Maintenance for Tuesday November 11th
by Adam Holisky 
Nov 10th 2008 at 11:30PM
There will be downtime tomorrow for the U.S. realms between 5:00 a.m. PST and 11:00 a.m. PST. The maintenance will undoubtedly be getting the servers ready for the release of Wrath of the Lich King Wednesday night.We're hopeful that this will be the only downtime this week. When Burning Crusade was launched the servers were only taken down the a couple days prior to its release. We expect the same thing to happen for Wrath.
There is also no indication that a patch will be delivered with this downtime. We give it a 50/50 chance of a small patch coming out the night of Wrath's release however, and wouldn't be surprised at all to see some hotfixes go in place over the next several weeks.
Of course, this downtime could be setting up another stage of the world event happening tonight.
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Squishy Nov 10th 2008 11:43PM
Er, 5 to 11 is standard maintenance, not extended. Extended starts at 3.
Andy Nov 10th 2008 11:53PM
Well i hope that we dont encounter any problems whit WotLK in the future... but as we seen what happend whit patch 3.0.2 i`m not so sure that we will have a *smooth* launch
Leviathon Nov 10th 2008 11:56PM
5-11 is the normal maintenance time. 3-11 is extended maintenance.
Elfshine Nov 10th 2008 11:57PM
Bummer. And I'm off tomorrow for Veteran's Day. Well, thanks to all you Vets out there who have made sacrifices for us. You are appreciated.
smcn Nov 11th 2008 12:12AM
If I were to hazard a guess I'd hope they're at least adding in the voiceovers for the yells you see from Herald of the Lich King... These voiceovers were actually in the MPQ's during beta.
jay Nov 11th 2008 2:55AM
But....
The voice overs were shit, It would be like listening to someone take the piss out of how serious I'm sure Blizzard want this event to come across.
Think of it as one of those really bad Saturday morning cartoon villain voices and you might see what I mean.
chad Nov 11th 2008 12:17AM
Do you people at WI pay attention? Last week you post a story stating that it wasn't extended maintenance, yet the time was specifically 3-11. And now we have this. The quality of writing/research here is almost as bad as the new site design.
Twsitedenemy Nov 11th 2008 12:51AM
this is not good, i understand why they need to put the down time in OCE peak time usable but guess what, all oce players who have jobs basically miss the launch even in SW and ORG, this is just so disappointing and just shows Blizz lack of foresight for us Oce players this is yet another slap in the face, basically i have to subscribe (AND PAY) for get through to a proxy just go get pings of 300, because the servers could not be further away lol
Frank Smith Nov 11th 2008 2:31AM
down the a couple
jay Nov 11th 2008 2:51AM
I'm sure launch day is going to be fine, TBC was surprisingly good from my experience (aside from the belf area being devoid of any npc's for about 1/2 hour), the usual lag and realm lockouts are to be expected, hell the lockouts have already started on the Oceanic side (most of them too, not sure about U.S realms).
offday Nov 11th 2008 6:57AM
One thing I hate about WoW is this Tuesday maintenance crap. Of all the days. Tuesdays are always the days I have the most free time.
And let's be realistic, it'll be extended downtime. I haven't been able to get on until about 2 hours later than what the realms are suppose to be on for the past 2 weeks. That's about 4 freaking pm EST.
dawnseven Nov 11th 2008 8:38AM
I mostly agree. I can understand the whole all machines will be offline for maintenance for 6 or 8 hours thing 5 years ago when technology was what it was at the time and Blizzard was small, but I don't understand why this is still necessary.
Does anyone else remember around the time BC came out when Blizzard announced that they were going to take a shot at "live maintenance"? If I remember correctly for almost a month they didn't have more than a rolling restart. I guess it was fail on some level, but from a player's point of view it was nice. :)
samutz Nov 11th 2008 7:55AM
I hope the Wrath content gets enabled with this downtime. I was lucky enough to receive my game early (yesterday) and already have the Wrath client installed and patched to 3.0.3 and have my account upgraded to Wrath status.
So if I'm still lucky, I'll be in Northrend today. Or playing through the Death Knight quests. I haven't decided yet.
itsaaron Nov 11th 2008 5:42PM
woot they are now down for 'extended' maintennance,
ETA for servers back up is unknown at this time
that announcement came up at 2.20 pdt.
ETA for servers up wil be announced in 1-2 hours
woot
Liquidhalos Nov 11th 2008 9:43PM
How amusing, extended downtime has been extended to 7pm now, wow's official stance, delete all threads in the forums asking why this is so or complaining, when that didnt work they blocked new threads and post replys, great work blizzard!!