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    Starcraft 2 Server Maintenance for 8 hours... Why?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Brawn, Oct 19, 2010.

  1. Brawn

    Brawn The Awesome

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    On Warcraft 3, they would never have server maintenance and battle.net ran fine, in fact, it ran better than battle.net v2 in SC2.

    Even if they have to run server maintenance, why must they take down all of the servers, why don't they keep some running? They couldn't possibly have just one server.

    And even if they really needed to take down all of the servers, why do they need 8 hours to run server maintenance?

    I don't know any other online game that does this other than SC2 and maybe WOW.

    What am I supposed to do with my life for the next 8 hours?! I really have to find another game.
     
    Brawn, Oct 19, 2010
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  2. bchreng

    bchreng Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm guessing it's because of all the extra features they added to bnet v2. There's always the SP campaign and/or playing against bots?
     
    bchreng, Oct 19, 2010
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  3. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    so you can take a break?
     
    tianxia, Oct 19, 2010
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  4. Baka

    Baka (・ω・)

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    Thank god I have the SEA servers :3

    Besides, Battlenet 2.0's still quite new so of course it takes time to get it to stabilize like the old Battlenet. Give them some time to straighten it out so future games that uses Battlenet 2.0 won't have the current problems :)

    Also, this maintenance of theirs might be their downtime to ban hackers too >.>
     
    Baka, Oct 19, 2010
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  5. Brawn

    Brawn The Awesome

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    how can anyone take a break when the zerg is taking over the world?
     
    Brawn, Oct 19, 2010
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  6. Baka

    Baka (・ω・)

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    Take a break from the zerg and move your attention to the Tyranids >:[ They're the worse threat
     
    Baka, Oct 19, 2010
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  7. houstoned

    houstoned Yoga Pants Connoisseur.

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    i woke up at around 5AM with nothing to do. i get on my laptop, open SC2, and...it's down! *fist in air*
    what time are the servers supposed to comin back in central time? 1pm?
     
    houstoned, Oct 19, 2010
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  8. Brawn

    Brawn The Awesome

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    ^ SAME, and yes.. it should be 1pm central... ridiculous, and what's even more sad is there will probably still be server problems after
     
    Brawn, Oct 19, 2010
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  9. farful

    farful Notebook Evangelist

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    Don't they do server maintenance every Tuesday morning?
     
    farful, Oct 19, 2010
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  10. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    One would think the behemoth that Blizzard is, that they would have backup servers so they could take them down for maintenance with minimal hiccups.
     
    HTWingNut, Oct 19, 2010
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  11. Brawn

    Brawn The Awesome

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    (i think every 2 weeks) but that's exactly my point, what is up with having to do maintenance so often
     
    Brawn, Oct 19, 2010
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  12. farful

    farful Notebook Evangelist

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    Battle.net 2.0 is both SC2 and WoW (for now). I know WoW could use the server maintenance Tuesdays due to the amount the game changes constantly.

    I also want to know what "content" I'm downloading every time I search for a 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, or 4v4.
     
    farful, Oct 19, 2010
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  13. MagusDraco

    MagusDraco Biiiiiiirrrrdmaaaaaaan

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    you're downloading the maps. 'cause apparently it overwrites 'em each time
     
    MagusDraco, Oct 19, 2010
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  14. jeremyshaw

    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    what!? why would it do something as senseless as that?
     
    jeremyshaw, Oct 19, 2010
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  15. Texanman

    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    So much win in that statement it is not even funny
     
    Texanman, Oct 19, 2010
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  16. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    because blizzard lost it's soul we also said they would nto do something as sensless as not adding channels to bnet 2.0 and yet there we are
     
    granyte, Oct 19, 2010
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  17. Brawn

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    well, servers are back up, and it is still glitchy so i don't know what they were doing, maybe they were trying to save on their electric bills by turning off the servers
     
    Brawn, Oct 19, 2010
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