Another week, another maintenance cycle...
by Elizabeth Harper 
Mar 26th 2007 at 11:59PM
Well, this week we don't quite have live maintenance, but we don't have a full regular maintenance, either. Eyonix informs us that starting at 5:00 AM PDT (or 8:00 AM EST) all servers will be offline for approximately three hours for maintenance to the authentication databases. Most US players won't notice an early morning maintenance like this, but sadly, it still falls right in prime time for Australian players, for whom it starts between 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM, depending on their time zone. Sorry, folks -- I'd be pretty frustrated if regular maintenance hit during my prime time play schedule, too.Filed under: Realm Status
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Lrn2blog Mar 27th 2007 12:26AM
Wow......
Like we really needed a report on this.
You know a site is going downhill when....
BTW, the 17 posts on will you be revisiting old instances was top notch.
GG
TwhiT Mar 27th 2007 12:35AM
Lrn2blog
QQ a bit more numbnuts...
cuz nobody cares! haha
Christopher Merchant Mar 27th 2007 12:36AM
Looks like the WOW Forum crowd has made their way to WOW Insider. It was only a matter of time...
Chris
Anti Whinger Mar 27th 2007 5:12PM
I am an aussie and appreciate the heads up. pretty annoyed @ blizz though.
Thanks mate.
Woodstock Mar 27th 2007 6:21PM
Elizabeth raises an important question that has long annoyed many Australian players (myself included). While having one night a week of regular maintenance is good because it encourages us to have a life (or get one if we don't already), it is also really annoying.
I agree with TwhiT, people who randomly complain about nothing is even more annoying that losing a night's gametime.
uncaringbear Mar 27th 2007 7:43AM
Lrn2blog: Go back to trolling the forums.
Re: Tuesday maintenance
It's always a sad night for us Aussies. Last week I got home from work, had dinner, logged onto WoW and was greeted with the message "Server shutdown in 1 minute.".
/CRY
FireStar Mar 27th 2007 9:12AM
wow have some mean commenters on today.
ffxi had their 7 hour maintenance during the middle of the day for U.S. players. Japanese developers i guess didn't want to get up in the middle of the night to cater to their wider subscription crowd.
Any blog is better than no blog (besides where people complain about their chars being nerfed..i have 8) because it gives me something to get distracted with :P.
Burning Adrenaline Mar 27th 2007 10:18AM
This blog entry was useful to me in that I hadn't known about the Australian prime time/maintenance issue. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Kazia Mar 27th 2007 8:27PM
Wasn't it last week or the week before when they ran maintenance at normal times for US servers, but the Oceanic flagged ones where done later, at what equated to 5am Australian EST. Why couldn't they do that again here?
Wena Mar 27th 2007 9:06PM
I hope that the login process is smoother now. Being an Oceanic player in Asia, it's strange to see the IP logins not goto California but head all the way to New York. Wonder if this will help with the current lag faced by Oceanic players.