OK, so 10.15 on a Saturday night happens to be one of my Favorte Cure songs…
… and the tap drips under the street light…
The above image however, show my least favorite WoW information…
PARTICULARLY WHEN IT’S 10.15 ON A SATURDAY NIGHT!
Yeah, I was warned… when I logged on at 8pm AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time), that at 5am in the Pacific the server was going down.
1st tip Blizzard…
If you are going to take Oceanic Servers down… give us an Oceanic time. Yes I use those time converters… painful as it may be to have to go elsewhere to find the time… which never has PDT, so I pick a US city on the West coast and hope it’s close enough.
You have given us AEST times before…
What’s more I dare say it wouldn’t be that hard to make the time a variable that can be based on our local clients time zone… surely it can’t be that hard?
2nd tip Blizzard…
If you are going to take a server down on a Saturday, why the hell make it prime time?
Raids are now shot for Saturday nights.
PuGs never reform even after an instance restart.
It’s now 11.13… 1 bloody “short” hour since you started!
There goes my Saturday night… you know how rare they are?
Shape Up!
Please get it together Blizzard, there are some simple common courtesies you could extend to us. It’s bad enough that we lose prime time every Tuesday, but why on earth would you take our Saturday as well?
I assume we wont get compensated… 2 play “days” in one week gone… with our AUD$20
[Edit] Tease
11.30 on a Saturday nigh, post uploaded and I refresh the screen to see that Aman’Thul is back!
Maybe that’s less tease, more taunt…
I guess I should be thankful that they at least remembered to put the Oceanic tab back this time… when 3.2.2 was released the servers were up, there just wasn’t an Oceanic tab to select from.
I’m going to go download Aion… can you do that… Pfft bugger it.
12:00
Down again….
Gnomer and Out (Well now I wish I had gone out!)
edit: Monday.
Seems like I wasn’t the only one scratching my head on Saturday night… a couple of googlers even found their way here…
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I was excited for a second there, thinking that you might be on my server because I had that downtime too. I’m on Kil’Jaeden of the Bloodlust battlegroup. I logged on right after the first maintenance ended, but then I saw:
SERVER RESTART IN 15:00
So I just logged to my old (stupid) server and levelled my warlock.
Hey Presby, stay excited…
No I am not doing a server transfer… but…
Being Bloodlust we can meet in the BG’s… I’m hoping you are Alliance and will give me a wave…
If not, that’s OK… you are more than welcome to bow down before me…
Of course, in the future, when they introduce the cross-battlegroup LFG, there is a good chance we could be hitting the instances together!
You have inspired me to write another post… thank you.
Ohhh.. looks like we weren’t the only Bloodlusters wondering what had happened to our servers…. see final edit on post.
Another Bloodlust/Oceanic blogger 🙂
I got caught out when I got home at midnight on Saturday, intending to wind down with a bit of AH checking/guild chat only to jump to the Realm Selection Screen when I tried to log in (as if you don’t know I want Barthilas – and only Barthilas – thank you very much!).
I have PDT and AEST timers set up on my desktop to try and get my head around Blizzard’s stupid maintenance times and then just get confused when I try and factor in the +1 hr ST now that daylight savings has kicked in too.
I’ll keep an eye out for you in bgs
Gnomeaggedon [Aman’thul] right? 80 Mage?
/wave
Cassandri [Barthilas] – the shrouded human priest in a bubble
How remiss of me not to have added you to my Aus/Oceanic blog list… now corrected.. tho I must confess I haven’t followed your blog in a while…
I’m the same… there might be 5 other realms to choose from, but if they don’t start with “Aman” and end in “Thul” I’m not bothering.
I must set up a clock… or just scrawl the times on my wall…
Yep Gnomeaggedon [80] and Squidly [67 and growing] both Alliance side Aman’Thul
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