topic.. so the servers shut down once a week, whoop di da..



    It's called maintenance, all computer systems need it. Such is life. Deal with it.
  • DeathstrokerDeathstroker Member Posts: 9

    This is a joke right?  Almost every MMO has service time everyday when they restart the servers, dump the mem, etc to keep them running smooth.  Oh noes!  You cant play for 2 hrs while the server is down. 

    Or do you think servers can just run and run and run w/o ever having to restart or clean up?

  • boognish75boognish75 Member UncommonPosts: 1,540
    Most mmo's do a weekly restart, it refreshes and defrags the servers, i know i must restart my puter everyonce inawhile to enable it to run proficiently, as well as do a defrag, its maintenance, if they never came down once a week for at least an hour to restart in about a month or even less the whole game would be laggy as hell server side.

    playing eq2 and two worlds

  • BadSpockBadSpock Member UncommonPosts: 7,979

    ya... it's called maintenance....

    Without it, servers would be crashing allllll the time, not just when 100+ ppl stand around together

  • OgrelinOgrelin Member Posts: 636
    I remeber my UO server beeing shutdown every day...but the DAoC-servers don't. I pity you WoW-players that can't splay 24/7 :)
  • DeathstrokerDeathstroker Member Posts: 9
    Originally posted by Ogrelin

    I remeber my UO server beeing shutdown every day...but the DAoC-servers don't. I pity you WoW-players that can't splay 24/7 :)
    Your playing a 10 year old game and you pitty us?  Are you kidding me?
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