Extended maintenance for Tuesday
by Adam Holisky 
Jan 19th 2009 at 11:40PM
As expected, tomorrow will have extended maintenance on all North American realms between 3:00 a.m. PST / 6:00 a.m. EST and 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST. I'm told that hope springs eternal, so hopefully the realms will actually be up on time tomorrow.And it looks like there's a good chance that 3.0.8 will be live when the realms come up. But I'll not make any guarantees here. Well, who am I kidding. I gave it an 80% chance that the patch will go live. But I digress...
If the extended maintenance turns into extended-extended maintenance, we'll let you know. And while we're planning some great content for you all during the down time tomorrow, there is something on TV you'll probably want to watch around noon EST anyways. So perhaps downtime isn't all that bad after all.
Filed under: Patches, Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Redwiggle Jan 19th 2009 11:44PM
I hope so!
WG tokens saved for new WG items
Charcuterie Jan 19th 2009 11:45PM
Can I voice my confusion everytime you say "extended maintenance" when really I think of this as "normal maintenance" times? You should call this "normal" maintenance and the days they have rolling restarts "shortened" maintenance.
Adam Holisky Jan 19th 2009 11:47PM
I can't really argue with that. =)
Let me throw it around the WoW Insider bullpen and see what others think. It all hearkens back to the old Blizzard categorization of anything beyond 7am to 11am (or was it 5am to 11am?) downtime as extended maintenance, but it definitely appears to have changed now.
Masarah Jan 20th 2009 12:02AM
Agreed - 8 hours is no longer extended maintenace. Its normal maintenance and hardly suprising.
Gone are the old days of 6 hour maintenance.
Ilem Jan 20th 2009 7:06AM
I agree with Charc--eight hours are more than likely regular maintenance now, even though hints from Europe imply 3.0.8 really is coming (and my hunter will weep endlessly tonight), which spells extra work for Blizzard's IT department.
Anyway, I think 8 hours seems about right for regular maintenance now; as far as I understand WoW realms, Blizzard has added not only new realms (and the underlying groups of servers for each), but also servers for Northrend, instances and raids to each single realm. Unlike the rolling restarts, checking this increased number of servers in just four hours (or whatever it was before) would quickly (and has proven to) blow up in their faces should something bad happen.
Like many others, I'd rather have Blizzard do "regular" maintenance periods of longer duration and once in a while get done a bit earlier, like they did last week.
Nate Jan 19th 2009 11:55PM
I also tend to think of this as "normal" maintenance, with rolling-restart-tuesdays being "short" maintenance.
Tuesdays arent any good if youre in Australia. Maintenance time is always peak time - usually begins around 10pm in the evening! :/
Xioyn Jan 20th 2009 12:00AM
What is on Tmw at Noon?
Benito Jan 20th 2009 12:00AM
Obama's inauguration FTW
Punjab Jan 20th 2009 3:07AM
True that.
Wagz Jan 20th 2009 12:08AM
Not to be the downer but i dont think the patch is forthcoming because Blizzard still has the PTR up and usually drops it the day before the patch at the latest.
Brendan Jan 20th 2009 12:00PM
I am having the patch d/ling to my comp right now
Sarah Bauman Jan 20th 2009 1:31PM
Yes the patch did go live. When i signed in it started downloading. Now to get the realms to come back up.