World of Warcraft Tuesday maintenance maybe gone, 105,000 accounts surely gone
There was no scheduled downtime on last Tuesday for World of Warcraft. Usually the MMORPG’s servers would be down for a period of about five hours each Tuesday. 1UP reports on Blizzard employee Blue Drysc’s quote:
“In the upcoming weeks, we will be testing the effect of a live maintenance, where regular maintenance tasks are run during off-peak with realms live. – We will perform all necessary maintenance tasks while the realms are live. We are anticipating the possibility that we may need to perform rolling restarts off-peak if we find that a realm restart is necessary; however the downtime for each realm would be less than 10 minutes if it was required.”
In other news WOW reports that in an effort to combat cheating in World of Warcraft “more than 105,000 accounts were closed and over 12 million gold was removed from the game economies in Europe, Korea, and the US in the month of November. The closed accounts were associated with activities that violate World of Warcraft’s Terms of Use, such as using third-party programs that allow cheating, and farming gold and items. These types of activities can severely impact the economy of a realm and the overall game enjoyment for all players.”
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