Re: Can You Imagine

Mike <mbeck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yeah, actually, to be honest, regarding the new cotnent, I could take
it or leave it. 2.4 really has cost me much more than the (so far) 2
days of completely lost days of playing. I had to reinstall /
reconfigure my entire UI and most addons, all for some content, that
is marginally eye candy.

But that's your choice to use so many sensitive add-ons in the first
place. I had to update Gatherer and Recap and replace StunWatch with
ClassTimers, which took around 30 minutes, most of which was hunting
for something to replace StunWatch with. Everything else just
worked.

No, I don't' know the inner workings of databases and online games,
but I've been a customer of enough online and offline services over my
lifetime (twice that of the average wow user :-) to know when
something is broken. If the power company, amazon.com and interstate
to name a few random services can stay open 24/7, doing maintenance on
the go, why can't wow.

WoW servers process many millions of transactions per second. Your
examples don't.

The real comparison is to things like banks, handling financial
transactions 24/7. And in fact, they have downtime too, often daily
at quiet hours in the early morning (2-4am). Typically, incoming
transactions are queued while the servers are undergoing maintenance
and then batch-processed at top speed once they are back up.

Obviously WoW cannot work this way.

the wall. How about on Monday evening, you post a note on the website
and in game, saying we're sorry, tomorrow from x to x we have planned
maintenance of x severity.

I don't know about the US servers, but the EU servers have a news
message on the log-in screen on Tuesdays, warning about the
scheduled Wednesday maintenance including the expected duration.
Usually they also have a message posted during the maintenance which
usually gets updated if it overruns (but not always.)

I'm a daytime gamer - I don't' spend my nights in the game. This is my
entire days worth of wow lost and I can't even be told it.
50 cents, yeah ok.....you keep telling yourself that...your lifetime
must not be worth much....

Sure it's annoying not to be able to play WoW exactly when you want
to, but it's hardly a lost day. It's not as if you're forced to sit
in front of the computer twiddling your thumbs and waiting for it,
unable to do anything else.

Dan

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