Translation: “We will performing maintenance on Monday, June 26th between 18:00 (CEST) and 22:00 (CEST). Restrictions and disconnections may occour during this period. However, it should be possible to log in again.” Same for tuesday…

Blizzard alone has employees around the globe and can’t manage to perform maintenance at night for specific regions?

  • Thadrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Prime time maintenance, just perfect after a weekend of login errors. Thank god for online only games.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It always pissed me off to no end how WoW would do it’s maintenance. If I recall they would take down every instance at the same time during the middle of the day. I always thought it was a no-brainer to do rolling updates and people could choose their preferred instance based on when it goes down for maintenance.

    • Tolstoy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      As far as I know the whole system is pretty tied together. You hop servers while traveling to other areas in-game. At peak times Europe players getting transferred to overseas server like Korea or us. Had tracked it down to Belgium while being in kyova, when I walked out I got transferred to us Washington, next region, Alabama or something like this, teleported to another city > South Korea… The whole update schedule from blizzard is pretty annoying for Europe but it is how it is^^

    • Tolstoy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      I know they got attacked but to be honest, any sane dev would implement countermeasures befor something like this happens. I don’t mean they should check my personal working schedule… I think if they split the tasks right, each team can handle seperate regions. The question for blizzard in this case is not “how can we do this” but “how much will it cost us”