WarCraft Maintainance

WoW maintainance drives me crazy. Yes, I realize that they do try to pick an off-peak time for the weekly shut down. I’m definately in the minority, as a resident of China playing on the American (English) servers, who has Wednesday mornings off… but the early-morning (in the US) shutdowns are prime WoW-playing time for me.

BestOfWarCraft has a post explaining why the weekly maintainance is neccessary:

The reason why we take down all realms at the same time is because it’s quicker, it doesn’t restrict some realms more than others, and it doesn’t force players to swamp other realms that are up. If anyone remembers some of the larger issues we had back a couple years ago or so, when a realm or group of realms go down, everyone on those realms would converge on a single realm and more or less grief the entire population of that realm. Not fun for the original players of that realm. It’s quicker because the maintenance can take a while, and doing one group of realms at a time would mean some group of realms, or multiple groups, would not be available near or during prime time, and we like to avoid that whenever possible of course.