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?
Finally, maintenance that occurs during the night! Thanks from Australia. :)
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.
Well, there go my plans for the evening.
Prime time maintenance, just perfect after a weekend of login errors. Thank god for online only games.
The worst is when they don’t even tell you about the maintenance and they just disconnect you after slogging your way through the Tier 4 capstone dungeon and are just about to fight Elias. Then they rub salt in the wound by locking your account for 30 minutes.
Regarding night time maintenance in Europe, I am wondering if its because they don’t divide up the game world into different regions. Other MMOs have US, Europe, Asia, etc. and players have to be in the same region in order to play with each other, but Diablo doesn’t make that distinction and therefore they have to update everything at the same time? It would suck if two players on opposite ends of the world couldn’t play with each other because one player is getting their maintenance window way later than the other.
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^^
undefined> Blizzard alone has employees around the globe and can’t manage to perform maintenance at night for specific regions?
they got DDOS’ed, relax. What do you want the employees to do? Work around your personal schedule?
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”
