Yeah, don't worry, nobody in Australia raids anyway.

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Have Blizzard ever made a statement about why they don't schedule different maintenance times to better match each realm's off-peak hours?

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@#2: Logistical Nightmare

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Second time in 3 days. Two hours for Blizzard might not seem much but that's 10pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, prime time for Oceanic raiding guilds. Especially after the rolling restart disruption during prime time yesterday (Thursday) night - shame on you Blizzard.

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@3 Why would it be a nightmare if they pushed it back a couple of hours?

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Well, I'd assume there would be some kind of patch implemented. If the US realms are updated at off peak, and then 12 hours later the Oceanic Realms are updated, you have the issue of people on US servers who have the patch installed trying to log into chars they might have on the unpatched Oceanic Servers.

So, the possibility of people trying to connect a patched client to an unpatched server.

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my heart bleeds for you all... hey some members of my guild are living in US/Canada... but they don't get it either... it's not a logistical nightmare it's a damn mouse click! (well... probably more than just one but the ethos of the point stands). As an Oceanic player... as in I ACTUALLY live here (I'm sick of unknowledge-able players flaming Australian/New Zealand players... we caught the tail end of one fight in general where some (it turned out) 15 year old kid thought he lived by and ocean so He should be on an Oceanic server...and was all pissy at some other 15 year old for being on his US lowering his ping... Our Guild 2IC (from BC, Canada) ended the fight by telling his nephew (on /1!) to shut up and stop getting Porn... he was lowering everyones pings... The guild/Channel packed up laughing at the little peon.)

I know this seems like a random rant... but I am SO very sick of 'low interruption restarts' etc at 8pm... just because Blizzards clock says its 2am... if you want to have an international game and take our money too... then they can edit a little code somewhere and make it so...

And do give me this logistical nightmare Bull... I remember a WI post about a month ago which referenced the fact that in Chinese versions of WoW have a different pay structure due to the nature of Asian MMORPG culture. (Could find the story in a few minutes and people are coming over for tea... as its 1230 am in Blizzard-ville but 530pm here...

And for our American friends... Friday was great... I'll tell you how saturday is later :P

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@7 you do realize lowering someones ping is a good thing? A high ping is a bad thing. A ping is the total round trip time in ms for a packet of data to get to the server and have a response sent back to you. High ping = bad.

Another thing, WoW uses TCP/IP and I believe some UDP traffic, therefore one players ping will not hurt yours. In FPS games a pet peeve of mine is the freakin idiots who yell at players with high pings saying its making them lag. I always have to bust out the I'm a network engineer, please l2internet. A long time ago this was the case with the ITX protocol, where one player could lag an entire game server, whatever game that may be.

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It's really nice that Blizzard considers the needs of the few far greater then the needs of the many. How many people can be affected by the improper dispersal of awards anyway? I'd wager not many, and I really don't see why this couldn't have waited for a regular maintenance period.

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@6 This isn't a client fix afaik. This is purely server side. The only issue with doing oceanic servers at a different time is that they are linked to the US servers in their battlegroup. And this fix would likely need to be applied to all of Bloodlust at once.

There is little point in leaving Bloodlust up while other servers are down, as idiots would just go roll on the up servers.

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This just is seriously stupid. Its Friday night 10pm - I am NOT A RAIDER - I am a normal casual player - its the time I have been waiting for all week to play and peacefully farm fire motes. I am sitting here after a hard weeks work and there is a server shutdown. No wonder people get upset.

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What I want to know is - are those who incorrectly got a netherdrake going to have it taken away? (I'm hoping they do)

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As an Australian-based player, it's highly annoying to come home from work (especially if you happen to be working late that day), and find out that maintenance has been pushed forward by two hours. Or that an unscheduled maintenance shutdown is about to take place at 10PM on a Friday night. I realise that Blizzard needs to bring all the realms down at the same time, and commercially, it makes more sense to inconvenience a smaller portion of the player community (ie. Oceanic players), than the majority in USA/Canada. However, for these types of fixes, surely they can wait til the weekly maintenance shutdown?

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