Listen up, you dear things who enjoy a bit of a visit to the World of Warcraft. Being a Tuesday, we're in for some maintenance this evening, but today things are a little different than normal. On one hand, there's the standard downtime, which we're told will take place between 3am and 11am PDT (that's between 7:30pm and 3:30am, Adelaide time).

On the other hand, because we're special little gamers, we have a list of certain realms who are in for an extended maintenance shift, which will run for twelve hours starting at midnight Pacific (4:30pm Adelaide time this afternoon, until 4:30am tomorrow morning). Looking over the list of who will and who won't be affected by the downtime, it doesn't sound good for anyone playing on oceanic servers, including Proudmoore and Blackrock.

While the official word from Blizzard is that the extended downtime is related to hardware upgrades, rumours abound that it may also herald the introduction of Patch 3.1.2 onto the game servers. Wait and see, I guess!

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As usual Oceanic Servers get f*cked over...

*sigh*

Yeah, I'm sure theyre doing it just to piss all us Aussies off

What a bunch of absolute crap. Why do we have to put up with this? 3 of the past 4 weeks I think have had longer maintenance than usual, starting at 8pm my time. I'm lucky to get a few hours in before it goes down.

Now they give us an extended long maintenance? That means no play at all. Fantastic.

Maintenance has happened every tuesday for the last 4 years. And you're all still complaining about it.. Haha.

and your so called "Oceanic" servers are still located in the US.

Oh you poor bastards

Our server hardware is being upgraded, I don't see how that's a f*** over.

so? Still playable and the servers are only called oceanic to note that they're oceanic preferred.

Because it's being done during a time interval when the majority is online?



They aren't Oceanic preferred if they come down during the time that MAKES them Oceanic preferred?

How do people keep defending this? UO did it nearly 10 years ago, Warhammer did it not even 10 months ago.

The complaint is justified with each year as the game constantly grows and warrants the better service...

I don't think people will stop complaining until Blizzard actually do something about it. It's ridiculous.

Plus, it has been worse than usual the last month or so..ever since 3.1.0 bodged everything up.

Oh and servers being upgraded? So? I'd be really surprised if there's anything noticeable after this supposed 'upgrade'...yes I'm being a pessimistic bastard but I've been put into a bad mood

Agreed. They're updates normally do little performance wise.

Their?

You guys actually care that much?! Seriously, it's one night in the week you can't play WoW. Go outside, drink a beer, do something. This is all rather lol tbh.

What on earth gives you the right to tell me what to do with my time? People all over the WoW forums do it too, and it's really quite lame.

How about you "Go outside, drink a beer, do something." instead of posting here? Seriously, I'm not even going to argue that point.