However, Blizzard also has some positive news. The maintenance might be significantly shorter and not cause any issues. It further states:
We are hopeful that the actual maintenance will be completed within 15 to 30 minutes. And although players will likely not be able to log in during the maintenance, we do not have to shut down the realms. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the stability of our game service during this time.
In plain terms, this means: If you are already logged into games like World of Warcraft at the start of the maintenance, you will not be kicked out of the game. However, the developers cannot guarantee that everything will function properly during the maintenance work.
What should players do? If you have a raid planned for this evening, it’s best to finish by 10:00 PM or prepare to take a break of 15 to 30 minutes. Whether normal raid operations will be possible afterwards and if the maintenance will indeed be completed within 30 minutes remains to be seen.
If you have the chance to reschedule your raid, you are definitely on the safer side.
Are you postponing your raid due to the maintenance work? Or are you taking the risk and just letting it happen?
If you want to play World of Warcraft this evening, you should reconsider. Annoying maintenance work disrupts many raid schedules.
Players of World of Warcraft from Europe are used to maintenance occurring very early on Wednesday mornings – when it usually doesn’t bother anyone. However, there is now new maintenance scheduled at a different time, which is annoying. Numerous raid guilds have to reschedule or cancel a raid.
What does Blizzard have in mind? Today, on 06.10.2021, special maintenance work is planned on Battle.net. According to the announcement on Battle.net, this is expected to last from 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM. This is particularly annoying for World of Warcraft players actively participating in raids.
Wednesday evening is a fixed schedule for many guilds since it is the first day after the weekly reset. Thus, the time frame for maintenance falls exactly on the raid time of many guilds. Rescheduling at short notice is not easy with groups of around 20 players.
What kind of maintenance is this? Blizzard is aware that the maintenance is inconvenient for European players. They have addressed this in the official forum, stating:
This maintenance is for an upgrade of our global infrastructure, which is why we need to conduct the maintenance globally at the same time. We chose this time which causes the least impact globally, but we know it is not ideal for our European players, especially in the western time zones.
However, Blizzard also has some positive news. The maintenance might be significantly shorter and not cause any issues. It further states:
We are hopeful that the actual maintenance will be completed within 15 to 30 minutes. And although players will likely not be able to log in during the maintenance, we do not have to shut down the realms. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the stability of our game service during this time.
In plain terms, this means: If you are already logged into games like World of Warcraft at the start of the maintenance, you will not be kicked out of the game. However, the developers cannot guarantee that everything will function properly during the maintenance work.
What should players do? If you have a raid planned for this evening, it’s best to finish by 10:00 PM or prepare to take a break of 15 to 30 minutes. Whether normal raid operations will be possible afterwards and if the maintenance will indeed be completed within 30 minutes remains to be seen.
If you have the chance to reschedule your raid, you are definitely on the safer side.
Are you postponing your raid due to the maintenance work? Or are you taking the risk and just letting it happen?
