Updated: European weekly maintenance: 13th May 2009
by Lesley Smith 
May 13th 2009 at 4:00AM
Greetings folks, it's once again Wednesday and you know what that means? Yes, it's maintenance day once again. Where did the week go? I must be getting older because time is flying by way too fast.Things finally seem to be settling down as we're back to the normal maintenance routine of downtime between 5am and 7am CEST. Of course, our poor American brethren were once again in guinea pig mode. They experienced a rather lengthy period of extended maintenance yesterday afternoon so, as usual, don't hold your breath.
As if anticipating the whiff of downtime, Daniel W. compiled a rather extensive list of things do to during the (hopefully short) downtime. See y'all when the servers come back up!
Update: All the servers seem to be back up a bit earlier than anticipated. However Blizzard have posted a note concerning 'technical difficulties' relating to the login/authentication servers and promise they're looking into it. Hopefully the problem will be fixed pretty quickly but if you find yourself unable to get into Azeroth, that's why. All you can do is keep calm and carry on, folks.
Filed under: Odds and ends, News items, Europe
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kala May 13th 2009 4:27AM
Seems the article took some time to get published?
As the hours on the screenshot are long gone and servers are up.
More important tho is the new small message on loginscreen, that mentioned something about the auth-servers having some problems and that they are working on it.
I did get to login fine tho.
BRKfan May 13th 2009 4:32AM
yes i was stuck on Authenticating all morning again well done blizz
Lesley Smith May 13th 2009 4:39AM
Right, here's where I explain how these features appear. Last thing on Tuesday, I log in and check the breaking news section. I write a nice little piece and set it to post in the morning. It's a courtesy I like to extend to EU folk without WoW access who maybe at work, in the same way that the US folks get something on Tuesday mornings.
The thing about Blizzard is, it's always going to change and for once, our downtime has been painless (again Americans are our lab rats :)). It's correct when I write these posts, if it changes - unless it's major like servers collapsing I will just leave the post be.
Go get your dailies done before the rest of your server notices!
wildwinds May 13th 2009 5:40AM
No wow for me here. Stuck on the "Authenticating" bit when trying to log in. *sigh*there goes my early morning, before work WoW fix. :(
Emophia May 13th 2009 6:01AM
Can't log in... Stuck at the Authenticating part...
Way to go blizzard, now is the only time I have all day to play...
Emophia May 13th 2009 6:07AM
Woo got in finally, and all is good in the world.
Chias May 13th 2009 6:29AM
Ditto. Odd thing is a friend of mine sitting next to me can get in fine (same landline, different accounts).
Avotar May 13th 2009 6:13AM
Maybe my question is out of place here, but is there a way to see different timezones here on the comments?
I always get confused with the difference btween the netherlands and the US.
It's 12:10 here btw :)
Avotar May 13th 2009 6:14AM
Right.. it's 6 hours earlier at your side of the water...
Faraday May 13th 2009 6:27AM
I too am stuck at login and current ETA says 3pm Paris time.
McKree May 13th 2009 6:49AM
Well, it works. Of course it works now that my four-hour lunch break is over and I have to get back to university.
Life is hard.
Tordenflesk May 13th 2009 7:03AM
Switches between "Login Server Down" and the *bunch'o'html* for me. Poo!
Dude May 13th 2009 8:36AM
Goddamn, account management is still down. Sort it out, Blizz. You get enough cash for it.