Extended Maintenance for some WoW Realms

Posted by Stropp on August 14, 2007

Blizzard have announced extended maintenance for a number of their realms starting on Monday the 13th of August, and a second set of realms starting on the 14th of August. The downtimes are expected to last approximately two days. You can see the list of affected realms on the forums here.

Already the cries for reimbursement are echoing through the forums. Considering it’s a whole two days out of a monthly fee of fifteen dollars, that’ll be a $1 refund.

Of course, there’s always another server to play on. Roll an alt.

The last time that Blizzard did these extended maintenance downtimes was a couple of months prior to the release of The Burning Crusade. At that time they needed to upgrade the hardware to cater for the new content. It has me wondering if the Wrath of the Lich King expansion is perhaps closer than we expect. It’s only about four months to Christmas, and if Blizzard were considering releasing in time for the holiday season, it would be sometime in late November. That way they have boxes in stores ready for the buying season.

On the other hand, it might just be time to upgrade old hardware.

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