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Translation: "We will performing maintenance on Monday, June 26th between 18:00 (CEST) and 22:00 (CEST). Restrictions and disconnections may occour during this period. However, it should be possible to log in again." Same for tuesday...
Blizzard alone has employees around the globe and can't manage to perform maintenance at night for specific regions?
It always pissed me off to no end how WoW would do it's maintenance. If I recall they would take down every instance at the same time during the middle of the day. I always thought it was a no-brainer to do rolling updates and people could choose their preferred instance based on when it goes down for maintenance.
Prime time maintenance, just perfect after a weekend of login errors. Thank god for online only games.
The worst is when they don't even tell you about the maintenance and they just disconnect you after slogging your way through the Tier 4 capstone dungeon and are just about to fight Elias. Then they rub salt in the wound by locking your account for 30 minutes.
Regarding night time maintenance in Europe, I am wondering if its because they don't divide up the game world into different regions. Other MMOs have US, Europe, Asia, etc. and players have to be in the same region in order to play with each other, but Diablo doesn't make that distinction and therefore they have to update everything at the same time? It would suck if two players on opposite ends of the world couldn't play with each other because one player is getting their maintenance window way later than the other.
As far as I know the whole system is pretty tied together. You hop servers while traveling to other areas in-game. At peak times Europe players getting transferred to overseas server like Korea or us. Had tracked it down to Belgium while being in kyova, when I walked out I got transferred to us Washington, next region, Alabama or something like this, teleported to another city > South Korea... The whole update schedule from blizzard is pretty annoying for Europe but it is how it is^^
Interesting! How are you tracking this btw? I have a friend who's getting crazy rubber banding lag spikes even though he's on a gigabit connection over Ethernet and I am wondering if it would be an interesting exercise to see where those connections are going to.
It's called ressource-monitor, accessable via the taskmanager at the performance tap. Assuming diablo using the most bandwidth for syncing with the server, you can sort by traffic, copy the IP and use an IP location finder (search for it on Google).
Well, there go my plans for the evening.
Finally, maintenance that occurs during the night! Thanks from Australia. :)
